And why shouldn’t people’s minds be okay with them seeing a sign of someone being a therian? This isn’t a world where therians are fairy tales and cryptids. This is a world where the dishwasher would be a werewolf. Everybody knows they’re around.
This is something that always annoyed me with this setting. The supernatural is supposedly out in the open and commonplace... but at the same time, LKH always insists that it is somehow transcendent, that ordinary pleebs might know it exists but they can't possibly understand it. Which is actually even more insulting than the Harry Dresden-style, "oh, people don't believe in the supernatural no matter how much evidence they get, because they are scared of things they don't understand and don't want to admit that they're not in charge of their lives *coughatheistsarestupidcough*." :P
Actually, it goes beyond that, too. As you said, there are theoretically non-glamourous supernaturals around, just living their lives - but all the ones we see are kinky, super-sexy, and hold to some sort of bizarre feudal worldview that is completely different to the culture they're supposedly a part of. It's like in True Blood, where the first scene of the series was supposedly meant to show that "our vampires are different! Some of them are fat rednecks!" And then almost every vampire we see from that point on seems to have walked straight out of Bram Stoker or Ann Rice.
Frankly, I hope they not only stay together, but run away together far away from Anita, who will years later find out they got married and had lots of blond blue-eyed children together, most of whom are skinny girls.
Yes! Run for your life, Jason! There is a world out there full of women who are... comparatively sane and pleasant, because this is still the Anitaverse and everyone in it is a stupid jerk, but still, a definite improvement from your current company! :o
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This is something that always annoyed me with this setting. The supernatural is supposedly out in the open and commonplace... but at the same time, LKH always insists that it is somehow transcendent, that ordinary pleebs might know it exists but they can't possibly understand it. Which is actually even more insulting than the Harry Dresden-style, "oh, people don't believe in the supernatural no matter how much evidence they get, because they are scared of things they don't understand and don't want to admit that they're not in charge of their lives *coughatheistsarestupidcough*." :P
Actually, it goes beyond that, too. As you said, there are theoretically non-glamourous supernaturals around, just living their lives - but all the ones we see are kinky, super-sexy, and hold to some sort of bizarre feudal worldview that is completely different to the culture they're supposedly a part of. It's like in True Blood, where the first scene of the series was supposedly meant to show that "our vampires are different! Some of them are fat rednecks!" And then almost every vampire we see from that point on seems to have walked straight out of Bram Stoker or Ann Rice.
Frankly, I hope they not only stay together, but run away together far away from Anita, who will years later find out they got married and had lots of blond blue-eyed children together, most of whom are skinny girls.
Yes! Run for your life, Jason! There is a world out there full of women who are... comparatively sane and pleasant, because this is still the Anitaverse and everyone in it is a stupid jerk, but still, a definite improvement from your current company! :o