OMG YOU MUST WATCH BOONDOCK SAINTS! I shall spam you with photos of the boys. GAH, yum. Anyway, right, we're not discussing my love for Connor and Murphy.
The complete absence of any information like that has me raising my eyebrows for some of the characters. Using the Patils as an example... remember the bikini incident at vu? That was a cultural thing that, had I not bothered to do the research, would've been ill-played and would've jarred you (as the resident expert *grins*) out of the storyline/flow if I had just ignored it.
There is a fine line between doing the culture justice and rehasing stereotypes. I've a major problem with Seamus getting drunk all the time because of the whole stereotype of Irish people being drunkards. I'm sure I've ranted to you about it.
I'm not saying all the time but how is it "edgy" or "brave" to actually address religion?
And, err, no, not really related to the jackass directly. It's more of a roundabout thing that's been brewing in my head for quite awhile. I thought, at first, that this might just be a HP thing but then, once I read loads and loads of BDS fic, well, that's when it finally bubbled over. Canon says those boys are HUGELY religious (I mean, they think of themselves as the Hammers of the Lord for Christ's sake!) and there's this complete void of religion in fic.
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The complete absence of any information like that has me raising my eyebrows for some of the characters. Using the Patils as an example... remember the bikini incident at vu? That was a cultural thing that, had I not bothered to do the research, would've been ill-played and would've jarred you (as the resident expert *grins*) out of the storyline/flow if I had just ignored it.
There is a fine line between doing the culture justice and rehasing stereotypes. I've a major problem with Seamus getting drunk all the time because of the whole stereotype of Irish people being drunkards. I'm sure I've ranted to you about it.
I'm not saying all the time but how is it "edgy" or "brave" to actually address religion?
And, err, no, not really related to the jackass directly. It's more of a roundabout thing that's been brewing in my head for quite awhile. I thought, at first, that this might just be a HP thing but then, once I read loads and loads of BDS fic, well, that's when it finally bubbled over. Canon says those boys are HUGELY religious (I mean, they think of themselves as the Hammers of the Lord for Christ's sake!) and there's this complete void of religion in fic.