Hello! I got house of open wounds and I’m back (Merry Christmas I guess). I wish I could say something more articulate than what you’ve already said, I get why some people liked it more, it’s got a defined cast and Yasnic was always brilliant and it probably is a bit easier to keep track of plus it’s still got my best friends fucked up god relationships and evil healing but ugh I missed the first book. I missed the rush of two characters who had no connection stumbling into each other and one picking up the plot to get its miserable relay baton to the next person. I missed feeling like Ilmar was being dissected and I could see its guts and sinew while it tried to haunt me back. And I don’t think anything can ever top the absolute euphoria of Hellgram finding his wife and how it suddenly made complete sense or getting into the Reproach and wanting to put like 5 of my D&D characters into a Situation. Also why did he end the book still getting called Jack. It was good, great even, and I feel like I could be insane over any number of moving parts, just not As insane :(
oh you are SO correct 100% i agree with you entirely on the relay baton comment that's exactly what i loved so much about the first book and ILMAR. MY BELOVED ILMAR. expecting me to care about anything when we all know the reproach is back in that city is mind boggling. ohhhhhh and yasnic :(((( when god was telling him he needed to tell them his proper name otherwise they wouldn't put the right name on his headstone i could have wept. and now yasnic is bound just as much of the rest of them due to the life saving healing like of course he always WAS but now he UNDERSTANDS. ugh! city of last chances you will always be famous!!!
my name is Elmo Sesamstraße and for the last three months i have been roaming the streets of Nowy Jork trying to uncover the mystery of who divorced me
Sometimes girlhood is matching hello kitty oodies with your mortal enemy
Also if I could run a dnd session that worked like Ilmar I think my life would be complete. The whole book felt like i was watching dominoes fall in slow motion while all the narrators played a fucked up relay race with the narrative and it was just so good
OKAY FACTS i had almost the EXACT same thought and i was especially struck by the reproach?? almost immediately i was like ohhhhh i want to send my players here. but yes. the plotting. the way it starts with one death and just snowballs and you're following that single thread, that one pulse of the butterfly's wing rippling out through this living, breathing city.
I've tried to draw the graphs of a function x ↦ x² in ℤ/pℤ for some of prime p's. And the result gives me the feeling like I'm a medieval sage and I'm studying some sort of alchemy :)
Apparently we can see quadratic residues (the numbers which have at least one incoming arrow) and quadratic non-residues (have no incoming arrow). It is a visual representation of a fact that for each prime p there are equal amounts of both, which is (p-1)/2. Also, I could see two structures: cycles and trees, which are always combined and which I am curious to investigate further. Also it's interesting how the number of connected components is related to the number p
It really feels like I gradually unveil the secrets of the universe. The look of my printed paper also gives an impression of an ancient scroll
Nah, I told ya, he in love with him
kitten I'm gonna be honest, daddy was kind of a construct existing largely in the form of your gestalt memories of several different people, so he may not exist as an individual in the way you had previously assumed, if such a person ever truly existed at all
Turn the other cheek? Wrong. Heavy artillery bombardment.
Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice
A wasps nest
Not that far removed from Cleopatra's bees, honestly. I'm not as brave as her though, I'm gonna have to pass.
Fuck it. Unhinged smash or pass. Spin the wheel.