#reread thoughts

[rambunctious-cr0w]

Homestuck is the only story to convey a feeling of religious mystery effectively. Every interaction and plot point is dripping with a sort of all-permeating significance. Everything is exactly as it should be, as it has to be, as it always was, and always will be. If it seems otherwise, you just haven’t peeled back enough layers yet. It’s a lovecraftian horror of a religious text.

[mellarked-katnisseverdeen]

Rereading Thoughts, Rue Focused.

So. Today I'm under the weather, in bed and got (and probabbly am not done getting) a ton of reading done. Decided before we get to Peeta that I'm gonna spend a whole post talking about Rue, her relationship to Katniss and such things.

A thing I forgot was that Rue behaves A LOT like a little girl. Not just a girl, as Katniss does occasonally, but her age. Collins has such a good understanding her character emotonally development, taking into account both their age, AND their expereinces. Rue is a very young girl, but also one whose had to get smart with a lot put on her shoulders not unlike ALL the characters here. But she still is 12.

I also forgot how much she and Katniss share information. Entirely forgot that they talked about their districts with one another almost the entire time they were allied with one another. It hits home just how much division the Capitols put into everything.

Rue making friends with the Mockingjay literally brought me close to tears. Katniss saying something to comfort the baby Mockingjay is...just Collins why do you do this I don't need to cry.

Secondly, Katniss's entire attitude changeing with her. I don't lie when I say Kat on some level emotonally adopted Rue in the arena. She says it herself- that she is all that Rue has, and being their for her is all that matters. She can't even think for more than a single thought what would happen if it came down to the two of them. She is happy and encouraging with her, it is notable she is ALWAYS building Rue up in every conversation. Giving her confindence in the skills she sees she has, and tries as much as she can to make this little girl feel safe.

And this part also shows in honestly...some of the most angry moments I think Katniss has in the entire series as well. Just her anger, her want to bring those to justice who've hurt someone so harmless and good, so young is palpable even after she thinks about the boy from 1, and begins to kind of walk back some of that . And that is notable cause Katniss ISN'T vengeful naturally. It is never her wish to get revenge, naturally. But Rue was killed, and you can feel how deep her sorrow is by how much that anger, for a time, morphs her view on things.

She also sings her a song she notes spesifically is for babies, for parents to sing to their children (a song she sings to Prim, to her own children far into the future).

My thing is how much Katniss wanted people to remember Rue, and honestly that pushes her to want to win. She even admits it does this MORE tha her vow to Prim! That took thinking about to sink in. But that is just how powerful Rue was.

[herenya-sedai]

My plan has been not to reread WOT before the adaptation airs. I know I'll be more receptive to a re-imagined and translated-to-a-different-medium version of the story if the book version isn’t quite so vivid in my head. (I can have book purist tendencies.)

I didn’t expect to be tempted to change this plan. It’s been a while since I felt like reading WOT, and I’ve been having the sort of year where I return epic fantasy to the library unread.

But looking forward to the adaptation (show? TV series? what is the best shorthand way to refer to it?) has made me excited about this story all over again.

I’ve read a few random scenes here and there “to just check something”, and I want to read more. Especially the early-series books. I am, apparently, in the mood for The Great Hunt.

Hopefully I’ll still feel this way in January...

[annabethisterrified]

house of hades is basically just a continuous reel of the argo ii crew getting jump-scared by nico

[sailorgreywolf-legacy]

Ale:

[phqyd-roar]

Friendly reminder that

ACD Canon Holmes is, according to our narrator Watson: Very easy to live with Goes to bed early and rises equally early Enjoys long walks A competent gentleman Has a steady stream of clients & is respected by colleagues in his field Has friends within all classes who come calling on him regularly Is fairly nice and patient with Watson and enjoys explaining his thought process Blushes like a pretty girl when Watson compliments him Whereas BBC Sherlock is: Hellish to live with Never sleeps and eats Glued to his phone Has a big brother breathing down his neck for fear he can't adult properly Only client is Lestrade for at least a year till he gets famous. At 27, the age ACD Holmes was in ASiS, he was still being a junkie Has no friends. Calls self a sociopath. Is more comfortable with having enemies than friends. Is a dick to John and calls him an idiot a lot, rarely explains himself and usually runs off ahead alone when he makes a new discovery Looks like he's never heard a compliment in his life when John praises him and gets awkward embarrassed tl;dr Mofftiss read all the canon and adaptations then decided "Everyone else got it wrong and we can get it right cos Sherlock Holmes is actually an UTTER BELLEND"

[rambunctious-cr0w]

Homestuck charades as a cookie-cutter text-based fantasy adventure game, both from the POV of the reader actually reading the comic because of its writing and construction, and from within SBURB from the POV of the characters. The kids aren’t introduced as real people per say, but flat characters as if from a shallow, short, text based adventure. The characters don’t engage with the ridiculousness of their situation or the contrivances that make it happen, and that’s ok for the reader because they are introduced as characters, not as people who happen to be characters. The plot is a too-obvious chosen-one call-to-adventure save-the-world pattern. The subversion is when, on these incredibly shaky and thin foundations, all of homestuck happens. The characters continue to be exposited and explored beyond their formulaic introductions and become deeply three-dimensional. The plot is scaffolded on top of the mechanics of SBURB, not within them; the story grows beyond the constraints it seemed to impose on itself. This is the fundamental joke of homestuck.

[sailorgreywolf-legacy]

Does anyone else remember when Iturbide pulled this dramatic stunt?

Ale may have liked him because they both do things with flare.