Responding to YOUR comments #3 (Six of Crows edition)
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No joke I'd be so down to hear you two do a livestream about fanfic you think are great!
EDIT: Katie's dog is so adorable and good at tricks 🥺
01:40:40 - 01:42:27 --> Aww I love this! 🥺I think way too many of us, as we grow up, forget how big of a deal not being treated dismissively is when you're young. Being given kindness, respect, patience, etc. by an adult, besides being something that every kid deserves anyway, is also just so uplifting and nourishing to the very soul. You carry that with you. Be nicer to kids folks.
Re: art vs the artist.
I used to actually hate knowing anything about the authors I read because it would almost always detract from my enjoyment of their creation. To the point where I didn’t even like seeing the author’s photo printed on the back of the book. It would immediately cause me to start imposing my own biases and assumptions and psychoanalysis on the writing. This forced me to become more aware of my own shortcomings when it comes to profiling. (Not necessarily just with race btw). And being in academia also taught me that in order to be a critical media - literate person who is not vulnerable to insidious belief systems… you have to learn how to detect the effed up subtext in the stuff you’re consuming.
But when there’s a book or artwork that really touches me and speaks to me I still to this day avoid learning about its creator. They put it out in the world and I am having a relationship with it, independent of their intentions/baggage. I won’t allow the disappointing reality of them to taint the pure sublime experience I have with their artwork.
This Livestream was fun, thanks for taking the time for us.
Get well soon Pumpkin!
Love you guys! I hope things pick up/get better for you guys soon! (paws and prayers for Pumpkin
Ouch, Will. I saw this livestream was coming half an hour before it started, so i waited for 40 minutes just in the hopes that you at the start of the video would declare that you were wrong and Six of Crows is a Crisp Masterpiece.
I love your podcasts! So insightful. I loved SoC and will still love it, but you're making me think about different things now. As someone who wants to write, I am trying to take lessons. I feel like yall would be amazing story editors!
1:13:22 Thanks for answering my question! =) And that King Arthur movie was a blast! Mads Mikkelsen played Tristan! He was also my favorite - so cool! XD I really liked Stellan Skarsgård as the antagonist, too.
Cool concept for the story you've always wanted. Do those Star Trek episodes where they'd go to a non-spacefaring planet qualify? Probably not.
I love the name of the wind. Many people do as well.
Can’t believe I missed a stream by less than an hour
BUT I’m the FIRST to comment 😆
I’m so happy I finally got a job again right as I found yall as soon as that first check hits I’m signing up for the patreon 🥺
One of my favorite uses of multiple points of view is "arch-conspirator", a novella retelling of antigone in a somewhat post apocalyptic world. I didn't know/expect much going in, but as someone who usually HATES first-person multiple point of view, I really appreciated the use of it, especially in the sense that it expanded our understanding of the tragedy of it all
also! have not read it yet but plan to soon but House of Names, a retelling of The Oresteia (can you tell I love greek tragedies), has 3 different points of view
(the 1st being first person past, the 2nd being third person past and the 3rd being first person present)
I find it very cool the distinction in tense/narration and what it must say about the character
1:26:25 I am generally not a fan of "Snyder Cut"-style director's cuts, but one of the very few films I think would deserve something like that is EVENT HORIZON.
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I think that single/multiple POV varies in desirability based on the genre. In a vanilla romance, I don't really want to be in the love interest's head, regardless of how good the author is at different voices, but in a comedic romance it could add value to have multiple well done voices. In an epic fantasy with a lot of moving parts, I'd rather follow various characters who are all involved in different facets of whatever is going down. Even if the author is bad at juggling voices, I'll take that over seeing contrived reasons the author can come up with for why one person is present for every single important thing that happens or major events happening off-page and being summarized later. (This makes for a no-win scenario in romantasy. I desire the love interest's POV for the fantasy plot, but acquiring it makes the romance worse.) I would say "I prefer multiple POV," but it would be more accurate to say that, for the genres I most like to read, I think multiple POV is optimal.
That being said, if you're gonna start me out with one POV in the first book of your epic fantasy, please just be consistent and stick to that. Don't add three more POVs during the third book when you realize that the narrative framing you established in book one doesn't let you indulge in all the extra plot bloat you thought up midway through the series.
24:16 Same! The death was cheap and unearned. It retroactively made me hate the series. And there was a way she could have written it where it didn't suck, but she didn't do it that way. It came out of nowhere and felt like a "fuck you" to the readers.
1:17:17 The film is OUTLANDER* (2008) (no relation). It is free on Tubi at the moment and has a good rendition of Old Norse. A book lalong those lines of sci-fi people figuring out a medieval society is HARD TO BE A GOD (1964) by the Strugatsky brothers. It had film adaptations in 1989 and 2013; I recommend the latter. To a lesser extent, I would add Jerzy Żuławski's LUNAR TRILOGY (1901-1911) novels & the loose, surreal cinematic adaptation ON THE SILVER GLOBE (1988) by his nephew Andrej Żuławski.
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Ok wish I could have skipped the horror section, vicariously traumatized.
New point of interest, though not vital to the discussion: what is Katie's crunches regimen? I mean, dang.
Has Katie ever seen the recent film GLORIOUS (2022)? The premise sounds a bit odd but it is really a textbook example of Lovecraftian horror. (Also, I would be curious to hear what you folks think about THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) & the short stories by Angela Carter that inspired it.)
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Hereditary is my all time favorite horror movie. That movie messed me up
I missed the first hour because I was asleep :(
I found Crooked Kingdom much weaker than Six of Crows. Six of Crows has a central plot that the flashbacks hang off and which ties things together (or tries to). I still enjoyed Crooked Kingdom, but it’s pretty messy and unfocused.
I wanna know who all these horrible booktubers will is watching are 😂
So this is coming from somebody who is absolutely pro-transgender: Calling J.K. Rowling virulently transphobic is just plainly wrong and jumping the bandwagon. I did it for years cauz I thought all those people can’t be wrong saying it, but if you actually look at all of what she said online, calling her that is just super exaggerated and in my opinion inappropriate. Expressing your opinions and being critical does not equal being transphobic.
I have to disagree. Last thing she got flak for was holocaust denial of sorts; you can't really go much lower than that.
She also has worked diligently to reduce trans rights in UK and supports people more openly transhating than she is - some of this needs a bit more digging than her public statements though, but people have done the digging.