what is the good and the beautiful?
Jul. 31st, 2008 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mimesereI had this whole post I wanted to make about politics and superheroes and comics and my character kinks and "heroic without being tragic" and how "we get the heroes we need rather than the heroes we want" and how they intersect and how the cover of the CCI program made me cranky because it struck me as wrong, but I am tired and I am fairly certain people are tired of hearing me natter on about honor and duty and law and suchlike, so I'm gonna go play Warcraft III instead. But it could happen one day, maybe.
There's a reason Superman is my guy. There's a reason Gunn is my guy and Scully and Norrington and John Stewart GL and Roy and Mia and Wondy and Gert and Victor and the Middle Man and Wendy Watson and Hiro and Fraser and Ray (x2) and Jubilee and Leia and Teyla and Ronon are all my guys.
Lawful good does not mean lawful nice. "No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such." "You took the good things for granted. Now you must earn them again. For every right that you cherish, you have a duty you must fulfill. For every good which you wish to preserve, you will have to sacrifice your comfort and your ease. There is nothing for nothing any longer."
also possibly I'm just still really irritated at the douchebag who said I didn't get Superman because girls don't get comics. Yes. *I* miss the point of Superman. Boyscoutiness aside (which, honestly, if that is all Superman is to you, then it is DEFINITELY not me that is missing the point), he's a guy who does good because he can and because it's important to him and because he likes and believes in people and *their* ability to do good.
heroic without being tragic. it's interesting the things that stick with you.
anyway. off to warcraft III.
There's a reason Superman is my guy. There's a reason Gunn is my guy and Scully and Norrington and John Stewart GL and Roy and Mia and Wondy and Gert and Victor and the Middle Man and Wendy Watson and Hiro and Fraser and Ray (x2) and Jubilee and Leia and Teyla and Ronon are all my guys.
Lawful good does not mean lawful nice. "No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such." "You took the good things for granted. Now you must earn them again. For every right that you cherish, you have a duty you must fulfill. For every good which you wish to preserve, you will have to sacrifice your comfort and your ease. There is nothing for nothing any longer."
also possibly I'm just still really irritated at the douchebag who said I didn't get Superman because girls don't get comics. Yes. *I* miss the point of Superman. Boyscoutiness aside (which, honestly, if that is all Superman is to you, then it is DEFINITELY not me that is missing the point), he's a guy who does good because he can and because it's important to him and because he likes and believes in people and *their* ability to do good.
heroic without being tragic. it's interesting the things that stick with you.
anyway. off to warcraft III.
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Date: 2008-07-31 06:22 pm (UTC)crimeinjustice in his day job. He cares for no other reason than because that's what you do if you're a hero or a good person. He's got a temper and he's idealistic to the point of sometime naivety and his approach to crime fighting is to essentially punch it in the face, but...I dunno. He tried to end world hunger by taking food to impoverished countries. I can't *not* like that guy, you know?