NaBloWriMo Day 1
For November, I'm blogging daily doses of Ser Cullen meta (plus related templar/mage meta) and I'm working on my DABB which is woefully behind.
Much writing accomplished today! The real post will come in the morning during coffee when I have a chance to check my daily dose of Cullen meta for typos. (Which means tomorrow will be a double post day!)
Here's a brief preview:
To me, Cullen is the kind of person who needs to be brought on board before real change can occur. He isn’t the hero blowing the horn and leading the charge. Instead, he’s the worker who must be convinced to throw a monkey wrench into the system’s gears. He isn’t the visionary who changes public opinion with rousting speeches. Instead, he is the manager who needs to be converted to a cause so change can be implemented.
Although other characters take on heroic roles or represent the causes of the underprivileged, I appreciate how Cullen represents the tipping point rather than the leading edge. Convince someone like Cullen and it is possible to tip the scales.
In DA2 during the “support templars/back Cullen in defying Meredith’s command” variant of The Last Straw, we start to see the scales tip when Cullen decides insists on saving mage’s lives in direct defiance of Meredith’s orders. This is how true political change occurs-not by grandstanding, blowing things up, and skipping out of town.
Crossposted at http://vieralynn.dreamwidth.org/181609.html.
Much writing accomplished today! The real post will come in the morning during coffee when I have a chance to check my daily dose of Cullen meta for typos. (Which means tomorrow will be a double post day!)
Here's a brief preview:
To me, Cullen is the kind of person who needs to be brought on board before real change can occur. He isn’t the hero blowing the horn and leading the charge. Instead, he’s the worker who must be convinced to throw a monkey wrench into the system’s gears. He isn’t the visionary who changes public opinion with rousting speeches. Instead, he is the manager who needs to be converted to a cause so change can be implemented.
Although other characters take on heroic roles or represent the causes of the underprivileged, I appreciate how Cullen represents the tipping point rather than the leading edge. Convince someone like Cullen and it is possible to tip the scales.
In DA2 during the “support templars/back Cullen in defying Meredith’s command” variant of The Last Straw, we start to see the scales tip when Cullen decides insists on saving mage’s lives in direct defiance of Meredith’s orders. This is how true political change occurs-not by grandstanding, blowing things up, and skipping out of town.
Crossposted at http://vieralynn.dreamwidth.org/181609.html.