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Aug. 12th, 2021 08:31 pmThat feeling when you're only two books into the October Daye series and you're (completely without your permission) being torn in two between two very compelling ship dynamics: the old-flames-reunited-in-tender-yearning-moments-but-circumstances-prevent-them-from-uniting and the tried and true enemies-to-reluctant-allies-who-actually-care-about-each-other-much-more-than-either-will-admit. In this situation, I'm leaning towards the latter, and it feels like the one more likely to be narratively fulfilled. (Actually, the first one has been explicitly acknowledged - that's why I'm less inclined towards it. It feels too easy, and anyway there are CircumstancesTM preventing it from happening.)
To be clear, the ships are not the most important thing about these books. I am absolutely enthralled by the worldbuilding, the premise, and the narrator's relationships with so many different characters in her life, as is par for the course with Seanan McGuire's masterful writing. But these are two of the most consistent relationships - or, at least, two of the characters the narrator has shared the most "screen" time with so far and had significant chemistry with. But I'm only two books into the series, and I know there's plenty of time for more characters to be introduced, more relationships to develop. And the ones I've already seen are deeply intriguing and I want more.
In other news, the smoke seems to have come - at least for now - and the temperature is tilting up again. I'm hoping that - or the nagging malaise - is the reason for the off-and-on headache I've had for the last couple of days, my assorted minor bodily complaints. Hoping it's that, not my relatively lax safety standards over last weekend. Having to pick up my covid calculator again, after those brief, magical weeks when I thought I might at last be free of it, is so devastating and I can't help wondering. Can't help fearing.
There are other reasons for the malaise, too - personal, complex reasons I'm not ready to unwind, but it's dragging at me, tugging at my body and soul. So I'm burying myself in the books to escape it, and hoping my requests on the next few ebooks will be fulfilled soon.
...I did check the AO3 tags, by the way, and the ship I'm leaning towards is the top relationship tag for the fandom. The other one isn't even in the top ten. Wonder what happens in the books to come...
To be clear, the ships are not the most important thing about these books. I am absolutely enthralled by the worldbuilding, the premise, and the narrator's relationships with so many different characters in her life, as is par for the course with Seanan McGuire's masterful writing. But these are two of the most consistent relationships - or, at least, two of the characters the narrator has shared the most "screen" time with so far and had significant chemistry with. But I'm only two books into the series, and I know there's plenty of time for more characters to be introduced, more relationships to develop. And the ones I've already seen are deeply intriguing and I want more.
In other news, the smoke seems to have come - at least for now - and the temperature is tilting up again. I'm hoping that - or the nagging malaise - is the reason for the off-and-on headache I've had for the last couple of days, my assorted minor bodily complaints. Hoping it's that, not my relatively lax safety standards over last weekend. Having to pick up my covid calculator again, after those brief, magical weeks when I thought I might at last be free of it, is so devastating and I can't help wondering. Can't help fearing.
There are other reasons for the malaise, too - personal, complex reasons I'm not ready to unwind, but it's dragging at me, tugging at my body and soul. So I'm burying myself in the books to escape it, and hoping my requests on the next few ebooks will be fulfilled soon.
...I did check the AO3 tags, by the way, and the ship I'm leaning towards is the top relationship tag for the fandom. The other one isn't even in the top ten. Wonder what happens in the books to come...
