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irregularbillcipher · 1 year ago

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i go back and forth with how i feel about flatterland. i didn't finish it because i wasn't having a good time with it, and i felt like stewart didn't understand some of the satire, (flatland had progressed far too fast far too quickly imo and it bothered me,) but i do like some of the concepts. like i mentioned starchildren in my last few fic chapters because i thought that was a solid piece of worldbuilding from stewart that really fit my irregularity/disability theming, but man... i wish i liked other stuff in the book better

#i think i get what he was TRYING to do #like the section where the protag's dad is sooo proud of himself for trying to be okay with his daughter dating an irregular #(and one SO irregular he's a plain old TRAPEZOID)#like the way it shifted to a more modern subtle bigotry was interesting. i understood it #but it felt so wrong for flatland as a PLACE to have progressed so much in like three generations #also stuff like color 'coming back in vogue' like that.... was not the point of color supression?#or just the (imo sort of lazy) 'well we had two world wars that got women in the workforce so flatland also had that :)'#where te history of flatland just so directly followed our own like... idk. didn't love it #flatland is not a place where i should read about home internet and cell phones #i didn't finish it so perhaps i'll eat my words someday but like #a few fun concepts. weird book as a whole

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