- Juracan Wed Jul 5 10:37:53 2017 (On Making Your Protagonist the Main Character)
@Dragonstorm: Glad I could be helpful! @Anon: I touch on this a bit, but I don’t really consider Watson to be the main character or protagonist in most of the Sherlock Holmes stories. He’s the narrator, but almost always Holmes is the one who leads the plot, whom the story centers around, and …
- Anonymous Wed Jul 5 03:02:57 2017 (On Making Your Protagonist the Main Character)
What if the protagonist is specifically there to observe and play up the ability of the main character? Ala Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is a much more effective main character if we don’t know what he’s thinking.
- Dragonstorm Mon Jul 3 23:05:11 2017 (On Making Your Protagonist the Main Character)
Good points, and it’s making me rethink some of what I’ve been writing recently. I’m glad you posted this!
- Apep Wed Jun 14 10:48:26 2017 (You Should Read This – American Gods)
I haven’t actually watched it. I’ve been meaning to upgrade my Amazon Prime account to let me stream Starz, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. And I don’t want to use a pirated streaming site or whatever because I do want to support the show, if only to …
- Juracan Tue Jun 13 21:16:34 2017 (You Should Read This – American Gods)
So Apep, question: You mention in part of the recommendation that you brought this up in large part because of the then-upcoming television series on Starz. What are you feelings about the Starz series now that it’s (mostly) out and how does it compare to the original novel?
- Molly Sat May 20 01:23:57 2017 (Lily Sporks Modelland, Part 21 — Wicked Couture, La Camara Brutta, and With Perfect Execution)
As far as I am aware, ‘What the hell you have become’ is not how you use ‘the hell’ (I was under the impression that it had to be a question). It’s almost like Tyra learned how to use the phrase from The Voyage Home.
- Anon Fri May 19 06:15:05 2017 (On Autonomous Characters (Who Like to Talk to You))
This Tim guy seems like a real prick. Every comment of his I see on this site, you’d think he’d just walked in on two hairy mexicans going to town on his wife. Jeez.
- Apep Wed May 10 12:40:44 2017 (You Should Read This – The Thirteenth Child)
There were humans in Australia before it was colonized. If people could survive Australia they surely could survive Columbia. I mean sure, some magical beasties might be a problem, like dragons or sphinxes and what not. But could any be as dangerous as drop bears? Exactly! Oh, ha ha. But in all …
- The Smith of Lie Wed May 10 03:49:16 2017 (You Should Read This – The Thirteenth Child)
And to go a bit Thermian (the aliens from Galaxy Quest), given the general lethality of these creatures, and the trouble folks tend to have defending themselves from them, it’s entirely possible that any ancestors of what would have been the Native Americans got killed and eaten before they could …
- Apep Thu May 4 15:57:13 2017 (You Should Read This – The Thirteenth Child)
I can absolutely see why someone might take issue with the non-existence of Native Americans. And yeah, it would have been cool to see a society that had adapted and developed ways to deal with all the weird creatures living past the Great Barrier. But at the same time, I can …
- Miss_Morgan Thu May 4 11:05:43 2017 (You Should Read This – The Thirteenth Child)
While it’s a good story—well-written, with strong characters and an immersive world—it’s worth noting that Wrede strayed into unfortunate implications territory by choosing to erase Native Americans entirely. The link contains Debbie Reese’s (Nambe Pueblo) perspective on that choice, as well as Wrede’s reasoning for leaving out Native Americans. I …
- Juracan Sat Apr 22 13:05:51 2017 (The Problem of Hermione Granger)
Hang in there, Epke. I’m sure it’ll turn out alright. So there’s probably some truth to what Emma Watson says, but it’s not the whole truth. Maybe, but the way it’s phrased made it sound like the reason Ron was even in the story was because he was some sort of thrill-seeker, …
- Epke Sat Apr 22 06:45:28 2017 (The Problem of Hermione Granger)
Uh…everything ok there, Epke? Yeah :/ You know that feeling when you promise your boss that this project will be done by the end of the day, and then the machine needed to do it just… stops? Anyway, digressions aside. They were decisions built on years of resentment and feeling left out. …
- Juracan Tue Apr 18 20:08:17 2017 (The Problem of Hermione Granger)
As a woman, I identify more readily with an interesting character of either gender than with a role model character of my own gender. Don’t get me wrong, I think positive portrayals of empowered female characters is desperately needed in fiction, because it’s been absent for so long. But I …
- Miss_Morgan Tue Apr 18 11:54:35 2017 (The Problem of Hermione Granger)
Interestingly, after Marvel made that statement about diversity, the Internet has been scrambling to work out why they’re WRONG and I think this statement gets at part of the problem. It’s not about making an interesting character as much as a role model for diversity’s sake. And Marvel, which has …
- Juracan Tue Apr 18 11:37:21 2017 (The Problem of Hermione Granger)
and when bored at work because the damn hydraulic bender has decided to stop working Uh…everything ok there, Epke? And the friend that abandoned him twice, let’s not forget that. Ron, for all his touted loyalty and friendship, has abandoned Harry when he needed him the most twice. I think some people …
- Miss_Morgan Tue Apr 18 10:50:36 2017 (The Problem of Hermione Granger)
Because if we’re saying that women have to be flawless intellectually and emotionally to be worthy of praise, isn’t that just as bad as the flipside? Thank you for putting this nebulous but persistent frustration I’ve felt into words. And it’s not just the film depictions of Hermione Granger that have …
- Epke Mon Apr 17 03:44:10 2017 (The Problem of Hermione Granger)
Part of the blame can be aimed squarely at her depiction in the film serie Pretty much. For all of us that, on occasion, and when bored at work because the damn hydraulic bender has decided to stop working, browse tumblr for the laughs, will notice that a lot – a …
- Juracan Thu Apr 13 10:55:22 2017 (You Should Read This - Leviathan Wakes)
Hurm. I’d actually heard good things about the TV show, and seen in favorably compared to Firefly (it was in a Cracked article I think?). Still, I didn’t really have time to check out the TV series. But now that I know it’s based off a book series, I might …
- TheDragonCatGamer Wed Apr 5 13:39:03 2017 (Eragon's "Epic" Poem)
Also, no one ever said the poem was GOOD just made a point of the fact that he was able to speak it aloud, which meant it was TRUE, people were congratulating him on being able to make a fictional story and being able to say it aloud in the …
