three houses by Dave Malloy???????? what did you think??? have you listened to any of his other works????? have i ever expressed.how much i fucking love Dave Malloys music???
Iāve listened to the entirety Three Houses on repeat for genuinely months now i think. In fact im listening to it as I answer this right now. such a fucking masterful musical with just my right amount of symbolism-riddled fables. it especially rides just up my alley for contemporary fiction, and touching on the pandemic in the way he does is so incredible. it made me hunker down even harder on my love for the most contemporary fiction and now i can hardly handle any criticism of a work being ādated and cringeā without frothing at the mouth lol.
Anyways, Iāve seen Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 when it was in town like year ago. Iāve listened to the broadway and original cast recording a shit tonā¦ honestly I canāt believe I hadnāt looked into Malloyās other works until recently. I know heās got other works that are totally up my alley but I havenāt gotten to them yet! I think Iāll check out Octet sometime soon
I just took a scroll shot on my phone of what I have written for your FIRST ask (only) and it couldn't even fit it all into the extended screenshotā¤ļøif you're worried about what will come of it
OHHHH IM SO SCARED. SO SCARED AND EXCITED YAYAYAYAYYYY
Btw the way you owe me an explanation the relation between Silas and Atticus now that you've brought it up
FAIR ENOUGH I absolutely do. so, quick background on Silas Sinclair: heās a 24 year old man, born and raised in Toronto. Heās a āworking artistā straight out of OCAD, though heās been kind of struggling catching opportunities so itās been a rough start. He has a star marking on his inner right wrist, connecting him to the star Icarus, one of the most distant stars from Earth. His sidereal connection gives him the power to jump through time and, most horrifyingly enough, different universes. Of which he has very little control over. yay :)
(the rest under the cut to not be mega annoying.)
Now, his connection with Atticus Sinclair: in Sidereal, Silas is the firstborn son of Adam and Sandra Sinclair, with a younger āsisterā (whoās also a sidereal but Silas has no clue.) In Ittuatuq, Atticus is the first and only son of Adam and Sandra Sinclair. Silas does not exist in Ittuatuq, but Atticus does exist in Sidereal (though he has yet to transition, as Sidereal in 202X lags behind Ittuatuqās 2030 date, and just general shifts in their settings leading to his delayed transition.)
When we (me and Johann) were first coming up with Sidereal, we thought itād be cute if we had a little connection between our two worlds, so Silas was largely created for that connection. we always thought itād be funny if Silas was inexplicably in the background of Ittuatuq, being chased by spirits or random slapstick shit but never actually addressed in Ittuatuq. My man does not want to be there. But he sees Atticus and realizes theyāre related and has that big āohhhhhhā moment once he realizes Atticus is definitely his sibling back home. And also his sibling is definitely becoming a brother some time in the near future. The clues just line up.
But anyway. Yeah thatās their only connection. Its mainly a silly thing that only exists in my mind for now, it wont ever be a big plot thing in Ittuatuq (god knows they have enough on their plate without multiverse shit), though the universe travel and seeing his sibling does have a bigger impact on Silas, whoās kind of on his own personal growth quest in Sidereal about life and family and all that sappy garbage. Also heās trying to get some powerful energy to help bring his robot crush whoās actually a dead guy back to life and Ittuatuqās sila fits the bill so thatās a whole ānother thing. Anyways look at him now
(potatolord, naylissah itsv and elena-illustration couple picrews respectively. I have a ton of those Sylvain kissing their love interest picrews teehee.)
does this mean that the rest of the Ittuatuq also exists in Sidereal? Yes. but gods and spirits donāt really exist in Sidereal in the way that they do in Ittuatuq, so adding the existence of sidereals their history is Very very different. who knows if Sidereal!Atticus would even bond with Sidereal!Ittuatuq cast if he ever met themā¦
