Glancing through this, found today via GeekFeminism, my thoughts riffed off into how much I hate the bad-boy rule-breaker WINS scenario when I encounter it in any form of narrative.

There are narrative scenarios in which I am quite okay with our protag finding themselves outside the law, whether the actual law or the rules of society.

Maybe they' ( Read more... )

Litfic
( Continuing my slow progress through the oeuvre of May Sinclair )

Since I'm just about due for another recent reading post, I've been thinking over what I've been reading recently, and musing over That Story In Which Our Heroine Becomes Enamoured Of A Bad Lot. Okay, in several of the books in question he is either misjudged or the kind of Bad Lot who is Devoted Unto His Trooo Looooove and deploys badness against ( Read more... )