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whilomm · 1 year

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kind of a milf. reblog.

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the wire mother did nothing wrong

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u literally are???

#buzzy #the wire mother #the cloth mother #monkey #monkey.....#wire mother #cloth mother #yhe HOTTEST unethical science experiment memes #FUCK ME I DID THE ALT TEXT WRONG AND JUST NOTICED MONTHS LATER

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bewaretheidesofmarchyall · 3 months

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what the fuck is the Wire Mother book. Sociology has lore now?

oh boy okay

so you remember the Divergent books? the YA boom of the early 2010's? The Wire Mother was one of those series. they turned the Harlow's monkey experiments into dystopia factions.

yeah. i know. bear with me

The first book, The Wire Mother (2010) is pretty standard YA dystopia fare. There's this girl named Leo Groves (the Leo's short for Leonore) who lives in the court of the Cloth Mother, a city where people live in comfort and camaraderie and a general vibe of hold hands around the campfire and sing, except for the people who die at random. This is accepted with unsettling what-can-you-do calm from the main characters. (Eventually, it's revealed that's happening because only a 1/5th of the food served in the city is real, so most of the people are dropping dead of starvation but their bodies are quickly hurried away as to not kill the vibe, so no one worries all that much about it).

Which could have been cool speculative fiction! A handy story about desensitization to violence or complacency or something. Unfortunately, this was 2010 YA, so the concept is quickly kicked under the bed in favor of. yeah. A love triangle. Leo, being a special little narratively significant thing, finds her way to the mysterious other city on the other side of her hometown, the court of the Wire Mother. And when she's there, she meets a boy. Coil 54810.

Coil goddamn 54810.

That brooding son of a bitch. His last name is 54810 because the concept of last names and family doesn't exist in the court of the Wire Mother, only functionality, so 54810 is just the number of Coils there's been in the city. He's not a clone or anything, it's just the amount of people who've had that name. It's like being named Jeremy 54810. Killer of plot pacing. Swoopy of hair. He would have deserved to be named Jeremy.

God, anyway, I'm talking a lot about this. Anyway: The Wire Mother is exactly as good as the average YA dystopia book from the time period. It has some high points (the Cloth and Wire mother are cool ominously looming entities, and the main antagonist Jane-Mary has a level of batshit mad science energy to her that makes her the most fun villain in the series) and some low points (the forced Romeo and Juliet references. the forced romance. It is so clear that Benjamin St. Jobs, the other guy in the love triangle, doesn't stand a chance, but we have to keep who-will-it-be-ing for so long anyway. And Coil's a dick), but it mostly just balances out.

There were three more books in the series. There was supposed to be four, but. Well

Anyway. Book Two, The Wire Mother: Hounds' Toll (2012), actually kind of slapped. It went to more tragic and horror-influenced places than the original book. One thing I'll give Angela Lee (the author) credit for: I don't think this was a sequel for the sake of having a sequel. I think that the series was always supposed to be a pentalogy.

Some of the stuff in this book has still stuck with me to this day- I have to hold myself back from adding ominously ringing church bells in so many of my projects. Also, it really filled out Leo Groves as a protagonist- I could take or leave her in the first book, but I started to genuinely like her by the second. And the stuff they do with Stellarose Ardent, her best friend turned rival... God, I could make a whole post about Stellarose Ardent.

this book series is good, readers thought. surely the third book will be as good if not better

THE THIRD BOOK WAS HELL. The Wire Mother: Ordained Voltage (2013)...I think it did everything wrong. There was a reason that there was a two year break between the first two books, and book three being out only a year after Hounds' Toll really shows.

It's incredibly rushed. Leo barely gets to do anything. Stellarose is killed off in the most unsatisfying way possible. And while it seemed like Book Two had neatly put the love triangle to bed, no! It claws its way out of its grave!! To torment me specifically!

The only good thing we got out of this car wreck is Anesthesia 3, lab rat girl and apocalypse maiden extraordinaire. I adore her. She's got real Fish Inside A Birdcage vibes. Everything else, though? Horrors.

But readers held out hope. At least the characters ended up trapped in an interesting setting at the end of book three. The merciless, multi-layered prison of Tithonus, the central antagonist of the series. It seemed like that was a good set-up for a prison escape storyline. Those have to be entertaining, right?

Somehow, some way, no. Book Four, The Wire Mother: Endless Sentence (2014) is not just bad. I could forgive bad. But it is bad, and it is boring.

so boring that I'm not even going to waste my words on it. It's a school night. I'm not staying up to describe that thing. The only interesting thing about it is how it could manage to be boring while being an homage to the fucking Stanford Prison experiments.

And that was the end of a lot of people's hopes for the Wire Mother series. Only one good book out of four isn't a great track record, you know? A lot of readers were willing to put Hounds' Toll down as a one-off.

Then, in November of 2014, the preview for Book Five, The Wire Mother: Quantum Claws came out. It was three chapters long. And people lost their shit.

First of all, it was good. Maybe as good as Hounds' Toll. Maybe better.

But more than that, it was a break from the relatively grounded, safe, company standard dystopia of the series. Because this bad boy was going to be about time travel. Tithonus, in his evil plans to live forever, had built a time machine and activated it just at the right moment when the plucky heroes were about to kill him once and for all.

Which seems like something that would be a train wreck, right? If this author can't handle the easy-to-please tropes of prison breaks and romance, what business does she have trying to handle a time travel story without completely fucking up the series?

And maybe that would have been true. But the first three chapters were insanely promising. They were refreshing, original- they got time travel. We were able to get characters like Stellarose and Jane-Mary and Turpentine back after the story cast them aside so soon. And it promised to really examine what Leo Groves meant for the book's world. So, hopes rose again.

Unfortunately, we'll never know if it would have been good or bad. The fifth book was never published. We don't know why. It was just promised, for months and months, and then. Poof. The updates stopped. It was gone.

And it haunts me. If you haven't stopped reading by now, you can probably tell that. The fandom was like a fraction of the size of the Divergent fandom, and I don't know anyone IRL who's read these things. I don't even know if I can or should recommend them.

But sometimes something doesn't have to be a literary masterpiece to burrow into your brain and not let go, I guess ASJSJS

#the wire mother #unreality #misinfo #leonore groves

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quoth-the-raven-fuck-this-shit · 3 months

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Oh! Dang, new blog

[I set down my suitcase a la a Rogers and Hammerstein protagonist]

Work's been kind of busy, but rest assured: Me and Verna are still cooking like never before. Ha, nevermore

For every like this post gets, I'll add a hint about our latest AU <3

#Aster rambles #the wire mother #ElectricRose #Diode/Stellarose #unreality

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54810-reasons-to-love-u · 3 months

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ugh someone else checked out the copy of Hounds' Toll from my library already. i have to wait another TWO WEEKS to be reunited with my husband

#the wire mother #unreality #they're probably a benjamin devil jails fan too #fucking sucks

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quantum-catboy · 3 months

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I wonder if anyone remembers me from my old @coiled-guts days. do they remember Static Shocks and Thorn Prickles, Once Upon A Time (A Few Mistakes Ago), In My Field of Paper Flowers? if you do, i'm so sorry and so so grateful

#might repost them later #if anyone's interested #the wire mother #unreality #electricrose #diode/stellarose #and trust me if you did know me then: it won't be the same thing #!

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rottmntrulesall · 8 months

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THEY BOTH TOUCH HIS MOM’S SKULL PENDANT I AM UNWELL

#I think Barb did it because she knows the significance and was rubbing it in #I don't think fizz knows that Blitz' mother was killed in the fire. He seemed a bit taken aback #helluva boss #helluva boss season 2 #helluva boss fizzarolli #helluva boss blitzo #helluva boss tilla #helluva boss barbie wire

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nikoco11 · 7 months

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spider nico (spider bot…. sometime i call him circuit too) ((he’s like what if spiderman sucked ass))

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indistinctchatt3r · 3 months

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Omega using the straw to make another Lula rather than to make something to escape

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frozenjokes · 2 months

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if they’re not on here then I don’t know them well enough to place with two exceptions: Joe, who, as stated, transcends the graph, and Joel, who I am pretty sure I could place alright but if I get it wrong I think the beans fans will rip me open and feast on my organs which is in their right. He’s diabolical though, obviously.

I will take questions but if you disagree with me you’re wrong /that’s light hearted but I fight with teeth!

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theriverbeyond · 9 months

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have you ever considered baby gideon nav with her favorite pillow. her favorite blankie. like u know no one in that house was hugging her so like. imagine baby gideon curled up under her one thin blanket on that terrible cot hugging her single, very lumpy pillow. oh my fucking god.

#gideon nav #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #oh my fucking GOD #wire mother cloth mother this girl had NO mother

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chubbychiquita · 9 months

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i know we are mostly here to discuss fat & weight gain in a sexual fetish-y way but just in general like, fat people seem so much more cuddly and lovable and soft and safe???? simply, skinny people are wire mother and fat people are cloth mother

#look up wire mother and cloth mother

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visenyaism · 3 months

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“daddy issues make you a people pleaser but mommy issues make you a psychopath” a single lesbian fascist in the bloodline will consolidate enough power to establish a 300 year dynasty of emotionally stunted sword violence enjoyers psychosexually obsessed with being them

#call me (wire) mother #asoiaf

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bewaretheidesofmarchyall · 3 months

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the last book's ten year anniversary is coming up, so i figured i'd ask:

does anyone remember the fucking Wire Mother books ASJSJS

#unreality #the wire mother #leo groves #please someone else tell me they remember these books #i read them in middle school so i was a few years late to the bandwagon. but surely there has to be someone still thinking about them #they live rent free for me #were they good? listen it was 2010's YA take that how you will #the ending of the Hounds' Toll haunts me though #that's how you do a sequel

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54810-reasons-to-love-u · 3 months

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cole sprouse would make such a cool coil if we ever get a movie adaptation

#unreality #the wire mother #coil 54810 #juliana 54810 hours