Date: 1 Nov 2015 02:23 am (UTC)
ext_26142: (Tam Lin by beccadg)
*Comes back to conversation very tardy.

F&H does have a hopeful end...

Cool. That sounds good to me.

I just thought that if you didn't know much about it, it was worth saying that it has a lot of complex, messed relationships under the light surface of it.

I appreciate it. I mean, for example, while I was happy the first time I ran across a writer with a story about a teenage girl who was cutting, it wasn't because I thought of it as a sexy kink. I appreciated an adult exploring the behavior in a serious way, and not treating the girl as nothing but a freak. Complex, messed relationships aren't pretty, but if they're done well they seem very real.

And, in answer to your question, oh yes! Sophie saves Howl in the same way, and Polly is the protagonist of Fire & Hemlock and tries to take her cue from Janet.

Yay! That sounds very good to me.

DWJ is not much for the prince rescues princess sort of story.

Understood. I like a balance best, which is why I was pleased to realize that a couple of my favorite Disney animated fairy tales have it, but if it's going to be lopsided I prefer it if the girls rescue the boys.

Those two both have a girl rescues boy theme...

Keeping them firmly on my "To Read" list.

...although mostly in her books, people have to rescue themselves...

While I'm certainly not opposed to people having to rescue themselves, it tends to feel rather... lonely to me. I mean I like the mutual rescuing because it clearly says, "These people aren't alone. They have someone willing to rescue them." I mean I'm not the most Christian of human beings, but I do like the quote, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. When two characters are willing to risk everything for each other and live to tell the tale that makes me very very happy.
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