osanwe kenta, have you any thoughts on it? i’m only asking because you have such good thoughts on those other edge-of-the-silmarillion HoME essays, not to bug you so please ignore if you are not interested!

gurguliare:

dsjgksl THE FARTHEST REACHES OF THE OUTER RIM. the galactic legendarium. Hey, well, I reread the essay, just for you! No, I reread it because I haven’t read it since 2015, and I skimmed it then—I don’t love osanwe-kenta because it feels kind of like the most boring standard fantasy telepathy setup possible, i.e., “intent/effort are required both to read minds and defend against mind-reading, the mind at rest is an open book and exists as like, a Legible Text separate from the body that contains it or w/e.” But this time I’m focusing on things I find interesting in spite of that.

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