omg ASH (blows you a kiss). I read all re: TPW and only the first bit of the other bc!! I trust your tastes and now cclare and the winged histories are on my goodreads.
reading this made me so excited it's like junior school when I met someone else who watched anime and now all my repressed words are tumbling out.
- RIN THOUGHTS. I'm cackling bahaha, I love how you talk about her authority kink and her thirst for everyone in the Yin Family and commanders (if Chaghan was commander I wonder if she would like him more). This is also interesting bc I kinda noticed all that rin stuff but it didn't hit me like now bc I think we read differently, I'm waiting for rin's disillusionment to finally hit so I can get an ego stroke of 'I told you so' + I'm very much YAY to the war stuff and politicking because strategy turns me on. Also Kitay is my racehorse Rin please don't kill him.
- I too, fell in love with altan the second he was described. let us continue to objectify him now that he can't speak for himself
"remember how rin went thru like 5 different lotus eater dreams and they were all about a future with altan as he could have been if he were a person and not a vessel for vengeance. but chaghan's lotus eater dream was altan as he truly was bc chaghan actually knew altan" - YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (yowling cat.jpg) this comparison digs my grave. also when I read chaghan's, good lord I felt like an emotional voyeur let me try to replicate this feeling in my own fic. (also rin's 'this fear was familiar' my ot3 heart burst)
- THE THINLY VEILED HISTORICAL REFERENCES sweet sunday let me just, explode and tell you how angry the writing made me I spent half this book in rage at how bad the plotting/narrative arcs/character development was but the other half raging at myself for being unable to stop bc it's SO GOOD. I don't understand. I hate how she just hands out emotional/moral revelations like candy and without change or ramifications. It's tiring bc the more dramatic the writing, the more insincere it feels. There was so much suffering and death but I barely felt anything it was like reading a wikipedia page of events. Everyone feels disposable and I've been trying to rack my brains about what RFK is missing and what I should notice in my own writing but... idk... maybe haikyuu spoilt us toomuch.
The WORLD was so blatantly east-asian and nothing was surprising. I did have a moment where I was like "oh Speer is Nanking gotcha tough history there Altan" but then Golyn Niis happened and I was like ohshitSpeerisTaiwan and THEY ARE LIVING NANKING. like you that was my 'ah is this still YA anymore' moment (I still think it's YA because of how blatant the love interests are and the way emotions are narrated, your thoughts?)
(I wonder if TPW was so successful bc it was chinese history and not... ww2, because I can imagine the shock factor and the awe if a reader was unfamiliar but I guess for us its just, tacky? Like I think she already gave up trying with the Art of War and Red Cliffs).
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reading this made me so excited it's like junior school when I met someone else who watched anime and now all my repressed words are tumbling out.
- RIN THOUGHTS. I'm cackling bahaha, I love how you talk about her authority kink and her thirst for everyone in the Yin Family and commanders (if Chaghan was commander I wonder if she would like him more). This is also interesting bc I kinda noticed all that rin stuff but it didn't hit me like now bc I think we read differently, I'm waiting for rin's disillusionment to finally hit so I can get an ego stroke of 'I told you so' + I'm very much YAY to the war stuff and politicking because strategy turns me on. Also Kitay is my racehorse Rin please don't kill him.
- I too, fell in love with altan the second he was described. let us continue to objectify him now that he can't speak for himself
"remember how rin went thru like 5 different lotus eater dreams and they were all about a future with altan as he could have been if he were a person and not a vessel for vengeance. but chaghan's lotus eater dream was altan as he truly was bc chaghan actually knew altan"
- YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (yowling cat.jpg) this comparison digs my grave. also when I read chaghan's, good lord I felt like an emotional voyeur let me try to replicate this feeling in my own fic. (also rin's 'this fear was familiar' my ot3 heart burst)
- THE THINLY VEILED HISTORICAL REFERENCES sweet sunday let me just, explode and tell you how angry the writing made me I spent half this book in rage at how bad the plotting/narrative arcs/character development was but the other half raging at myself for being unable to stop bc it's SO GOOD. I don't understand. I hate how she just hands out emotional/moral revelations like candy and without change or ramifications. It's tiring bc the more dramatic the writing, the more insincere it feels. There was so much suffering and death but I barely felt anything it was like reading a wikipedia page of events. Everyone feels disposable and I've been trying to rack my brains about what RFK is missing and what I should notice in my own writing but... idk... maybe haikyuu spoilt us toomuch.
The WORLD was so blatantly east-asian and nothing was surprising. I did have a moment where I was like "oh Speer is Nanking gotcha tough history there Altan" but then Golyn Niis happened and I was like ohshitSpeerisTaiwan and THEY ARE LIVING NANKING. like you that was my 'ah is this still YA anymore' moment (I still think it's YA because of how blatant the love interests are and the way emotions are narrated, your thoughts?)
(I wonder if TPW was so successful bc it was chinese history and not... ww2, because I can imagine the shock factor and the awe if a reader was unfamiliar but I guess for us its just, tacky? Like I think she already gave up trying with the Art of War and Red Cliffs).
love u and your dw posts!