tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post3852258709779984512..comments2024-01-09T18:40:53.465-08:00Comments on Ramblings of a Creative Double Dipper: The Wolf Gift--chapter 19Christwriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-38357104608239694462013-06-07T20:45:43.055-07:002013-06-07T20:45:43.055-07:00Not yet. And Rosy's ethnicity is unconfirmed. ...Not yet. And Rosy's ethnicity is unconfirmed. All evidence points to her being Hispanic, but the name isn't standard spelling and there's a lot of avoidance in her ONE PARAGRAPH OF EXISTENCE that makes no mention of ANY physical attributes whatsoever. <br /><br />Oh, and didn't you get the memo? Rubes is more famous than Elvis. He and Merry Gentry are tied.Christwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-89556908152250594782013-06-07T16:35:35.080-07:002013-06-07T16:35:35.080-07:00Reuben is a very Christlike figure. I distinctly r...Reuben is a very Christlike figure. I distinctly remember that bit where Jesus said "Suffer the little children to come unto me, for they are meaty and delicious."<br /><br />So, actual thoughts...<br /><br />1 - Reuben is famous enough that other reporters will seek him out for quotes? Seriously? Does he have a popular blog aggregator or something?<br /><br />2 - Are there any people of other than whiteness in this story? I mean as actual characters, not just as "Oh this house needs a caretaker I guess they might as well be Hispanic". Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05828438966741169694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-69766094159079495572013-06-07T12:21:37.161-07:002013-06-07T12:21:37.161-07:00RF, the imagry we grow up with is still with us. I...RF, the imagry we grow up with is still with us. I have developed a love/hate relationship with most small churches (mostly because I feel like they all stick their hands in my pocket the second I go through the door) and yet "I Come To The Garden Alone" or "As the Deer" still makes me sob every time I hear it. And I think it's more powerful now because it's not religion (or rather, not just religion, as I'm still pretty religious) that it's twanging off of. It's my childhood. It's the happy parts of my childhood.<br /><br />In other words, being peeved because Rice is abusing Christian imagry to deify her murderous fuckwit main character is completely valid. <br /><br />As for the laws: EXACTLY. OH GOD THAT IS IT EXACTLY. YES. <br /><br />Christwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-30658672215302248912013-06-07T12:08:37.443-07:002013-06-07T12:08:37.443-07:00Eep, that comparison to the sacrament is just awfu...Eep, that comparison to the sacrament is just awful. It's true I'm not religious at all anymore, but I was raised Catholic, and a lot of the imagery still hints very emotional points (in a good way, not a traumatized way!) for me, so in addition to it just being crap from a writing perspective, it also kind of personally peeves me too even though, as an atheist/not-Catholic, I probably don't have any right to that.<br /><br />The whole thing with "but Reuben kills bad people!" reminds me of something a friend of mine brought up that I had never considered before: We don't just have laws and due process for the sake of the innocent. We have them for the sake of rapists, child molesters, serial killers, the lowest of the low. We have them to protect the people that we are going to hate most, who are the worst. You don't fucking lose those rights, no matter what you did, and that's in place to PREVENT us all just deciding to do Reuben's way and the slippery slope we'd all tumble down way too fast if we did. <br /><br />Not to mention, killing sort of breaks the whole superhero thing. Most superheros, unless it's supposed to be some kind of dark deconstruction thing like Watchmen or the 'dark antihero' team member like Wolverine, don't kill. They may not all have a vow about it like Batman (who arguably only needs it because he's the one most likely to do it if he didn't have one) but it's just something they don't do. They leave the bad guy tied up for the police usually, and when they do end up having to kill someone, it's usually a pretty big deal no matter how justified it was.<br /><br />If Reuben was being portrayed as a Punisher type 90s antihero (Punisher "employs murder, kidnapping, extortion, coercion, threats of violence, and torture in his war on crime" according to Wiki) then I could get behind it but he's clearly NOT being portrayed to us as dark, of questionable morals, anti-heroish, etc. at all. He's doing Right and Good and there's really no doubt about it at all in the narrative no matter how much he may pay lip service to 'oh, but was it wrong to murder?' afterward before the text and everyone in it validates him. RFhttp://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.com