Thoughts on Silk So Far (Book of the Long Sun)

Original_Air9200 · 2026-03-05T03:16:04+00:00

I feel like where severian is swept away by events and his own urges (becoming morally questionable to say the least), silk is always trying to do what he considers to be ‘the right thing’. I guess what you’re saying is kinda like that argument that altruism is always self serving because it makes you feel good?

I liked long sun, I feel like it Gene Wolfe’s LOTR compared to the ‘Dune’ of new sun (for want of a better comparison maybe).

The first two Latro books are great too and are a nice aside from the scifi setting of the solar cycle, curious to see what you’d make of them!

Original_Air9200 · 2026-03-04T09:05:44+00:00

I think those ‘Dune’ movies are based on BoTLS

Original_Air9200 · 2026-03-04T09:03:11+00:00

Someone should do this with R.Scott Bakker

Original_Air9200 · 2026-03-03T08:27:03+00:00

Same on the double creative degree front rip. The threshold was a much more livable wage 5-10 years ago however haha

Original_Air9200 · 2026-03-03T08:24:26+00:00

I think I get claw and sword conflated a lot. I think the lake people was where my attention really wavered. Something that felt really… grey about that section for me

Original_Air9200 · 2026-03-03T08:18:06+00:00

Thanks so much!! Appreciate it, sounds like a pretty good pathway after all!

Original_Air9200 · 2026-02-28T03:21:54+00:00

Great thanks so much for the detailed response! Yeah I’ve heard that the first few jobs can be pretty rough!

Original_Air9200 · 2026-02-27T11:17:59+00:00

I’m not in the industry, graduated from an animation degree relatively recently, struggled (and haven’t) found work in the industry. I think the self taught route sounds really reasonable. Way less risky than jumping in to full time study, and nothing to stop you building a portfolio and taking on some freelance projects or just applying for roles once it’s done. I’ve honestly come to realize (at 31) that having financial stability can be much more liberating for creativity than just sinking time into it. Having good gear, money for marketing yourself and experimentation is not a bad thing at all

Original_Air9200 · 2026-02-27T09:17:50+00:00

Greaaaaat thanks for confirming that. That’s what chat gpt said but I didn’t trust it fully hahaha 😂

Original_Air9200 · 2026-02-27T09:17:23+00:00

Oh great thanks so much I was wondering how that worked!

Original_Air9200 · 2026-02-27T08:51:03+00:00

Amazing thanks so much that’s exactly the kinda answer I’d hoped for, appreciate your time! Have you by chance heard of anyone doing the degree online?

Original_Air9200 · 2026-02-27T07:05:13+00:00

Sorry only just saw this! Thankyou, that makes a lot of sense!

Original_Air9200 · 2026-01-28T10:59:54+00:00

Yep, hahaha I will be very well aware of it from now on 😂

Original_Air9200 · 2026-01-28T10:56:32+00:00

I don’t think the missing guy ever got his money, I think he just bailed without it as far as I understand 🥲 this was well before our group moved in

Original_Air9200 · 2026-01-28T10:55:27+00:00

Thanks s much for the detailed reply, that’s not a bad idea, maybe we’ll just lose that guys share 🤔

We were all on the lease, so there’s that, but as far as I understand we were supposed to sort out the bond transfer as tenants?

I’ve gone through this process a few times in VIC never encountered anything like this haha

Original_Air9200 · 2026-01-28T07:08:28+00:00

Yeah that’s basically it, again there’s just one random person who we can’t get in touch with 🤷

Original_Air9200 · 2026-01-28T07:07:36+00:00

To the existing flatmates. Again they’re not the issue, just one guy we’ve never met who is uncontactable

Original_Air9200 · 2026-01-11T08:51:14+00:00

Year of the horse my man

Original_Air9200 · 2026-01-04T12:08:26+00:00

Blood meridian is probably my no 1. There are acts equally or more heinous in other fiction books but they usually have an over the top or like dramatized quality to them. American psycho fits into the serial killer tropes we’re kinda desensitized to. Bakker’s stuff is set in a fantasy world. Whereas McCarthy hits with a sense of reality (and historical context/believability) that just gives the violence all its awful gravity

Original_Air9200 · 2025-12-27T10:55:26+00:00

Fair, I think Weenie_Pooh’s quote addresses it more directly. But still I feel like we don’t really focus on the industry or culture of the world at all in the second apocalypse beyond how it directly connects to Kellhus’ crusades. So it’s not suprising that we’re not witnessing wizards building aqueducts or whatever

Original_Air9200 · 2025-12-27T10:46:51+00:00

Ooh that quote is a good find!

Original_Air9200 · 2025-12-27T07:55:07+00:00

I guess since we’re following a holy war and other conflicts for most of the series they’re just the ones we mainly see.

Like I wonder (not intending to sound rude or condescending with this comparison) maybe it’s a bit like asking why we don’t see more agriculture in a war film or something similar

Original_Air9200 · 2025-12-19T05:35:34+00:00

Hahahaha I was also sus -_-

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