User blog comment:RoninTheMasterless/Off My Mind: Fictional Geography & Feminist Knight Owl/@comment-6548012-20160217190326

I've seen this feeling of yours about finding the right away to write the Knight Owl, and this pilgrimage of yours has been pretty impressive. Since Earth-152312, I've been following the history of the history of this character, and I'll be blunt about it, I don't think you'll be getting it right with this project, I don't think you'll be getting it right in a long time, but that isn't negative to me. That's because you keep changing, evolving for the better or the worse&mdash;and I have trouble imagining you'll ever get it right in your opinion, because you won't be happy with what you've done now, in five years. I would love, and I hope to see that ultimate Knight Owl soon, but I think that the benefit of you constantly getting better and better all the time comes at this cost. It's like when Beethoven was crushing all the barriers of musical standard, at the point where he even hated his Moonlight Sonata. I don't view this in a negative way again, I think this is one of the things that we, as humans are, but do not understand. But I'm here for the novel-long review, not the lifetime-long philosophical debate, but one blessed day this shall be the case.

"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."

Ey, I was talking about things that might never be gotten right, but in that case, there is a thing that you will never get right. Your work determines what you've done at the moment. For example, your Public Defender blog post. You wrote it when you were sleepy. The consequence is that there's less insight on the development of the series. In the news, you are about Daesh, a separatist group that is wreaking havoc in Irak and Syria. But that's what's going on right now. In two years, maybe this group won't exist anymore, maybe it'll have a different name, maybe it'll be its own country, we don't know shit; there's nothing you can do about it. And this is why I love the idea of a whole new history. Because you will never have to care about any of these issues ever again. But that gives you a new sort of trouble. Here, you'll have to go out of your way, by a lot. It's not just like the Public Defender, where you can write things realistically by digging deep within yourself. Here, we're talking about much more than that. We're talking thousands of years of culture. We, the human race in its entierty, right now, as a collective, do not know everything that has ever happened in human history itself! We don't even know the entierty of things that happened in human history in one country! But you have to make up for that; you don't have to make up 1 guy, you have to make up civilizations, a blob of 100,000,000,000 people! And I'm using exclamation marks because that's a lot. A big fucking lot. Because you have to make all of those people up with their own beliefs, thoughts, acknowledgements, and everything. Not literally, for sure, but you need to ask yourself all of those questions because they are the ones who will make the cultures of your reality, they are the ones who will make the countries of your reality, everything. And it's not like society is easy, because we humans aren't perfect, we don't know shit. So every single of our societies is imperfect as well and experimental. Just to give you an insight on the topic of geography&mdash;I was talking with Draft yesterday about remaking from scratch the map of the main planet from Earth-4552, because I didn't find it real enough, I didn't find it detailed enough, here's a map I've shown to him to make him understand my point of view. This is France, currently. All the departments and communes. Now, two things. This isn't France in its entierty, we have the overseas departments, also. But this map you see here, it might change this very year. It's not just some theoretical bullshit or whatever, this might actually change this year, there's a project going on right now that's being voted that might change the layout of Paris. And that's just the beginning of 2016. Also known as 48 days, or 0.0004107535273459161% of human history. I can go pretty damn far with that. So, you don't need my praise, because you know you have it. you don't need my tips, because you know you'll have them. You need motivation. And I can only try to tell you how much I'd like to see that to its full extent.

Now, onto something I'm kinda less eager for. Your Knight Owlette interests me in the way in which she will be independent, and involved in stuff, and has her own beliefs and all, but, even though she's supposed to be an egalitarian, this summary kinda sweats the story of an angry Tumblr. user, obsessed about a minor element in her life and who brings up rape culture for the mere reason that men exist. And that's not how you reflect on a kidnapping. Because even if you want her to become fragile to the point where this actually matters that much to her, make it psychologically realistic, because right now, it seems like she's a full-on Munchausen by proxy. And a full-on Munchausen isn't good for your work, except if you pull it off so goddamn well that you don't even need to look for a better way to write. So right now, I don't like it. I'm sure that you absolutely didn't mean for it to come off to me that way, and when you'll tell me how you really want to do it, I'll be happy and all, but right now, this is a big nope.

But that's much more interesting. First off, don't be defeatist. I know folk who have been getting real only in their late-thirties, so as the 21 year-old that you are, you have sooooooo much time on your hands to do whatever the fuck you want. Start by getting your education out of the way, and then you can think about getting real about a romantic relation. You may stay alone forever, you may not. If you're invested and are actually trying, I don't see why you'd stay alone though. Now, about the Knight Owl. I think that it would be a good idea for him to forever be alone and stay far away from soft spots, I think that would be good since his character generally stays professional, and that it would have him be different from Batman. But, cut yourself some slack, you're going to find someone that you truly love some day. As Augustine de Hippo once said: “Unless you believe, you shall not understand.”

All in all, this is a pretty damn good blog post, and I'm glad I finally got around it.