the ocean did what oceans mostly do.

[damkianna]

I cast my OTW election ballot this morning, and just wanted to add something to my last post, because rydra_wong has a point: I also am so so grateful to the people who came forward this election cycle and shared experiences that must have been really difficult to share - for many reasons, but in part because their willingness to do that allowed me to vote with a level of thought and care and deliberation that would not have been possible otherwise. My profession of love toward the OTW was not meant to invalidate those posts. Re: just about everything else, the_shoshanna is more articulate than I could ever be.

There's no way to segue from that to a squeeful book review gracefully, so I'm just going to go for it. I looooooove stories about people who think they're ordinary but are kickass and awesome and step up to the plate when shit goes down, and this book is FULL of those people. I also love stories about people who are more than they look like, and this book is also full of those people! Avatars of goddesses! People with bound demons inside them! YES PLEASE. :DDDDDDD It was - slower, to some degree, than God's War, and I was also way slower reading it because I didn't get a single chunk of time to just sit down and blast through it; but I loved the story, I loved the ladies. Pakdhala-Attalissa was amazing and I would like to give her ALL THE HUGS, and Gaguush was my favorite kind of grumpy badass squishy-on-the-inside. And Attavaia, omg - I understand why there were so many timeskips, I really do, but I wish we had been able to spend sooooo much more time with her after she made it into the Narvabarkash with Tsuzas (GODS MADE THEM DO IT GET EMERGENCY-MARRIED). And Sera! Saved in a rock! I loveloveloved when they brought her back and the spring started flowing again, and while we're talking water goddesses, Kinsai was also pretty fantastic.

Obvs. I am not a fan of women getting their heads cut off, but I loved all Ivah's little connections to her mother - honestly, she reminded me a lot of Azula, with her vanished mother and her controlling father and her constant wanting to be perfect. And she got the ending Azula didn't get (at least not within A:tLA itself, although maybe Korra will fill in the rest of her life more clearly) - she got out, she got to decide to make something else out of her life. ♥ And Moth! Moth and her sword, Moth laying Ivah's mother to rest and making that promise, ugh. So many hearts! I would like ALL THE FIC to fill in the timeskips and backstories plzkthx. By which I mean I'll probably acquire my own epic headcanon without even trying.

Which brings me to: yaaaaaaay Yuletide! :D :D :D :D :D

Oh, and:

28,953 / 50,000 words. 57.9% done!

I need to stop talking about how well this is going, or I'm going to jinx myself.

Comments

[ambyr]

:perks: Does this mean you're doing Yuletide?

[damkianna]

It ... it could? I am still drowning in terror, you understand, but maybe if I can think of some good requests I can convince myself to give it a shot. :D But I do love watching everybody's letters go up - and they've started the letter-tracking spreadsheet, which means I can start browsing around for somebody to write a treat for! \o/

[ambyr]

:cheers you on:. You can do it!