Apparatus Of Change - Chapter 123
Added 2024-06-04 08:06:10 +0000 UTCComments
Thank you for reading!
Argus
2024-06-07 04:08:32 +0000 UTCI just finished a reread of this. I greatly enjoyed it, thank you for writing it.
Joseph Horst
2024-06-07 04:07:16 +0000 UTCI kind of love the meta commentary on the nature of conflict in this genre. The answer is easy I think: supremacy of violence is a simpler way to imagine safety and security than submission to vulnerability within community. There's more personal control in it too, more direct authority over one's environment that can be projected through a main character viewpoint than as one part of a community. And ultimately it's easier to imagine how change might occur through destroying bad things than the complicated mechanisms of creating better cooperative systems when no one controls the whole of the thing. But it's nevertheless an important question to ask, to interrogate the genre with. Why *does* this need to be the framework through which we approach things? Why stories about dungeons at war with the world rather than stories of dungeons popping up near a farming community and supporting them in their conflict with a merchant consortium? Of course in the end, this is also a story about a dungeon at war with the world, just better justified and interrogated than most. But I still love the questions it demands of the reader. Why does war need to be what we use this genre to do?
Sengachi
2024-06-04 15:53:08 +0000 UTC
