Just kidding, I just thought that GIF was funny I couldn't resist. This serial has been hard going and for a long time I planned my next posting to be a hiatus post....
So I guess that means I'm back to the trenches
Bellum
During SHV Serial Related Break Down #4837 I did really enjoy just being a reader of Lile's Bellum and I've kind of gotten re-obsessed. Which is to say a GIF reaction post is brewing...I have so many relationship related GIFs that fit my feelings perfectly.
Picspirations:
Audrina, 28
She's Pascal's wife and works as a nurse at Camp Harmony. She's a bit of a Girl Friday. Her picspiration is Zoey Deschanel without her New Girl makeup.
Chapter 10
I don't have much to say about chapter 10, as a refresh it was Rayne going down to Dakota's brothel to try and find his kidnapped son. There is definitely more Rayne/Ivy/Sara in Compulsion and I think that comes from those shorts I wrote about them. I'll recap their story more next time.
Let's Recap
Let's recap...Alex Haley is taken to an Republic Liberation Army (RLA) labor camp at Fort Harmony, after getting caught with his brother, Harlow, and his friends, Felix and Marco, who are stealing a pair of shoes. Haley gets a one year sentence because he is caught wearing Harlow's jacket...which has drugs in it.
The camp requires hours of physical labor and there are sporadic incidents of violence and assault. Harlow decides to leave and comes up with a plan to escape. In the process he is shot in the head by a corporal. The bullet lands in Haley's stomach and Maxwell takes him to his personal quarters as he works to quickly cover up the murder by having Harlow's body cremated.
Sgt. Maxwell has already singled Haley out because he met Haley while he was in the hospital for an injury during a failed secret military operation. And much to his fustration Haley has no memory of there meeting. Maxwell is as much as a prisoner as Haley as he is assigned to Camp Harmony to distance him from any real RLA operations. No one has ever seemed to trust him since he worked for Julian Walker, the treasonous former Secretary of Public Safety.
Chapter 11
As I edit this I realize this chapter just happens to have a lot of recapping built into it since Haley and Maxwell have had seperate POVs the whole time and have to be brought up to speed on each other.
Also I think I've settled on Alan being even chapters and Ft. Harmony being odd chapters.
Chapter 11
Playlist
-1- We Move Lightly by Dustin O'Hallaron
-2- The Fire by Kina Grannis
-3- Not even going to try typing this one by Olafur Arnalds
Yay, your back ! I myself will have to start working on .gif post.
ReplyDeleteI find Maxwell as a character really fascinating ! It has made me obsessed with the idea of one sided obsessions.
*Sneaks in* *steals SHV's music*
Thanks, hon!
Delete*steals music too* It's so weird I have 85 songs on my inspiration playlist, but it feels like too few...which is weird because the Vice list only had 77 songs.
AHH ! SHV is back woop ! I was really feeling for Maxwell at the start because he was working hard despite his injury. . . then I was totes side eyeing him at the end.
ReplyDeleteYeah...it doesn't get better.
DeleteMan, I want t know about this Audrina. She sounds tough as nails. She's a nurse and can dissect people.
ReplyDeleteIt's like they say about nurses. Hot enough to make your heart stop, skilled enough to restart it !
Delete@CaliforniaBlues-- This comes back a little
DeleteWe are going to learn a little bit more about Audrina. I've started giving her third person POVs...I just need to give her a last name.
CPShawna ! Hey, hey hey. Will we be seeing more of her ?
ReplyDeleteI actually really like Isla's resolve, she has a that tough love feel.
Unfortunately you won't be seeing to much of CPShawna.
DeleteI'm glad you caught on to Isla. She a young widow, mother and now she's stuck looking in on her mother and grandmother too, so she doesn't really have time to be anything but honest.
Maxwell and Haley seem to have different relationships to pain. Maxwell has to stop when he feels it and while Haley uses it to tithe and accepts pain.
ReplyDeleteI could totally see this...except Maxwell is only in pain because he is pushing himself when he shouldn't be.
DeleteIs The Bell Garden Seminary School a high school ? Or do people get sent there as punishment if so I must know more.
ReplyDeleteIt's a high school. In my head its the equivalency of sending your kids to one of those "tough love" strict alternative schools (i feel like MTV used to have a show about this).
DeleteAlthough Haley voluntarily went there...because of reasons.
I'm so odd, all I think is . . .OMG, why does Maxwell keep his sundries on the shower floor. Isn't he afraid he might step on them.
ReplyDeleteWhy yes I used the word Sundries
I love that you used the word sundries !
DeleteThe reason he keeps it on the floor is because his bathroom is really small.
Do you think Haley thinks that because of all the pain Harlow went through that there is a chance that he might be saved ?
ReplyDeleteWell, no and only because Haley believes his brothers soul is really dark.
DeleteBut also, Harlow wasn't in any pain when he died. I mean if anything it's kind of creepy that he survived a car crash and then was alive long enough after getting shot in the head to talk to him...
This Verify is so funny, it asks you to verify photos. LOL
ReplyDeleteDid we learn how old Maxwell is ?
I was trying to get that CAPTCHA off, but I don't think there is anything you can do about if you aren't commenting with an account.
DeleteMaxwell is 33, his age will come up a couple of times.
Oh, no ! SHV why all the breakdowns ? There is so much going on here.
ReplyDeleteWell, right now I know the climaxes of the stories and how the stories will end, I just don't know everything in between. I'm starting to vary up the POVs and that is helping.
DeleteI don't know why but I find the third person so striking, I can't believe we haven't had more of this.
ReplyDeleteLike I said in the previous comment, there will be more of this. The only first persons I do are Maxwell and Alan. If it is anyone else's POV it will be third person.
DeleteI love how the doctor is all like "eh, all in a day" LOL
ReplyDeleteI kind of had morbid fun with that character...his name is Doctor Hill because graves sometimes look like little hills.
DeleteI keeping looking for tiny connections to the B story line. Are we ever going to see any.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a few ? I haven't written any yet. It's hard because they are in vastly different places.
DeleteHi SHV ! Don't call it a comeback ! P.S I need moar of Angry Rayne going off on people.
ReplyDelete, the sound makes me hard and I want to break the delicate parts of his skin with my teeth.
ReplyDeleteOhhh. . .my. . .
Oh.Oh no. That is supposed to say "delicate parts of his lips"...O:
DeleteDoes that make it better or worse ?
If Bell Gardens (can we take a moment and appreciate the pretty sounding names in this) is a H.S how old does that make Haley. I feel like it was in an earlier chapter.
ReplyDeleteHaley is 18. He's graduated from high school a few months before this story started.
DeleteWhich I realize means he was underage when Maxwell first met him at the hospital a year earlier...so unfortunate implications are unfortunate.
DeleteAre we going to learn more about the religion Haley is apart of. What it means to be a priest.
ReplyDeleteMaybe ? This is what happens when you are a pantser...actually know that I think about it, it does come up again in their next chapter.
DeleteBut when I use priest I'm using it "generically" as in person who has certain privileges within a religion.
Can I request a third person of Minnie. I'd love to see that.
ReplyDeleteI haven't written this yet, but it may end up happening...because of reasons you will see soon.
DeleteI'm confused, where is the worst recap ever ? The only thing missing from this post is more gifs.
ReplyDeleteSo, I had this post written months ago and looking back at the recap the sentence "Maxwell is as much as a prisoner as Haley" did not seem like something I would write.
DeleteThanks, SHV ! I can't wait
ReplyDeleteI bet the image recog thing is because google wants to do that thing where you take a picture of something and Google tells you what it is.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of it like that. I assumed it was something for like Yelp photos because the quality is so bad.
DeleteBetter. . . much better
ReplyDeleteOh, I bet this means Alan is going to be MIA for a while
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