the return of the king…
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i dont wanna hear it alright let's just pretend like nothing happened
man, deja vu, could'a swore I've read this before…
Fires rage just below the surface of the ice.
This is nothing short of brilliant. I'm once again amazed by the skill of the people on this site, and the fact I can read this for free is a gift. Amazing job!
I watch the yonder hills
See foodwrenches toil in dust
Let their cacophonous calls
Rend our bodies to rust
I have no clue what I just read but I know that it was incredible.
- MissDirection (She/Her)
And only on his last day on earth did the king truly feel alive.
A beautiful piece, so full of incredible writing, and the way the old man is characterized, from talking about his family to the last bit about the throne… God. Simply perfect. Loved this piece so much.
+1~
me when i sit in the oubliette of my own design
edit: okay, fixing this with some actual thoughts. this is brilliant; by a wide margin my favorite thing of yours ive read on this site or any other. all of its symbolism, the critique of wealth and capital, the characterizations as noted by others, all fabulous.
Teltanigan shovels yet another breath into his lungs.
it's things like this that make your writing unmistakable — these clever and inventive uses of language in constructions i haven't seen before and wish i had generated on my own. so naturally crafted, but also so creative that i, as a reader, am forced to sit up and take notice.
i have lots of thoughts and theories about the ending and some we have discussed on discord. the narcissism of rimegold (his name itself a symbolic choice!) leading him to create his only and first true thing of value, his real contribution to the world, and he only cares to do so after he himself can no longer appreciate what giving up some of his vast fortune to do so can mean, is incredible, as is the fact that when all is said and done he himself is nothingness, and all that is left is the pomp and circumstance of his own self-tribute, empty and hollow — and yet, just as with anyone, in death he is finally freed of his torments, self-inflicted or not.
this is one of those pieces i think about a lot. i think it's one of the best things on this website. thanks for writing it
Amazing. Wonderful. Beautiful. Capital is a cage.
+1, +1 a thousand times.
Finally read this piece after having it saved in a tab for around three-ish months. It's a stunning work - each character inside it felt truly alive, and the world itself exists without need for extensive explanations, it just is, and I really appreciate that.
I really need to read more of your catalogue. +1
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