tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871991104542065373.post2918555923709580433..comments2022-03-24T09:49:49.173-07:00Comments on flowers and blood: Narcissus in Chains Chapter Twenty FourTiger Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17314304221425930905noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871991104542065373.post-37502816992367556562014-06-15T13:54:16.651-07:002014-06-15T13:54:16.651-07:00Oh god, you're right. I should have gone with ...Oh god, you're right. I should have gone with something BBQed instead. Tiger Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17314304221425930905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871991104542065373.post-41703729432923103772014-06-15T13:53:48.603-07:002014-06-15T13:53:48.603-07:00If it were portrayed as a good vs evil type confli...If it were portrayed as a good vs evil type conflict (Anita's ability to summon her) then I would be much more interested, but alas LKH is now asking me to empathize with Raina. Please god, my soul is dirty enough. Tiger Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17314304221425930905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871991104542065373.post-1659543057331322832014-06-15T04:47:47.536-07:002014-06-15T04:47:47.536-07:00"She can also cure cancer and bake ten souffl..."She can also cure cancer and bake ten souffles while playing a guitar with her feet, and that guitar playing is for the benefit of children in the AIDS ward, and also she feeds the souffles to the homeless."<br /><br />This is nearly 100% accurate. The only thing incorrect is the souffle bit, because as we all know, baking is girly (like ew!), and Anita is the manliest man that ever 18thCenturyTearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16055793619906853502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871991104542065373.post-30237475801094749082014-06-15T04:46:48.735-07:002014-06-15T04:46:48.735-07:00"She can also cure cancer and bake ten souffl..."She can also cure cancer and bake ten souffles while playing a guitar with her feet, and that guitar playing is for the benefit of children in the AIDS ward, and also she feeds the souffles to the homeless."<br /><br />This is nearly 100% accurate. The only thing incorrect is the souffle bit, because as we all know, baking is girly (like ew!), and Anita is the manliest man that ever 18thCenturyTearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16055793619906853502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871991104542065373.post-72891141816779061692014-06-12T09:22:02.112-07:002014-06-12T09:22:02.112-07:00Rania is probably my least favorite character in t...Rania is probably my least favorite character in the Anitaverse. There's nothing redeemable about her at all. Her position as a villian made sense, but turning her from that into a tool for the protagonist's use was a bad, bad, bad, bad, BAD idea. If Anita were presented as more of a shadowy character, it might slide. But LKH consistantly presents Anita as a protector, suggesting that allChristwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871991104542065373.post-17296492633304324532014-06-11T12:25:02.696-07:002014-06-11T12:25:02.696-07:00I completely forgot about Anita's dream with t...I completely forgot about Anita's dream with the bones. I just can't keep track of these one or two plot points in the shit slurry that is the rest of the chapter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708771162543922363noreply@blogger.com