Annotated 24-10
I have thoughts about the punchline here, but they’re better applied to tomorrow’s installment.
It’s as if we were resorting to making Syr’Nj shout an urgent motivation at us, to make us do this next part of the story. We knew we had to, but we didn’t wanna, and as a result, it’s at about this point that the story starts really dragging. Again, I think that if we had been at our best, we probably could have dived right into the history of labor rights in America and abroad and churned out either a deep exploration of the law or a breathless, exciting montage that covered the key points.
But after we’d emotionally exhausted ourselves yelling about stupid crap for so many weeks, that just felt like so much worrrrk, uuuugh.
“CAN YOU DO IT??” shouted Syr’Nj.
And Phil and I replied, as one:
“Well… yeah, I guess so. I hope so. Maybe? We’ll try, y’know?”
At this point, the ending feels like a deliberate red herring aimed at the people who thought Kur’Ik was Shanna’s online avatar. Those last three panels are so totally her.
I’m not sure I ever realized she was that nearsighted and wore such thick glasses.
She wore her glasses while reading and removed them once she needed to focus on something farther away, so that would make her farsighted rather than nearsighted.
I just looked through the archives, and she actually only ever wears glasses when she has to read. She doesn’t even wear them when she’s writing. So either she writes in really large letters, or she can actually manage to write without being able to read it as she goes.
I suppose there is also the possibility that she doesn’t need glasses at all, and these are just regular glass she uses for show and for the occasional dramatic effect.
Just for show is a bit off an odd theory when she’s so close to the paper she looks she’s reading braille with her nose.
True. But to people seeing her, she will look extra scholarly :D
(But I agree, far-sightedness paired with a compensatory writing strategy seems more likely).
Kur’ik is obviously a Documancer.
So who’s the Decisionist?
The Four Winds Storytellers’ Library is a 6000 volume research library I run out of my apartment in Toronto Canada.
Some years ago I got a research request for folktales from a zoologist in New York city who was writing a book on porcupines who wanted to include a chapter on folktales about the porcupine.
Three years later I received a copy of the book with a note saying of the six stories used in the book, three came from the NYPL and three came from the Four Winds Library. Warrior Librarian!!! Woo Hoo!!
That. Is so awesome.
Cue montage of books being punched.
“You have bad pacing and your characters don’t have distinct personalities!” *WHACK*
“I was forced to read you three times during my school years!” *BAM*
“YOUR ENTIRE PREMISE IS STUPIIIIIIIIID!” *SMACK*