Social 📸 Photography

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

A Part of BeeGot a mail today, latest chapter of the complicated Dorley Hall series is out (<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/35394595/chapters/88223581" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archiveofourown.org/works/35394595/chapters/88223581</a>) and that it was 40772 words long, this felt like a lot but I couldn't get Ao3 to spit out any stats on this. In the end between other things I knocked out a quick little script for printing the word counts then graphed it from there using goog sheets.Yeah in fact its the longest.Shitty bodge code is here: <a href="https://github.com/twitchy-ears/ao3-chapter-counter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/twitchy-ears/ao3-chapter-counter</a><a href="https://loci.onl/tags/fic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fic</a> <a href="https://loci.onl/tags/DorleyHall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DorleyHall</a> <a href="https://loci.onl/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#code</a> <a href="https://loci.onl/tags/ArchiveOfOurOwn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArchiveOfOurOwn</a> <a href="https://loci.onl/tags/Ao3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ao3</a>

A Part of BeeNo stop holding a wedding above your illegal force fem healing basement you fucking idiots. Original author's version of Christine wouldn't have stood for this potential opsec violation!Also "That stuff makes me want to puke the rainbows it believes in, and tragedy porn is so exhausting. We get it, being trans fucking sucks, we don’t need to write whole million word web novels about it."(fucking lol, well played, good callout)<a href="https://loci.onl/tags/DorleyHall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DorleyHall</a>

Tamsin: Bæddel AngelOne of the elements I find most fascinating about <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@badambulist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@badambulist</a>'s THE SISTERS OF DORLEY is the nuanced, complicated, and sympathetic way it approaches the question of whether people can ever be more than the worst things we've ever done. All of the characters in the series have pretty clear stances on this question, and I'd even go so far as to suggest the series itself is predicated on a very specific answer to that question... but what I find especially interesting is the way Greaves challenges and complicates every assertion and stance shown in the story. No character is so intrinsically right that they aren't demonstrably wrong sometimes, and no character is so intrinsically wrong that (to steal a riff from the story) they don't, y'know, occasionally have kind of a fucking point.For me, this is one of the distinctions between a story that's "good enough to be getting on with" and a story I can wholly, unreservedly embrace and engage with. Moral simplicity can comforting sometimes, but honestly, what I personally want from a story is not to be told that the good guys are always right and everything will be alright. I want to be told that sometimes people—including us—fuck up and make mistakes and bad choices we can't unmake... and we can STILL find a way to go on, maybe even to be happy.That's a story I can believe in, because it's the story I live. I don't live in a world of white hats and black hats. I live in a world full of people who are, mostly, trying to do their best to get by with limited information and even more limited perspective. Some of us are even trying to be good people, with varying degrees of success. And all of us make bad choices and mistakes that haunt us.So, ARE we better than our worst choice, our worst mistake? Can our lives ever be more than the worst thing we've ever done? A lesser writer would give us a simple answer, or none at all. Greaves has paid her readers the profound compliment of an answer which is neither simplistic nor a dodge.It's complicated and messy... but also, I think, honest and realistic.<a href="https://cutie.city/tags/dorley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dorley</a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/dorleyhall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dorleyhall</a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/TheSistersOfDorley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheSistersOfDorley</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#dorleyhall