Okay, let’s spell it out here: Gamergate was obviously fresh in Flo’s and my minds when we put this scene together. However, Shanna doesn’t mention names for a reason: this is a more general social-media-based toxicity that the intervening years […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anyway, before this sequence became about Flo and me yelling at each other, it was first about getting all the readers to yell at Shanna! This is a tangled topic I can talk about from many perspectives, but let’s focus […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You can tell Shanna is eating up everything Xan is putting down here because she actually defines Kingdoms of Arkerra accurately and without one iota of geek-tweaking snark. And another piece of the puzzle drops into place, followed by what looks to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Xan and Shanna may have had a bumpy start, but what saves them here is mutual devotion to the work of information-gathering. Shanna sets terms for her continued presence and Xan immediately meets them (possibly looking a little chastised as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Xan pretty well won over the readers here, and I hope this also finally buried the last of the “she’s just doing it for the moneyyy” sentiment about Shanna. I hope, likewise, that you can tolerate my griping about that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
