An Addition

[eredien]

Well. I did end up writing more about that article than I thought, and it gave me four story ideas. And another essay idea. Happy. However, I am not going to post it all here. It's long and complicated, and (I think) can be better understood in the context of the discussion from which it sprang.

Therefore, I am providing a link to said discussion, at Baxil's website, tomorrowlands.org, which is a very interesting website overall, and has fascinating message boards which I consider to be the best I've seen so far on the internet.

I cannot provide a link to my individual post, as the message boards don't let you do that, but if you want to read it, it's currently on page two of the discussion, at the bottom, with my name on the sidebar (the same name as on my livejournal, not my 'real life name.' Although I like that one just as much).

Oddly, at this moment I am getting some kind of deja vu. I don't know why; I feel as if I've already written about this before, and added in the same links.

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discussion

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. Shall now have to go look over the rest of the website, because that was just an INTERESTING discussion. Other thought, though-- do you read Transmetropolitan? Comic book, Irina and Lila own most of the early stuff (only gonna be 60 issues long, so not back-breaking to read. Pretend that made sense.). Set in a future which has a hell of a lot, culturally, in common with now, and a hell of a lot that isn't. One of the things about the world is that body modification in it is indeed common and popular, for any number of reasons. There are people who add limbs, or replace them with mechanized ones, for convenience. There are people who modify themselves with animal traits for the weekend (gorgeous image of someone being a dolphin for a little while), or permanently, for aesthetic reasons (another gorgeous throwaway image is a woman who has feathers on her head-- her "hair" is a pair of golden wings. Lovely.) or others. One of the major subplots focuses on Transients-- a community of people who have partially changed themselves into an alien bodytype. They don't get focused on in as much thought/depth as was gone into on the discussion board, as the plot mainly focuses on the main character, but it's still interesting. And I love Transmet dearly. There's a layer of ick to it, but it shines through and with and I'm going to stop trying to be poetic now. Just worth reading. Yeah.

--R

Re: discussion and Transmet

[eredien]

Yes. I do, in fact, read Transmetropolitan. I was asking Lila if she had more of it just the other day, and was very happy when I found that most of it apparently has already been collected. I find the concepts behind it fascinating. As you said, there is a layer of "ick", but at the same time I think you can see the good stuff all that brighter for the ick.

Oddly enough, Transmet reminds me of Jack, another recent webcomic addiction, which (like Transmet) I am not so sure is 'good' for me to be reading, but just when I'm about to quit from the "ick", there's something absolutely pure shining through. I have almost cried at several issues. It's like some of Ada's Dante comic and Transmet kind of stuck together, and very, very well-written. Why did I put this here, other than the fact that it reminded me of Transmet? Secretly, I'm trying to get someone else I know to read it so I can talk past the "ick."

Other thoughts: I'm glad you found the tomorrowlands discussion interesting. Keep reading. Most of the other discussions are like that or become that way eventually.