*still annoyed about the Leah Clearwater lovefest at das_sporking*

[guardians_song]

Yes, she's a good character in an awful book. The utter worship, however, is [irritating].

And I know I'm not one to preach with my fannishness towards Ronald Weasley and the like, but I'd like to think that even I'd get unnerved if everyone constantly talked about how he was the Best Thing Ever.

Come on. Leah is a fighter, someone with a massive (and understandable) chip on her shoulder, and a character who got majorly screwed over by the canon. That doesn't automatically make her a strong leader, intelligent planner, or... any of that.

And also, while I'm ranting, I'm going to get something off my back:
If you insist on consistently piling a certain set of traits onto your favorite characters, regardless of whether those characters actually possess those traits in the slightest, it begins to imply that you don't think people without those traits are really worthy of admiration.

...Yes, this applies to me too. I tend to write characters as being more scholarly than they actually are. I need to lay off of this, unless I'm intentionally boosting the characters' abilities/intellect/whatnot.

Still. It irritates me.

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[shamanicshaymin]

I've been thinking about this too. On one hand, it's devastating to watch a character be so mistreated for daring to not like Bella (meanwhile, the other characters get off scot-free for the same situation that Leah's been "whining" about), and I can understand wanting to put her into a better novel where she'd be more suited. Hell, I feel that way a lot about the One Character I Like that I feel is "stuck" in a shitty book or movie. (Hello, Jack Walker from the Manaphy movie) But it's another thing to put a character on so high of a pedestal that you can't look down and see anything else.

Is it bad that I still like Carlisle and Alice for what they're supposed to be? I understand in-text that Carlisle's a shitty doctor and Alice is shallow as hell, but I mainly owe it to Meyer's Did Not Do The Research and inability to write endearing qualities in her "heroes." Otherwise Carlisle would've been intelligent and compassionate instead of hypocritical and sociopathic, and Alice's perkiness would've been a refreshing contrast to Edward's constant moping.

Re: Late reply is late.

[guardians_song]

Yep. Same here. :\

Is it bad that I still like Carlisle and Alice for what they're supposed to be? I understand in-text that Carlisle's a shitty doctor and Alice is shallow as hell, but I mainly owe it to Meyer's Did Not Do The Research and inability to write endearing qualities in her "heroes." Otherwise Carlisle would've been intelligent and compassionate instead of hypocritical and sociopathic, and Alice's perkiness would've been a refreshing contrast to Edward's constant moping.
Agreed regarding Carlisle, and - to be honest, I enjoy Alice either way. Admittedly, I enjoy canon!Alice more in a Comedic Sociopathy way than anything else... but I don't have a blazing hatred for her, the way I'm apparently supposed to as an anti-Twilighter. :\