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Flights of Fanciful Fandom: Wraeththu
Jun. 30th, 2024 11:07 pmIt never happened except in Ponclast’s imagination. The confrontation he had with Swift in The Bewitchments of Love and Hate was all they got.
Never mind that hating Swift kept Ponclast going all that time in the Forest of Gebaddon. Never mind that Swift hated him for what he did to his father, to Gahrazel, and perhaps for making him hate himself for being a Varr.
Ponclast was no match for Pellaz. Lileem turned out to be exactly the right person for Ponclast at the right time. In the end, I’m glad things went the way they did in the canon.
I let go of my flights of fanciful fandom about Swift crossing swords with Ponclast or one of his lost brothers. I let go of fantasies of Swift and Tyson fighting back to back, embracing the part of both of them that was Terzian.
There’s many a story about a he with the sword. Far more magical ways are found of coping with their foes, often mingled with mundane ones.
I love the way characters can talk out their problems in the Wraeththu universe without feeling like we’re losing any of the drama. If anything, the drama is being subverted, questioned, and reshaped.
My fancies change into the private scenes, dreams, imaginings of what could have been. Swift could have had nightmares about the events in the second trilogy or even the first. Maybe he and Tyson will talk about these nightmares.
Pellaz and his dynasty are larger than life and I love them. At the same time, I have a soft spot for those Who Dwell in Forever.
Somehow it doesn’t feel like matters have settled between Seel and Cal either. I found myself listening to Me and Ur Ghost by blackbear; picturing Seel coping with all the changes, his emotions for Cal in The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure.
I’m still reading some of Storm Constantine’s Wraeththu books. I’m not sure if she ever told that story.
I look forward to reading the ones that she did; along with the Wraeththu stories others told.
I’m glad she opened the universe up to other writers, allowing Wraeththu to continue. She truly expanded the universe in the second trilogy.
It’s the sort of universe with our combined imaginations that will keep expanding.
Never mind that hating Swift kept Ponclast going all that time in the Forest of Gebaddon. Never mind that Swift hated him for what he did to his father, to Gahrazel, and perhaps for making him hate himself for being a Varr.
Ponclast was no match for Pellaz. Lileem turned out to be exactly the right person for Ponclast at the right time. In the end, I’m glad things went the way they did in the canon.
I let go of my flights of fanciful fandom about Swift crossing swords with Ponclast or one of his lost brothers. I let go of fantasies of Swift and Tyson fighting back to back, embracing the part of both of them that was Terzian.
There’s many a story about a he with the sword. Far more magical ways are found of coping with their foes, often mingled with mundane ones.
I love the way characters can talk out their problems in the Wraeththu universe without feeling like we’re losing any of the drama. If anything, the drama is being subverted, questioned, and reshaped.
My fancies change into the private scenes, dreams, imaginings of what could have been. Swift could have had nightmares about the events in the second trilogy or even the first. Maybe he and Tyson will talk about these nightmares.
Pellaz and his dynasty are larger than life and I love them. At the same time, I have a soft spot for those Who Dwell in Forever.
Somehow it doesn’t feel like matters have settled between Seel and Cal either. I found myself listening to Me and Ur Ghost by blackbear; picturing Seel coping with all the changes, his emotions for Cal in The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure.
I’m still reading some of Storm Constantine’s Wraeththu books. I’m not sure if she ever told that story.
I look forward to reading the ones that she did; along with the Wraeththu stories others told.
I’m glad she opened the universe up to other writers, allowing Wraeththu to continue. She truly expanded the universe in the second trilogy.
It’s the sort of universe with our combined imaginations that will keep expanding.
