Marked Redux: Chapter 2

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: So in the last chapter, Zoey was marked as a vampire and… not much else happened, really. She just whined a lot and made fun of people we didn’t know and never would. This is going to be a pattern. Ready for the next chapter, Ruin?

Ruin: In a masochistic sort of way, yes. Let us spork.

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[zelda_queen]

I have no idea what their political standpoints are, and in all fairness, I didn't get much sense of political soapboxing in their writing (or at least, not as far in as I read). As for feminism and homosexuality, they definitely WANT to promote awareness and support for it. PC Cast's big appeal was supposed to be that she rewrote mythology with feminist twists to it. And as we'll be seeing later, the whole, "Homophobic bigots are horrible, horrible people" aesop is delivered to us with all the subtlety of an anvil.

The thing is, the morals are delivered clumsily (like, Captain Planet levels of awkward here) and without thinking things through. That, and they seem really unaware of the implications of their writings. Neferet's backstory novella, at least, has a note begging readers to seek help from a trusted adult (a parent, a teacher, a member of a church, etc.) if someone is acting towards them in a way that makes them feel uncomfortable, so they also do believe in seeking help if one's in an abusive relationship. So yeah, this all just reads like it was clumsily-written and not thought out well.