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diff --git a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york.rst b/faith/breakfast_in_new_york.rst index 7ed0600..87a278a 100644 --- a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york.rst +++ b/faith/breakfast_in_new_york.rst @@ -29,22 +29,30 @@ park outside of Grimmauld Place and meeting at Dursleys’ carries the plot, whole day of visiting Hogwarts and ZOO, which is like two chapters, can be safely skipped) +You know the advice (which the author didn’t follow at all) is +“Show, don’t tell!”, it is NOT “Show AND tell! And tell again +(while she contemplates the story), and again (while he does so), +and tell once more (she has to tell her mum), then decide that +you want to actually write epistolary letter, so instead of +rewrite, you just write whole things twice more in two sets of +letters! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Makes me crazy. + However, as I have described elsewhere_, lack of editing is completely normal in the fanfiction world, and I wouldn’t write -this review just because of that. In the `religionless universe -of Harry Potter`_, I am very thankful for every even hint of some -person who is a Christian, and who takes her belief seriously. -However, then there are stories like this one and `Strong Blood -by CooLibrarian`_, which are just confusing. Main characters (and -many other people) are Christians (here Roman Catholics, in -“Strong Blood” Russian Orthodox), but there is absolutely nothing -Christian about them. They never pray, never go to the church, -never read the Bible, never jump to the unknown because God calls -them to, anything. And no, I don’t think it is the traditional -Christians / born-again one’s thing. I wouldn’t mind if they go -to Masses, pray Rosary [#]_, wearing devotional scapulars, -anything. Why make your characters expressly Christian, when they -don’t do anything Christian-like? +this review just because of that. It is something else. In the +`religionless universe of Harry Potter`_, I am very thankful for +every even hint of some person who is a Christian, and who takes +her belief seriously. However, then there are stories like this +one and `Strong Blood by CooLibrarian`_, which are just +confusing. Main characters (and many other people) are Christians +(here Roman Catholics, in “Strong Blood” Russian Orthodox), but +there is absolutely nothing Christian about them. They never +pray, never go to the church, never read the Bible, never jump to +the unknown because God calls them to, anything. And no, I don’t +think it is the traditional Christians / born-again one’s thing. +I wouldn’t mind if they go to Masses, pray Rosary [#]_, wearing +devotional scapulars, anything. Why make your characters +expressly Christian, when they don’t do anything Christian-like? And I really don’t ask for some explicitly theological or missionary stories. For example, `Why Time Travel Should Be |