Team Sookie Forever

[peppermintyrose]

Just in case it hasn't been made clear to people who come and visit my journal, and the link seems to be being shared.
I am Team Sookie.

I don't crucify the men in her life, but in the balance of things, I am always on her side. Surprisingly, I will make allowances for Sookie that I don't for a thousand year old murderer. I don't hide her faults, I

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Go Team Book Sookie

[ext_791848]

Always will the haters come, so sad you would think they would troll elsewhere. I know SVB has had a hell of a time to. You don't see us trolling them for that specific reason of painfully difference of opinion's. I swear they are worse than Jehovah witnesses good grief.
SacredmOOn1

Re: Go Team Book Sookie

[peppermintyrose]

I don't think they're intending to troll, but they think they're telling me stuff I haven't heard already.

I had enough of it, honestly, and it's why I don't go to forums. The only moderator here is me, and I publish everything (except Thyra's accidental repeats). But I figure I should warn people before I blast the shit out of them. :D

Go Team Sookie :)

[ingaice]

Hey, I have to say I love Eric with warts and all but I relate to Sookie. I can understand her take on things, her thoughts, her feelings, her humor, her zest for life, her stubbornness, her caution in her relationship (it's not easy being in a relationship with a 1000 year old bullheaded vampire), because I'm so like her. I may not be perfect but I am who I am and no one in my life will change who I am at core

Re: Go Team Sookie :)

[peppermintyrose]

I have to confess, I'm like Eric. I am selfish, high handed, manipulative and blunt to the point of rude. But it's for that reason that I give her a break, because my husband kindly hasn't stove my head in with a pipe. I like her - but she's a much kinder person that I am. :D

I don't want Sookie to change at all. I like her how she is - and I'm completely on board with the idea that she shouldn't have to change into a vampire to make Eric happy. It's unfortunately everywhere that Sookie should just go along with Eric's program as if she doesn't matter at all.

I'm glad and thank you. :D And I don't mind people not commenting. :D

[thyradane]

I just wanted to say that I think Sookie should stop being so stubborn and finally give her man some løøøøve (when I use "ø" in English, I`m ironic - in case you missed it :-D).

I think Charlaine Harris put it so well herself when asked if she was Team Bill og Team Eric. (This is from my memory and not a direct quote) "Sookie is not a prize one can win and there should therefor not be teams for one or the other."

The SVM is not romance, folks.

[peppermintyrose]

You are such a shit stirrer. :D

I have to say - that's completely right. If I'm going to root for anyone in the books, it's Sookie, to be made happy. Here here.

[thyradane]

I aim to please *salutes*

[elbly]

I just wanted to say that I think Sookie should stop being so stubborn and finally give her man some løøøøve

Totally agree! We all know Sookie's a bitch, and PMR needs to just grow up and admit it.

[edeainfj]

Just found this LJ via someone on Twitter, and I'm so happy to see more people loving and supporting [book] Sookie! I love Sookie to pieces. Love, love, LOVE her. As I once posted on my site, when I say I'm "Team Eric," I don't mean that I'm always on Eric's side (far from it), but that I support him as Sookie's HEA. And I love him. I do. I love them both. Here's where I trail off into incoherent rambling about why I love them as a couple, so I'll spare you that. ;-)

I write a fanfic from Eric's point of view, and sometimes I think reviewers forget that just as the SVM only give us Sookie's POV, my story only gives them Eric's - which is, obviously, biased in his own favor.

I read some of your other posts, and while we don't agree on everything, I definitely appreciate your staunch reminders that SOOKIE is our heroine, and people need to get off her case.

[peppermintyrose]

Lol at trailing off into incoherent rambling.

I think the problem is that no matter whose POV it is, there's more allowances made for Eric, and never any for Sookie. Of course, that could be that they're superimposing Askars onto him, or it could be just plain old women beating down women in time honoured tradition.

I don't mind if people don't agree. But I figure they deserve warning that if they come here to tell me Sookie should be more giving, more considerate, and secretly belongs to Eric, whether he's dating her or not, they're not going to like me telling them to basically go fuck themselves.

[edeainfj]

Yeah, women are really hard on Sookie, and I think you're right about part of it being the Askars effect. I do think Sookie should be more considerate (and she actually HAS been in the last couple of books), but Eric is far, far from perfect.

[peppermintyrose]

Well, one only has to look at the treatment Kate Bosworth gets to see why Sookie catches the same amount of shit.

And I do think that Sookie should be considerate of herself, just like Eric considers himself. It's clear in Eric's world that he comes first (I wouldn't have taken the arrow in the shoulder, but I would have pushed you out of the way if there'd been time), so I give her the same ability to put herself first.

[tigerjan110]

I've never understood why people are SO harsh on Sookie. She's just so relatable (for me, anyway) with her goods and bads, her strengths and faults. She's someone I want to be friends with.

I agree that the ASkars Effect plays a part (like how I capitalized that even, like it's an official thing? Maybe some doctor type can write a book on it), and it makes me wonder where people's opinions stood prior to TB starting. Maybe there was more Sookie love back then, or at least less Eric idolizing so that it at least balanced out. Or maybe too many women are just inclined to hate/judge other women no matter what.

[peppermintyrose]

I'd definitely want to be friends with her - she's a nice person, and I think she'd find my thoughts not too bad to deal with. At least I internally chastise myself, and believe in Nicomachean Ethics (meaning that I believe that part of changing into a good person is not thinking about bad stuff).

Lol - the Askars Effect. I've read that far back in fanfic, and it seems that people were a lot nicer to Sookie's character as a whole. Bill didn't get the short end of the stick either, and Eric was a little bit deified, but nothing too bad. But there was still an undercurrent of "Sookie's always wrong" and she comes to realise just how wrong she is in a lot of fic. It's just worse nowadays.

[tigerjan110]

I think my thoughts would be pretty inoffensive, although potentially repetitive as I tend to over think/plan conversations and such before I have them. Would possibly just put Sookie to sleep.

Despite my ASkars love, I didn't like TB Eric until I'd read the books. When he was first on the show, I just thought he was hot, but all lame on the stupid throne, and laughed at him. Then I took a brief hiatus to read the books, and thought he was a hoot. A dangerous hoot, but still. :)

[peppermintyrose]

Lol - she might get the urge to rush you along. :D

I read Eric in the books before I knew Askars as Eric. The stupid throne is just pathetic. I much prefer the - as you say - dangerous hoot of Book Eric. He's so fun and intriguing.