Status Updates From The Way of Thorn and Thunde...

Sometimes you could do everything right and cruelty would still reign in this life. Sometimes the only thing to do was push on, no matter how terrible the world might become, no matter how much one suffered, never depending on hope but never quite giving up on it either.

Finished cycle five, really looking forward to see how everything comes together.

Chapter 35 made me want to weep.

"There was no honor in rape. But neither was there honor in making a Man a laughingstock, or denying him the lice he tightly deserved."

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will [rape] them.
(To adapt Margaret Atwood's words.)

Vergis Thane can take his victim-blaming and racism and fuck all the way off. And then he can keep fucking off.

End of Cycle Four.

That was intense and heartbreaking.

Some very powerful moments here, but I can't manage the drive to read more than a couple chapters at once.

Whew, through cycle 4 and shit is going down

This is....not how I thought Denarra would reappear. Interesting.

End of Cycle 3

Well, talk about a pyrrhic victory for Neranda. I hope she chokes on it.

End of ch. 19: Whelp, that's a suspicion proven to be true.

"You can't expect your love-addled fahr to make you strong, Quill. You've got to do that yourself."

Real talk of the kind only a family member or close friend gets to deliver this directly.

I find Quill quite fascinating and am glad to be seeing a bit more of her after that exciting introduction.

...but they know now that Law is a lie crafted for Men's comfort. So they try to give her flesh, to place life in those nerveless fingers, and the more desperate their efforts, the greater the mirth of Chaos.

The last section of chapter 11 gave me goosebumps.

"If they cannot be taught - and I am afraid that too many of our kindred have proven themselves uneducable - it is pur responsibility to make these choices for their best benefit, much as a caring parent forces a sick but obstinate child to eat the bitter healing root. This is why we were chosen to lead. Some must follow."

Yikes. I do not like Neranda.

Pumpkin cakes and hot apple cider? Yes, please.

(I need to make dinner or every mention of food will distract me.)

“We’ve been thinking about the future, now that it seems likely we’ll actually have one.”

I think I can manage the last *checks notes* 24 pages by eye. By percentage it seems there must be stuff beyond the actual story.

"Is our nation so fragile then, our vision so frail, that allowing others to live freely as they have since time out of mind threatens us so much? Can we not live as allies with a shared purpose and destiny rather than always be perceived as inevitably selfish potential enemies."