Etymology (Digital Devil Saga, Roland/Argilla, Roland->Greg)
ROLAND. IF YOU EVER DO THIS AGAIN I WILL KILL YOU.
Well, no, I won't, but I didn't expect this thing to get so -- um, devouring. And it doesn't even have sex in it.
I think I like it, though. I really do.
Also, I wrote something that isn't fuck-all depressing, for once. In this fandom, no less! Yay!
Title: Etymology
Author: puella_nerdii
Rating: PG-13
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Well, no, I won't, but I didn't expect this thing to get so -- um, devouring. And it doesn't even have sex in it.
I think I like it, though. I really do.
Also, I wrote something that isn't fuck-all depressing, for once. In this fandom, no less! Yay!
Title: Etymology
Author: puella_nerdii
Rating: PG-13
( Read more... )
Worth every word, and not one wasted.
So this is what happens with you take a theme and devour run to the ends of the earth and back with it. I love how the idea of education and learning and congition pervades everything, not just the parallel stories but how Roland perceives, how he processes--I love Overeducated Underclassman Syndrome as the thread it is, all of Roland's literary asides, and how they fall flat not just with Argilla but with humans as well. Crush hopeful idealism under a mountain. The research, the discussion, the thought that's in all of this. It's gorgeous.
And then of course, what it is when it's not being a fanfic. How it relates to us. I love that the discussion of living in trees and throwing beer cans and being savage ecoterrorists turns into "and he won a grand for writing an essay on it". I love what it says about US. About our culture or lack thereof. Ruby's acid-green nails. Those also stick with me. Queen Mab.
You've done something amazing here. I think it's an even stronger piece than Quintessence.
Love. Just. All around.
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I blush. And flail. And yes, Roland's literary asides falling flat -- he's always reaching for the familiar, trying to seek stability by clinging to things he think won't change, but literature (or more precisely, its contexts) changes with time until the original meanings get lost or obscured. Roland's education, or at least his Overeducated Underclassman Syndrome, is a defense mechanism as much as the alcohol is, and like the alcohol, it doesn't exactly work.
And yes. YES. You caught that about the essay. *grin* Love it when you grok. Our culture is fucking weird, tries to attach a commercial value to everything and quantify what can't be quantified. The disconnect between us and the natural world is especially jarring in a canon like DDS, when nature (our own, God's) started to fight back. Congratulations, we've pissed off the divine. Can you tell I think about the apocalypse a lot?
Ruby, had she been infected with the virus, would almost certainly have been a Queen Mab. *grins* (I love Atlus. Atlus lets me get away with so much crazy shit.)
Love you. Love you so much. ♥
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