• they/them

plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.

host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)

chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)

other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)


finished A Wind in the Door. it feels like L'Engle was trying to write her own Perelandra and not quite hitting her mark (though perhaps Perelandra is also faulty).

it wants to be a fable about choosing to belong to something greater than oneself, accepting one's part in a divine harmony, or being tempted into selfishness and disharmony. I don't quite buy it but I am having difficulty articulating why. maybe it's because the society of the farandolae seems completely arbitrary: it's fantasy biology, like "midichlorians", and thus the farandolae only have such traits as are needed for L'Engle to make her heavy-handed moral point with them. it's difficult to feel any emotional investment in Sporos and their temptation, because Sporos barely makes sense as a character. they're like a generic sinner in a Christian mystery play, there to be tempted by generic devils.

Proginoskes was cool, though. when reading this in middle school, I really wanted to believe (like Meg) that they were still alive, somewhere.

~Chara


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