To the stars we go, howling all the way

Cipher || they/them || 25+ || I wish I would stop disappearing || red rising side Blog ||mainly focused on the first three books

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Sevro: Of course I have a lot of pent-up rage, you fool! I've been the same height since I was twelve!

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The world won't give me a Red Rising video game?

"Fine! I'll do it myself" I whisper to myself in tears as I create the nth character with a mohawk to run around a world that's decidedly not like the one in red rising

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“I will put you down.”

Shares appreciated💚

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Not sure if there's much overlap in the Fandoms, but I think Sevro "I'll send you unicorn porn as a sign of friendship" au Barca and Travis "Can I please upload porn to the database of all human knowledge" Tate should meet.

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Fitchner: What has gone wrong, boyo?

Sevro: Wow! No hello? No how are you? Straight to the accusations. Just because I call you doesn't mean there's a crisis!

Fitchner: Boy, I can count the times you called me since you left for Pluto on one hand and it has always been because of a crisis. But fine, I'll play along, why are you calling?

Sevro: Well... There's a crisis

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I do firmly belive that I will some day continue writing Insights but until that day comes I need you to know that for literal years (it's time stamped December 2022) there has been a draft on my phone that starts with:

Sevro is nine and for the last few weeks there has only been one person on his mind. Fitchner is certain, if he hears another rendition of "Tactus says" or "Tactus thinks" or "Tactus almost killed a girl because she didn't want to kiss him", he might lose his mind. It's not that he doesn't want Sevro to have friends - even though he is not quite sure how much of a 'friend' Tactus truly is - but does it have to be a son of the Valii-Raths?

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Earlier this year I went to get my first tattoo and while waiting for my turn I was flipping throug a book with different styles of tattoos the studio had lying around, and I could not believe my eyes, when I discovered none other than Sevro au Barca, right there, (censored for tumblr's sake) ass out and everything:

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Darrow: Oh and Sevro? Please don't do anything stupid.

Sevro: Stupid by my standards or stupid by your standards?

Darrow: Virginia's standards

Sevro:...

Sevro: So I'm not allowed to have any fun

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Sevro: I need to dye my hair.

Darrow: ...

Sevro: Or get another tattoo.

Darrow: ...

Sevro: Or a new piercing.

Darrow: I mean, I'm not going to stop you. But why?

Sevro: To, you know, appease the mental breakdown gods.

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It is finally time to admit to myself that I liked the first three books so much more than anything starting from Iron Gold.

And don't get me wrong, I like the continuation of the story. I just never got into the "newer" books the way I did get into the first trilogy and I think that is partially why I dropped out of the Fandom (besides Hyperfixations shifting etc of course) because I forced myself to post about stuff that I just wasn't as excited about.

Anyway, this being said, I want to return to the Fandom, so watch me start posting like it's 2019 (I think that's when I started) again 😂

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Solid advice from the Howlers

Clown: It's okay to ask for help

Pebble: You're not a burden

Sevro: Sometimes murder is okay

Screwface: Your feelings matter

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Sevro: Okay, two person huddle

Darrow: You can't really huddle with two people... This is just a hug

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My best friend got me a signed copy of the first book for my birthday a few days ago, and I might just cry!

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If you are wondering why there is a lack of Sevro content lately in the Red Rising series, look no further than the fandom who loves him shallowly:

No LB spoilers, no worries

We could have had Sevro's point of view, Pierce even tried it for a bit. Anyway, congrats! TGR only audiobook and no Sevro pov. If it ends up a mess, don't @ Pierce Brown.

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I'm a little confused as to what you mean with "shallowly" 😅

Like, I am really not trying to be a dick, just genuinely confused 😂 (it's the dumb ass juice I drink on the daily)

Because the way I interpreted that is, that yes, a lot of people love Sevro. And of course different people have different interpretations of him, so satisfying everyone is impossible, thus, writing Sevro has becoming kind of straining, since the thought of 'will the readers like this' is always kind of in the back of his mind?

Now of course, people that complain to the author (or go even further) because a character they like didn't act the way they expected them to act are absolute trash. There is no question there, but I don't think that people who prefer Sevro's comedic relief moments ove rhis serious moments aren't necessarily loving him shallowly.

(even though I personally can't understand how "I am Ares. I am a murder too and what do we do with murderers!" is not in everyone's top three sevro moments 😂😂😂)

[I hope I don't sound super 'pressed' about this. I'm just at work and have to type this out in between customers and phone calls so I might sound more serious than I am 😂]

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I wrote a long ass post responding to this, trying my very best not to sound 'pissed', as you put it.

Pierce Brown wrote Darrow for about 10 years now. Interpretations of him are various. Not once has Pierce Brown scrapped a whole first draft to avoid writing his pov. But he did for Sevro, because the pressure was too much.

Now, you might see it as a good thing, it's not. It's not good to lose the joy of writing a character because you got tired of what the fandom says you can and cannot do to their beloved. Pierce is open to his fandom, but his fandom seems singularly obssessed with two things - hating the other VAs for the audiobook and dictating about Sevro.

Did I go to him about any of the above? Nope. Did you? I doubt it. But he fell into 'will they like it' trap anyway. So yes, I am 'holding responsible' people who cannot see Sevro beyond his cute comedic relief, cannot see his flaws and mistakes, cannot see his insercurities and depth and roundness as a character, who search for any other character to blame and even scream ooc and keep bothering PB for daring to put him through a plot in Dark Age.

Obviously not all fans fall into the above. Not all interpretations are shallow and not all fans make demands of Pierce Brown for how to write Sevro. But those who did helped suck the joy out of writing him and that is tragic to me.

I wanted a Sevro pov, I wanted him explored, I wanted more Sevro content. I was robbed of it because of the unfair pressure the author was put under. It went beyond 'please don't kill Sevro' a long time ago. It gets old fast, even for a kind person.

Anyway, no. Not the people who prefer light hearted moments with Sevro, but the people who don't see beyond his funny and cute moments. Not all fans.

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Ahhh I see.

Okay yes that I can get behind, I genuinely didn't understand what you meant at first.

And no, don't worry, I of course don't think losing passion in /interest for a character or simply not "daring" to write them anymore is a good thing!

I did not mean to make it sound that way.

Honestly I haven't interacted with the Fandom in a while (and if I did only with he same people in form of shit posts) so I didn't even know this was going on.

But yeah, I understand now

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If you are wondering why there is a lack of Sevro content lately in the Red Rising series, look no further than the fandom who loves him shallowly:

No LB spoilers, no worries

We could have had Sevro's point of view, Pierce even tried it for a bit. Anyway, congrats! TGR only audiobook and no Sevro pov. If it ends up a mess, don't @ Pierce Brown.

[howlingalltheway]

I'm a little confused as to what you mean with "shallowly" 😅

Like, I am really not trying to be a dick, just genuinely confused 😂 (it's the dumb ass juice I drink on the daily)

Because the way I interpreted that is, that yes, a lot of people love Sevro. And of course different people have different interpretations of him, so satisfying everyone is impossible, thus, writing Sevro has becoming kind of straining, since the thought of 'will the readers like this' is always kind of in the back of his mind?

Now of course, people that complain to the author (or go even further) because a character they like didn't act the way they expected them to act are absolute trash. There is no question there, but I don't think that people who prefer Sevro's comedic relief moments ove rhis serious moments aren't necessarily loving him shallowly.

(even though I personally can't understand how "I am Ares. I am a murder too and what do we do with murderers!" is not in everyone's top three sevro moments 😂😂😂)

[I hope I don't sound super 'pressed' about this. I'm just at work and have to type this out in between customers and phone calls so I might sound more serious than I am 😂]

[messymindpalace]

Jackal: I don't know why the Society is so appalled, they told me to do whatever it takes to survive.

The Society:

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I know I don't post often at the moment, because right now my hyperfixiation lies elsewhere, but I hope you know that I am doing my due diligence. There are people being indoctrinated to be Fans of Red Rising right now (aka, I have found 4 more people that let me read the books to them) 🐺