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[mapas-fantasticos]

Map of Britanitarka from The Encyclopedia of the Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg.

#fantasy map #britanitarka #comic #the encyclopedia of the early earth #isabel greenberg

[re-readingcomics]

Comics Read 07/01-15/2023

A little over a year ago I did a post about reading two comic book biographies of Artemisia Gentileschi back-to-back. I wrote some lines about how the inclusion of them in my collection helps makes the act of collecting semi-autobiographical. Consider this a sequel to that post.

Over the two weeks I am writing about I read Glass Town written and drawn by Isabel Greenberg and The Brontës Infernal Angria written by Craig Hurd-McKenney and art by Rick Geary. Different takes on the same subject, how the Brontë children had a shared alternate universe which they all wrote stories about. I have owned a copy ofThe Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë from when I was a child, but I never read it. I probably should. The names of Angria and Gondal were familiar from reading about the Brontës. But because of not actually reading the Juvenilia, I first encountered Glass Town by name in Die, where it was treated as a proto-multi-player role playing game. Which, seems fair enough. Die wasn’t much interested in the subject of their writings, so this is all new to me.

Greenberg’s art in Glass Town is crude in the same way ND Stevenson’s and Gus Allen art work is. If anything it’s more childlike and inconsistent. I don’t love it, but I like how the lines work the limited pallet with a lot of dark, cool reds. It hints at the early industrial feel of their time period as well as the harsh climate of their surroundings. 

The narrative starts in the aftermath of the the eldest Brontë sisters, Elizabeth and Maria, deaths. The creation of Glass Town is an escape from the trauma of their final illnesses at a poorly kept boarding school.

Charlotte narrates her tale of Glass Town, to a minor character from her stories who appears as her imaginary friend. They talk through the plot she worked on, which as presented here seems more related to Wuthering Heights than Charlotte’s actual novels. The story includes how while the children started sharing Glass Town, they split with Charlotte and Bramwell writing about Angria while Emily and Anne created Gondor. (Less of Emily and Anne’s writing on Gondal survives to the modern day than Charlotte’s work on Angria, hence why less of it is included in either of these accounts.) Probably because of this shared fantasy world with her brother, Charlotte is shocked by his decent into alcoholism while Emily catches early warning signs. It’s a rumination on the building of escapist fantasy in the face of tragedy and the creation of art. I don’t think it entirely works, but it makes me want to get back to reading the Brontë’s and writing about them. 

Infernal Angria takes the shared fantasy world and creates an actual portal fantasy. The Brontës literally go between worlds and get used in political machinations in an alternate world’s monarchy. I hated it. The text is something of an apologia for Bramwell for being such a failure. He didn’t really fail, he was manipulated by much more mature people from a world he loved. Also it takes the “artists don’t die, they live through their art” to the extreme of the Brontës didn’t all die at shockingly young ages, they relocated to the other side of a portal. It’s silly and also unclear. It shouldn’t be both. The end had the author talking about his long love of the Brontës as well as a suggested reading list. Everyone in a while you find someone who has some shared enthusiasms but seem to 

At first glance, I would think that Geary’s art style is more my type than Greenbergs. But eventually I hated it because the shading was made with a crosshatching that got too easily confused with patents used for fabrics or wood grains. It’s the shorter of these two books and the one that felt more like a chore to read. 

The contrasting treatments of the the worlds of Angria/Glass Town is pretty interesting. The character in both have essentially the same back story, but as presented in Infernal Angria I didn’t feel like the narrative came off as a rough draft of Wuthering Heights. Glass Town treats the alternate world as a reflection on contemporary colonialism, while Infernal Angria approaches it as a pastiche of Medieval fantasy. It makes me wish I had read the source material even more. 

Despite finding these books lacking, there will be more comic book takes on the Brontës in my reading future. 

#comics #comic books #what i'm reading #Glass Town #The Brontës Infernal Angria #The Brontës #charlotte bronte #Bramwell Brontë #emily bronte #Anne Bronte #Isabel Greenberg #Craig Hurd-McKenney #Rick Geary

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British Comics Now delegation heads to Toronto Comic Art Festival, championing UK creators and publishers

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has just released a new video promoting its massive British Comics Now! project, championing the voices of UK comic creators and publishers

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Graphic Novels Revisited

Visual Discoveries and Diverse Narratives By TJ Barnwell Last year, in an effort to diversify my literary diet—a regular feast that includes over 60 books annually—I decided to revisit a genre that had captivated me in my youth: the graphic novel. This genre, with its unique blend of visual artistry and narrative, had always held a special place in my heart, tracing back to my elementary school…

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#Almost American Girl #book recommendations #book reviews #books #Isabel Greenberg #One Hundred Nights of Hero #Robin Ha #The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

[c-kiddo]

day 12392780 of wishing the cr origin comics where in greyscale or vry limited colour (like ghost world with the green or something) bc no offense to the colourist but the colours are jus not very nice in the jes and caleb comics and also especially print badly.. like too high saturation and not enough contrast so they just look messy and kinda, low res ?? somehow?. please i just want black and white comics.. i want to see the inking properly..... . 

#sometimes colour comics are good but only if the colours rly help it out and are done well #also black and white comics usually means u get more pages bc its cheaper than colour .. . so . T_ T #kiddo say #i do have colour comics graphic novels i like . . like through the woods and the silver darlings and adrian tomine and jane the fox and me #and kingdom and the nao of brown and isabel greenberg stuff #but sm of my faves are just ink

[highly-important]

Eastward thoughts (spoilers)

It’s interesting how Earth Born becomes an echo of Eastward. Things like the princess in the tower, and the repetitive nature of the game mirrors the constant destruction/and rebirth that’s happening in the world because of the miasma.

Guy, from the original Rocket Knight Legion, created the Earth Born game. I’m not sure if this means the game is meant to create a mythology that affects the culture of the people in the world (and encourage someone to bring a clone of mother to the tower?)

I’m not Chinese or Buddhist but I’m sort of assuming that’s some of the stuff with Alva’s Buddha hand fans and trying to cure the Miasma- it’s about trying to find an end to the cycle of life and death. (Could be totally wrong though.) Trying to understand the story through the lens of a reincarnation allegory at least feels like it’s helping me process some of the themes.

I’m assuming the Monkollywood monkeys are from an original experiment to genetically engineer lifeforms? This might also be why so many animals in the world are bizarre hybrids. Did Solomon film the Earthborn show with the Rocket Knights? And the old monkey who played the monkey on the show was one of the first intelligent monkeys, and possibly because of his experience on the set he’s born a culture of filmmakers?

In general, re: Earth Born, I like when fictional worlds have their own fictional pop culture and mythology.

Memory and repeating cycles are such major themes in the story. I wonder if the fridge was meant to help mother get her memories back.

Is Frank of the Rocket Knights an experiment as well? It sounds like they were investigating immortality. (I don’t think he is the same as a miasma zombie but I have no idea.) Frank’s codename is cleric because Clerics can revive the dead.

After the Miasma wipes a town out, does the human factory repopulate the area? And Charon delivers the Miasma?

I still think it’s cool how John is represented by the frying pan - something he uses offensively and uses to nurture. John is all about acts of service.

They did Alva and Isabel dirty.

I’m still really moved and disturbed by Greenberg. I think the game did an incredible job of making this location impossibly dreamy and charming. I was so invested in the community drama of trying to set John up with Uva. The ending was devastating, and made me genuinely tense to enter any of the other factories. I think it was a powerful choice to have something like this upfront- it establishes a dark tone, and forces us into the story. And it gives such a punch to later scenes, like going to Old Town for the first time and seeing miasma zombies.

And I love how the currency was salt. I know how salt has been a currency in the past. I think it’s a great example of how focused the world is on survival. Currency needs tangible value.

I’m kind of disappointed with the ending tbh, maybe because of how I initially interpreted it? I dunno.

That’s all for now! I already started replaying the game.

#eastward #eastward spoilers

[dinoburger]

I scraped as many forums as I could find for more info and theories on Eastward, I know a lot of folks were as confused as I was so I wanted to compile everything I could find and remember - hopefully it clears things up a little more

consider this a work in progress, I might correct or add things, will also try to add sources where possible - a lot of stuff is just so scattered and there's so much info that it's hard to do

also, if anyone has anything to add, clarifications, other observations etc., feel free to mention them here, this is just a general rundown of all the info I could find and what's relevant

Mother, Charon and the MIASMA

Mother and Charon were created in tandem, one to purge humanity and the other to rebuild it from scratch every time

the ultimate goal of Mother, Charon and the human factories is to create the perfect version of humanity

human pods can create totally custom human beings, but this isn't enough

Mother was created for and is used to power the human factories

there's a line of dialogue that implies the older Solomon was actually in charge of Mother before the sea captain, Cap'n Pam took her from him

(this could confirm that Solomon is indeed some kind of harvester, or was supposed to be but decided to protect Ester City specifically - the Rocket Knight Legion also talks about being afraid of the MIASMA so it's at least known about before the time loop is set in place)

Mother was actually fairly close to the Rocket Knight Legion during her time living in Ester City (to the point where Sam feels sad about them, even when she hadn't known them long herself)

at some point after knowing the Rocket Legion, Mother must have become embittered towards humanity again

I found where the "53 cycles" comes from! This little tidbit, so yes it seems like at the least, Whitewhale Bay has seen 53 total wipes from the MIASMA

Sam

the prevailing theory about Sam and Mother is that the pods that created her are scattered all over Eastward, Mother's immortality is secured by having herself cloned and then using her psychic abilities to project her consciousness into the new body

(Charon may also be tied to sustaining Sam's immortality somehow? we've sort of seen this through Alva, being cloned and spread throughout the land after Isabel somehow merges her with Charon, she becomes a free-floating spirit type thing, idk I guess there are also canonical ghosts so that might not be as much a side effect of Charon, who the fuck even knows)

this works with the aforementioned information about Mother powering the human factories

using a huge burst of her psychic energy in Greenberg is speculated to be the reason why she temporarily lost her memories of there too

John

John is in his 40's

it's theorized that John is selectively mute due to his lack of dialogue, there are instances where it's implied he talks though and one instance of Sam suggesting that John reads to her (it shows that he can talk circumstantially)

New Dam City

Isabel was genetically engineered and created in a human factory, this is confirmed in a dialogue between her and Solomon

Alva and Lee's grandfather came from Ester City and invented the Buddha fan

(This likely makes Lee and Alva siblings or cousins - it's not 100% confirmed as the Wiki calls them childhood friends, but they grew up together under the same roof from a young age and both refer to their grandfather as their grandfather)

(We do not know anything about Lee and Alva's actual parents though, so they may very well be adoptive grandchildren - Hillman says something to the effect of "I don't know what your grandfather saw in that boy" to Alva, perhaps backing up that Lee was taken on rather than already biologically related)

Isabel was also picked up by Lee and Alva's grandfather (it seems like this was later down the timeline, Lee and Alva were likely a bit older when she was introduced, which is why her relationship with Alva seems more romantic in nature than familial)

Lee, Alva and their grandfather used to live in Oldtown when the two kids were small, their grandfather's old house is adjacent to a human factory that Mother complains is damaged beyond repair and has specimens missing

this is where we can assume Isabel was found and how the grandfather managed to save the people of Oldtown before the MIASMA struck, by learning when it was coming and vandalizing the factory

(I don't know if it's confirmed whether the grandfather is dead or alive, Alva talks about "borrowing" his mansion but it's never really delved into I don't think)

(man I don't even think we get a clear explanation as to why the slime breeding furnace was needed or how the cure that Alva was trying to make was supposed to work)

Solomon

the original Professor Solomon created the time barrier to "protect" Ester City, keeping everyone trapped inside

the younger iteration(s) of Solomon are most likely clones (old Solomon has been trapped inside Ester City for possibly thousands of years? he does manage to survive for a while outside the time loop though meaning either he does have the tech to sustain himself for that long, or even old Solomon is a clone of a much much older Solomon)

(I believe it's never made clear whether there are in fact two younger Solomon clones running around - one in New Dam and the other in Ester City's time fog - or if time shenanigans cause the initial young Solomon clone to have aged and forget Sam and John)

young Solomon, Sam and Isabel are all depicted with some form of psychic powers (young Solomon levitates, Sam is obvious and Isabel can create projections of herself seen in the penultimate fight) - and if the clone theory is correct then all were also created in human factories, perhaps insinuating that the ultimate form of humanity is supposed to have powers of some sort

in the final fight with Solomon he talks about "the other one", he knows the duality of Sam's existence and her being possessed by Mother (likely what spurs him to instigate the final attack on the party to force Mother back into control)

Ester City

Guy is the original creator of Earth Born, he also created something called an "emotion chip" designed for the robot citizens of Eastward (I guess to process emotions more naturally?)

Livy engineered the Sandrupes that populate Crockpot Isle

the Time Isles (I believe that's what the island location out from Ester City is called?) also have what look to be the same crabs as the ones found in Crockpot Isle

the Finale

I think there's essentially two theories about what really happens in the ending, after Sam sacrifices herself to destroy Mother

riding off the former theory, future Sam is another pod clone (likely one who is no longer possessed by Mother, or possibly a reformed version of both Sam and Mother that just doesn't have her memories yet)

the second one is time shenanigans of some sort, Sam managing to alter time itself during her sacrifice

a lot of this was just what I could scrape from Reddit or stuff that's in the game

I'm also crediting this essay for bringing up the psychic stuff mainly because I did not notice it

#eastward

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

Hello! First of all: love this blog! Second: I read a lot of queer books and as it turns out a lot of them weren’t already on your spreadsheet so uh. Sorry in advance for what I’m about to do to your inbox/queue 😅

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

The Time Slip Girl by Elizabeth Andre

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Queen of Cups by Ren Basel

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

Werecockroach by Polenth Blake

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

Wain: LGBT Reimaginings of Scottish Folktales by Helene Boppert and Rachel Plummer

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Tremontaine: The Complete Season One by Patty Bryant, Malinda Lo, Racheline Maltese, Joel Derfner, Ellen Kushner, Paul Witcover, and Alaya Dawn Johnson

This Other World by AC Buchanan

In Memoriam by Nathan Burgoine

The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé

Felix Ever After by Karen Callender

Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron

Once & Future by AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy

The Brilliant Death by AR Capetta

XX by Angela Chadwick

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

The Vela by Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, Yoon Ha Lee, and SL Huang

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

The True Queen by Zen Cho

The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho

The Water that Falls on You From Nowhere by John Chu

The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

Girlhood by Cat Clarke

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Dreadnought by April Daniels

Sovereign by April Daniels

Thornfruit by Felicia Davin

Nightvine by Felicia Davin

Shadebloom by Felicia Davin

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Stay Another Day by Juno Dawson

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

We Go Around in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire by Jules Grant

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

Keeper of the Dawn by Dianna Gunn

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

The Outside by Ada Hoffman

The Fallen by Ada Hoffman

The Infinite by Ada Hoffman

Mindtouch by MCA Hogarth

Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson

The City of Woven Streets by Emmi Itäranta

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

The Beast of Callaire by Saruuh Kelsey

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy

An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

The Faerie Godmother’s Apprentice Wore Green by Nicky Kyle

Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live by Sacha Lamb

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee

Not Your Villain by CB Lee

Not Your Backup by CB Lee

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

The Fever King by Victoria Lee

The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales by Yoon Ha Lee

Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Adaptation by Malinda Lo

Inheritance by Malinda Lo

Natural Selection by Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

The Hand, the Eye, and the Heart by Zoë Marriott

Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald

Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

Forbid the Sea by Seanan McGuire

In Sea-Salt Tears by Seanan McGuire

The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara

An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows

A Tyranny of Queens by Foz Meadows

All Out: The No-Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages ed. Saundra Mitchell

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

Princess Princess Ever After by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Society by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O’Neill

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Stormsong by CL Polk

Soulstar by CL Polk

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Tiger’s Daughter by K Arsenault Rivera

The Phoenix Empress by K Arsenault Rivera

The Warrior Moon by K Arsenault Rivera

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Birthday by Meredith Russo

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Dying for a Living by Kory M. Shrum

Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding

The Traitor’s Tunnel by CM Spivey

Nimona by ND Stevenson

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver

Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time by KM Szpara

As I Descended by Robin Talley

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

Drowned Country by Emily Tesh

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Crier’s War by Nina Varela

Iron Heart by Nina Varela

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

System Collapse by Martha Wells

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune by Neon Yang

The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang

The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang

Waiting on a Bright Moon by Neon Yang

Taproot by Keezy Young

Phew! Finally got all of these queued! Thank you so much for the list, and for arranging them so neatly, which definitely made it easier to transfer over to a spreadsheet!

#Anonymous #submissions

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Catch me in Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.

#20yrsago Developing nations shouldn’t respect US copyright unless farm subsidies end https://www.wired.com/2004/01/a-taste-of-our-own-poison/

#20yrsago Self-parking Prius https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/look-no-hands-car-parks-itself-1134918.php

#20yrsago Disney selling off Celebration, FL https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/us/disney-is-selling-a-town-it-built-to-reflect-the-past.html

#15yrsago Zimbabwean $100 trillion note https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/16/zimbawe.currency/index.html

#15yrsago UK MPs to hide their expenses from Freedom of Information requests https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jan/15/freedom-of-information-expenses

#10yrsago The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, a graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/15/the-encyclopedia-of-early-earth-a-graphic-novel-by-isabel-greenberg/

#10yrsago Leaked: environmental chapter of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty https://wikileaks.org/tpp-enviro/

#10yrsago Booth babes are bad for business https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/booth-babes-dont-convert/

#10yrsago Blackphone: a privacy-oriented, high-end, unlocked phone https://web.archive.org/web/20140115183757/https://www.blackphone.ch/

#10yrsago HEADWATER: NSA program for sabotaging Huawei routers over the Internet https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/headwater_nsa_e.html

#10yrsago Judge rules TSA no-fly procedures unconstitutional https://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/01/judge-rules-for-plaintiff-in-no-fly-case.html

#10yrsago Dirty secrets of America’s most notorious patent troll https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/mphj-exposed-the-real-dirt-notorious-scanner-troll

#10yrsago UK consultation on orphan works https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-uk-orphan-works-licensing-scheme

#5yrsago Even the rightsholders think Europe’s Article 13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/even-rightsholders-think-europes-article-13-mess-call-immediate-halt-negotiations

#1yrago Normalize Dark Corners! https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/15/normalize-dark-corners/

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

#pluralistic

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[gladfang]

I wonder if the ‘Mountain God’ in Greenberg was an actual established god or if it was what they believed Mother was, looking at both the placement of the birthing facility as a logical standpoint and the game establishing the iteration of Greenberg we visit is the 53rd cycle of rebirth and no one really… mentions how the artificial life contextualise the world around them? Things like the ‘god of cheese that blesses them with photographic memory’ make me think they’re learning and interpreting remnants of history each cycle, hence why they’ve interpreted some of these things as gods. We know the ‘Wind God’ was something man made (the fan Alva inherited from her grandfather), Charon is regarded much like he is in Greek mythos and iirc New Dam City has evidence of Buddhism (the statues and shrine).

We know some of the artificial life in the breeding facilities is aware of Mother (Isabel) whilst others aren’t (Sam), but it’s not clear what the distinction is or even how much time has passed between cycles. I think most likely the last cycle was decades ago, since Alva’s family is 3 generations old and Alva’s grandfather is the oldest living person we the player know of - excluding the Earth Born heroes since we discover they’re being kept suspended in time by Solomon in Ester City for centuries (possibly millennia) back to when Mother first began.

Going off that, the people with the furthest recollection would be Mother, Solomon (questionable on if that includes both child and teenager or JUST the original), the breeding robots and again the Earth Born heroes (though it’s implied Elster City does horrible things to your memory so take that with a pinch of salt). None of these characters give any personal insight into the in-universe religion themselves but they’re obviously a huge contributor to the speculation and lore surrounding it… This post kind of doesn’t go anywhere but I think I’m connecting some dots atleast passively LOL

#eastward posting #eastward spoilers

[hagatha-christie]

I would like to talk about my favorite books I read this year because I don't really have another outlet for this subject

In no particular order:

Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark 1919 by Eve L. Ewing One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon Pew by Catherine Lacey Foster by Claire Keegan Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba The Devil's Element by Dan Egan Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis The President and the Frog by Carolina de Robertis The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker Chan When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen Bestiary by Donika Kelly The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish

#reading

[ademella]

Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.

From The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

Isabel Greenberg

#winter #cold #fire #the encyclopedia of early earth #Isabel Greenberg #art #illustration #stories #snow

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Making Its Mark: British Comics and Graphic Novels take to the World Stage

Six British/UK based comic creators will be flying the flag for British Comics Now at this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival

Six British/UK based comic creators will be flying the flag for British Comics Now at this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF), thanks to an initiative from the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF), funded by Arts Council England, The Adlard Family Charitable Foundation, The British Council, and TCAF. British Comics Now aims to be a nationally-significant project for Britain’s…

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#Andy Oliver #Arts Council England #B. Mure #Bex Ollerton #British Comics Now #British Council #Clio Isadora #Isabel Greenberg #Jason Chuang #Lakes International Comic Art Festival #Martin Simpson #The Adlard Family Charitable Foundation #Toronto Comic Art Festival