it's funny when you do start to reflect on your thought processes, scene developments, plot decisions, or whatever in your responses here and then you cut yourself off. I say: reflect!! reflect!! It's fascinating to hear and always leads to such great discussions! Goodness, am I that transparent? I FREQUENTLY write something that is very tl;dr and very self-reflective and invariably end up deleting it. I do this A LOT. I figure it's pretty boring and who cares about me?
As for the gay animals -- I'll do more with this in the next chapter. I got whacked in a comment for not being a proper Catholic by implying too much by extension to humans. There are so many ways of responding and I'm still reeling a bit (OK, a lot, hence making me more likely to withdraw. I admit this one hurt). As I was stuck in traffic this morning, I talked to myself about the following: 1) the careful researchers are very clear, we can't (in this world) impute human to the animal or vis-versa. They are animals and it's different. 2) BUT in this cracky fic vision they are animals and fully sentient so that means what exactly? It means, as I thought has been clear over and over and over, that these things stand in for profound cultural differences and that as Susan says way back in Part 1, but which is repeated over and over, the charge is to love all, even those that are different and even those whose behaviors are not our own and to celebrate the differentness rather than try to eliminate it. Further, it explains that having grown up in this really wild, radically different place, the Pevensies are tolerant and understanding. And... I just did it again... wrote long thinky and just deleted it.
anyway, stopping now because I'm getting aggravated in that thrown my hands up, delete the accounts and run away mode, so time to get to RL.
Thank you for reading and I hope you had a great weekend!
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As for the gay animals -- I'll do more with this in the next chapter. I got whacked in a comment for not being a proper Catholic by implying too much by extension to humans. There are so many ways of responding and I'm still reeling a bit (OK, a lot, hence making me more likely to withdraw. I admit this one hurt). As I was stuck in traffic this morning, I talked to myself about the following:
1) the careful researchers are very clear, we can't (in this world) impute human to the animal or vis-versa. They are animals and it's different.
2) BUT in this cracky fic vision they are animals and fully sentient so that means what exactly? It means, as I thought has been clear over and over and over, that these things stand in for profound cultural differences and that as Susan says way back in Part 1, but which is repeated over and over, the charge is to love all, even those that are different and even those whose behaviors are not our own and to celebrate the differentness rather than try to eliminate it. Further, it explains that having grown up in this really wild, radically different place, the Pevensies are tolerant and understanding. And... I just did it again... wrote long thinky and just deleted it.
anyway, stopping now because I'm getting aggravated in that thrown my hands up, delete the accounts and run away mode, so time to get to RL.
Thank you for reading and I hope you had a great weekend!