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Cetashwayo

Cetashwayo

Lord of Ten Thousand Years From Across the Horizon
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  • Cataphract
    Just wanted to say that I've been rereading Kingdom of God. It's genuinely one of my favorite bits of fiction ever, thank you for sharing it with us.
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    Hello Cataphract, thank you kindly. I enjoyed Kingdom of God a great deal, even if it somewhat got away from me in scale which was why I had to stop.

    I am pleased it had a somewhat natural resolution for a dead quest - the aftermath of their bastille, the revolutionary happy ending, before the chickens came home to roost. A nice bookmark to the story of the HaKhofshim.
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    I am writing another work right now - Last Light. Draws on a lot of lessons I have learned from THRONE//FRINGE and a lot more literature and sci fi reading - and is my effort to do something a bit more interesting and nuanced with 40K than usual.

    If that sounds interesting I encourage you to check it out.
    Cataphract
    Cataphract
    It definitely intrigues me! I'll be sure to give it a gander.
    Shine
    Sorry about the weirdly timed like.
    I put it off for a week because I was finishing the exam periods, and it slipped my mind completely.
    Thank you for taking the effort to correct me. History's important, even if it's unpleasant.
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    No trouble at all. I think it was an interesting discussion and appreciated it.
    Grey Rook
    So, if you don't mind me asking, where is your avatar from?
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    Very very late answer, but if you're talking about my current one, it is Touissaint L'Ouverture of Haiti.
    Grey Rook
    Grey Rook
    I see. Thank you for your time.
    Septentrion
    I don't suppose you could help me find a book?
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    Septentrion
    Septentrion
    How about their early careers, prior to the revolution?
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    Bibliography You might want to take a look at the bibliography for the Russian Revolution here. Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast is mostly about synthesizing existing scholarship into a coherent and cogent narrative so taking a look at his source materials (especially some of the biographical works) is a good idea.
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    Try and stay to works that are post-1989/1991 just because the release of Soviet archives dramatically changed english historiography of the Soviet Union. Obviously you want to read works from before then but a little more critically.
    CornyBones
    In all seriousness, is there a image aesthetic to throne/fringe?
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    Tapestry is like...really based on a combo of transhuman science fiction like Eclipse Phase and stuff like the culture, where you have stuff that is so advanced that it seems indistinguishable from magic. Combine that with a cybernetic and digital aesthetic for a lot of the reality-altering stuff.
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    @MJ12 Commando is also a good person to ask here as they came up with the setting and have a stronger aesthetic grounding in it.
    Negentropy
    But completely seriously - thanks for always giving this site high-quality posts, your presence alone raises the quality of any thread considerably.
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    Thank you, I appreciate it. These days I'm not as active, though, trying to enjoy life off the net more :)
    Negentropy
    I'm quite curious as to why you selected your username, and as I have only just glanced the Wikipedia page so I'm no doubt worse than uninformed about the historical person, but is there something about the original Cetashwayo that you seek to emulate on SV or find inspiring?

    Or have you just lived that long? :V
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    It's a mispelling of Cetshwayo that I chose a while back when I had a particular fascination with the Zulus. It was back when I was much younger though so I can't really recall the exact logic.
    TehChron
    Originally I intended to limit my treatise to analyzing a single writer on SV and their ability to manage specific content related to the Something Odd thread discussion, but I can probably do something a bit more substantive since there's an ongoing example of trends and their effects on audience investment going on in SB
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    TehChron
    TehChron
    I think classifying it as the 'mechanics' of the story is misleading (and a reason why I need a primer for this) because it implies that I'm looking purely at how the story is designed, when a lot of these trends come about as a result of forces the writer didn't account for. I refer to them as "factors" or "trends" for that reason (Factor being independent of author, trend being affected by author)
    Cetashwayo
    Cetashwayo
    That's fair.

    Honestly Earthscorpion's own review threads are pretty sharp and have been positively responded to so I'm probably just being off in my assertions. I'm just not much of a critic- that ain't my line of interest.
    TehChron
    TehChron
    Yeah, I don't classify myself as a writer. I classify myself as a beta/editor first and foremost (hence why I developed this stuff in the first place). But I will take a look at Earthscorpion's stuff when I get the chance.
    Cetashwayo
    All the augurs are good. The Misers have inspected the entrails of the goat, and it seems that the time may be ripe for a continuation.
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