i don't care how much of a cliche it may be there's nothing i eat up more than a well-written character who has a good heart and strong morals but will become sickeningly violent when pushed too far
Elizabeth in may december is so FASCINATING to me. her greedy clamoring for the purest, truest version of the story, just this needy obsessive drive to Truly Understand and Become Gracie. She has this erotic fixation with Witnessing in the most voyeuristic way possible, entering all the private spaces of the story so that she can use art to make it "real", and more, to take it inside herself so that she is no longer separate from it, no more lines in the sand.
and Joe's, "stories like mine??!" as a reaction to the violent translation and compression of the abusive relationship that destroyed his childhood into a Narrative. how can it be a story for him when he is alone inside it?
the only time we see Elizabeth get really profoundly upset is when Gracie destroys the sanctity of the secret truth she thought Georgie had offered her. we don't get the simple explanation of 'oh Gracie was an abuser because she was abused', we don't get to understand, it will never be "real" for us like it is for Joe, and we are complicit. We are complicit.
i was literally actively smacktalking loumand when they dropped the "can you do that, arun?" "yes maitre" on me and i made an ungodly noise and then ran around the lounge like a dog with the zoomies. like a dog with the zoomies that needs to be put down.
I GAVE YOU BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD/I’M THE KIND OF HUMAN WRECKAGE THAT YOU LOVE
Cops Checked, No Body/December & early January/One step forward, two steps back/May & June/Jessie/Dead end with a Pulse/:D/Finding Fairmount./Half-acre of ash/All good things
I knew that the disco devs have recommended Germinal, but I only started reading it now and wow, it is such a good book, it's like 400 pages and I'm about to finish it within a month (I usually don't finish books this fast). I can see its influence on the game. For example Jeanlin reminds me of Cuno and Cunoesse