@time_wasting_enthusiast talked about how people typically write characters that are humans, animals, or mystical creatures. Then focused in on how people rarely, sometimes never, write about the land being the character. In questioning this notion they quoted Kingsnorth: "The scientists investigating animal and plant consciousness, though, may be taking us back to older ways of seeing by very modern means. The living world around us may turn out to be much more sentient, aware and connected than we have allowed ourselves to believe." This made me wonder if this notion was true, and if so what stopped us from seeing?
@frizzy-headed commented with a very though provoking response: "Earth and everything that happens to be in it is a dialogue. And as humans, we have been avoiding conversation with Mother Nature for awhile now." This made me think of the underlying tension between humans and Mother Nature. This tension is something that could be turned into a great poem, short story, or essay.
@fineapplepizza33 commented trying to understand the reason why people tend to not write about the land as an actual character: "I think we as a general whole don't often write stories that feature land as a character because, simply put, land doesn't have thoughts. Of course, it's easiest to write stories about humans, because we as writers and readers can easily relate to other humans. Even with animals, we can at least imagine what it might be like to be an animal, what might be going through an animal's head, and we know (for the most part) why animals do certain things. Land, however, is such an intangible thing that I think we are too intimidated to tackle it as an actual character."
As a reader I was really intrigued by this particular launch post and it's discussion that followed.
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