godfeels upd8 liveread thread:

a lotta waking up going on in these chapters as a framing device. wondering if this is somehow tied back to the "dream in a dark place" motif or something

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let's be crystal fucking pepsi here

man dana and lenore's characterization here is on fire. no notes other than i am enjoying the shit out of these two

there is a specter haunting the Comet. it is the specter of a puppygirl abandoned to an ambiguous fate

thinking about dana trying to puzzle out silverbark's motives in conjunction with the prior chapter. getting the sense that in dana's world nothing can ever just be incidental.

one thing about godfeels is that it always knows how to pull an intriguing setup. curious as to the emerging genre fiction elements of godfeels 3.2 are gonna mesh with the homestuck-flavored metafiction stuff going on.

something interesting going on here with dana and lenore vis a vis trust and paranoia. lenore paranoid enough to abscond from the ewl putting her trust in old comrades. dana burned by a poisoned faith in silverbark hesitant and mistrusting. really enjoying the ways these two are playing off each other

crimeplanet..........................

man these two are good

this is really some top-shelf scene setting going on here

again an insistence on dana's part that this kind of quirk/oddity has to Mean Something. it's not just that the voidshell didn't pop. there has to be some kind of narrativised conspiracy behind it because despite her cynicism i think dana's still very much buying into the narrative fantasy of silverbark and the ewl. evil and cruelty are mundane and i don't think that's a revelation that'll sit well with her.

aw hey it's a frog!!

already of the firm belief that dill fucking rules

this is. this is starfox-adjacent stuff right?? i think???? i do not know enough about this to do more than maybe point it out but i think this is what the refrance.

dill and alex are also a very good dynamic. lot of dynamite characterwork happening in this chapter

Dill Gets It

everything about this is so silly it fucking rules

godfeels dave i missed you so much

man this is some peak dave dialogue. we are so back

god this is nailing the oddly liberatory nature of realizing that when your old life implodes that also includes the arbitrary confines and limitations of said life. feeling very Normal about the vibes of these lines. also feeling Normal about the way godfeels dave is always precision-engineered in some ways to hit me in the core emotionally right at the point in my life where i'd feel it the most.

gimme 3-5 more godfeels chapters and another couple years of personal development on my end and i genuinely unironically think i will end up deeply and inexorably kinning godfeels dave and there is not a shred of insincerity in this statement.

dave is so out of water here it's genuinely so funny to see

the dave + june hashing out their shit arc coinciding with the dave gender arc is gonna be delicious to behold i just know it

dave sloppily and clumsily slipping back into the sburb 2009 john + dave dynamic and failing to do anything but put his foot in his mouth because that bro-style mode of coping is so deeply dead and buried. gonna be so silly and painful when dave has to genuinely reckon with the Permanent Change Of State that has occurred

many people are saying this and many people know this to be real and true in every sense of the terms described

gonna be real i don't think mary really even cracks the top five list of "most divorced women in godfeels". i mean, she absolutely could, but we're not quite there yet. when she and rotrose meet up again, however,

very funny and silly scenes happening here but also. man.

third person pov as indication of dissociation rules as a narrative technique actually

oh no lmao

aw man dare :(