07-31-2025, 01:32 AM
i am split-minding this. its unfortunate but a number of things are spoiled simply because i watched for 20 seconds too long on a reaction trailer vid and the reaction person just spouted off something i really didn't want to know. so i tuck that tidbit deep into a box and pretend i have no idea i know it.
and considering my memory ain't great and i am in fact inhaling a bunch of stuff fairly quickly-ish, it does jumble in my head a bit so when i finally run across it properly, it's still a bit of a surprise and an "a-ha!' moment. it helps at this point too that i have the main thrust (geddit? thrust? ...i'll show myself out) of the master storyline and now we're just into the nitty gritties of WHY, and no fiction so far has actually given me anything close to a satisfactory answer because almost none of the fiction is talking about the master story; only personal explorations of the boys themselves.
does that make sense?
and straight up in the fiction, its actually really hard to tell what is canon being repurposed and what is just deeply entrenched fanon (some of which i wish would die or a fire or at least stop being so prominent), so that helps a ton.
also, i inhaled a lot of Caleb stuff in the first week or two without thinking about it because i was so desperate to know who the hell that was in the Fallen Cosmos trailer, so while i am not really *familiar* with his myth, i am less worried about it because i can't get my hands on his stories fast enough. i know that they go out in a blaze of nova at the end of the trailer, so somebody writing "they didn't go out in a blaze of nova, they wuz rescued" doesn't faze me at all!
did they take out an entire space armada with their powers synced together? who knows, but i viciously hope they did. only time will tell when i get there.
and considering my memory ain't great and i am in fact inhaling a bunch of stuff fairly quickly-ish, it does jumble in my head a bit so when i finally run across it properly, it's still a bit of a surprise and an "a-ha!' moment. it helps at this point too that i have the main thrust (geddit? thrust? ...i'll show myself out) of the master storyline and now we're just into the nitty gritties of WHY, and no fiction so far has actually given me anything close to a satisfactory answer because almost none of the fiction is talking about the master story; only personal explorations of the boys themselves.
does that make sense?
and straight up in the fiction, its actually really hard to tell what is canon being repurposed and what is just deeply entrenched fanon (some of which i wish would die or a fire or at least stop being so prominent), so that helps a ton.
also, i inhaled a lot of Caleb stuff in the first week or two without thinking about it because i was so desperate to know who the hell that was in the Fallen Cosmos trailer, so while i am not really *familiar* with his myth, i am less worried about it because i can't get my hands on his stories fast enough. i know that they go out in a blaze of nova at the end of the trailer, so somebody writing "they didn't go out in a blaze of nova, they wuz rescued" doesn't faze me at all!
did they take out an entire space armada with their powers synced together? who knows, but i viciously hope they did. only time will tell when i get there.
