#katalepsis spoilers

[booksandchainmail]

thoughts on the final? arc of Katalepsis

(this includes spoilers for the patreon advance chapters, specifically up to 24.2)

One: the setting change is an excellent idea. A big problem with any kind of long form horror is that eventually the fear wears off, and I think this is amplified in cosmic horror. There's only so long you can keep describing things as unknowable and indescribable and Wrong before it gets banal. But this final arc is neatly avoiding that by, after a few chapters to get across the weird, switching to a mostly metaphorical? pocket dimension? setting, where the horror can come from the twisted mundane.

And of course it has particular satisfying kind of full circle feeling: just as at the beginning of the story Heather is trapped, alone and restricted, surrounded by people sweetly, earnestly telling her to just behave and do what they say and not trust herself, and it's all in her best interest. Effective horror! And very satisfying to see how, even as she has to play along, she can do so without losing herself or compromising what she knows.

Two: I really like the character work going on for the rest of the cast. It's fucked up and disturbing to read, but very crunchy to think about. The way that in this world, everyone shows up as a mockery of themself.

The Caterpillars and Knights are easy, since they're pretty simple beings. It's spelled out in the text that the Caterpillars are explorers, but here trapped in a terrarium. And the Knights, built to be protectors, have been placed as prison guards

Twil has been... tamed is the word coming to mind. Cut down, placed in this pretty, preppy, meek upperclass respectability, robbed of all her roughness, and emotion, and aggressiveness, and confidence. This is a Twil who does not have a wolf inside her, who didn't grow up knowing she was faster and stronger than everyone around and utterly unharmable.

Evee is, I want to say, made a victim and only that. She's stuck back where she was as a teenager, her wounds still raw and bleeding, mobility aids removed, denied the safety and time that let herself heal, but also stripped from the drive (and Raine's help) that let her survive, just trapped with no escape from the woman who was killing her piece by piece.

And thinking ahead to the ones we haven't seen yet:

My first thought for Raine was to made conforming, but that's pretty much what's going on with Twil, so it would be redundant. Apart from that, I have two angles: one is Raine as she was before meeting Evee, aimless and drifting, no sense of purpose or meaning in her own life, on the outskirts of society. The other would be to pull from Raine's lack of an internal moral compass, her talent for and enjoyment of violence. Raine without having found people to structure herself around could be very, very dangerous, and either way (or both combined) I think this might lean into that. The caveat here is that if this asylum is trying less to shape them all in a way that is realistic but twisted, and more just to make them harmless, this would have to go differently.

Zheng, I think the obvious approach is to return her to being a zombie, just a corpse puppeted by a mage's will.

Lozzie, I think it will just mimic what her brother and uncle wanted to do to her. Treated like a child who can't make her own decisions, shoved into conformity... they've definitely taken her poncho.

Praem, I don't know entirely. Maybe she'll be one of the nurses, twisting her care into control?

Sevens is tricky, because I don't know if even this world can trap her. But if it can, I think it might have forced her into a single mask, which would be an utter unmaking of who she is. Alternately, if it's willing to give her more power, I could see her being made the puppetmaster of this place, with all her power and craft turned to a new type of story...

[nonplatonicsubtext]

basically when heather is in the abyss she was trying to get home starting out by defining Heather as we canonically know is part of the process of doing a lot of stuff. but was interrupted by being attacked by some abyssal creature. she panics and lashes out and accidentally ends up whacking it with essentially an extradimensional cookie cutter shaped like heather morell and sending it spinning back to her own body, accidentally blasted with all the information and knowledge and memories of being heather morell

so you now have feather (faux heather) in the original body, with abyssal dysmorphia because it wasnt a perfect cut and she still subconsciously remembers being an abyssal creature

and the original heather stuck in the abyss, not able to come back to her body because there's already something there

and when she eventually makes it back its a real shitshow

switching gears because i cant talk about it on main causa circumstances, another kata AU the boys in the lab cooked up is one i jokingly refer to as katalepcis because of its accidental removal of the transgender themes

[sadhoglet]

Katalepsis arc 19 spoilers

I know that the "seven" refers to Heather plus her six tentacle brains but oh my god, what if the endgame for this story is Heather with six girlfriends and they all hold on to a tentacle each and then they combine into some sort of giant lesbian Power Rangers/Voltron elder beast to fight The Eye

I mean she's already at four......

[ao3feed-tolkien]

The Mystery of Heather and Haruhi

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/sVaoT9d

by macrocosmus

A massive crossover fanfic that was made simply for me to be over-eager about including way too many stories. Why are so many stories being mashed together? What is the cause of this? Who knows!? I do!

Words: 14055, Chapters: 4/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Katalepsis - Hungry, 涼宮ハルヒ | Suzumiya Haruhi - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, Marathon (Video Games), The Black Company Series - Glen Cook, Senki Zesshou Symphogear

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, Multi

Characters: Heather Morell, Raine Haynes, Twil Hopton, Evelyn Saye, Tom Bombadil, Praem Saye, Kyon (Suzumiya Haruhi), Suzumiya Haruhi, Asahina Mikuru, Nagato Yuki, Taniguchi (Suzumiya Haruhi), Kunikida (Suzumiya Haruhi), Security Officer (Marathon), Koizumi Itsuki, Raven (Black Company), Croaker (Black Company), One-Eye (Black Company), Goblin (Black Company), Tracker (Black Company), Toadkiller Dog (Black Company), Lady (Black Company), Yukine Chris

Relationships: Raine Haynes/Heather Morell

Additional Tags: The Fandoms are Spoilers, The Characters are Spoilers, Crossover, This fic is for me you all just happen to get to read it, tags will be updated as story progresses, I put author notes in there because I don't care, egg fic, who is the egg? find out later

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/sVaoT9d

[eightglass]

@void-dragon4 I have finished the Worm and I have started the Katalepsis! On 2.2 rn, would you like me to keep you loosely updated on where I'm at?

Also I've blocked #katalepsis spoilers, if you'd be so kind as to put that on things you reblog 🫶🏻

I cannot recommend Katalepsis to fans of Worm enough, it's like if it kept the character depth, interesting powers, relationship growth and decay, and protagonist escalation, WHILE going all in on the queer coding and putting every single main character in a lesbian polycule which is also the solution to killing God. It's so good I'm obsessed, and frustrated that I'll probably never in my life find something like it.

[thedude3445]

Katalepsis [GL Reviews #2]

Katalepsis [GL Reviews #2] - tl;dr, READ THIS STORY. I just wrote 7,100 words that basically say that in excessive detail

[GL Reviews #2. Check out all my other GL Reviews here!] [This review contains spoilers below the “SPOILERS AHOY” section—all chapters up to 15.2. If you want to stay completely safe from spoilers, read the unspoilered version of the review here.] Overview Katalepsis is the best web serial going on today. End of review. Wait, don’t actually go! You don’t even get to see the Best Girl tier…

[booksandchainmail]

pale

So I currently have no urgent books to read (nothing with a due date), my holds list at the library is short and has long wait times, and there aren't a lot of new releases for a while. It might have come to the perfect time to finally read Pale.

I am somewhat wary of the effect that reading web serials often has on me, where I descend into a semi-fugue state and do basically nothing outside of reading it until I re-emerge. Given the length of Pale, this would be... bad. On the other hand, I read Pact during the last weeks of classes/finals during college, and that was fine, and I read Katalepsis recently without undue disruption to my life. So I think my challenge to myself will be to read Pale in a moderate fashion, keeping up with my work productivity, social life, hobbies, and any other reading that comes up.

Ideally, I'd like to comment as I go along, but it's entirely possible that I'll give up on that idea because I won't want to stop reading in order to put words together. I'm going to aim to do end-of-arc posts I guess? And we'll see if I hold to that

I'm going to be reading Pale pretty much blind, since I've had the tag blacklisted since almost the beginning and very few spoilers have slipped through. The things I know already are:

Set in the same world as Pact

Three main characters, POV rotates

One lead is definitely named Verona, I think the other two might be named Avery and Lucy

At least one of the leads has an awful father

One of the leads is gay

Town it is set in is named Kennet or something like that?

There is a magic school at some point

Fae are involved

and I think that's it!