skygiants

Yeah, I am certainly very curious about how the Problem of Staten Island will play out in the long run, as well!

I absolutely don't think Jemisin is obligated to be forgiving, but the thing about excising Staten Island entirely, just excising it as a part of New York completely and condemning it to its eldritch horror fate, makes me feel like -- okay, to be clear, I don't think actually think Jemisin is doing this, I feel very sure it's going to be more complicated than that as the series goes on -- but you know the inevitable cycle that happens when a Southern state passes some particularly heinous law, and there are a bunch of bad Twitter takes about "well fuck the South, let them screw themselves over, serves them right" and then other people have to come in and remind everyone that there are real people there, who didn't pick this, who have worked against it, who are being screwed over by it? So that's the uneasy feeling with which it left me.