[ SECRET POST #6158 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6158 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Who is Felix?

[(Anonymous)]

...one of the main characters in this novel?

[(Anonymous)]

Welp. So... I know I read several of these books some years ago. I do recognise the names (and I even remember Mildmay's full weird-ass name. Probably because it is such a weird-ass name). But even after looking up the summaries just now I can't for the life of me remember anything - anything at all - about the plot.

Huh.

[(Anonymous)]

This is an interesting take. I always felt, if anything, that Felix was the author's self-insert, and Mildmay was written to be the character who would never give up on him. It's a series about trauma, and most traumatized people yearn for someone like that.

I would argue that it's pretty clear in all four books that Mildmay is very aware of how awful Felix is. That's sort of the point. He knows that Felix can be unreasonably cruel--he's been on the receiving end of it more often than not, after all--but he's also seen the side of his brother that's just small and scared. So Mildmay stays, and Felix tries to do better, and...

It's a sickeningly realistic story of fucked up people, nonny: the sort of people who in the real world are usually cast aside and forgotten, whose stories and humanity are devalued. So it doesn't surprise me that you describe the first book as "not ready to be published" and "at the start of the learning curve." If you cannot see the unflinching honesty and devastating reality in its pages, then the story isn't for you.

I hope you're able to forget it entirely.

[(Anonymous)]

Well color me intrigued. I did not care for The Goblin Emperor (did not finish, only made it maybe 1/3 in if that) but I am very curious about this series.

[(Anonymous)]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21533146

I'm juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust gonna drop this here

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. Does that mean the author was really into him, or does it mean that she was trying to portray this other character as having an overly rosy view of him?

[(Anonymous)]

Takes like this make me glad I'm not interested in writing anymore. If people read my stuff and mistook me portraying a character as being into another character for ME being into that character, I'd never get over the humiliation. Unfortunately, it's really common to think so nowadays with the rise of "what we write is exactly what we want for ourselves" thinking.

[(Anonymous)]

Oof yeah, I really thought I was going to like Melusine, back when I found it, and it was like... all the things about it that I thought were interesting and promising got shoved to the side, and all the things I was not into got brought into the forefront.

I might give TGE a shot, though, and see if I vibe with the author's more matured writing.