LavenderandRosemary

Anyone interested in common motifs in Warrior Cats, and their effect on the popularity of the fire scene? 
          	
          	Plus a brief mention of similar uses of motifs in the Stormlight Archives? 
          	
          	You're in luck! I'm dumping my analysis in this message thread.

LavenderandRosemary

You see these motifs a lot in songs (which is why fire scene AMVs are common). Take Blood On My Name, by The Brothers Bright:
          	  
          	  "When the fires, when the fires are consuming you
          	  And your sacred stars won't be guiding you"
          	  
          	  Or Drops in the Lake by Lord Huron:
          	  
          	  "I look up at the uncaring sky
          	  With a prayer on my lips and a tear in my eye
          	  Oh, how the heart burns like fire (…)"
          	  
          	  In both, we see stars as holy ("sacred", "prayer") but "uncaring". We also see fire as emotion ("the heart burns") and as destructively "consuming", which could apply to extreme emotions.
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LavenderandRosemary

"This goes for the Stormlight Archives as well. Storms, light, darkness, chaos/order and passion/logic dualities… very resonant within the English literary canon."
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LavenderandRosemary

"If Ashfur had pushed the Three into a snake pit instead of a fire, the scene wouldn't be half as commonly adapted."
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LavenderandRosemary

Anyone interested in common motifs in Warrior Cats, and their effect on the popularity of the fire scene? 
          
          Plus a brief mention of similar uses of motifs in the Stormlight Archives? 
          
          You're in luck! I'm dumping my analysis in this message thread.

LavenderandRosemary

You see these motifs a lot in songs (which is why fire scene AMVs are common). Take Blood On My Name, by The Brothers Bright:
            
            "When the fires, when the fires are consuming you
            And your sacred stars won't be guiding you"
            
            Or Drops in the Lake by Lord Huron:
            
            "I look up at the uncaring sky
            With a prayer on my lips and a tear in my eye
            Oh, how the heart burns like fire (…)"
            
            In both, we see stars as holy ("sacred", "prayer") but "uncaring". We also see fire as emotion ("the heart burns") and as destructively "consuming", which could apply to extreme emotions.
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LavenderandRosemary

"This goes for the Stormlight Archives as well. Storms, light, darkness, chaos/order and passion/logic dualities… very resonant within the English literary canon."
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LavenderandRosemary

"If Ashfur had pushed the Three into a snake pit instead of a fire, the scene wouldn't be half as commonly adapted."
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meroceank8921

Hello, there! Thank you so much for your reads, votes, and comments on Neko Inventor (Neko Inventor, Book 1)! I really enjoyed your comments, even though they were few and far between all of the votes you have given me so far! But still, I enjoyed them! I hope you're enjoying the book you've read so far, and I wish you luck on your poetry! I am curious, what did you think of the book so far!

meroceank8921

@LavenderandRosemary I hope to at least make it to about three chapters before the end of the week, or at least, upload one chapter for each week before long. It depends on how long I can get to Chapter 5 before June or July.
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meroceank8921

It would. Also, yes, I planned Bee Charmer to be on Wattpad, but I have yet to write it out enough to have two chapters per week.
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LavenderandRosemary

@meroceank8921 Absolutely! Also, is Bee Charmer on Wattpad? It sounds really interesting from what you've mentioned, and I might like to read it. I actually do know of a few characters who positively represent autism, who I meant to mention earlier but ran out of time - MissLunaRose here on Wattpad is autistic and has written several books (mainly contemporary) with autistic main characters, and in terms of offline published books, some of Brandon Sanderson's fantasy works feature autistic characters (Steris Harms in Mistborn era 2, and Renarin Kholin (in the Stormlight Archives) - but overall, more representation would definitely be a plus. And I haven't seen many characters with other neurodivergencies, except sometimes ADHD, although that could just be because I wasn't looking.
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LavenderandRosemary

Turns out I can articulate my ideas way better in a little rhyme about a caterpillar than I can in the long pretentious poem I've been working on for days…
          
          Anyways, I'm back, here's a poem! Not my best-ever work, but who cares?
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/240635396?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading_part_end&wp_uname=LavenderandRosemary&wp_originator=8WtzrvMyWVKbT73o%2Bt7pzg4tkW9QY4koKBEupw%2BWpy9ihIpe4OcCWxTomp6LCSKlX%2B9qLTnya6kuERMKNn7TJSGgU6Kk5fDxbv3yFhuEfIyz%2BQNHS%2BW0w9bmSr8Yq%2BCe

LavenderandRosemary

New poem is up! And by new, I mean really old but recently polished. Aged like a fine wine, or potentially more like a carton of milk on a hot car dashboard, I'm not entirely certain.
          
          Anyway, here it is - prime past-me angst. https://www.wattpad.com/1083884375?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_published&wp_page=create_on_publish&wp_uname=LavenderandRosemary&wp_originator=qgsa%2BQDeyKSpFi0IQAe4gX5vYEzOykcOUAZZTBDsvL7iL3SpI0qPY%2FG6yox1n7DWjFy4d%2Bn59hZd69PvTlnZtI9YIyRyGnTdFPp4lw3JccKAGv5ofh43VmwSzsZ0dbov (boy, that's a long link!)