#poe land

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Poe: Hey, are you okay? Sherry: just peachy

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

Poe - art by Greg Hildebrandt (1986)

[forthegothicheroine]

[Poe's] genius is so inescapable that we find it necessary to introduce stories of madmen, of murder, of exotic torture and obsession with death to our children in school just because we need to show them what great literature is or else fail in our roles as educators, decent people, and apex predators.

J. W. Ocker, Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

[bragganhyl]

Ngl I am curious to see how the Watcher will be haunting avowed's narrative, or at least I hope they will

[tarbuchyloewenthal]

Avowed Tinfoil Hat Time

one tiny lore tidbit that is fairly obscure, and actually might have a lot to do with the story of avowed is that the emperor's scepter has an adra jewel which stores the souls of past aedyran kings and queens.

this comes into play in a couple of lines with sargamis from the barbarian gamescom footage, when the player and the oracle speculate a bit on just why the emperor would send our envoy in particular.

could the ancient souls in the scepter, y'know the major icon of aedyran heraldry

could the ancient souls have communicated to the emperor that our godlike envoy might have some connection to the living lands. and could that connection go all the way back to the godless and the origin of the two major ethnic groups in aedyr? both the meadow folk and wood elves are said to have originated in the far north.

north, vitally, being the direction in which lies the living lands. was there some calamity that caused the godless to flee and become the far distant ancestors to the aedyrans?

i don't quite think the timeline would match up, but if it does. . . oh boy oh boy oh boy

[atopvisenyashill]

do u ship reylo? 👀

[luna-loveboop]

How's Twilight Princess??

- hero-of-the-wolf

WHOEVER DECIDED TO PUT A CAVE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT WITH TWO POES INSIDE OF IT IN CLOSE QUARTERS BETTER COUNT THEIR DAYS BECAUSE THAT WAS TERRIFYING

[dollybites]

a moth in my bed

[thelastofthebookworms]

Queen of Knives (I don't have my own copy of Smoke and Mirrors with me and didn't find a link)

Mahabharata

Paul Revere's Ride

Bisclavret

The Waste Land

The Cremation of Sam McGee

The Raven

Divine Comedy

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Okay so I still have a few names (notably Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll and John Milton) in mind for at least another poll, maybe two or even three if you make suggestions. Thank you for the ones you've already made, by the way ! (I favor the lay of the Honeysuckle but it'll go in another poll just as the Shooting of Dan McGrew)

Yes I know this one is difficult too. Good luck.

My tag for this series is 'narrative poems'. Other poetry polls in my 'poetry' tag.

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Happy birthday, Edel!

[rapunziedameron]

its always fun to me - and I don't mean this in a pretentious way - to see folks be like oh I didn't see this coming or didn't expect this about story or character beats in my favorite sw stories. because I always assume it's just blatantly obvious to everyone, and not. that I have eerily just completely and correctly plugged into the story.

[forthegothicheroine]

Ray Bradbury, an original voice and heart in the science fiction and horror genres, was always vociferous about Poe's influence on his own stories. In his introduction to the 1966 science fiction anthology S is for Space, he listed him as an influence along with Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley. "Edgar Allan Poe was the bat-winged cousin we kept high in the attic room." Thirty years later, in a new forward to his macabre anthology The October Country, Bradbury wrote that Poe had grown to become more of a patriarch on the Bradbury family Halloween tree: "My proper home was Usher, my aunts and uncles descended from Poe." Where the two diverge on the family tree is that Bradbury wrote from a totally different place. Every word Bradbury wrote, no matter how sinister, no matter how fraught with soul-peril, seems to have been written with a child laughing over his shoulder, whereas any laughter Poe might have heard as he composed his tales was of the maniacal sort. The two would be perfect for a revamp of The Odd Couple.

J.W. Ocker, Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

[bragganhyl]

on the one hand i'm still hyped for avowed on the other hand no chanter skills in the tree :( or druid skills :( or priest skills :(

[parcequefandom]

Recent manga readings

Last month I got to buy and read three manga I'd been looking forward to for a good while:

-Land by Kazumi Yamashita is the one I'd heard of most "recently", since I learnt about it through the pilot episode of Urasawa's Manben documentary, back in 2015. We saw the mangaka working on content that was in this first volume and I was charmed by her artstyle and what was mentioned of the plot.

Not a fan of the cover illustration for the French version (it's quite bland compared to the original one) but otherwise I loved what I read! It's beautiful, the characters are pretty interesting already and the setting is very mysterious and intriguing. We have twin girls separated at birth, one living at the fantastical border of the known world while the other has been living in a village secluded by heavy traditions and rules that feels quite cultish and that she is trying to understand the reasons behind.

-second half of The Poe Clan: I discovered Moto Hagio around 2012~2013, back when I started getting more involved in looking for works by female mangaka and manga aimed primarly at a female audiences. I was charmed by her short stories I could read and Poe was one of her series that I really wanted to read: the episodic, non-chronological format spanning through decades and centuries with some recurring "immortal"/long-living characters is a very appealing one to me. A few of the chapters could be found on the internet back then, which only made me crave for it even more.

I'd seen rumors for years (I think starting around 2017?) that a French editor had gotten the rights to publish it but it took until 2022 for an announcement to get made and even after that, the first-half got delayed from the release initially planned by around 6 months. But now that the original publication is complete, my wait has come to an end and I've very much enjoyed both volumes! The second one is especially good for the interconnected threads of stories and characters aspect; I wanted to take my time but I read it pretty fast.

I'd love to discover the recent revival stories too, as I'm very curious and interested in how similar/different they might be given all the time that has passed after the last published chapter of the original. But I'm happy enough with what I have for now and ready to wait some time for more!

-And finally, we have Cocoon by Machiko Kyô, published back in 2009 in Japan. I first learnt of it through the mangaka's blog (it's still up after all those years!!), which I was following around that time. I don't remember how exactly but I think I probably found it through blindly clicking rec links on art blogs by various Japanese (fan) artists. I was immediately charmed by her art and little comics, from the poetic and surreal subjects they had to the beautiful colors. So I really wanted to be able to read one of her works at one point.

Cocoon is in black and white, aside from a few pages, so unfortunately, that aspect of her work I especially enjoyed isn't present. The story is inspired by real life stories and centered around a rough and gruesome subject as we follow a group of Japanese schoolgirls working as nurses for hurt soldiers during WWII and death is everywhere. It's pretty brutal; even with an artstyle that would seem on the cuter and not too detailed side, the graphic and psychological violence are very much there. I was left feeling a bit empty after finishing my read and not really knowing to what degree I enjoyed it.

[galaxicide]

Imagine having takes that Ben would ever be the leader of the resistance in Leia's absence. That's Poe's gig and well deserved. Ben is a Solo in more than just name. He's not a politician or diplomat. He's his father's son. HE WASN'T EVEN A GOOD LEADER FOR THE EMPIRE FFS....anyway. no, that's actually it.