That's true about how their affection seems to have died down somewhat since Lifeboats. I hadn't been able to put my finger on just what seemed a step backward but I think it's that there is less casual affectionate contact. I hope the rest of the books, going forward, also progress this forward too. Their casual contact in Lifeboats really worked for me for them!
I was so bemused at Nita's conversation about assumed heterosexuality, because Nita has had a grand total of three conversations with Matt and two of them would have been incredibly inappropriate to drop in OH BTW I'M GAY. Maybe he could have casually mentioned a boyfriend in How Lovely Are Thy Branches, but the fact that he didn't isn't that big a deal either. It's not like Nita knows him all that well at all.
I can handwave the idea that Mehrnaz's family are able to strangle information so that it doesn't come up to Irina, or that because they are so important no one is game to breathe a word to Irina, but what I wanted to know is how these people were invested with that power in the first place. The Powers are the source of wizardry power, and so I'd really would have liked Irina to have been explicitly not aware and then resolution at the end of the book for Mehrnaz. Otherwise Irina comes across as peculiarly inconsistent about how she is handling being the Planetary. Unless that is of course intentional and meant to foreshadow Nita stepping into that role? (Though I'm weird in that I hope that Nita does not become the Planetary because I would feel sad that Nita was bound to Earth and doesn't get to go to SPAAAAACE)
As for the YW fic fest! Officially it's not unveiled yet but you can find it (and put in prompts) here! I'm still in the process of setting it up to have all the right information for this time around, but essentially it is a prompt fest thing where you put up five prompts and then claim some and write them. You can write your own, or someone else's, and there can be multiple fills. No minimum word count, and the stories are due on 26 March EST for reveal on 27 March. The current tag set is here, and I am happy to add characters and correct spelling, like with Mehrnaz's full name which eludes me. I'm not sure how successful it will be, but as Christmas in July had increasingly low numbers, I'm hoping a low pressure fest will mean more interest!
I really loved Lifeboats because it was the Kit book that I thought AWOM was meant to be. He got to be the hero from beginning to end! His empathy and ability to understand people was his strength rather than his weakness! (And I would love lots of tonally different side stories, especially if they feature little things that can't really go into the books. Dates that go badly! Antics at the Crossings! Eurovision: Wizardry Edition!)
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Date: 2016-02-04 10:00 am (UTC)I was so bemused at Nita's conversation about assumed heterosexuality, because Nita has had a grand total of three conversations with Matt and two of them would have been incredibly inappropriate to drop in OH BTW I'M GAY. Maybe he could have casually mentioned a boyfriend in How Lovely Are Thy Branches, but the fact that he didn't isn't that big a deal either. It's not like Nita knows him all that well at all.
I can handwave the idea that Mehrnaz's family are able to strangle information so that it doesn't come up to Irina, or that because they are so important no one is game to breathe a word to Irina, but what I wanted to know is how these people were invested with that power in the first place. The Powers are the source of wizardry power, and so I'd really would have liked Irina to have been explicitly not aware and then resolution at the end of the book for Mehrnaz. Otherwise Irina comes across as peculiarly inconsistent about how she is handling being the Planetary. Unless that is of course intentional and meant to foreshadow Nita stepping into that role? (Though I'm weird in that I hope that Nita does not become the Planetary because I would feel sad that Nita was bound to Earth and doesn't get to go to SPAAAAACE)
As for the YW fic fest! Officially it's not unveiled yet but you can find it (and put in prompts) here! I'm still in the process of setting it up to have all the right information for this time around, but essentially it is a prompt fest thing where you put up five prompts and then claim some and write them. You can write your own, or someone else's, and there can be multiple fills. No minimum word count, and the stories are due on 26 March EST for reveal on 27 March. The current tag set is here, and I am happy to add characters and correct spelling, like with Mehrnaz's full name which eludes me. I'm not sure how successful it will be, but as Christmas in July had increasingly low numbers, I'm hoping a low pressure fest will mean more interest!
I really loved Lifeboats because it was the Kit book that I thought AWOM was meant to be. He got to be the hero from beginning to end! His empathy and ability to understand people was his strength rather than his weakness! (And I would love lots of tonally different side stories, especially if they feature little things that can't really go into the books. Dates that go badly! Antics at the Crossings! Eurovision: Wizardry Edition!)