Less an "archive" than a "reordering", really, but for those of you who want to read the Reyvablog in chronological order (so as to avoid spoilers if you haven't read it before, or just to make it easier on you), the following links will take you through its history.
November: The Month of Coming Together
Dilemma
Why?
Pride
Reclaiming
Purpose
Ethnocentrism
Stories
Togetherness
Fourth
Heartening
Choice
Indenture
Guest
Existing
Respect
Small
Noise
Bizarre
Ruined
Fragile
Myths
Sides
December: The Month of Raising Voices
Dominion
Performance
Blindness
Prisoners
Certainty
Privilege
Marriage
Security
Haunting
Forums
March
Violence
Healing
Holidays
January: The Month of Self and Integrity
Shelter
Dignity
Uncertainty
Paranoia
Choices
Reprieves
Randomness
Survey
Nonpost
Lacking
Roundup
Compromise
Ending
Selfhood
Statement
Cage
Rites
February: The Month of Falling Apart
Important
Quick
Question
Sightings
Safety
Equality
Tricornered
Advertisement
Belonging
Responsibility
Interchangeable
Loss
Singer
Apology
March: The Month of Praising and Letting Go
Announcement
Trust
Lazy
Singleminded
Theory
Reasons
Memories
Figurehead
Reflections
Unwanted
Road
Hill
Journeys
Temporary
Technical
Golden
Transition
Activism
Permanent
Distance
Anticipation
Live 1
Live 2
Live 3
Live 4
Live 5
Live 6
Antiseptic
Shyness
Live 7
Live 8
Untitled
End
Letra - Eldharia ~Inori Saku Mori~
2 months ago
7 comments:
Maybe you should put a link to this in the Reyvablog author's notes. It might be useful to someone who ends up there first... Or just be an easy way to track it down.
"Antiseptic" is the title of one of those entries during the big dramatic final hour? =D I guess I see why, but it's a kind of hilariously anticlimactic title.
It... was meant to be cutely out of touch with the rest of what was going on, yes. :) Just a little fluffy note. I thought it fitted with the whole thing where people are disbeliving that things really are changing.
And yes, it'd be a good idea to link it. :) Thanks for that though.
I can (mis)read the sequence of titles leading up to the end as a story of the distance between the present and the ideal, the anticipation leading up to the promise being able to achieve that ideal, and the "live" posts would all be personal accounts of what happens as things don't change, but life is different even if one's mindset is the only difference.
Antiseptic can be a sudden reminder of an event that can't be affected by mindset. It's both a pain that exacerbates the unchanging state of society, and a disinfectant for the fear of associating the present with the past, thinking that the feeling of now will be lost if one is reminded of how one used to be like.
Very short titles can retell parts of a story in fun ways. ^_^
Heehee! I didn't have any particular direction for the titles when I first started naming them, but as I named the first few and they all turned out to be one-word titles, I thought I'd keep going with that. It does, as you say, leave room for various narrative interpretations and explorations. Maybe it's a bit like having random word prompts, even; instead of confining people to one way of looking at the story, the single words might help people to think about the situations present in ways they hadn't before....
Hmmm. It reminds me of the fanfic "newRanma", which all had one word titles of the "verb + -ing" form. (I know there's a word for that, but I can't remember it.) All of them had something to do with the contents of the chapter, but not always what you'd first expect...
You've got a mixture here of course, but a quick once-over makes it look pretty heavy on nouns. Don't ask me whether or not that means anything. `.`
I think if it means anything, it's that the story is a lot about states of being and abstract concepts. Purpose, activism, togetherness, choice, security. It's about what people are feeling, what people are seeking, about the state of the world right now and how we can change it. And since there's more focus on philosophical discussion of that change than there is on direct action by the characters (it being a blog), it skews in that direction, I think.
And the word is "gerund", I believe. :)
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