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Sep (lord of all I survey) (sepiamagpie) wrote in unfunny_fandom,
@ 2011-07-11 08:31:00

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have some fucking decorum!, sticks and stones may break my bones but, you used a bad word so i'm in the clear

After all that, I'm just a little curious what a european grocery store is like
Some Jim Butcher (he writes a fantasy mystery series called the Dresden Files, I think that's the name of the series, anyway) unfunny for you.

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	misachan 2011-07-11 06:52 pm UTC (link)
	Oh Jim Butcher No. Had he not reacted so personally and started weeping about the internet was so meeeeeaaaaan, I would have just taken that passage as Harry being wrong-headed and racist. (Dresden files are all first person.) God knows Harry's not the most reliable of narrators. Now I have to wonder if JB actually BELIEVES all the nonsense in Harry's head. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2011-07-11 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	His big mistake, IMO, was not shutting up sooner. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	misachan 2011-07-11 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	He just keeps going and going on about how SAD he is. And the argument that it's a fictional world doesn't work all that well when you're writing behind the veil urban fantasy. It being our world is kind of the point of the genre. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	airawyn 2011-07-11 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	Harry’s not always reliable, but I’ve always figured that the white, straight, cis male privilege in the books came straight from the author. It feels like he tries to be progressive, but doesn't always succeed. (And sometimes doesn't try at all.) (I still enjoy the books, despite the problematic elements.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kitt_in_socks 2011-07-11 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	Ugh, really. I've been really forgiving with the lack of POC and weird issues with women and LGBTQ issues in the books because sometimes it seems like it's just an unreliable narrator thing, but maybe I've been reading too much into it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	emily_goddess 2011-07-12 01:57 am UTC (link)
	I prefer to read them that way too, but Butcher doesn't do much to call Harry's assumptions into question, so I'm not sure they're meant to be read that way. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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