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[thecocacolacorporation]

On second read through, I think Bellis is just horny? All the time? Bitchy and horny?

Like if she was less classist, I'd be sipping that stolen red wine and chatting shit about the other pressganged with her, man.

[grassoftunnel]

The Scar

[valtsv]

off the top of your head favorite women in media

VAL, paige duplass, mallory carpenter, mako mori, alexa woods, carrie white, edith cushing, lucille sharpe, melanie king, asuka langley, agnes montague, melody pendras, juno kaplan, claudia iwtv, harrowhark nonagesimus, camilla hect, aradia megido, vriska, tauriel, katniss everdeen, bellis coldwine, camille preaker, elizabeth shaw, ariadne (from mythology), allison kill six billion demons, 82 white chain, vikki escamilla, seras victoria, emerald haywood, arachne (from myth again), camina drummer, bobbie draper, clarisse starling, sylvie from the loki show, amanda young, selina kyle, clara pathologic, eva yan, jane eyre, mallory grace

[motsimages]

I have been tagged by @goldenliartrash for my all time 5 characters and hopefully we share some

tagging @nechronox @thebusylilbee @abluehappyface @seven-oomen and @thecocacolacorporation

[cat-with-a-keyboard]

2 i need to see you suffer and be a hater

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME.

i actually dont have that many characters i straight up despise irredeemably the only one i can actually think of is lancelot and that son of a bitch doesn't get anything from me.

Bellis Coldwine from The Rift is someone i kind of despise ngl, she's an excellent character but i dearly long to punch her in the face for her condescending and self-superior ways but there are a few moments of bravery or cleverness where i can admire her. briefly

[phthalology]

I've started re-reading The Scar and Mieville's style always makes me feral, it's so direct yet I have to look up words. It's like reading a wildlife documentary (affectionate!!). I want to eat it. I want to steal it and make it mine. Bellis Coldwine is adrift and indirect herself yet I know exactly what she wants (to be in a city she can no longer be in! her entire journey is away from her goal! feral)

Last time I read this I thought less about social issues and will think on the ways in which Bellis is or is not a mouthpiece for Mieville's politics as well as the ways in which she is and is not one of the types I have mixed feelings about (Author Insert But Different Gender). There's already been a bit about "the ocean erases all borders (which don't exist anyway)"

[bronzewool]

Scar by China Mieville is the second book in the New Crobuzon trilogy, set in the fictional steampunk world of Bas-Lag, and while Scar is a direct sequel to Perdido Street Station, we follow a brand new set of characters.

Bellis Coldwine is trying to get as far away from New Crobuzon as possible after the events of the first book and has been granted safe passage on a slave trader ship in exchange for being the crew’s interpreter. Before she can reach her destination, however, they are attacked by pirates and taken prisoner on the Floating City of Armada. Curiously, Bellis and the rest of the crew are made citizens of the moving city and assigned jobs allocated to their respective fields. Bellis is now the city librarian, given a fair wage, free reign to go whatever she wants, and has her own accommodation. Everyone is treated equally on Armada, including the newly freed slaves, with the only condition being that they can never leave.

Not wanting to spend the rest of her life in exile, Bellis teams up with Silas Fennec, another passenger on the ship who needs to get back to New Crobuzon to warn the city of an incoming invasion. Together they conspire a means of getting a message to a New Crobuzon military vessel while getting dragged into a conspiracy involving the final destination of Armada.

Bellis is the opposite of the previous book’s protagonist, Issac Dan der Grimnebulin. Whereas Isaac was loud and friendly, but had a tendency to make himself the centre of the room and talk over his companions, Bellis would gladly sit quietly in a room and let people run their mouths off in order to gather as much intelligence out of them as possible, all the while internally judging them with her dry sense of humour.

Tanner is the other main character of the book and a Remade, a person who has had his body altered against his will as a form of punishment. His body has been grafted with useless octopus-like tentacles and over the course of the book he grows to like his new form as it makes him a better worker at the docks and he willingly volunteers to go under the knife again to have his body properly adapted to the sea.

Perdido Street Station goes into great detail about the corrupt government of New Crozubon and its use of the Remade as a form of artistic irony towards criminals and the crimes they committed, but Scar puts a Remade front and centre as one of the main protagonists. Unlike Yagharek from the first book, we never learn what Tanner did that got him Remade or sold off to a slave ship, because it ultimately doesn’t matter. Whatever twisted form of ironic retribution was supposedly done to him cannot be defended by basic human decency. The process of Remade cannot be undone and we see many characters whose lives are forever ruined for the sake of this twisted art form. A girl with her eternal organs replaced with a primitive engine that will kill her if the furnace ever goes out. A man with bird wings surgically sewn onto his back that are left to rot, and who can only find work in a freakshow as he’s slowly dying from the decay. Tanner, despite his criminal status, is a brave and kind man whose experience on the Armada is greatly contrasted with Bellis as Tanner already had everything taken from him and was given a second chance at a normal life with the Armadians. They do not judge him or sneer at him for his appearance and instead accept him as an equal. If anything, Tanner’s unique appearance makes him an invaluable asset and his loyalty to Armada gives him a voice that Bellis lacks.

The narrative does a beautiful job of making you sympathize with Bellis’s position as a captive onboard the Armada, while also acknowledging it is hard to feel too bad for her when Tanner and his friends were going to be sold into slavery and she has still kept some of her autonomy even if it does mean she can never see her family and friends again. You are routing for her to escape as this is not an environment she will ever come to see as home, but you also don’t want Tanner to get sucked into her schemes when he now has something to protect. Their eventual conflict is beautifully tragic in how it didn’t need to go down the way it ultimately did.

There’s also an ongoing motif with scars in the book, physically, emotionally and psychologically. Armada is searching for a literal scar left on the world by magic and their relentless pursuit of it ends up scarring many people along the way. One of the ruling powers of Armada are The Lovers, two physically scarred individuals who inflict wounds on each other as a demonstration of their twisted love and devotion. And poor Bellis and Tanner have been used by so many political powers outside of their control that leave them scarred by their experiences on the Armada and come out of it with two very different mindsets.

As one character beautifully puts it, “Scars are not injuries…a scar is a healing. After an injury a scar is what makes you whole.” Scars are not wounds but evidence that a wound has been healed. Yes, they are ugly and painful reminders, but they are evidence you survived that pain, It’s in your past, and more importantly, they will help shape your future if you take the lesson with you.

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[dandelionwineshop]

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[ilvinoeoltre]

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[thecocacolacorporation]

SPOILERS FOE THE SCAR BY CHINA MIÉVILLE

Bellis is alarmed at the end of the Scar by the possibility of a Bellis (or several Bellises) lying dead in the ocean, discarded by Uther Doul as part of his machinations to wrest control from the Lovers and turn the city back. However, I think this mimics her selfishness when she first arrives at Armada. Johannes points it out to her, that she is so focused on getting back to New Crubuzon, renouncing Armada, that she fails to recognise that there were other people on the Terpsichoria. MANY of whom are much better off on Armada than they were in New Crubuzon and would have been in Nova Esperium. The Remade faced indefinite servitude but in Armada, they are equal and valued citizens. Her selfishness leads her to mourn and panic over one POSSIBLE Bellis dying, rather than celebrating or being pleased in 100,000 odd ACTUALISED Armadan's (and her) lives being saved.

Her selfishness is something that Doul mocks her for when her and Tanner come clean about their involvement in the New Crubuzon attack. Maybe Doul has sacrificed many other possible Douls to save the city in the past?

I don't want to come off as a Doul apologist lol (even though I am). Just something I've been thinking about. It's such great writing that Bellis is both a selfish character and someone (on the surface at least) performs selfless, altruistic actions.

I will, so help me god, make more people read this book.

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[phthalology]

Passages that make Bellis Coldwine relatable: 

She felt a hard longing for the streets and canals, for the size of the city. 

She became briefly fascinated with submarine carnivores. 

"I argue for my books. I can't let you take them I say, let me keep them they're mine, some I wrote..." 

How did I get here? The question was constant in her. 

"It's normally years before newcomers get letters of pass." Was that all it was? thought Bellis slowly. The misery and loneliness, the aching for New Crobuzon that made her feel something had been torn from her -- was it just an everyday symptom, shared by a thousand like her? Was it so banal? 

She leaned over as if about to kiss him hard, her lips found his ear, and she whispered, "It's [the plan is] working." 

I did this, she thought with weird pride. 

"Is that right?" Bellis said calmly. Her insides, though, were shuddering, with excitement or foreboding or something. She controlled herself and did not ask him What are you talking about? or How do you know? 

Bellia discovered, with unfolding interest, that she was not quite convinced by him ... She found that calming. 

He intrigues me; his presence, his anomalous voice. 

"You're not going to learn anything from me, Bellis ... There's nothing special about you." 

Passages that are NOT relatable: 

I am never the one to break silence. 

[karlspetete]

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