#bitb meta

[overyonderinthegraveyard]

i realize the name timothy comes from the greek and means something totally different, but my first thought when i heard his name was "oh, he's afraid" because in latin, timeo = to fear

[overyonderinthegraveyard]

not to "guy who only watches star trek" the nightmare blunt rotation, but they DO parallel the original star trek triumvirate in some interesting ways

if, for example, spock is the head, bones is the heart, and kirk is the soul-- then, too, rolan is the head, kian is the heart, and rand is the soul.

or put it this way. rolan appeals to reason, kian appeals to emotion, rand appeals to humanity.

kian and rand bounce off each other in the exact same way bones and kirk do. they offer each other a safe, solid person to lean on, to drink with, to bitch with, to be messy and human and alive with. they need each other. desperately.

rolan and kian poke at each other's weaknesses in the way that spock and bones do. they might disagree on some of their life choices, but rolan would trust kian to carry his soul, and kian would risk his life for the safekeeping of it.

and then, of course, rolanrand. spock and kirk. do you want me to start bc we could be here all day.

[overyonderinthegraveyard]

the problem with bitb is that it's set in the deep south--in the very rural deep south, on the bayou!--and yet there are 0 black characters. not a one. which. like. i can ignore the basements, if you havent lived around sea level i guess maybe you wouldn't know that nobody has basements. (are basements a common thing?? anywhere?? they seem fake to me.)

but there is NO WAY you wrote about what is very well known to be a predominantly black area, and still accidentally made everyone white. that's a deliberate decision not to engage with reality. and it comes across (to me, a southerner) as a fucking sundown town, because the absolute absence of poc is WEIRD. IT'S NOT NORMAL. WHERE IS EVERYONE???????

as an aside, i think if you genuinely never/rarely see nonwhite people, you are living an abnormally insular life and you need to get your ass out of the wealthy areas of town at LEAST once a week. walk around the block by the walmart or something. grow your soul. if you are afraid of poor and/or nonwhite people, you are a danger to them. get comfortable. say hi! they're your neighbors!

anyway. what i usually do for podcasts and books is to just create character designs that aren't white, particularly for the main cast, because it's fun, it's free, and i'm very good at it.

so i'm mulling that over in my mind. might fuck around and make them all black. i'm already making them fat, i might as well, yk

[overyonderinthegraveyard]

i need to make a dramatic slow motion animatic of the finale set to this

(with flashbacks n shit so it would realistically cover the whole plot bc of how long it is) but god specifically i need rand to throw the grenades as the first chorus starts. yeah right after he talks to rachel during there's a darkness in this house that got the best of us / there's a darkness in this town that's got us too / but they can't touch me now and you can't touch me now / they aint gonna do to me what i watched em do to you