Having actually gotten a bit of work done today...

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Okay, I admit, I choose the DW crossovers I write based on the ability they give me to screw Ten over. In my defense, someone's got to. Most of the other fangirls seem content just to screw him

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Exactly. There's a blind hero-worship, on the part of the characters, writers, and fans, and it's disturbing and demeaning. Not to mention entirely new. People used to leave his ass and take the dog. Wouldn't it be brilliant to see somebody dump Ten?

For the life of me, I don't know how everyone else doesn't see it. It's always "cute", or due to some terrible, terrible angst, and that doesn't justify a damn thing. And one of the things that bothered me about JE... was how much work they had to put into crafting that situation. Where he could do that and be blameless for it. It's insidious. I keep coming back and back and back to an essay I read about Ender's Game, of all things; the point was that Card carefully shaped a situation where a person could kill a whole race and be blameless for it. Intention's all that matters; he's still a good person, even if you couldn't tell from his actions, because he is. You can tell because he feels bad about the perfectly justified things he's done. I'm paraphrasing this badly, it's pretty late at night, but every paragraph or so, I think, Oh yeah, I've seen this one before.

For instance, the fact that the guy keeps mentioning he wishes he'd had the book in seventh grade, because the revenge fantasy it portrays would've been almost as good as a nuclear bomb that would've wiped the school off the map. I swear it's uncanny.

I will try to explain what I've meant by any of this probably sometime tomorrow. ^^;