tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post2164416162152346058..comments2024-01-09T18:40:53.465-08:00Comments on Ramblings of a Creative Double Dipper: Cerulean Sins--chapter 30Christwriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-10142220811665271522013-04-18T12:18:50.265-07:002013-04-18T12:18:50.265-07:00Oh, no, no, that wasn’t a misspelling of Haitian, ...Oh, no, no, that wasn’t a misspelling of Haitian, it’s a title, Hati. Jamil is Hati in the Pack. It means one of Richard’s enforcers. Skoll and Hati are right under the Ulfric and are his right-hand guys, bodyguards, etc. They’re named for the wolves that chase the sun and moon in Norse lore.<br /><br />There’s the same plot thread problem in Bullet, the book I’m currently sporking now. What’s even worse is she manages to do entire chapters that don’t focus on ANY of them but are just find of…there. Like this random scene where Anita shows all the wereanimal guards up at the gym and nearly makes herself pass out in doing so…despite this being a time when the MOAD is on the move throughout America and thus not a good time to let yourself be in any weakened condition. And did I mention NOTHING HAPPENS? Yeah. All those threads, zip happening. Worst of both worlds.<br /><br />…human beings are rarely “pure” sociopaths? Compared to what? I mean, in her world there are alternatives to being human, yes, not just post-humans (vampires, therians) but sentient beings that were never human at all (merfolk, fae), but classing them by human standards of psychology (such as dubbing them sociopaths) and then concluding that humans who are sociopaths are less “purely” so by comparison to members of other species dubbed the same is just…flawed completely in so many ways. It’s especially flawed with the MOAD. Yes, she was at some point a living being, either a human (if she’s the ‘mother’ of the therian and vampire species only terms of being mother of vampire culture, as has been suggested) or a pre-human hominid like Mr. Oliver (if she’s really the first period, which makes more sense to me given her hybrid nature) but as it is, she has been something else entirely for thousands, perhaps millions of years. She is no longer human, she no longer has a human mind, thus she can no longer be classed in human terms or human disorders like that. She’s frequently called the living dark, the night personified, etc. She’s basically become a force of nature, albeit one with sentience. A dormant (though now stirring) volcano with a brain. Trying to understand her as a sociopath is not only wrong, but also counterproductive to defeating her, since part of knowing how to beat something is knowing how it ticks.<br /><br />Get used to LKH misusing the word sociopath, though, because she likes to bring it up a LOT despite clearly having no clue what it actually means<br /><br />…pretty sure a vein would not be like hard candy. Also, so she’s been worried about eating people since CS? Good to know. She’s still fretting about it in Bullet, and I wondered how long it had been going on. Since she’s had those urges since CS and has yet to give in, my theory that she’s never actually going to is solidified that much more. Oh wait though, did she actually try to eat Caleb? That’s so hilarious in my head, given that she does not have claws and fangs for real even if her ~inner beasts~ do, and Caleb himself is a wereleopard that CAN shapeshift thank you.<br /><br />Ah yes, the homophobia (and latent bisexuality!) that Richard only acquired AFTER his character became the whipping boy of the series who can Do No Right. Despite the fact that before, he not only showed no signs of this, he actually showed signs of the opposite---he was a straight guy who was not threatened at all by the lycanthrope lifestyle of everybody, including dudes, just kinda hanging out naked together. <br /><br />DON’T DO FURRY LOLRFhttp://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-18144336757669760712013-04-18T11:01:26.687-07:002013-04-18T11:01:26.687-07:00I think Hati is his job title in the pack - it'...I think Hati is his job title in the pack - it's been a while, but I remember there's a Freki and Geri and Bolverk and whatnot. Although it's weird that the author-who-re-explains-things-a-million-times hasn't spent six sentences on reminding us what this job title means. Duamuteffehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467912396487349539noreply@blogger.com