#narrations

[twodiamondhoes]

I love seeing a vague post about shipping boundaries for the first time in a while and knowing that a CC out there said something ridiculous

Figuring out who said what makes me feel like a little archeologist kicking my feet as I dust off my dash to find the name of the person buried in this here tomb

[stygiansauce]

All my recent Tango's are so deeply in love with Jimmy, like devotionally in love with this guy.

And thats the Peacefield effect.

[skyasimaru]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

New Podfic alert! @phoenix_soar on Ao3 has a lovely fic called "Stella Maris", wherein Crawly sees a new star being made badly and goes up to have some Words about it. Now it's in podfic form! Link to pod: https://archiveofourown.org/works/70697286

Link to fic if you'd rather just read it yourself: https://archiveofourown.org/works/67258663

Good times, either way. I hope you all enjoy the story! It is delightful!

Very Respectfully,

SkyAsimaru

[eternal-gardens]

– Musnad Aḥmad 22030, Malik Vol. 2

[scarletwix]

As evolutionarily fascinating as the Stormfront Early Warning System is, I wish there was an off switch. Like thank you to my knees but I have gotten the memo and you can stop hurting now, actually.

[valpwca]

and another thing about reading the locked tomb & terra ignota interleaved: both absolutely excel at unreliable narration. not “we’re not talking about The Incident,” not coyly insinuating that there’s Something the Reader Doesn’t Know, not misdirection, just straightup zero indicators of the relative reality of any given scene. the acknowledgment by the perspective characters of their rather loose grasp on concepts like truth & objectivity; their awareness of the fallibility of their perceptions; their frustration with or resignation to their own states, their absolute willingness to lie like rugs to cover for themselves. like, i’ve done the psychosis thing, i’ve done the non-recreational hallucinating thing, it’s desperately weird & horrible but also just - how things were, at the time, to me, & explaining it to people who were not me was impossible, & these two aren’t trying to make it palatable, aren’t editing themselves (aside from the editing in terra ignota frame) - 

narration & perspective in written work can be used as a guide, but it can also be used as a scalpel, & muir & palmer are both expert surgeons

[memoryzone]

when the jim button hit during falling funk