#honestly I’ve been having fun thinking about what reading feast dance as an intentional end does thematically
Penny for your thoughts here?
I think that adding the thematic depth and scope of feast and dance effectively halted the momentum of the series and I think it was still worth it to do. The series without winds both textually and metatextually makes us ask: the world is fucking literally ending and we don’t know if anyone is going to be able to stop it. So what was worth it?
The world is complicated beyond comprehension. Maybe no one comes to save you. Maybe you try to make things better and get killed. Maybe you will never find out the depth of the truth that was kept from you. Maybe there isn’t a big payoff for your suffering or your good deeds (or your bad ones.) Maybe no one gets it together in time and we all just kill each other before the apocalypse hits. Maybe violence and vengeance are not cathartic. So what was worth it? Why is it even important to try to be human in these times? I think it can be soooooo compelling to start back from that lens with the understanding that maybe it is over.
