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okay meme time
Name a fandom and I'll give you some of my unpopular opinions about it.Whether or not my opinions are unpopular will probably just be GUESSING because I do not pay that much attention to what is going down in any fandom outside of LJRP. WHOOPS ( Read more... )
Name a fandom and I'll give you some of my unpopular opinions about it.Whether or not my opinions are unpopular will probably just be GUESSING because I do not pay that much attention to what is going down in any fandom outside of LJRP. WHOOPS ( Read more... )
I think the gigantic scale of the dragons is unnecessary and was a poor choice on Naomi Novik's part
The whole thing where FOR EXAMPLE in China nobody does anything about it if a dragon kills someone who stole their stuff because WHAT DO YOU EXPECT and everyone treats that as reasonable but at the same time dragons are supposed to be equal to humans REALLY REALLY BOTHERS ME A LOT; if they are going to have the same rights as humans then they should have the same responsibilities they don't get to be special snowflakes when it comes to things like KILLING PEOPLE. Like, that specific example aside, it generally seems like the idea is that dragons should be treated completely equally except for how they should be given a free pass to behave irresponsibly because THEY'RE DRAGONS LOL! No! "Dragons are oppressed in other countries" is no excuse to go victim-blaming someone who has been MURDERED - and if a dragon genuinely can't be kept from murdering someone for a really petty reason then maybe they should be rethinking this total equality thing.
The whole suddenly-becoming-unreasonably-attached-to-your-partner thing creeps me RIGHT THE FUCK OUT if I think about it too much. But then like that creeps me out EVEN MORE when it happens IRL with babies? So mostly that is just that I have a problem. Generally I just don't like the idea of the whole ~deep ineffable unbreakable bond~ thing. I would be less wigged out if there were more examples of dragons who had abandoned their captains and gone on to pick different ones, or dragons and their captains who had gone "yeah this ain't workin out any more let's go our separate ways". YOU KNOW like sometimes happens with people who are attached to one another in whatever way in real life 8(
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