tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post4252158450680530740..comments2024-01-09T18:40:53.465-08:00Comments on Ramblings of a Creative Double Dipper: CERULIAN SINS--Chapter 2-3Christwriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-55703717870015568852013-03-20T11:13:43.835-07:002013-03-20T11:13:43.835-07:00There is a beautiful old graveyard in a neighborin...There is a beautiful old graveyard in a neighboring town. The graves totally date back to the 1800s, I think we've got a couple of civil war vets in there. Every year the flowers come out and people flock on over to take pictures.<br /><br />Nobody is posing with the goddamned graves. In fact, I think there's a caretaker with a shotgun. Also, it's very hard to take a dark and dramatic photo when the monument in question is covered in Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrushes. Christwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-82298743982538649872013-03-20T10:29:36.821-07:002013-03-20T10:29:36.821-07:00"can we recommend killing it with fire? "..."can we recommend killing it with fire? "<br /><br />I say this with nothing but love for the Gothic fashion and subculture, which I am a genuine admirer of...but if I caught anyone using my grandfather's headstone as a prop like I've seen people do for their ~dark and dramatic~ photos, that would be my reaction. At least find a grave too old for anyone to care, for crying out loud! And even that's in questionable taste imo, to be honest. Sorry, tangent.<br /><br />Though come to think of it that's the exact kind of thing I could see LKH doing.RFhttp://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-85864450174337043932013-03-20T09:44:59.594-07:002013-03-20T09:44:59.594-07:00Oh, no, see, it's the hausfraus who are provid...Oh, no, see, it's the hausfraus who are providing freedom for everybody else by not strapping on guns and getting awful mullet haircuts or whatever else it is that defines female freedom. <br /><br />...I now think Anita is the kind of feminist you find when you kick over the wrong tumblr. <br /><br />I think that's the reason I REALLY want SI normalized. Nobody (except for a few select morons who are openly acknowledged as such) treats alcoholism or drug addiction as something *dark* or *edgy*. It's something you go and get treatment for. I think what bugs me the most is, from what the book describes she doesn't really need that many deep, nasty cuts. Part of it is that she is doing it with her machete instead of taking a couple sessions off to magically charge a razor blade, but part of it is that it IS being treated as an edgy and special thing instead of part of the job, as evidenced by "lookit all my bandaids and my edgy edgy sliced up look." as opposed to, IDK, keeping things confined and easily concealed so that Anita DOESN'T look like a hausfrau having a gothic midlife crisis at best. <br /><br />And sadly I have read a summery of the book and fuck if this doesn't become a major plot point. I already hate the book. <br /><br />..."Obnoxious brands of Goth"...can we recommend killing it with fire? Christwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-26115376515697714822013-03-20T06:54:31.601-07:002013-03-20T06:54:31.601-07:00Flirt had a Mr. Bennington too. And a (deceased) M...Flirt had a Mr. Bennington too. And a (deceased) Mrs. Bennington implied to be a horrible person in all the ways that Anita hates most--blonde, skinny, conventionally feminine, and wanted some sexy times with Anita’s men. According to Nathaniel, she treated them like whores and just wanted them because they were shifters…which is totally worse than how Anita treats them like pets and sex slaves and has flat-out said she doesn’t do humans. <br /><br />Huh. So freedom is a limited resource that there is only so much of available. I had no idea! Cheese whiz, somebody better put a cap on this feminism thing, because it encourages ALL women to be free to make their own choices! Including the choice to be married and their choice of prefixes! Damn, we’ll run out of freedom thanks to those unworthy hausfraus!<br /><br />Foolish woman! The only person whom the rules don’t apply to is ANITA!<br /><br />Self-injury is dark and edgy and cool, but of course only weak people would do it out of depression or other mental illnesses, Anita has to have cool reasons to do it instead.<br /><br />How the fuck do they even know Asher is a vampire? Cemeteries are a place that people do regularly visit. The way he dresses, they probably think he's just one of those very obnoxious brands of Goth that likes to lounge disrespectfully on people's graves for dramatic photoshoots. RFhttp://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.com