{"id":5020,"date":"2019-08-14T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2019-08-12T16:12:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T23:12:16","slug":"mark-reads-i-shall-wear-midnight-chapter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2019\/08\/mark-reads-i-shall-wear-midnight-chapter-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;I Shall Wear Midnight&#8217;: Chapter 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the third chapter of <i>I Shall Wear Midnight<\/i>, HI, WHAT THE FUCK!!! What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming? <i>What is coming???<\/i> If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re intrigued, then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read <i>Discworld<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You know, this chapter made me see the first one a little differently. So much of what happens here is grounded in what has come before. The dynamic that exists between Rob and Jeannie, or Jeannie and the Feagles as a whole, or Jeannie and Tiffany, is all rooted in a texture and a nuance that comes from experience. Even things like the new entrance to the mound speak to a history: the Feegles expect Tiffany to visit, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve accommodated the fact that she continues to grow. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a new element to a tradition, to an expectation. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s their hag, and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be their hag until she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which is part of the point, I suspect. Tiffany has fully submersed herself in this life, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the sense I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten from these chapters. And that explains <i>why<\/i> Pratchett wrote the first chapter as he did. Yes, it could still function as an introduction of sorts to the world of witches, the Chalk, and Tiffany Aching. But it works as well to guide more familiar readers to a specific place: one where we understand what is expected of Tiffany, we see how she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fulfilled this role so expertly, and then\u00e2\u20ac\u201donly then!\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddoes Pratchett introduce us to a more complicated internal reality for her.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That comes up again here, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jeannie who brings about this struggle, even though Tiffany isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite ready to openly talk about it. (For the record, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m operating under the assumption I made at the end of the video for this chapter. Tiffany brought Amber here specifically to have a safe place to heal. Not only is it quiet and secluded, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also somewhere Mr. Petty cannot get into.) The mound of the Feegles feels both sacred and safe, even if the Feegles themselves are pretty ridiculous, but Tiffany also has a strong relationship with their kelda, built off of experiences in past books. They do trust one another, and this line was a great way to establish that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It sounded like a silly question, but Jeannie was never silly.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the question Jeannie asked was so simple, too!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Can you remember yesterday?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tiffany could, and she recounted a long, tiring, and active day working her steading, which all seems pretty normal, except that she mentioned only ONE MEAL. And no sleep. And we know she only got an hour the night before, since the whole Petty business woke her up. So Jeannie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s warning is not just about the premonition or the gut instinct she has. Yes, something <i>wrong<\/i> is coming, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what that could possibly be. (What would \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stir\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in response to Tiffany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s experience with the Wintersmith?) But also? Tiffany is working so very, very hard, skipping meals (unintentionally) and getting very little sleep. Jeannie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concerned about Tiffany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s well-being and how that might affect her facing whatever it is that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not what I expected from the book, but it <i>is<\/i> an interesting new dynamic for me to keep in mind as I read this. Tiffany is doing a fantastic job as the witch of the Chalk. But she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not putting herself first at all; she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s constantly elevating others above her own needs. And trust me, from experience? This is not sustainable. She <i>has<\/i> to start caring for herself, or something will break down.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh, <i>what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming<\/i>??? What stirred in their slumber???<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/lQcDw-rqr-k<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markoshiro.com\/blog\/2019\/5\/7\/the-anger-is-a-gift-trade-paperback-is-out-today\">The paperback edition of my debut, ANGER IS A GIFT, is now OUT!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>If you&#8217;d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ey636\">sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the third chapter of I Shall Wear Midnight, HI, WHAT THE FUCK!!! What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming? What is coming??? If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re intrigued, then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[562,463,248],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-i-shall-wear-midnight","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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