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Stitch
is on page 502 of 1030
Almost halfway there. Some things I find fascinating about the flashback chapters:
- they make the "present" chapters in pt 1 even worse as you realize who/what everyone is and doing
- absolutely hamfisted/heavy handed attempts at making the Order "as bad as" the Undying
- the serial numbers are SHINING if you know the source media and the source ship fandom's propensity for writing the OG!MC
— Jan 21, 2026 11:43AM
- they make the "present" chapters in pt 1 even worse as you realize who/what everyone is and doing
- absolutely hamfisted/heavy handed attempts at making the Order "as bad as" the Undying
- the serial numbers are SHINING if you know the source media and the source ship fandom's propensity for writing the OG!MC
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Stitch
is on page 793 of 1030
There are some exhilarating thrills and twists in the latter quarter of the flashback that never ends. However, they're overshadowed, for me, by the way Helena (and Kaine, but we're not in HIS head are we) makes so many incomprehensible decisions. At one point, I was like "do you know you have thirty minutes" at my copy of the book.
— Jan 28, 2026 04:40PM
Stitch
is on page 602 of 1030
For me, I think the consensual (ish) encounters that Kaine and Helena have in the flashback that never ends make the horror and cruelty of the first part really hard to stand and reckon with. I dislike Kaine more than I did when he slaughtered a family for an audience of the Undying and their family members. Which is a wild thing to say.
— Jan 26, 2026 11:53AM
Stitch
is on page 394 of 1030
This book is so... I'm partway through what appears to be a 600+ page flashback and it's interesting (and I know it was in the original fic in some capacity??) but it's also such a slog. Also, if you know of the source material, it's super transparent about how it's attempting to re/frame the good/bad guys as "just as bad" as each other. I am... frowning.
— Jan 20, 2026 09:57AM
