Tumblr crosspost (29 June 2020)
Controversial so I’ll put it under a cut:
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It's silly, but there's something affirming about joking about being Lawful Good rather than joking about being Lawful Neutral, which is frequently what I used to do. In either case it's about my fairly rigid personal affinity for Rules and Order, but I used to often be iffy about considering myself a good person because of my various flaws. But being like "........what if, actually, I am a good person despite having significant personal flaws and I can just say that in offhand jokes" is actually pretty soothing.
thinking about alignment and my faves
The classic D&D alignments can be silly and reductive ... but they're also genuinely useful in some ways? Like, if I say "Darcy has Lawful Good energy, but is actually Neutral Good," you don't have to agree, but it gets across what I mean to people at all familiar with alignment without a long explanation. "I think some people see Cassian as X Neutral, but I think he's Lawful Good all the way through" is comprehensible in a concise way. So is "I think Leia is trying to stifle herself into living a Lawful Good life, but at heart is Neutral Good." I think that's also true of Éowyn, btw, while Jyn comes at it from the other side: living a Chaotic life, but also Neutral Good at her core (certainly not Chaotic Neutral or True Neutral).
And of course, the divisions aren't hard lines. I think Luke is probably not far from the Lawful/Neutral boundary, though still on the Neutral Good side, whereas Anakin has some of that Neutral or even Chaotic energy, but is ultimately Lawful Good -> Lawful Evil -> Lawful Good.
(I am also Very Offended by bad alignment assignments, like the gifset that assigned Darcy to Lawful Neutral. WTF, seriously.)
And of course, the divisions aren't hard lines. I think Luke is probably not far from the Lawful/Neutral boundary, though still on the Neutral Good side, whereas Anakin has some of that Neutral or even Chaotic energy, but is ultimately Lawful Good -> Lawful Evil -> Lawful Good.
(I am also Very Offended by bad alignment assignments, like the gifset that assigned Darcy to Lawful Neutral. WTF, seriously.)
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So, I just saw a P&P+D&D alignments thing on Tumblr (with hundreds of notes, naturally) that had Lady Catherine as evil(???) and Darcy as Lawful Neutral.
uhhhhh
what
(But seriously, if you've missed that Darcy is a good person, then ... er, I think you've missed a substantial chunk of the novel)
uhhhhh
what
(But seriously, if you've missed that Darcy is a good person, then ... er, I think you've missed a substantial chunk of the novel)
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Alexa Adams, at her generally excellent blog, recently posted a "P&P mashup" -- no, not monsters, just an "ideal cast" drawn from all the adaptations. Since she's a firm fan of the 1995 mini-series, which I dislike more than not, I disagreed on a number of points (but not on the awesomeness of Sabina Franklyn's Jane!) and thought, "hey, I should do one of those. Because it would be fun."
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