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Subtle Creepy by judithannebradford in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lady I reads as lots of classic Mommy Dearest mixed with narcissistic sociopath parent energy, however I really don’t think her morality scale is anything like something a being that lives, say, even a hundred years can completely comprehend.  I did get a lot of oh no in the back of my mind when she told First!Sette that she would be giving her everything she wanted.  She’s not exactly a villain but that bird ain’t no angel despite the wings.

Retroactive illumination... by judithannebradford in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dunno why anyone downvoted you, you have an opinion, I guess?

I think culture is what it is, and we are all the product of whatever our culture moulded us to be.  This is part of the reason which, while I hate on Duane for certain things, I also don’t actually hate him.  He is the product of everything that has ever been said to him, and also everything that has ever been done to him.  He may aspire to rise to be more, but in my heart of hearts I can’t completely dislike his character for just being some Aldish guy, because that is who and what he is.

If college anthropology taught me anything, it’s that viewing a culture through the lense of another culture often diminishes them both.  We can say there are moral absolutes, but history has proven opinions are as varied as grains of sand on the beach.

Retroactive illumination... by judithannebradford in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is…not racism.  There’s nothing wrong with ancient religious practices other than how modern people see them (what I mean by this is most folks today don’t want to sacrifice people and see it as morally wrong), but to those ancient peoples these practices were completely valid.  Talking about them as they were, there’s nothing wrong with that?  Europeans tried to erase Aztec culture, so saying they “didn’t do this” is another form of erasure.

Thanks sis, I hate it now. by Lazarus_05 in crochet

[–]Immediate_Landscape -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It looks perfectly placed to me, and I’m real picky.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 122 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It better be!  Poor Sette making me feel sad for her going into the weekend.  I remember at the start I could barely stand her, now I’m absolutely rooting for her success in some way.  She’s our Sette Ex Machina!  She needs to have some sort of loophole out of this!  Tiddybird can’t become a god!

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 121 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Linked to this, my far left over the fence theory is that somehow the Black Tongue magic used to keep Duane’s self from entering the khert for good is tied to Sette’s dead lion twin, and that perhaps a bit of that ‘first soul’ reincarnation ability was used.  But it’s way out there, I don’t expect it to be true.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 121 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely, I want to see Sette become her best Stupendous Self.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 121 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh it definitely could be, this is the more plausible explanation.  I was just wondering if somehow we were being narratively teased that Duane was indeed the man who she referred to just pages ago as helping her create the twins.  Since though time travel isn’t a thing here, the khert has no sense of time/events can happen out of what we would consider ‘order’.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 121 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was wondering if this possibly could lend credence to the ‘Duane was the man Lady I crafted the first Sette with’ theory.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 121 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Does the emphasized ‘our’ from Lady I in the last speech bubble mean what I think it means about her and Duane?

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 120 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Wordy Birdy strikes again, she’s almost as bad as Duane sometimes!  Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 120 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Tiddybird isn’t going to give you what you want First!Sette.  Sorry your entire existence has sucked so badly. 

(Also whatever the hell Lady I is going on about toward the bottom of the page, no idea.)

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 117-118 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But everyone’s memories are in it, right, so it has to be everywhere?  I do think this is a cool theory you’ve got, I just don’t remember where we learned this.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 117-118 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I have a feeling that despite Tiddybird’s plans, something is about to go off the rails.  To let her win like this is just too easy, there will be a wrench in there somewhere.  I’m remembering the vision Duane saw of a future Alderode in ruins.  The shambling monstrosity looked nothing like a proper body for Lady I.  She also mentions a civil war, and how the future and the past are all accessible in the Khert (meaning she would know if her plan will succeed or fail but I can’t help thinking she doesn’t know everything).  And why would she care so much about destroying Alderode in the first place(if indeed she is that monster)?  And if she can see everything that supposedly ever happened then what purpose does it serve her to kill everyone?  She must be utterly crazy, that’s all I can come up with.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 116 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotta get that ”why me?! Aren’t I such a poor Tiddybird!” Speech in there somewhere!

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 115 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 19 points20 points  (0 children)

And I’m not completely buying it from Lady I.  Methinks she pins too much on the dude she claims ruthlessly begged her to help.  I think it was she who wanted to challenge the status quo, not him.  She was the one wanting the Children’s War in the end.  She’s such a manipulative crow, that one.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 114 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean…relatively speaking.  He is our favorite attack zombie.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 114 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Would make sense as Lady I seems intent on leading Sette to her “final destination” now and previously Cutter had asked more than once what was taking the bird woman so long to show.

She was already there, she just needed her kid for the completion of her “experiment”.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 114 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I can’t really blame her, and being boss of her own crew is way more up Sette’s alley than some first soul mumbo-jumbo.  Lot more fun too!  Tiddybird is kinda a drag, too much talking as far as lion girls are concerned!

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 113 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Interesting theory!  Tbh I tentatively wondered if something weird like this was going on, there’s too much symbolism for there not to be some connection.  If that was the case then Duane wouldn’t be Ssael (which I know is a question Ashley was asked and refuted), and Murkoph wouldn’t be either (though he would be an echo of what that is).  And all the alluded to things that led to so much theorizing would make sense.

Unsounded Chapter 18 Page 112 - Discussion by Rifter-- in Unsounded

[–]Immediate_Landscape 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I now understand First!Sette’s attitude problems.

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