so i decided to relisten to marielda, now with the context of autumn. (pretty nearly a calendar year after i first listened to it, as it happens.) the first couple arcs hit pretty much the same, aside from a few early surprises, like the weirdness of the quiet year worldbuilding and the hitchcocks being from nacre. however: the final arc is completely different in context with autumn. it isn’t just being able to recognize the callbacks—the mask, kindrali, the sword (HELLA’S SWORD)—but those references contribute to the overall, uh, reconfiguration of the narrative. the stakes of autumn are so much clearer and so much higher, and the mysteries are deeper and stranger. and what’s the line from samot—if he makes a change to time, it’s as though it had always been true? really solid prequel work.
and the ending strikes me as more hopeful. samol’s nihilism is more understandable, imo, alongside the bleakness of autumn (nacre, hadrian)—i’d already been wondering whether hieron was simply doomed. but then the theme from autumn comes back in, almost in reply. and to me it sounds like a refutation: even when the gods are silent and the erasure has begun and the heat and the dark encroach, even after lifetimes pass, there will still be some kind of mortal survival. we’ve seen it. and the story remains to be told. so that feels very hopeful, in a way.
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Magda talking about her lb role at chelsea: https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/eriksson-om-positionsbytet-inte-fatt-gora-pa-manga-ar
Interesting how she's saying that the role is very much tailored to her qualities as a player so it's a very fluid role as a hybrid cb/lb
Eriksson on the position change: "Not allowed to do it for many years"
From center back to left back. Defensive rock Magdalena Eriksson has recently changed positions in the club team Chelsea.
"It has become a part of Chelsea now. It's been quite interesting and I try to see it as a challenge. Now I actually get to regularly play left-back, which I haven't really had to do for many years," says Eriksson. But the role has been adapted a bit, which suits Eriksson's playing style:
"Now I have been able to see a bit more of a process in it, which has made me feel that I have been able to develop in the position. It's not a classic full-back role I have at Chelsea, so it's a role that I feel suits me". Sweden plays a training international match against Australia early on Saturday morning, 04.45, Swedish time. It remains to be seen Eriksson's position in the meeting.
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Alex Fatt x BSF Fuego Base - Fat N*ggas prod.by LB (Official Video)
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palisade 41
honestly don’t really know where to begin here.
because, like, we all kinda knew this was coming, right? odds were it had to happen sometime. now it has.
but there’s still a real cosmic unfairness to the timing of it. figure died right after they decided they didn’t want to. breaking the wheel of their resurrection is fine and all, but they fought so hard to escape clem and join perennial that it doesn’t really ring true to me.
hearing future in the same sentence reminded me that there’s another suite of definitions for figure, aside from the noun meaning shape or form—the verb meaning guess, consider, imagine.
i’m inclined to read future and perennial as two sides of the same coin—two views of the principality. future sees an inevitable road toward culmination, perennial sees that it’s all the same fucking cycle. also, future seizing on a moment of power from perennial and turning it to their own ends.
real gur just cannot catch a break. they’re stuck with future, inside their own reanimated corpse, guarded by the shell of figure? some real eternal torment there.
so, you know. shit sucks!!
i was really, really hoping eclectic would steal future, and it would also have been incredible for gur sevraq (who, as we know, stole the future) to be stolen from future, but the dice fall as they will
really interesting contrast between the two sides of this arc wrt divine/axiom/mortal/etc relationships. thisbe is guiding integrity and communicating with ebullience, building relationships across ways of being. figure is destroyed just by exposure to divine power, subsumed by the weight of a god rearing up on its own. the axiom being willing to treat with thisbe, the divine destroying figure. which is maybe less about those powers than about the hands moving them—instrumentalization as always a core theme of palisade.
of course it is also a cautionary tale of the capriciousness of dice. if figure and gur had gotten to speak with future i can imagine it going more like thisbe’s side. but maybe not! we’ll never know.
characters being demanded to envision a future was one of my favorite beats in partizan and it was really cool to hit that again (and to call back to leap!). but also heartbreaking. cori, happy and safe…
aw fuck the crew’s still gonna have to find out that figure is dead… mortality of course goes hand in hand with grief. much like valence’s death i think the positioning of figure’s death is ultimately going to be shaped most by reactions to it
dre’s pc deaths are always so fraught, huh. valence and chine were also kind of messy, sudden deaths—no clean tragedy. which, like, is life, but also, ;-;
the music was incredible. like breathing. and the way the dirge just stops—blinks out.
eclectic drawing up the seismic power of opposition, his own power, was really moving. a bit of grace in that moment.
i’m not sure where they’re gonna go from here, especially in terms of character arcs. it’s a rough downbeat. kind of falls in line with the conflict turns, though—fighting back and forth down to the bitter end. might be a bleak finale although at least one more thing seems set to unfold in this arc so honestly who knows
incidentally, bets on that: the smell of computer parts immediately made me think of the nobel, but the mechanical whine heard across the continent made me wonder if it could be palisade waking up (/being woken up). either way, it’s definitely getting to be alarm clock time, right?? (on the other hand maybe this is just motion activating all across palisade, but a bunch of motion factories just got taken down.)
it’s nice that the a-plot crew were having a fun heist though. cori deserves an alise breka mission
tragedy-ass podcast.
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my options are:
power through the confusion of SiH until i’m invested in the hieron characters and can use that to carry me through the season. this took 10 hrs with C/w but spring is STARTING from the presupposition of investment so who even knows
no friends @ table for like. a year :(
.................. marathon.......... fall and winter.............. ???
3 is not a real option i’m not doing that. I’M BUMMED i listened to the entire spoilery recap and i still have little to no idea what is happening. they named so many NPCs. austin, your fucking factions. i want to draw the laminae and strata but i don’t want to listen to all of winter. lem has murdered so many people, so brutally, i thought he was a? librarian????
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