4/8/2024
While things are getting better a lot of things are still a trainwreck on my end.
While my cat has responded to the thyroid medication, she can’t take it as a pill which is the prime reason for all of her side effects (including being vomity as all hell)
So the mighty 15 year old furball is going to be getting a topical gel in her ears, and is on anti-nausea medication and a reduced dose of the pills until she can get on the gel.
That’s one thing that’s getting better…on the other hand, the day after I posted my message about things going on pause, an elderly family member banged themselves up in a fall and is still recovering.
So we are still in wait and see mode over here. When we know more, you’ll know more. 🙁
But absolutely accurate. Note that Ian’s coup of the Maris Islands is just as harsh to the Old Guard. As was said, in this war, there is no middle ground and Dehane is even more harsh.
But accurate, and I think the Mariner would largely agree. He was priming Ethan for taking over as the initial crisis unfolded anyway. If he returned at this point, I think he’d recognize his nephew has established a powerbase and is using it honorably and effectively; no need to assert himself.
If anything, the danger would come from those dissatisfied with Ethan’s policies, who would try to make his uncle their rallying point. I can’t see the Mariner going along with that, but just attempting it could do damage before Ethan and his people put the rebels down.
It just occurred to me . . . Wright01, were you typing your comment on one of those “I’m-smarter-than-you” phones with the automatic typing correction? Ian is not a common name, the phone may have changed it!
Wright01 may have mis-remembered Ian’s name and his relationship to his grandfather Thorongil (the Mariner), but he remembers the essential point correctly. ‘Way back in comics #209 and 210 , Jessica kicked Thorongil in the ass for behaving like an old man. And later (comics #549 through 554), they told Hakon BlackAxe of their intent to wed, retire, and turn both their houses over to Ian and Julia.
If anything, the danger would come from those dissatisfied with Ethan’s policies, who would try to make his uncle their rallying point. I can’t see the Mariner going along with that, but just attempting it could do damage before Ethan and his people put the rebels down.