Fuck you too, AH
Jan. 24th, 2011 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetSpoilers for [S] Wake through "Eridan: Abscond." plus one.
We will not be discussing how long it took me to get a decent scan of these. Instead, I will just say that I plan on going printer/scanner shopping this evening, if at all possible.
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Feferi? Kanaya? I'd like to potentially welcome you to the Land of Women and Refrigerators. (Aradia, congrats on defrosting?)
Edit: While I'm doing humorless feminist commentary, Eridan's actions also fit the misogynist roots of many mass killings, as well as the vast majority of murders of women. And one "Vriska" isn't going to erase that.
Edit 2: Running a retraction on LOWAR. Got a bit ahead of myself there. Attempting to be clearer.
1) Larger cultural context considered, I'm a bit disappointed that the violent slasher-type deaths we got on Derse were Feferi and Nepeta. I'm willing to believe that the Derse lads needed to do a dream-self-revival that we don't know about (aside from Sollux, who we do know about), which is why none of them were featured.
2) On the asteroid, Feferi and Kanaya are tragic, but not fridged. In light of Sollux's survival, I'd even say their deaths were gratuitous, but fridged is not the correct term. Feferi might have been, if the story revolved more around Sollux, but it doesn't. Kanaya, I admit, I was mostly interpreting this a bit too liberally, but fuck if I don't still feel like AH just said he needed to kill someone we were invested in to make Homestuck a good story.
My apologies for incorrect use of terminology. If there's more I'm missing, let me know and I'll do my best to knock my thoughts and words into correct order.
We will not be discussing how long it took me to get a decent scan of these. Instead, I will just say that I plan on going printer/scanner shopping this evening, if at all possible.
[/crappy doodles (and less crappy doodles)]
Edit: While I'm doing humorless feminist commentary, Eridan's actions also fit the misogynist roots of many mass killings, as well as the vast majority of murders of women. And one "Vriska" isn't going to erase that.
Edit 2: Running a retraction on LOWAR. Got a bit ahead of myself there. Attempting to be clearer.
1) Larger cultural context considered, I'm a bit disappointed that the violent slasher-type deaths we got on Derse were Feferi and Nepeta. I'm willing to believe that the Derse lads needed to do a dream-self-revival that we don't know about (aside from Sollux, who we do know about), which is why none of them were featured.
2) On the asteroid, Feferi and Kanaya are tragic, but not fridged. In light of Sollux's survival, I'd even say their deaths were gratuitous, but fridged is not the correct term. Feferi might have been, if the story revolved more around Sollux, but it doesn't. Kanaya, I admit, I was mostly interpreting this a bit too liberally, but fuck if I don't still feel like AH just said he needed to kill someone we were invested in to make Homestuck a good story.
My apologies for incorrect use of terminology. If there's more I'm missing, let me know and I'll do my best to knock my thoughts and words into correct order.
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Date: 2011-01-25 04:45 am (UTC)Keeping in mind that I know nothing at all about this comic, ^^; this is my two cents on character death.
It can be necessary. If you have a dangerous situation like a quest/exploration/adventure where people could die, it becomes unrealistic to have them all survive, all the time, for the entire story, otherwise the dangers stop having an impact, because hey, they always survive.
I know that in a big plotty thing I'm working on right now, one of the group does, indeed, die. It sucks. I don't want to do it. I really, really like this character and so does the group. I hate doing it and I get physically choked up about it sometimes. But I'm still going to do it because it makes the story stronger.