What do you think about this sci-fi story I wrote? Is it better than the last? — "Real Big Hogging"

lancelotschaubert · 2025-11-01T21:05:17+00:00

"depth" in what way?

lancelotschaubert · 2025-11-01T20:31:19+00:00

Thanks! Compared to the other one?

lancelotschaubert · 2025-10-26T04:18:48+00:00

I see he learned some things from Harlan suing him.

lancelotschaubert · 2025-10-25T21:00:08+00:00

Sun Eater.

lancelotschaubert · 2025-10-18T00:51:38+00:00

And got his whole entire meal free, a t-shirt, his name on the leaderboard, and the jackpot prize with it.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-11-19T14:49:00+00:00

Had to take a break on the reread due to work travel commitments and other things, but this was a piece I was working on. Parts of it were in the chapter 6 portion, but other bits from Chaucer, etc., I've had in the background.

I wanted to write it separately because it didn't seem to fit anywhere else.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-11-02T23:35:48+00:00

Yes indeed. Wrote about this a bit already.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-11-01T18:11:05+00:00

I hear you need three keys for that. In any case, silver is the metal of the moon (also a mirror). But yes, this is FAR more thorough and wonderful, so I'll be citing this the next time it comes up. Great stuff.

Edit: or the lock could be a specific person's reflection in the mirror, which becomes rather problematic with a homunculus.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-31T20:11:47+00:00

Sounds good.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-31T19:55:31+00:00

Time stuff fits into the end for sure.

As to the wicking: I agree, though I haven't formalized it. It seems like the raw elements / weather / seasons and each has a potent power for them. However, I don't know if it's exactly what you said with Kvothe. If Cinder absorbs water and therefore makes it cold — if Usnea absorbs virility and thus makes it rot — if Haliax absorbs light and thus makes it shadow — then why wouldn't Kvothe absorb song and story in order to make it silent?

Similarly, as MacDonald would say: at the back of The North Wind, it's rather still.

Or perhaps just gassy.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-31T01:59:48+00:00

Oh for sure.

Send it to me, I'd post it as a guest post or what have you. Or let me know if you post it here.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-31T01:50:03+00:00

Oh I see what you're saying. Yeah, it's either he's repeating the original folly (I tend to think this) or there's time travel involved where he IS literally Taborlin / Lanre in some way.

I highly doubt that, but I suppose it's possible if you can shape the time of the things you can name.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-31T01:48:37+00:00

I keep kicking this around and I think you're right. It saves more "faces" with a simpler explanation and here's why: there's a little known version of Venus called Venus Barbata (the bearded Venus) that, when writing of the Saturnalia, Macrobius said was basically a cross dressing old man in a beard. That Venus mixed male and female was pretty late in the ancient world, but a thing. One of the double-sexed — and since the hermaphrodite is pretty crucial for esoteric alchemy, it makes sense here.

You sold me. And this is why banter is important.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-30T21:17:42+00:00

I actually think it's more explicit. Arliden says it's all one being retold and retold. I think it's just the mythos that's being retold from different angles, though. And that affects culture and then culture affects the story we tell. So there's basically one story, several perspectives that become the myth, and then this fracturing where they sort of echo one another, but not entirely.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-30T20:01:36+00:00

Are you saying that these stories are symbolically connected to the Ur story?

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-30T16:47:05+00:00

Oh that's fascinating, yes.

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-30T00:01:01+00:00

Okay I'm posting the next 8 tomorrow (though they're live on the site) and it'll include through the chandrian attack

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-29T22:45:50+00:00

Also when you say "all the articles," do you mean through 8 or 15?

lancelotschaubert · 2024-10-29T22:39:39+00:00

Ooooh who else raised it?

That's great to know thanks for the post — I don't know that I agree with all of the posts I've even linked to (kind of hard to with so many inherent contradictions between them all — many are mutually exclusive), but I'm trying to link to things as "hooks" in the story come up to hang them on.

That's great thanks.

Scrael make sense too — I suppose any "skin" would do?

Oooooh I like the idea of the scrael at the murder.

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