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Jun. 8th, 2024 03:12 amMy sleep pattern hit the point where I don't get an actual 8 hours for Too Long and my week went all anxiety and tired. But I'm pretty much okay, it'll just be a few days until my sleep is helpful times again.
I picked up the Scholomance trilogy to read when I needed to stay awake for a Task. ... El is wrong about *every*thing. It's not subtle. She confidently asserts something and it'll be wrong over the page. But it doesn't feel like cheating because they're teenagers teaching themselves from a library and she's, like, perma angry stormclouds, so you know she means it, and then we get Fun Surprises.
... many things are made clearer earlier on than we actually knew how to figure at the start. There are not so much clues as just plain showing. But we don't know that yet.
I like the endings because it's just El going Or We Could Just Not Kill People and making it stick.
But I also sort of ran out of steam a couple chapters before the end because I could remember how it ends and the elaborate multi region xover ficish setting in my head got my attention instead.
... it's never going to be a fic until I can think of specific problems and solutions and properly satisfying endings rather than just ways to tangle everyone's problems together into new configurations. And even then it's too many steps from any one canon to be good fic...
The lingering problem with the Scholomance is the math is just... big messy feelings math rather than actually making sense in the family structures we see. It bothers me. You need to compare it to historical ways of life and death and tweak it around a bunch to make it make sense at all.
But the big messy feelings are motivation enough for the huge grand gestures that make the plot go, so it sort of works, unless you get a calculator out.
Good reading for this week though.
... other half read books required too much concentration and like metaphors and layers and subtlety, and I can't even spell subtlety the first half dozen tries, so, I put them back for later.
Monster go boom is easy to follow and satisfying though.
Monster get healed is better.
I picked up the Scholomance trilogy to read when I needed to stay awake for a Task. ... El is wrong about *every*thing. It's not subtle. She confidently asserts something and it'll be wrong over the page. But it doesn't feel like cheating because they're teenagers teaching themselves from a library and she's, like, perma angry stormclouds, so you know she means it, and then we get Fun Surprises.
... many things are made clearer earlier on than we actually knew how to figure at the start. There are not so much clues as just plain showing. But we don't know that yet.
I like the endings because it's just El going Or We Could Just Not Kill People and making it stick.
But I also sort of ran out of steam a couple chapters before the end because I could remember how it ends and the elaborate multi region xover ficish setting in my head got my attention instead.
... it's never going to be a fic until I can think of specific problems and solutions and properly satisfying endings rather than just ways to tangle everyone's problems together into new configurations. And even then it's too many steps from any one canon to be good fic...
The lingering problem with the Scholomance is the math is just... big messy feelings math rather than actually making sense in the family structures we see. It bothers me. You need to compare it to historical ways of life and death and tweak it around a bunch to make it make sense at all.
But the big messy feelings are motivation enough for the huge grand gestures that make the plot go, so it sort of works, unless you get a calculator out.
Good reading for this week though.
... other half read books required too much concentration and like metaphors and layers and subtlety, and I can't even spell subtlety the first half dozen tries, so, I put them back for later.
Monster go boom is easy to follow and satisfying though.
Monster get healed is better.