You're not the only, and... She's one tough mofo, man, surviving everything she has despite what was obviously an emotional disability at baseline. She went from GF and uh, meal, for the questionable protagonist to undercover spy ...very much THIS! My beef with Butcher is not about Justine as such, but about how she and J/T relationship is shown. As I see it, it's a problem in the line of telling vs showing, in literary terms. We are told one ("True Love" and all that) but shown the other (when she's captured, Thomas isn't even so much as upset about it and his only concern is Harry going to rescue her and the others, to name only one and recent example). To be clear, I don't take it for any ill will or whatever; it's just poor writing, is all. And only a failure in what otherwise is good writing, as a whole series. Then again, that's why it's so annoying, because I know he can do better. Then again, I think Butcher generally writes friendship much better than romance, so maybe he can't after all... :/
For the record, though, I'm uncomfortable with calling anything we don't like, don't agree or find undersatisfying "white male etc.", and generally using those as pejoratives per se.
I suspect if there was a larger fandom, and therefore more meta conversations, I might be persuaded otherwise OMG, better not! Large fandoms tend to get, uh, hysterical about such things. I should know, I've been in SPN. :D I actually think DF fandom does pretty well in meta discussion, compared to many others. If anything, I'd rather wish there was more fanart. :)
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She's one tough mofo, man, surviving everything she has despite what was obviously an emotional disability at baseline. She went from GF and uh, meal, for the questionable protagonist to undercover spy
...very much THIS! My beef with Butcher is not about Justine as such, but about how she and J/T relationship is shown. As I see it, it's a problem in the line of telling vs showing, in literary terms. We are told one ("True Love" and all that) but shown the other (when she's captured, Thomas isn't even so much as upset about it and his only concern is Harry going to rescue her and the others, to name only one and recent example). To be clear, I don't take it for any ill will or whatever; it's just poor writing, is all. And only a failure in what otherwise is good writing, as a whole series. Then again, that's why it's so annoying, because I know he can do better. Then again, I think Butcher generally writes friendship much better than romance, so maybe he can't after all... :/
For the record, though, I'm uncomfortable with calling anything we don't like, don't agree or find undersatisfying "white male etc.", and generally using those as pejoratives per se.
I suspect if there was a larger fandom, and therefore more meta conversations, I might be persuaded otherwise
OMG, better not! Large fandoms tend to get, uh, hysterical about such things. I should know, I've been in SPN. :D I actually think DF fandom does pretty well in meta discussion, compared to many others. If anything, I'd rather wish there was more fanart. :)