#208 Philosophers Series - Miller, Rake's Progress - S/I/K, 大帥哥 | Learning Curve of a Warlord
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Request 1 by Zabbers
The Philosophers Series - Tom Miller
Worldbuilding (Philosophers Series)
I love all the quotes from textbooks and academic studies and practical handbooks in these novels. I can't get enough of women's colleges and universities with strong female departments being centers of Empirical Philosophy in all the higher-education ways, with theory and lab work and contests, rivalries and cooperation, symposia, papers, debate. (I went to a women's college, so I confess a special soft spot.) But I also love that there are women practicing sigilry basically everywhere they're needed. The books cover modern warfare and rural emergency services as well as the academy. Where else would empirical philosophy/sigilry flourish or be needed?
We see the beginnings of technological overlap with some of what sigilry can accomplish--aviation is the main example. Assuming a world in which empirical philosophy/sigilry manages to thrive for the most part (opposition is a major part of the world of the novels, so it can exist, but I'd rather not focus on that for this), what does that interaction look like later in the 20th century?
Likes: documentation, technical writing, well-designed infrastructure and good systems, academic texts, science, allusions, pastiche, humor, gray areas, competent characters, unreliable narrators, open endings, reality-bending, genre-crossing
DNWs: current-world politics and events unless in-canon, stories focused on natural disaster or apocalypse, genocide, social and civil unrest, epidemics, hopeless dystopias, major illness (except for science-fictional/fantastical ones), deaths in the family, pregnancy and related complications, parent-child relationships and childrearing as focus, intergenerational incest and underage relationships, nuclear explosions and radiation sickness, oil and acid burns, burned/burning bodies/body parts alive or dead, funerary rites, focus on grief over deaths, lumpy things like clumps of mushrooms, a/b/o, ageplay, daddy/mommy kink/issues, lactation, scat/emetophilia, necrophilia
Request 2 by Zabbers
The Rake's Progress - Stravinsky/Auden/Kallman
The first production I ever saw of this was the Salzburg Festival version with Jerry Hadley, Dawn Upshaw, and Monte Pederson. Its studio artist Tom Rakewell and its sneaker-wearing monkeys imprinted on me, but I find the Glyndebourne Rake, with its David Hockney interpretations of Hogarth etching lines equally fascinating.
What really compels me is the relationship between Tom Rakewell and Nick Shadow--in the Salzburg production it gets almost explicit--with Shadow so very much in control of poor foolish Tom, who really has no idea of what's happening to him. And of course, there's the foil of Anne, who (I read in a liner note essay) is allowed to return, to reset, to "come home" at the end, back to the beginning, unlike Tom, who Shadow has taught "that there is no return", in bedlam but beatific. But where does Shadow fall in this dichotomy?
The whole thing is a gorgeous take and expansion on the etchings/paintings, and it's just so slashy, with a devil-dominating-as-he-corrupts dynamic that's catnip to me, and it'd be delicious to roll around in it if you choose to write about this!
Likes: dubious consent, devil's bargains, poetic language, art(s) meta, fourth-wall breaking, myth allusions, unreliable narrators, gradual corruption, intense emotion, self-destruction
DNWs: current-world politics and events unless in-canon, stories focused on natural disaster or apocalypse, genocide, social and civil unrest, epidemics, hopeless dystopias, major illness (except for science-fictional/fantastical ones), deaths in the family, pregnancy and related complications, parent-child relationships and childrearing as focus, intergenerational incest and underage relationships, nuclear explosions and radiation sickness, oil and acid burns, burned/burning bodies/body parts alive or dead, non-canonical funerary rites, focus on grief over deaths, lumpy things like clumps of mushrooms, a/b/o, ageplay, daddy/mommy kink/issues, lactation, scat/emetophilia, necrophilia
Request 3 by Zabbers
大帥哥 | Learning Curve of a Warlord
Dik Kei is so very full of loyalty to the people he's responsible for, whether they're brothers in arms who have chosen to follow him, women who have been placed in his household, or basically anyone else who needs him, even when they try to take advantage of him. He's also so delightfully fast-talking and resourceful, using his improvisatory intelligence to get himself and his people out of situation after situation and into sometime prosperity and some semblance of security. And all with a sense of humor and surprising tenderness and a lot of charisma.
I'd love to read your take on this character, in whatever combination or ships with the people he cares about, whether canon-compliant or divergent, or even AUs.
Likes: wordplay, found family, loyalty, dramatic bloodstains on improbably crisp white shirts, character studies, allusions, pastiche, humor, gray areas, competent characters, unreliable narrators, open endings, resilience
DNWs: current-world politics and events unless in-canon, stories focused on natural disaster or apocalypse, genocide, social and civil unrest, epidemics, hopeless dystopias, major illness (except for science-fictional/fantastical ones), deaths in the family, pregnancy and related complications, parent-child relationships and childrearing as focus, intergenerational incest and underage relationships, nuclear explosions and radiation sickness, oil and acid burns, burned/burning bodies/body parts alive or dead, funerary rites, focus on grief over deaths, lumpy things like clumps of mushrooms, a/b/o, ageplay, daddy/mommy kink/issues, lactation, scat/emetophilia, necrophilia
The Philosophers Series - Tom Miller
Worldbuilding (Philosophers Series)
I love all the quotes from textbooks and academic studies and practical handbooks in these novels. I can't get enough of women's colleges and universities with strong female departments being centers of Empirical Philosophy in all the higher-education ways, with theory and lab work and contests, rivalries and cooperation, symposia, papers, debate. (I went to a women's college, so I confess a special soft spot.) But I also love that there are women practicing sigilry basically everywhere they're needed. The books cover modern warfare and rural emergency services as well as the academy. Where else would empirical philosophy/sigilry flourish or be needed?
We see the beginnings of technological overlap with some of what sigilry can accomplish--aviation is the main example. Assuming a world in which empirical philosophy/sigilry manages to thrive for the most part (opposition is a major part of the world of the novels, so it can exist, but I'd rather not focus on that for this), what does that interaction look like later in the 20th century?
Likes: documentation, technical writing, well-designed infrastructure and good systems, academic texts, science, allusions, pastiche, humor, gray areas, competent characters, unreliable narrators, open endings, reality-bending, genre-crossing
DNWs: current-world politics and events unless in-canon, stories focused on natural disaster or apocalypse, genocide, social and civil unrest, epidemics, hopeless dystopias, major illness (except for science-fictional/fantastical ones), deaths in the family, pregnancy and related complications, parent-child relationships and childrearing as focus, intergenerational incest and underage relationships, nuclear explosions and radiation sickness, oil and acid burns, burned/burning bodies/body parts alive or dead, funerary rites, focus on grief over deaths, lumpy things like clumps of mushrooms, a/b/o, ageplay, daddy/mommy kink/issues, lactation, scat/emetophilia, necrophilia
Request 2 by Zabbers
The Rake's Progress - Stravinsky/Auden/Kallman
The first production I ever saw of this was the Salzburg Festival version with Jerry Hadley, Dawn Upshaw, and Monte Pederson. Its studio artist Tom Rakewell and its sneaker-wearing monkeys imprinted on me, but I find the Glyndebourne Rake, with its David Hockney interpretations of Hogarth etching lines equally fascinating.
What really compels me is the relationship between Tom Rakewell and Nick Shadow--in the Salzburg production it gets almost explicit--with Shadow so very much in control of poor foolish Tom, who really has no idea of what's happening to him. And of course, there's the foil of Anne, who (I read in a liner note essay) is allowed to return, to reset, to "come home" at the end, back to the beginning, unlike Tom, who Shadow has taught "that there is no return", in bedlam but beatific. But where does Shadow fall in this dichotomy?
The whole thing is a gorgeous take and expansion on the etchings/paintings, and it's just so slashy, with a devil-dominating-as-he-corrupts dynamic that's catnip to me, and it'd be delicious to roll around in it if you choose to write about this!
Likes: dubious consent, devil's bargains, poetic language, art(s) meta, fourth-wall breaking, myth allusions, unreliable narrators, gradual corruption, intense emotion, self-destruction
DNWs: current-world politics and events unless in-canon, stories focused on natural disaster or apocalypse, genocide, social and civil unrest, epidemics, hopeless dystopias, major illness (except for science-fictional/fantastical ones), deaths in the family, pregnancy and related complications, parent-child relationships and childrearing as focus, intergenerational incest and underage relationships, nuclear explosions and radiation sickness, oil and acid burns, burned/burning bodies/body parts alive or dead, non-canonical funerary rites, focus on grief over deaths, lumpy things like clumps of mushrooms, a/b/o, ageplay, daddy/mommy kink/issues, lactation, scat/emetophilia, necrophilia
Request 3 by Zabbers
大帥哥 | Learning Curve of a Warlord
Dik Kei is so very full of loyalty to the people he's responsible for, whether they're brothers in arms who have chosen to follow him, women who have been placed in his household, or basically anyone else who needs him, even when they try to take advantage of him. He's also so delightfully fast-talking and resourceful, using his improvisatory intelligence to get himself and his people out of situation after situation and into sometime prosperity and some semblance of security. And all with a sense of humor and surprising tenderness and a lot of charisma.
I'd love to read your take on this character, in whatever combination or ships with the people he cares about, whether canon-compliant or divergent, or even AUs.
Likes: wordplay, found family, loyalty, dramatic bloodstains on improbably crisp white shirts, character studies, allusions, pastiche, humor, gray areas, competent characters, unreliable narrators, open endings, resilience
DNWs: current-world politics and events unless in-canon, stories focused on natural disaster or apocalypse, genocide, social and civil unrest, epidemics, hopeless dystopias, major illness (except for science-fictional/fantastical ones), deaths in the family, pregnancy and related complications, parent-child relationships and childrearing as focus, intergenerational incest and underage relationships, nuclear explosions and radiation sickness, oil and acid burns, burned/burning bodies/body parts alive or dead, funerary rites, focus on grief over deaths, lumpy things like clumps of mushrooms, a/b/o, ageplay, daddy/mommy kink/issues, lactation, scat/emetophilia, necrophilia
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