I would infinitely prefer to be watching and discussing the awesomeness of Cybersix. I freaking LOVED that show and it sucks it was only one short ass season *pouts*.
*Yawn* Is it bad that I would even prefer discussing the HP character proxies in Cassandra Clare's works? At least that fail would be new, and therefore lulzy. Gethsemane is just so...repetitive and boring! I mean, dude, how uncreative can you be?!
I just recently discovered Cybersix thanks to a friend of mine, and I love it. I wish that show had been on when I was younger. Watching strong, intelligent characters will definitely make things better.
You know, all of Gethsemane's pointless stories actually make me glad that the story I'm sporking doesn't really have this much rehashed "romance" in it. ...On the other hand, the main character in that story is too stupid to understand the simplest innuendo, and "doesn't understand romantic love", so instead, we get a ton of "hilarious" misunderstandings between her and her ship-mate, and awkward "Oops, we fell out of bed, and someone chose to open the door, and now it looks like we were making out on the floor"-situations instead of actual plot.
Okay, politically-incorrect spitefic time, despite that I probably couldn't write Jack to save my life:
I lunged at him, catching him off guard, and forced him to the deck. I began to beat against him with my fists, suddenly filled with an animal like rage and fury.For a moment, Will staggered back against my onslaught, and hot triumph filled my heart. But then hot blood filled my mouth as he backhanded me in the face
( ... )
...I'm rather tired of tough girls being able to overpower men and still getting a "wouldn't hit a girl" pass
*Sighs happily* Now that is a beautiful mental image. And good for Will! This girl (whose name I can't remember or be bothered to scroll up for) is at least narratively a pirate and she'd be perfectly capable of doing some damage before he defends himself. Also, since her rage is "animal-like" (with hypen) she wouldn't just stop after the first hit; it's perfectly acceptable self-defense to take her down.
It's not like he kicked her once she was down. Sounds reasonable to me.
"...I'm rather tired of tough girls being able to overpower men and still getting a 'wouldn't hit a girl' pass."
This, so much! Especially given Gethesemane's setting. Jeez, there were female pirates, but they had to basically pretend to be men to get by! That meant that they were tossed around, hit back, stabbed, shot, and not in the pretty, dramatic way Gethesemane does, either. People didn't stop and stare in horror and said female pirates just hit, stabbed, or shot back.
I'm rather tired of tough girls being able to overpower men and still getting a "wouldn't hit a girl" pass.
That was an awesome spite-fic! (and Jack wasn't half bad at all!) :D
The trope you mentioned was beautifully subverted in Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora. The book features a scene in which the city's head spy is trying to coerce a criminal into cooperation, by showing him an artefact he desperately needs. She automatically puts so much fate in the "wouldn't hit a girl" trope, that it comes to her as a genuine surprise when the man simply knocks her out, grabs said artefact, and jumps out the window.
Yes, there were SIXTEEN drinks in one chapter. I was going to ask if we thought we'd surpass a hundred by the end of the fic, but now I'm not sure that's even a question.
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*Yawn* Is it bad that I would even prefer discussing the HP character proxies in Cassandra Clare's works? At least that fail would be new, and therefore lulzy. Gethsemane is just so...repetitive and boring! I mean, dude, how uncreative can you be?!
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Oh yes, that would be much more interesting! XD I have so much bitching to do about City of Bones, and like you said, it's something new!
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You know, all of Gethsemane's pointless stories actually make me glad that the story I'm sporking doesn't really have this much rehashed "romance" in it.
...On the other hand, the main character in that story is too stupid to understand the simplest innuendo, and "doesn't understand romantic love", so instead, we get a ton of "hilarious" misunderstandings between her and her ship-mate, and awkward "Oops, we fell out of bed, and someone chose to open the door, and now it looks like we were making out on the floor"-situations instead of actual plot.
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I lunged at him, catching him off guard, and forced him to the deck. I began to beat against him with my fists, suddenly filled with an animal like rage and fury.For a moment, Will staggered back against my onslaught, and hot triumph filled my heart. But then hot blood filled my mouth as he backhanded me in the face ( ... )
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*Sighs happily* Now that is a beautiful mental image. And good for Will! This girl (whose name I can't remember or be bothered to scroll up for) is at least narratively a pirate and she'd be perfectly capable of doing some damage before he defends himself. Also, since her rage is "animal-like" (with hypen) she wouldn't just stop after the first hit; it's perfectly acceptable self-defense to take her down.
It's not like he kicked her once she was down. Sounds reasonable to me.
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"...I'm rather tired of tough girls being able to overpower men and still getting a 'wouldn't hit a girl' pass."
This, so much! Especially given Gethesemane's setting. Jeez, there were female pirates, but they had to basically pretend to be men to get by! That meant that they were tossed around, hit back, stabbed, shot, and not in the pretty, dramatic way Gethesemane does, either. People didn't stop and stare in horror and said female pirates just hit, stabbed, or shot back.
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That was an awesome spite-fic! (and Jack wasn't half bad at all!) :D
The trope you mentioned was beautifully subverted in Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora. The book features a scene in which the city's head spy is trying to coerce a criminal into cooperation, by showing him an artefact he desperately needs. She automatically puts so much fate in the "wouldn't hit a girl" trope, that it comes to her as a genuine surprise when the man simply knocks her out, grabs said artefact, and jumps out the window.
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Yes, there were SIXTEEN drinks in one chapter. I was going to ask if we thought we'd surpass a hundred by the end of the fic, but now I'm not sure that's even a question.
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