I've thought about this a lot. Help isn't help if you do it because you don't trust someone else to succeed. If someone asks you, that's one thing, but rescuing someone is only necessary if you think they're too weak to help themselves. OR not able to do things the way YOU would want to do them. Sometimes people really are in need of a hand-up and won't ask for it. It's hard to say that nobody should step in at those times. However, if that person really is strong enough to succeed on there own, it's almost a disservice to them if a rescue attempt is made. It prevents them from achieving something on their own terms.
Bah. I'm not saying it very well, but it's important. At least, in my experience. It was a hard lesson to learn.
Listen to "I'm Standing in the Way" in the Buffy Musical "Once More, with Feeling." He says it much better than me. In song!
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Heh, all you had to mention was the song, and I totally understand what you mean.
Oh, uh, long time reader, first time comment. And I love the blogs just as much as the comic.
I really like how this paged turned out! Rock on! Hans has to be my favorite character! He's just so silly but it's all for looove!
That song agrees with what you trying to say though I understood what you was trying to say before hearing the song. and I love how Brand look in this strip.
I just read a bit about the true Sleeping Beauty story, and thought I'd share, because the first thing I thought of was these last two pages:
"In the Disney sleeping beauty, the lovely princess is put to sleep when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She sleeps for one hundred years when a prince finally arrives, kisses her, and awakens her. They fall in love, marry, and (surprise surprise) live happily ever after. But alas, the original tale is not so sweet (in fact, you have to read this to believe it.) In the original, the young woman is put to sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss of a prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids."
Yeah...I'd heard there were versions with sex as the wake-up requirement...but...well...the full story is new.
And creepy.
Thanks for sharing...I think? Yes...
Guh. I wonder what that would mean in Jungian terms? New creation frees the imprisoned feminine, but the masculine is obviously not taking a positive role here, even though he is somewhat responsible for the eventual awakening...
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