I think our attempts to fix this scene ended up making it worse. It started out as just boring, like the “Byron studies ethics” idea before it. So we ramped up the conflict until Byron and Gravedust sounded way too […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everything in this Book Is the Opposite of True does remind me a little of Praise of Folly now, but I’d missed that one in my earlier education. I think Kur’Ik doesn’t have the right cultural grounding to appreciate it. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pretty sure Stewart’s outburst here is modeled on my own behavior with Phil: still waters running deep until you get in my face one too many times and then, boom. Actually, Sundar and Stewart respectively look an awful lot like […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, at least we had no difficulty inventing legislation that ended up screwing everybody but the Heads of Houses over. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about framing these unheard cries for help as entirely the fault of wartime […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The closest I’ve gotten to actual self-respect in weeks” was how E-Merl described his interaction with Frigg last chapter. And not to put too fine a point on it, but watch what she does as soon as he makes it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
