Saoirse don Phalaistín

Fucking Union

Sentence of the day during a book discussion:

Logen is also a fantastic play on reader expectations in regards to tropes because we all think he's the western/crime/fantasy/comic book archetype, the Clint Eastwood who changed his ways but the sins of his past keep catching up with him. We expect him to get back in the business because he has no choice if he wants to survive and/or effect greater good, we expect him to struggle sticking by his new outlook, we expect him to choose better after his setbacks. We want John Wick to adopt a new dog, we want that redemption, we want Logen to wake up every single day and choose to do the hard thing.

Logen Ninefingers is such a masterful spin on show, don't tell, I mean, god damn. Because from his very first appearance he TELLS you that he's a monstrous killer with a trail of bodies behind him and even his comrades live in terror of him and there's an extremely good reason why he doesn't have any friends and ends up chased away from the North like a rabid dog. But what the narration SHOWS is an introspective, self-reflective, downright affable guy who doesn't mean any harm and abhors violence and I mean, it's such a war-torn setting, amirite, who can afford being a pacifist, it's not like he enjoys the Bloody Nine and he only kills antagonists and demons from hell when in that state anyway, can we really be sure this golden retriever isn't just overly hard on himself?

best served cold is a story about how revenge is a machine you start when you kill the first person in your revenge journey and that by the end of it, you won't be able to stop it. it's about how you will drag the people around you down. it's about how kindness is the natural opposite of cowardice and how choosing kindness is the only way of breaking out of that loop of violence.

Sand dan Glokta

The first law