I wasn’t about to talk about this here, but after seeing that KrimsonRogue posted a 9-hour breakdown and analysis of Age of Scorpius, complete with whiteboard, I felt as though I had no choice.
I’ve had to abandon or rework projects because they became bigger than I could handle before, and while it is said, it helped me become a better writer in the long run. And there is nothing stopping me from picking them back up again in the future.
Mr. Winters doesn’t seem to have learned this important lesson.
There is a saying originating in poker, “know when to hold them and when to fold them”. When you refuse to let anything go, that is when you truly start to suffer.
Already I had a feeling that it wasn’t going to be a book I’d like, based more on vibes than anything concrete, like a lot of what booktok pushes.
I’ve been looking into Buddhist thought for a while now, which elegantly describes the problems with attatching your entire identity to one single thing. Mr. Winter is not just a writer, he is a writing prodigy, working on an instant classic. The moment someone doesn’t like what he wrote, that’s not just criticism, it is an attack on the entire foundations of his identity as a person. Considering the connection between the Greek Zodiac and Tarot, I posted two cards from the Osho-Zen Tarot Deck that I think apply here. If Mr. Winter ever gets tired of the Homestuck comparisons, the Osho-Zen deck is right there.
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Two Osho-Zen Tarot Cards I think apply here:
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