Anya ,'Touched'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
there's also a scene where Elsie tells some little black children that, in heaven, they'll be white
I'd forgotten that last. Did Elsie actually use the words "light and delightsome", or did she avoid the Mormon phrasing of that particular bit of folk racism?
[Connie X-post]
Mormon bigotry x-post!
I have big huge DDL love - the author seems very aware of the potential for creepiness, as does DLL himself; he goes to the trouble to go to her school and meet her properly so they can know each other in real life and it won't be one-sided or mostly imaginary. And, of course, her letters are whip-smart and snarky about the unthinking privilege of religious leaders and teachers and rich people, and at one point she decides she's going to become a socialist, spends the weekend researching which kind is best, and sends DDL a letter beginning, "Hooray! I'm a Fabian!"
I mean, really. Who wouldn't fall in love with her?
I am not surprised that Jilli loved Night Circus. The first chapter just sounds like her.
I want to LIVE in that book. I want more stories in that world, and am a little sad that the author has said she's not going to write a sequel.
Woah. Amazon just put Harry Potter in the Kindle lending library. [link]
According to Elsie, Mormons were dangerous, were certainly not Christian, and were tricking innocent young girls into entering polygamous marriages. There was one book where some of Elsie's kids and grandkids went out west to visit a mine or something that one of them had inherited, and they saved some girl from the Mormons.
The part about everybody being white in heaven was just one thing in a mostly unremarkable list of ways that heaven would be wonderful. Like, nobody's hungry, and there's no sickness, and everybody's white, and the angels sing all day. It was even odder for the way it was just thrown in there, like of course, everybody would see this as a good thing.
It was even odder for the way it was just thrown in there, like of course, everybody would see this as a good thing.
What's the point of having white privilege if it doesn't extend into the afterlife?
I wonder if, since everyone's white, white privilege would still be valid. Or would it come down to white, whiter, whitest? (sorry ... my brain's fried from answering stupid questions)
I wonder if, since everyone's white, white privilege would still be valid.
More like in Heaven everybody's privileged to be white.