Heart Of The Sea: Chapter 24 - Blood In The Moonlight

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: Right, we've got Link here for one more chapter, so let's make the most of it!

Link: I'm all for it, if it means I can leave sooner

Comments

[carakasla]

Wait...she's dead? T-The Sue is dead? Really honestly truly? No lying?

ABOUT TIME ONE OF THESE LAME CUNTS FUCKING DIED!!

And I don't care if she's not really dead. She is dead right now and that is all I care about. Thank fucking god.

[zelda_queen]

I know, right? XD I was singing to the heavens, even though it couldn't last.

[southerngaelic]

*POPS CHAMPAGNE!*

8DDDDD

[zelda_queen]

*passes around some cake* :D

[redrose6540]

Even though we know she is not really dead I am still celebrating.

Ding dong the witch is dead!

[lurkythespork]

I'm getting a little tired of the "woman as plot fuel" thing that's been going around lately. If the mother, wife, girlfriend, sister, or whatever isn't in need of rescue or getting killed or maimed just to manipulate the hero in the direction the author wants, she dies off-camera. It's less so in the other direction, but still annoys me that way, too

[zelda_queen]

And the sad thing is, THIS IS THE AUTHOR'S FANTASY. For all her talk about how Kate is such a strong, awesome pirate (pffft), and for all her talk in a later chapter about how her life is boring and she just wants the carefree, exciting life of adventure that a pirate leads, this is what she dreams about! That her character is constantly getting kidnapped and, in a dream, murdered!

And I took count. She gets kidnapped three times in this thing. Each kidnapping takes about a paragraph of her struggling, she's hauled on board, locked up, is inexplicably not locked up a paragraph later, and just jumps over to the Black Pearl. I mean, I know everyone kept getting kidnapped and bartered in canon, but this is just stupid!

[parrinoyed]

It's actually a dream?

Oh well, it was a lovely dream while it lasted.

It is more than a little sad to write yourself/avatar as a damsel in distress. Squicky.

Oh, and I agree with Lurky about just being sick of characters used simply to manipulate the audience and as plot incentives--especially when they don't have context. I love character relationships! After reading so many sporks like this, I gave my NaNo character a stable family life with a close sibling and a strong group of friends for that reason! (Admittedly, it's making everything else harder, but then I can make the character flaw about pushing people away, etc, even when they don't want to be and she can grow up and it will be cool. When I rewrite it. Eventually.

Wow did I get off topic. :P

Aanywhoo...Dear G managed a beautiful image in the last bit of this chapter and I shall treasure it.

[zelda_queen]

"It is more than a little sad to write yourself/avatar as a damsel in distress. Squicky."

I guess if she had some sort of fetish or something...but we're supposed to believe that her characters are so powerful, needed, loved, etc. Why would Jack Sparrow want an idiot who keeps getting kidnapped?

[watson8888]

So the Pearl and the Dutchman are within swimming distance of each other, Jack gets his beloved wife back, and the response is to just hang out and wait to see what happens? Not to get out while the gettings good? Or head onto the island to find the chest? You know, dry land, where neither the Kraken nor Jones can go?

Not that I'm complaining about this chapter, mind. It is my favorite so far.

[zelda_queen]

Yes, yes, and yes. They are going to go to the island, but only because the Plot Tells Them So. I get the feeling that if Gethesemane didn't have movie canon to crib from, everyone would be even more useless than the cast of The Legend of Rah and the Muggles.