[ SECRET POST #4524 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4524 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was at least a unique take on it. Every other human love interest (or protagonist) is just 100% a-okay with it and first love is always only love. I didn't think the takeaway was that ALL humans will always fear werewolves, but that it was a reality that couldn't be ignored, and being with someone who actually understands ALL of you and not just the parts they like is important (not that I liked the end ship, but I got what she was going for with it)

[feotakahari]

Maybe I’m contradicting myself here, but it didn’t seem like the werewolves had much worth understanding. The only two likable characters were both werewolves, so clearly it wasn’t an inherent werewolf thing, but all of the characters who bought into the idea of an immutable werewolf culture turned out worse for it. In fact, one of the likable characters was straight-up murdered by his friend for stupid reasons, and it was treated as okay because that was werewolf culture. And the other pushed back against werewolf sexism, and she ended up humiliated because sexism was werewolf culture and she couldn’t change it. I felt like there was room to find or found a new werewolf culture, something that was healthier than “blood” or “chocolate,” but none of the characters seemed to think
that was an option.

Edit: I just realized this is why I hate Karin and why I hate Native Speaker. (Karin actually goes the reverse route: Karin is so human-like compared to the other vampires, and such a good window into how vampires exploit humans, that in the end she’s forced to live as a human, because vampires will never change for her.) As a supporter of gay marriage, I think the idea of an immutable, inescapable culture can get fucked.

[(Anonymous)]

Why is it that people always leap from fucking werewolves and vampires to gay marriage? It's a gross analogy. It will always be a gross analogy.

[(Anonymous)]

Principles are often relevant in more than one situation. It doesn't meant that they're literally the same situation, but if you're interested in analyzing and judging the fictional behavior and cultures of fictional worlds, a lot of the same considerations that we use in RL are inevitably going to be in play.

Of course, there's no reason that a person has to do that - if you just want it to be unrealistic fantastical imagination, that's obviously completely valid - but using real-world lenses to look at fiction is not, like, wrong.