OQ Readthrough: Issue 1, Fire and Flight

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LINK: Issue 1: Fire and Flight
Questions for this issue:

• What did you most notice about the humans?
• How do the trolls compare to cave-dwellers in other fandoms?
• What do you think of elf/troll relations? (Not those relations, you pervs; what do you think of their social arrangements?)

Main OQR post with prompt questions
Note: These aren't mandatory questions; they're meta prompts. If you don't care for any of them, or want to tangent from them to some other topic, that's fine too.

Comments

[blnchflr]

What grabbed me the first time I saw EQ covers was pretty, pretty elves :oP

Reading them for the first time as an adult, I was surprised at the brutality/gore of the beginning - it leaves a strong impression now, which would only have been bigger when I was younger.

I'm also fascinated by the story being told from the Other's POV (the elves) - humans becoming Other to the reader :o)

And the evolution is definitely cool!

[dancing_serpent]

Reading them for the first time as an adult, I was surprised at the brutality/gore of the beginning - it leaves a strong impression now, which would only have been bigger when I was younger.

That's kind of surprising, because it isn't like that for me. I could deal much better with brutality and gore when I was a child than I can do now. By now I have experienced RL brutality and gore for myself, so reading about it/watching it is much more difficult and makes a deeper impression on me because now I know how that feels.

So re-reading EQ as an adult is far more intense for me in that regard.


I'm also fascinated by the story being told from the Other's POV (the elves) - humans becoming Other to the reader :o)

Oh yes, most definitely!

[blnchflr]

Icon freindz!!1

[dancing_serpent]

Hellooo, sexy! *g*