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Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all.
(The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)
Laws like this indeed do a lot to stop fascist book censorship. They can also help legally protect librarians from getting fired or harassed for keeping books on the shelves! Some states like Rhode Island have already passed these laws. If you're in a blue state, look up whether you have laws like this on the books. MAYBE your state is trying to get one passed right now, like New York's Freedom to Read bill. call your state elected officials to voice support for it.
I have finished Chapters 5, 6, and 7 and whew!! I think I have plenty to talk about and I wanted to make another post, so much has happened! I might take a little break for a week from reading and I think this would be a good place to leave off, but excited for more!
Warning, this is going to be a longer and more rambling than the first 😅
I've noticed that Sette has some sway over things associated with the Khert for a bit now. Examples include Boo, who takes a shine to her, Quigley's cloak (which he was surprised about), and the little small eel creatures in the Khert realm. In addition, she was able to effect the Khert world with her bare hands when the knife wasn't able to (again, to the surprise of others).
I have seen the lion creature from later chapters, but I can see through the context of Chapters 1 through 7 that there is some religious significance to the lion, specifically it seems to the Ssaelit. Duane had a lion on his robes and there were many lion statues in the background.
I add this under the bit about Sette having an effect on the Khert because she of course has a lion's tail! So it connects her to the divine. I also noticed that the color green seems to be between her and Duane; Sette's eyes, Mikaila's eyes, Duane's old robes...
This brings me to what I've gleaned about Ssael. He is said to have slain the Gefendur Gods and freed mankind from the Khert, that he was able to keep his memories. I almost wonder if Sette has a similar capability, but I haven't seen if she remembers her experience there yet! It seems like Duane didn't when he woke up but perhaps I am mistaken.
It reminds me of the Demiurge and Monad deal. With the Monad being the Khert and the Demiurge being the Gefendur Gods.
Another thing I was thinking a lot about in the Khert realm was how much it reminded me of Chaos in Paradise Lost! And the Hindu Brahman. What a vivid and striking place, I really appreciated its depiction. I have so many thoughts about the Khert and what it is but I will have to save it because it'd be too much rambling.
I wrote before in my first notes that Sette comments on how strange it was that Duane burned Cara. It seems the Gefendur bury their dead to return to Yerta while the Ssaelit burn their dead? At first I thought this could be so they avoid becoming plods but now I wonder if it is because they refuse the return to Yerta and wish to be freed from a cycle of rebirth. I wonder where they believe they go, if anywhere?
It's interesting to me how Tirna and Ssael seem to have similar associations of being rebellious or outside the norm. I'm seeing a theme of children rebelling against parents in general, as told by Timofey in his poem, Mikaila's stubborn spirit, Sette struggling with her task, Tirna, Matty, etc.
Real quick, the bit about rebirth reminds me of how much Mikaila is associated with butterflies; rebirth is the symbol that comes to mind. What form will she take in this rebirth? A part of me hopes I am reading into that too much and that she has truly moved on but something I noticed was in the last panel of Duane's murder I didn't see Mikaila... she could've just been out of frame though because her gloved hand was just before.
Another thing that I hope isn't true and I'm jumping the gun on is Lemuel possibly knowing something about the hit that was put on Duane... I did see Winalils being sus in the crowd before too.
I really love Sette's comments on Duane's memories: "I think he was only a Da all along" and also that she didn't want to know so much about him. It's easier to lie and manipulate a mindless attack zombie than Duane, the guy who died trying to protect his daughter!
Just making note that the first book was called the Corpse with No Eyes. Duane's eyes are usually shaded in the story but here we see they were poked out before he died. It's interesting to me especially since the Weeping Plague is said to be contagious through the eyes.
How unfortunately pertinent is the whole Alderode racial situation?? And the issues with borders brought up in Cresce? Just. Excellent worldbuilding. I have met people who would unironically agree with the line "Better they obliterate us entirely than insult us with minority status."
It is fascinating how idealistic Duane is to the point where he believes earnestly in the unity of the Aldish people where he says "How can we injure ourselves to heal a wound?" Which. I agree in principle with the sentiment. BUT, saying that about religious coexistence while society around him is heavily segregated by haircolor and even stratified by gender is just... wow. I adore the depth/illogical thinking because it makes him feel very human, especially when you can see how frustration is simmering under everything he does!! His pride and sense of superiority are at war with the reality around him and he just. Doesn't reconcile them!
Ok ok rapid fire things I loved:
Mikaila... 😭 omg her relationship with Duane was so special, it hurt when the inevitable happened. Hell, even Duane and Leysa's relationship was so wonderfully depicted. I really felt like I knew their little family even though I only saw a little bit of their life!
All the re-contextualization! We hear so much horrible stuff about the Black Tongues but already we're seeing there's more to it. Everything seems to have another viewpoint.
The way Duane and Quigley compliment and contrast each other is mwah, delicious. I want to pick them both apart.
Just. I wasn't surprised to enjoy Duane and Sette's dynamic because I knew enough about them to appreciate them before I read, but I'm excited/happy that I find I'm interested in the other characters! While I am eager to get back to the main duo, I am not disappointed at all to follow other characters for a while!
I have a lot more I could say but I don't want to make this too long 😅 I am not the most concise. BUT I did want to say that I am noticing a ton of thematic similarities/worldbuilding similarities between Unsounded and Elden Ring. Should I make a post about that? 🤔
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I love when information revealed at the end of a story recontextualizes something said or done at the beginning. Like yes queen make the story a loop let the story keep developing even though the book is closed and the credits are rolling. The story never ends it just starts over.
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Current Obsession: im kinda bouncin around between a few things, like different aspects of bookbinding- like paper weights and materials- then more ancillary things to that like how i wanna do the art for 1 of the projects im (slowly) starting, what font and color pallette imma use ect. Then just standard brainrot like latching onto a rarepair ship.
Currently Reading: still 'Flowers for Algernon' and 'Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts' and also re-reading large chunks of The Neverending Story and Rossums Universal Robot stageplay while fixing the formatting and other problems
Currently Working On: various bookbinding projects- the main one thats def gonna take like 2 yrs absolute minimum is the neverending story but im gonna make a version specifically for ME with blackjack and strippers. But as mentioned im also doing smaller ones to get good. I still needta do the cover for The Fate of a Man (came out too dark) and im doin R.U.R next. Oh also a fuckin 10 page bjornfinn comic i work on when im tired of that. My attempt to make my case why i think it could be interesting 😤 also might paint my room soon
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Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!
Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.
I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.
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There's really this strong temptation that everyone has which basically says "to have interiority is to be like me; ordinary people are surface everywhere." And this manifests in different ways in different spaces, and becomes really pronounced when you cluster together with similar people. So tumblr users often act like straight people don't have any interiority because it helps you feel the deepening of social bonds with other gay people. This happens professionally too. I think it was Summer or Sharks who was saying that programming people think that intelligence is just being really good at writing code. Not surprising but very strange to me! I am (equally ridiculously) used to thinking that intelligence is being really good at philosophy, having command of a lot of sources that you can use creatively, etc. This reflects a kind of dynamic on tumblr and reddit. On reddit to have interiority is to be a science guy and on tumblr to have interiority is to be a humanities girl (and the dynamic is gendered in exactly this way). And I think there is something dangerous about habitually regarding other people as automatons. It's good to have people outside of your niche to remind you that other people from different walks of life are quite deep and complicated. They are full of love and fine grained attention to things you never thought to care about. And I think a lot of people go through life thinking of themselves as perpetually victimized by basically empty people rather than having genuine confrontations with full, genuine people who are committed to subtle, complex and real values, who have detailed and intricate histories, and who have a bond to you that you might never quite fully understand. But we rarely even try at understanding these things. We just decide that they're stupid and ridiculous and unreasonable.
Was readin about how medieval manuscripts were made- idk if it was common but an option for applying gold foil was apparently garlic juice- so did the book smell like garlic? - if so is that why vampires dont like garlic? Its the smell of beautifully illuminated bibles thatd be housed in a monestary all extra holy style?
I was scrolling reddit and have lately been getting spammed by the r/SparkingZero subreddit against my will lol. Came across a post showing Gohan doing a kamehameha in this fit and just HAD to draw it.
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If you're still taking requests, I'd love to ask for some type of blinkie gif depicting Olmar! Your choice on which version of him to depict (farmland arc or post farmland arc) but I would like him to have his mustache. Other than that, total creative freedom!
Thank you for the chance!
Yes, happy you asked. :)
The runes on the right are a possible transliteration of "Olmar": ᚢᛚᛘᛅᚱ. The direct transliteration of "ᚢᛚᛘᛅᚱ" is "u l m a r". There is a character sometimes used specifically for "o" in Younger Futhark runes (ᚬ), but ᚢ is more commonly used to represent "o" (and a variety of other sounds). As I mentioned on the Askeladd blinkie post, there's not a single fixed way of spelling things in Norse runes, like there's also an alternative "R" I could've used. I just do what seems like would be the most common spelling, or a common spelling, based on my research (at one point I went down a months-long rabbit hole of learning about runes).
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