KEY UPDATES FROM THE QUEER FANTASY PANEL WITH TAMSYN MUIR AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY

We will find out in Alecto the Ninth whether Kiriona's chest has teeth or ribs.

She cites Final Fantasy and Animorphs as intros to SFF. On Animorphs: "Nobody's safe in that book. Everyone's dead by the end. It was an influence."

The 1.5 page outline of the Locked Tomb was written in the back of a notebook which Tamsyn was using to teach herself Latin. She has (except for the detail of Gideon being a fireman) followed this guide throughout.

She is still writing Alecto the Ninth. She feels tremendous pressure, primarily from herself, to produce a satisfactory ending.

On Tasha Suri saying she still doesn't know what Homestuck is after watching a 2 hour video about it: "Neither do I."

She says she is working through creating the balance between a Catholic worldview and the critique of imperialism. She hopes that the balance will be struck correctly. "I'm kinda worried about being excommunicated. For one scene in particular."

Hope to post a full transcript tonight or tomorrow.

Spoiler - ep.4 very initial thoughts

I will need to watch this episode again (and again and again) to wrap my head around it and process everything before I write something more coherent... But for now:

Can it be any more obvious that Rio is Death? She needs bodies, she didn't heal Teen (so she's not a green witch - as they are supposed to be the healers - unless Rio didn't WANT to heal him?), she "had to do her job".

Noone can convince me otherwise.

Especially that Agatha KNEW Rio was coming - she panicked at the word "Death" in last episode (wanted to run straight away) and she knew Sharon's death will bring Rio back to her. That's why she seemed insensitive and wanted to walk on and get away from Sharon's body as quickly as possible. When she realised it wasn't going to work, she came up with a rouse that the coven needed to summon a new green witch, just to cover up who Rio really was.

I think she didn't want the coven to realise Rio was there for Agatha, but why?

And... why then expose Rio in the sound booth? Was she playing protective over the coven and wanted to let them know not to trust Rio, without actually telling them? Or, was that simply another way to distance herself from Rio - show her that she still hated her?

I think in the end she falls apart at the words "She is my scar". The whole episode Agatha was trying to just get away from Rio and was frustrated how much hold she still has on her. As much as Rio plays a lost puppy, trying to follow her everywhere, we see that the feeling is mutual. That last scene was SOOOOO SOOOFT and you can tell how much Agatha reacted at her slight touch and how much she needed this. If Rio didn't speak, who knows how far they'd take it...

But is Rio's job just being Death? Or, more specifically, is she to follow Agatha everywhere she goes? Is this a result of some pact (marriage?) or did Agatha bind Rio to herself?

The witches talk about their scars and it sounds like the Road is targeting just that. I bet there will be a vampire in Lilia's tarot trial!

So what if the Road taps into Rio's "scar" as well? What if, instead of getting Agatha back, Rio's wish is actually to break that connection between them because it feels too painful? I hope not!

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random-trash04

4 years ago

i’ll probably expand on this later, but the best ADHD Hack ™ I’ve found/sussed out is:

bundle habits together, but don’t bundle tasks together.

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