#you feel it just below the ribs

[pod-bird]

I'm late to the party, and I'm only now reading You Feel It Just Below The Ribs (the Within the Wires novel, which I highly recommend), and I am LIVING for the way an unreliable narrator is literally getting called out in the notes for being unreliable

[vivacia-18]

I'm about halfway to two thirds through You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, and asdjasdlkajsadjal

The reveals, the implications, I can't even - mentally I'm rolling on the floor frothing at the mouth. I want to go back and listen to season 3 and season 1 all over again, holy shiiiiit

[npdclaraoswald]

I'm a little under halfway through You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, and is the "unreliable narrator" they promoted the book with supposed to be Dr Gregory or the publisher's footnotes? I mean, yeah Dr Gregory is certainly self aggrandazing and has a slight paranoid tone, not to mention the fact that the account of someone who "was never interested in politics" will certainly have some discrepancies when discussing the foundation of a new world government and is undoubtedly colored by hindsight. But as a podcast listener who has seen the harm The Society does to its citizens, I'm far more disinclined to believe the footnotes that praise The Society than a personal account of a woman who played a key role in its founding.

I suppose that could be the point though. If something occurs later in the book to make it clear Dr Gregory is lying, it could be an interesting exercise to show how you're more likely to fall for propaganda and misinformation if it supports a viewpoint you already hold. Jeffrey and Janina know listeners are already critical of The Society and could be using that information against us. I'm not sure how well that would translate for nonlisteners though, since the podcast isn't supposed to be a prerequisite for the book

[gravytra1n]

as someone who read You Feel It Just Below The Ribs having only ever heard s1 of Within the Wires... DAMN. i wasn't sure whether to trust Miriam or there footnotes or neither. I'm still not sure. That book was so wonderful. so much fun to read and it's going to be one of those medias that haunts me forever, i think. living in the back of my mind whenever i think about memory in trauma.

[wtwcommunity]

it's time for WtW Major Arcana Project...2!

we're doing another one! the first project was so much fun, and such a success, that we want to do another. and as luck would have it, we've had four seasons and a novel since the last one, so we have a whole new roster of characters to choose from.

as before, drawing ability is no object whatsoever. whether or not you think you "can draw", you are more than welcome to participate in this project!

here is our new lineup (huge thank you to @iknikblackstonevarrick for putting it together with some input from the rest of the server gang!)

to claim a card, send an ask or message to this blog, or join the discord server linked in this blog's pinned post.

The Fool (0) - Anita (FenTheOtter)

The Magician (I) - Ekaterina Yelchin

The High Priestess (II) - Gwen/Nan (eyeharvester)

The Empress (III) - Liv

The Emperor (IV) - The Arboretum (@dystopiansoundscape/sarwhal)

The Hierophant (V) - Brian (@krypey)

The Lovers (VI) - Chunhua and Tina (marlar1222)

The Chariot (VII) - Indra (@saintmichale/mckay)

Strength (VIII) - Siobhán

The Hermit (IX) - Gráinne Lynch (@genderbinaryisforlosers/styx)

The Wheel of Fortune (X) - Rose Torres

Justice (XI) - Nora Bostwick

The Hanged Man (XII) - Clíodhna Byrne (Static)

Death (XIII) - Elsa (YFIJBTR) (cern)

Temperance (XIV) - The Yuriatin Press (@iknikblackstonevarrick)

The Devil (XV) - Tony Tollinger

The Tower (XVI) - Hilda Brownstead

The Star (XVII) - Miriam Gregory

The Moon (XVIII) - Rosemary (YFIJBTR)

The Sun (XIX) - Teresa Moyo

Judgment (XX) - Edgar Hartley (graci)

The World (XXI) - Elena Jiménez (rcbirdy)

[princesastudies]

around 1400 pages read so far this summer! so close to finishing my current book as well 📖 🧠

[falenminds-blog]

sorry, but i just can't get over how little we talk about within the wires and you feel it just bellow the ribs

how did we move on so quickly??!??! season one alone racked my entire being in such an absurd emotional level.... why aren't we talking more about itttt :(((((

[vonkarmic]

you feel it just below the ribs / house of leaves / the trial / a review of scorsese's goncharov (x) / 4chan / disco elysium / goncharov (x)

[emberdune]

so far i'm 4 hours into the wtw audiobook and it's killing me like here's basically how it's going.

Dr. Miriam Gregory: So this is what happened, or at least how I remember what happened and this was extremely traumatizing for me.¹

¹ - This lying skank is lying out of her liar ass. The New Society would never traumatize anyone. Clearly this person is delusional and a liar. Also the mass murder event she's claiming to have survived happened in 1923 not 1924.

[dragonslayer26806]

To inspire people to vote for Cecil in the polls I will post almost all of my welcome to Nightvale merch.

I know Alice isn’t dead and you feel it just below the ribs aren’t welcome to Nightvale but they are good and we’re made by the creators

[picturemecountingcards]

*chuckles* i'm in danger

[blorgbleg]

I think I only like the first season of seasonal podcasts. I'll give within the wires a special mention because I read you feel it just below the ribs before I knew it existed but... Fuck.

[astreamoflight]

I can’t wait to see how pretty these will look next to each other on my shelves 💞 highly recommend both books, even though they’re both very different!

[foxshaped]

I found a copy of You Feel It Just Below the Ribs at a local bookstore, much to my pleasant surprise, and I opened to the table of contents to find one of the sections is called Carpentry. And now I know for sure that I am not prepared for this book

[c-schroed]

Books I Adore – You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

I was born into the apocalypse. It's probably unhelpful to throw around a word like "apocalypse", and to be honest I couldn't tell you whether it's even apt. It looks like an apocalypse from here. Or from now. From a distance, it looks like the world ended. Maybe it did.

I knew I just had to read this book after I was teased about its protagonist, Miriam Gregory, in season five of Within the Wires (the podcast that established the world where You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is set). And after seeing that the final part of this book was titled "Carpentry", I was reassured that this would be perfect for all the needs of my Within the Wires loving heart.

But what's the book about, you might wish to know. In the best tradition of a Within the Wires story, we're dealing with a piece of found media from an alternate universe, this time the memoirs of Miriam Gregory, a scientist who discovered a powerful mix of meditation and hypnosis that she calls "the Watercolor Quiet", which can alter a child's mind to ease deepest traumas, but also overwrite all memories of its parents. And in a world seeking solutions after three devastating decades of world war, pandemics, and natural disasters (a time known collectively as "The Great Reckoning"), her work will be the key for a whole new society.

However, Miriam seems to not be the most reliable narrator, so the (fictitious) publisher of the manuscript presents us with an annotated version, full of helpful information about the world we're dealing with, outbursts of sheer disbelief about what Miriam claims to have witnessed and also a nice bit of passive-aggressive remarks. So that we end up with two unreliable narrators for the price of one. That's peak storytelling, just what I had been hoping for!

The story itself is first a tale of survival and community, then of trying to build a new society on entirely new foundations, and finally of discovering gruesome perversions of one's original ideas (that's the "Carpentry" part of the story). I suppose it's also a fascinating read if one has not heard any season of the Within the Wires podcast (as long as one likes alternate history settings with a touch of science fiction). But for a WtW fan, it provides a cornucopia of details about this universe, and we learn a lot about things that have only been mentioned in passing before. Notably, this happens rather subtly, mostly as part of the second narrator's comments, which cleverly avoids the question why a memoir should have so many relatively "dry" facts.

But most importantly, like any other WtW story, we are presented with just two more unique points of view granting us insight into new facets of a society that is so very different from all that we know. 8 out of 10 points.

< My review of season five

[genderbinaryisforlosers]

a late birthday present for @iknikblackstonevarrick

if you haven’t already you should all read beloved flowers ‘round a bitter castle. it’s very good. (spoilers for You Feel It Just Below the Ribs)

[id: Digital art of Amy Castillo and Vishwathi Ramadoss, where they are both leaning in for a kiss. Both are seen in profile. Amy has her eyes open and half-lidded, looking lovingly at Vishwathi, and she holds the end of one leg of her glasses between her teeth. Her fingers are just visible holding the frames. Vishwathi has her eyes and mouth closed in a smile.

Amy is a Latina woman with dark eyes and dark brown hair in a loose bun. She is wearing a muted yellow suit jacket and a thin burgundy scarf around her neck. She has a simple silver ball piercing in her ear and her glasses have round silver frames. Vishwathi is an Indian woman with loose wavy hair, black with grey streaks running through it, especially at the front. She is wearing a light blue sari, a rhombus shaped gold earring, and a gold nose piercing. She has a mole under her lip. The background is simple muted red. /end id]