#interchapter

[fishareglorious]

Shamane fathered so hard he started mothering and Hofmann mothered so hard that she started fathering. does this make sense.

[wh40kartwork]

Rogue Trader Interchapter Art

by Denis Pospelov

[writingquestionsanswered]

Hi, what are some literary devices I can use to show the contents of a flashback of a non-POV character? Thank you!

Incorporating a Non-POV Character's Flashback

That's a tough one.

To clarify for others: stories can be told by an omniscient narrator--a usually unseen third-person narrator who sees all and knows all--or a POV narrator--a character in the story telling their own first-person account of what happened, or an unseen third-person narrator who is limited to one character's experience at a time. See: Choosing a Point-of-View

In a story with one or more POV narrators, you technically can't show anything to the reader that's outside the POV of any of the POV characters. So, when you have a flashback that occurs inside the head of a non-POV character, showing that to the reader is extra tricky.

The first thing to consider in this situation is the importance of showing the flashback at all. If the information contained within the flashback is so critical to the story that it must be shown, is the character experiencing the flashback not also important enough to have their own POV in the story? If not, is there any other way the relevant information can be delivered?

Alternatives to actually showing the flashback:

-- Have the flashback occur under hypnosis and have the character describe what they're seeing out loud in the presence of another POV character.

-- Have the character disorient briefly as they experience the flashback in the presence of a POV character, then have them tell the POV character what they saw/experienced after the fact.

-- Have the character start telling the story of the event to the POV character, then have them gradually slip into language that makes it clear (to the POV character and reader) that they are actually reliving the moment in their mind as they describe it. This would be similar to the hypnosis device except without hypnosis.

Actually showing the flashback of a non-POV character isn't something that really has an established device, so anything you try would be experimental and could risk confusing the reader and/or pulling them out of the story.

If you feel that showing the flashback is critical to the story (not just because you deeply want to, but because the story wouldn't make sense otherwise), yet you feel this character doesn't warrant their own POV in the story, one method you could try is just giving them a single POV chapter within which the flashback is contained. Another possibility would be including the flashback as an intercalary chapter (aka "interchapter"), which is a vignette that breaks from the rest of the narrative in that it doesn't include main characters or further the plot, but adds important background information or context. This would still be labeled as a chapter but would mainly contain the flashback along with context for who is having the flashback and why. In other words, it's something you will need to play around with and may need to do some tweaking on with beta feedback.

Have fun with your story!

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[knightinkosherarmour]

Finally decided a name for my Emperor's Children loyalists that masquerde as sons of Ferrus Manus, the Ironsong Chapter.

This is what I am going to aim for a basic color scheme

Basic ideas about the Ironsong

They have no librarians, the OG EC viewed them as a mutation that was a flaw in the way of perfection and I think the Ironsong Chapter would agree

Their chapter master's title is Artificer. They similar to the Sons of the Gorgon have a close relationship to the Adeptus Mechanicus

The fact that they are sons of Fulgrim is only known to the ten company heads and the Chapter Master, as well as their Mechanicus allies from Deimos who watch their geneseed for taint.

They have a tidally locked homeworld, where one half is a forge world, and the other is essentially a paradise world. They view recruiting aspirants from both equally as important and always have two battle brothers inducted at once one from each half

Their chapter master rules the homeworld from a monastery in the part of the planet where the two halves meet. In the battlebarge they have, there is a throne made of old artillery pieces they have captured. They are no longer kept loaded after a friendly fire incident killed their first Chapter Master

They have friendly relations with the Iron Hands and their successors. The Ultramarines have mistaken them for chaos marines at one point and had their first interchapter incident.

The role of techmarine and chaplin have been ruled into one in this chapter

[ihaveforgortoomany]

Major 1.9 spoilers CN spoilers

Big spoilers do not read (have I covered my bases?)

(Speculation for future patches not global friendly)

For context I am a Xenoblade fan.

Alright the interchapter of 1.9 follows the events of 1.9, the Storm of 1914 and the nuking of Arcana. We get to briefly speak to other characters about the event and potential plans for the future.

This is from listening to the interchapter being stream by Merui (idk to spell) but Druvis' is the most interesting in terms of Arcana. When its out in global Ill make a better version of these posts but the way Druvis talks about Arcana is fascinating.

Right now other than Vertin, Druvis is the only person alive (sane cause Isolde) and in the Foundation who have interacted with Arcana, Druvis likely the longest between her, Vertin and Isolde (however Isolde likely only met FMN, or it was Theophil).

I cannot word for word quote Druvis but she explicitly tells Vertin Arcana is not dead, that was not enough to completely kill her. She describes Arcana as an immovable concept, an "entity" that cannot be easily defeated. Dropping a literal nuke was not enough and she will come back.

Alright. Shes described here as an immovable entity, not easily defeatable, and the whole desire of the Manus is to return to the past where arcantists had more power, overwrite human history etc. Druvis depicts her as inhuman like (not as an arcanists not being human completely but more abstractly someone or something that cannot be easily understood or reasoned with)

In some sense she reminds me of Z in Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Represented as a stagnant entity that refuses look towards the future both entities represent a common human fear/ anxiety of the fear of the future, its uncertainties and the nihilistic belief that nothing will get better - for Z the solution was to arrest the worlds of Xc1 and Xc2 into the stagnant world of Aionios and for Arcana it is to manipulate the power of the Storm to "return to the past".

Vertin then feels similar to Noah (thank you Return to 2009 au fic).

Both resolve themselves to fight for their lost future (both child soldiers) regardless of what the outcome may be, because in the end everyone has the right to decide their future and not have that taken away from them.

R1999 describing Arcana as almost an entity leads me to believe most definitely in some form will come back and that she embodies this fear of the future that cannot be easily defeated and put away, instead a force to overcome.

[fallout-lou-begas]

just in case this website becomes unusably dogshit, make a note that @ikroah as well as its supplementary works (the prose interchapters, etc.) are all mirrored on AO3 over here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29570823/chapters/72677286

[kitsuren]

Finals week

Just two more days of Finals and I'll finally be able to get back into writing. I had really high expectations for finishing the coding of the first chapter this week, but I'll have to delay it until my last two final tests. After wednesday I'll disappear in my office and only emerge with the finished Chapter 1 and interchapter. Wishing everyone a good weekend and a nice start of the week, and see you all in 5 days. Hopefully, if my soul still resides inside my body...

[rhetoricandlogic]

Gary K. Wolfe Reviews Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

May 25, 2024 Gary K. Wolfe

The idea of social stratification enforced through architecture – in other words, high-rises with the rich living at the top – has been a staple of SF imagery at least since Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and it’s been extraordinarily useful as a way of exploring everything from overpopulation to Ballardian alienation to urban dystopia to – more recently – the hazards of climate change. A few months ago, I noted that these megastructures showed up in a couple of stories in Wole Talabi’s Convergence Problems, and now a giant tower called the Pinnacle – rigidly segregated into Up­pers, Midders, and Lowers – is the setting for Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Lost Ark Dreaming. This led me to wonder if the idea might hold particular resonance for urban Nigeria, and Okungbowa does offer some very chilling observations about the possible future of Lagos. While the novella’s main action is set in a long-inundated Nigeria in an indeterminate future, several interchapters present documents from as early as 2012, and one of these notes that ‘‘about two in three Lagosians live in slums, and a significant number of these communities reside dangerously within reach of the shore.’’ Rather than try to protect these com­munities, the document explains, the governor simply evicted them, citing precedents dating back to colonial times and, in particular, an actual 2016 eviction that displaced some 30,000 people. ‘‘Often, the lands seized in these grabs are then offered to capitalist ventures and investors who gentrify them for more economic purposes from which the government benefits.’’

That, in a nutshell, is the setting and history for the problem that confronts Yekini, a mid-level analyst for a police-like agency called the Commission for the Protection of the Fingers (the ‘‘fingers’’ are five high-rises originally built to house the population above the floods, although only the Pinnacle is still inhabited). Together with a higher-level bureaucrat named Ngozi, she is assigned to investigate a potentially danger­ous breach in one of the lower levels – below the level of the surrounding waters – which she suspects may be not just a leak, but an incursion by creatures called Yemoja’s Children, aquatic dwellers who might recall the creature from the Black Lagoon to Western readers. Joined by a resourceful lower-level foreman named Tuowo, Yekini and Ngozi begin to learn not only about the true nature of the Children, but about the extent to which the elite upper levels might go to protect their own safety and hegemony.

One of the flaws of much dystopian fiction is the failure to credibly map a path from here to there, offering instead half-baked backstories involving convenient catastrophes or violent coups. This is fine as long as the dystopia is to be read as purely metaphorical, but as speculative SF it omits a lot of connective tissue. A striking feature of Lost Ark Dreaming is how those interchapters map directly on to the central narrative, showing how a combination of inevitable climate disaster, predatory capitalism, and chronic inequality can lead credibly from our own present to a society like that of the Pinnacle. The story of an idealistic cop uncovering and then fighting against a cor­rupt system is hardly new, of course, and later the story takes a mystical turn, involving a godlike figure named Queen Conch, that vaguely recalls elements of Rivers Solomon’s The Deep. But Okungbowa’s clear-eyed look at present dangers and the compassion and conviction of his charac­ters as they come to confront the dark realities of their society lend the tale a memorable and even heroic resonance.

[ariadnearca]

"You gave your precious Reich your life, and for what? The men you served did not give medals for doing good.”

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Day 6 of Artober and I thought I’d try my hand at drawing Brynhildr from Hans Vogel is Dead, by @chjorniy-voron !

Sierra describes Hans Vogel as “an anti-fascist fairytale/historical fantasy”; it’s a story about a German WW2 ace pilot called Hans Vogel after he is killed in the Battle of Britain, who now needs to reckon with the evils he perpetuated in life. What really makes this comic compelling to me is that Hans is a generally normal person with instincts towards helping people, who nevertheless seems to have let his cowardice/passivity and fear of confrontation lead him to become a literal Nazi war hero; the interchapter flashbacks to Hans growing up in Weimar Germany in particular are doing a really interesting job of showing how he ended up in this position (Ottoplatz has been my favourite so far). 

As for Brynhildr, her contempt for and total disinterest in Hans is delightful and I hope we see her in the comic again soon. 

The comic is being kickstarted now - check out the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/castironbooks/hans-vogel-is-dead-volume-i

[dieinct]

okay in an attempt to be fair to this book. i do have to say that the interchapter interludes (in the format of: ancient text, commentary, later commentary on both) is designed specifically to appeal to me and it is doing so, and that my frustration with the transgenderism in this book are largely a minor nitpick i would, frankly, have been more or less willing to excuse in a book i liked more overall - i just find the narrative style really grating and the characters flat and the world building choices uncompelling and the politics fairly abhorrent. BUT if the whole thing was just the interchapter text commentary i would be all about it.

[fishareglorious]

damn. they really want us to steep in the trauma of 1.9 huh

[worldhammerer-old]

in the interchapter comics and other illustrations of second edition Exalted, Old Realm, the mystical “language of the spirits and those that created them” is generally depicted basically fake maya glyphic script, which has a lot of zoomorphic elements. now, irl, obviously, this is because people were taking notes from the natural world around them while formulating their writing system, but in the context of Exalted, because Old Realm precedes Creation, this causal reationship is actually reversed - animals, plants, people, etc. are all composed of graphic elements, assemblages of characters.

and I think that’s really interesting to think about! it could be a way to try to imagine how the Primordials, Yozis et al might perceive the world they created or to have big thoughts about Elloge, the Sphere of Speech specifically

[pugb0iiiiiiii]

I haven't posted in about a month -- but it's mostly because I've been so busy learning how to dance! This year, I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and joined Alpha Phi Omega's dance team and competed against other chapters in SoCal. It turns out I enjoy dancing and even got a small duet feature with my Swerve Twin💕 We worked our asses off for countless hours (and let’s not forget how pissy I was for so many rehearsals lmfao), but in the end, it was worth it! 

We ended up getting First Place! It was by no means easy at all; so many great dance teams performed along side us. If it weren’t for them, I don’t know if RhoRho would have been pushed as hard as we were on competition day to perform our hearts out. 

This year was so much fun, and maybe I’ll come back again next year!

[rainfight]

okay ik i gave steinbeck shit last year for making me read long ass interchapters but like. god some of this language is beautiful

[benjaminspacapan]

John Steinbeck’s American Classic ‘The Grapes Of Wrath’

A graduate of both Princeton University and Harvard, Benjamin Spacapan most recently worked as a private equity associate with Miami-based firm H.I.G. Capital. Outside of his professional career, Benjamin Spacapan also maintains an active interest in foreign policy, a study of the developing world, and classic literature, including in authors like John Steinbeck. John Steinbeck’s arguably best-known novel is his Pulitzer-prize winning book, The Grapes of Wrath. Tracing the migration of a family during the Oklahoma Dust Bowl from their home to California, this classic American novel explores the concepts of justice and equality in America and many of the difficulties experienced by individuals who lived during the Great Depression. The strong American themes of hard work, reasoned dissent against authority, and others resonate throughout the novel, making for a contemporary American work that nearly all Americans can identify with personally. Aside from following the saga of the Joad family, the book is interspersed with interchapters (which Steinbeck often referred to as ‘generals’) that help to emphasize how the Joad family is meant as a representative of every westward-migrant during the Great Depression. The novel was written in an incredible five-month period of productivity, and Steinbeck got the title ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ on the recommendation of his wife, Carol Steinbeck. After seeing Julia Ward Howe’s popular Union song ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ published, she thought the lyric ‘grapes of wrath’ would make a great title for Steinbeck’s novel.