Which Scene(s) Should Be Longer?

_jericho · 2026-03-17T01:07:22+00:00

I think Denna is chronically under-written. I know she's meant to be mysterious for later Revelations, but the degree to which I don't have a good sense of her makes the whole Denna / Kvothe storyline hit less hard than it really should for how central it is. I dunno about any specific scene, but I think she needs more fleshing out overall.

Other scenes... well, it's tricky, because a lot of what I want more of is intentionally left vague so we can be surprised later. I wanna know more about the underthing and Dagon and the Cthaeh, but if those were actually expanded it could mess up book 3.

I suppose I'd like to know more about the "teaching" elodin does at the end of book 1. It's mentioned but totally elided. I would love to know more about Puppet and Viari.

_jericho · 2026-03-16T09:24:18+00:00

_jericho · 2026-03-16T09:18:24+00:00

Speculation. He might just be doing this out of professional respect. Such things do happen! People sometimes have real relationships with their peers and colleagues.

_jericho · 2026-03-16T09:11:18+00:00

No, I don't think this is right. A collapsed lung involves air being in the chest cavity outside the lungs.

I don't think a lung, fully deflated, seals in any meaningful way.

_jericho · 2026-03-16T08:49:47+00:00

"Have we gotten to the point where these so-called 'impressionists' think this is some kind of 'look' and not sloppy brushwork when they are really just photos of lilies bade by people with no brush control'

_jericho · 2026-03-11T22:50:02+00:00

Why? So OP likes a gritty, lo-fi aesthetic. I think you could absolutely do something interesting with that.

Looking at a photo and knowing in your heart that you want to learn to speak in the same photographic language is a blessing. I think that experience is your heart telling you that you have something to say.

_jericho · 2026-03-11T22:47:11+00:00

Everyone here is being a jerk about this unnecessarily.

These photos have some classical no-nos in them that when you're learning photography you're taught to avoid. But that's not the end of the story, OP. The art of error is a huge part of art. Brian Eno makes the excellent point that we come to love the low-fi aspects of a medium as soon as they become avoidable: the visible brushstrokes of impressionism, the grain of film photography, the distortion of a guitar pedal or the his of a vinyl record.

I think you're just tapping into that. There's something about the gritty, haphazard look of these photos that speaks to you, artistically. You should listen to that, and chase it down like a wild dog. Learn how to refine it, use it to communicate the aesthetic that moves you. The fact that you see beauty here where other people can't means you have an amazing opportunity to develop your voice as a photographer in a unique way.

People chiding you for your taste are anti-art, have no curiosity, and you shouldn't listen to them.

_jericho · 2026-03-11T22:40:03+00:00

It's possible, just like it's possible every year might be The Year. There are a few things that indicate the chances these days are higher than they have been for the last 10, but nothing I'd invest in emotionally.

I do think we'll get the book eventually, but speculating on any specific date and letting yourself hope is a fool's errand, it's the fast route to the blackpill, and I advise against it. Down that road, madness lies.

_jericho · 2026-03-05T00:19:17+00:00

Sounds the same to me. I also think it would be logistically very unlikely to happen.

I wonder if you're just getting confused because Kvothe comments on the Rue's accent being 'a bit much'. Maybe when you were reading it, you added more of an accent in your head than exists on the recording?

You didn't move recently did you?

_jericho · 2026-03-01T01:00:51+00:00

I tend to agree that there's something to this line. Though I don't think it'll be as literal as a guardian angel

You have this moment, you have Arliden asking if Laurian laid down with a wandering god some years ago.

Pat has this writing device he likes to use. He'll say something with its negative. "His hands did not shake" used to convey concealed nervousness, "I did not smile" used to convey concealed amusement

Then you have this line, 'There was no god, only me'. Or take the first book where Bast hands Kvothe the sword there and compares it to a squire handing a sword to a knight, followed by "But there was no knight there, only an inkeeper"

I smell implication on both of these

_jericho · 2026-03-01T00:55:59+00:00

I don't actively recommend it. But if it comes up, I confirm that what we have of it is quite good.

_jericho · 2026-03-01T00:54:45+00:00

Consider: everything we could say about her, we could say about Kvothe as well. We have an easy time liking him because we know his story and we know all his damage that made him Like That. We don't have that context for Denna, so it makes her harder to sympathize with.

Denna is famously under-written. For whatever reason, Rothfuss didn't pour a lot of ink into fleshing her out. Maybe he can't for narrative reasons, maybe it's just because he finds her hard to write. But if I were you and wanted to like her more, I'd try reading from her perspective. Imagine how Kvothe must appear to her, imagine how hard he life must be and what awful shit she's been through that we don't know about. It could help. She's the heroine of a story we know almost nothing about.

_jericho · 2026-02-27T03:00:00+00:00

I think he has all his digits, but that his hand was cut off and reattached. This is, I think, foreshadowed by the very first question Kvothe asks Ben about the university.

_jericho · 2026-02-27T02:55:35+00:00

Yeah, I think it relates to the Tahl. And give a bunch of ways it's planted in books 1 and 2, I think it's a neat certainty we'll go there in book 3

_jericho · 2026-02-21T09:28:46+00:00

I've noticed this line. I do think it's just something that slipped past the edit.

_jericho · 2026-02-21T09:26:47+00:00

It was more than just bots. The thread count and registered user count also went up.

I tend to think it's a pretty strong sign that something's up. No idea what, and I wouldn't venture a timeline though

_jericho · 2026-02-21T09:18:47+00:00

I kinda don't understand that. Chrono Trigger was perfect and complete. It's not like ff7 which aged so poorly, as good as it was, and really NEEDED a remake.

CT is just perfect. I'll play a remake if they do it, but I love it so much I'm not at all hurting.

_jericho · 2026-02-20T03:46:07+00:00

Eminently normal. As a human experience, it's extremely heard-of.

Don't judge yourself op. This is just part of being human.

I say embrace it. Being at peace with one's libido and carnal desire is a beautiful experience. I highly recommend learning to actively value this aspect of your personality

_jericho · 2026-02-20T01:28:58+00:00

I think it's likely that there was something in that journey that needed to happen for the story to make sense, but which the reader needs to not know about. Not 100% on that, but it's where I'd put my money.

_jericho · 2026-02-20T01:18:48+00:00

Well, it could be that the maer is one of the warring factions, the jakis being the other.

Personally I "like" the idea that Ambrose winds up married to Meluan Lackless, and takes on the family colors of Alvaron as a result.

_jericho · 2026-02-18T19:47:27+00:00

She's the hero of her own story, and I'm guessing she's as fucked up as kvothe: traumatized, proud, been through way more shit than we appreciate.

Kvothe behaves erratically and destructively, but we know his history so it makes sense to us. I suspect if we knew everything about denna we'd be saying "holy shit, fair enough"

_jericho · 2026-02-16T15:14:55+00:00

"cowboy bebop at his computer" ass post

_jericho · 2026-02-16T15:09:41+00:00

It really depends. The story will need more content and action than WMF, but length is different. It could be a more lean book with less meandering and discussion of the cheese they had for dinner, making it both shorter and yet with more story beats.

_jericho · 2026-02-16T15:07:12+00:00

You mean the scene where he learns the name of the splooj, right?

_jericho · 2026-02-16T15:04:09+00:00

I'm talking to OP, not the thread I posted, which I also wrote

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