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I want to say this is cute, but I don't trust it. Douglass is going to find a way to ruin it somehow, I'm almost positive.

The handling of Shra later gets really REALLY uncomfortable, with sexual overtones. So you are correct. Unfortunately.

And of course, he couldn't have explained any of this before, because...reasons. I know that dramatic reveals at the last moment are a popular literary device, but Douglass does not do it well.

There are FAR better ways to make a story exciting than refusing to explain anything. Like raising the stakes by having everything go wrong, or introducing a plot twist.

Right, because when I'm having a terrifying nightmare, 'naughty' is the first descriptor that comes to mind. You just killed the tension there, Douglass. Way to go.

I have incredibly vivid nightmares but am also a lucid dreamer. When I have fought back against some nightmare figure that's threatening me I sure as hell haven't acted like it was a misbehaving child. I usually yell "FUCK YOU!" until it goes away.

*bursts out laughing* So all Faraday can to in her 'all-consuming rage' is slap a tree? She doesn't scream, or find things to break, or any normal methods of venting? Nope, she has to... *cackles* ...slap a tree!

Because women can't ever throw a punch. They must slap ineffectually.

Is it really just venting if the whole thing serves as a massive guilt-trip for someone who hasn't done anything except be born into a race that he hates? I can understand his frustration and anger, but this is out of line and misplaced. Is this just another chance for Douglass to use Faraday as a whipping girl?

I'm Australian, and a lot of us feel resentful for being asked to feel guilty about what our ancestors did to the indigenous population. Because we didn't personally commit the genocides and the taking of children and such. Our responsibility now isn't to undo all of that because that's impossible; it's to make amends by taking action against the injustices that are being committed now. Which is not the approach here at all. Faraday is being asked to feel ashamed of herself for shit that happened a thousand years ago, when she should instead be having it explained to her how oppression is happening in the present day and how she should help to put a stop to it. Instead of guilt-tripping her (which makes most people resentful) they should be wanting her to help the Avar from a position of compassion rather than shame.

- Faraday tries to talk again, but Jack silences her “with a hard look”.

FUCK. YOU.

SECONDED. God I hate him. He treats everyone like shit, and especially her.

Foreshadowing, maybe? I'm guessing those bumps could potentially be...antlers? I haven't forgotten that creepy-ass deer man wendigo wannabe.

Since (male) Avar Banes end up with the heads of stags, that's exactly what it's foreshadowing.

Picklefort returns! Yay!

Mmm, pickles.