Oh, I know. I hang my head in shame at how much I used to love Liadan as a character, how I didn't notice the awfulness of her treatment of Niamh, and how EPIC and REDEMPTIVE I thought the love between her and Bran was.
Oh, Sara Douglass books, the historical fantasy where feminism died a brutalised, painful death. Basically, she got massively annoyed when her fans preferred the (self-sacrificing, abused) secondary heroine to her (less self-sacrificing, less abused) main heroine, and spent every other book punishing them by having every central, supposedly romantic relationship be abusive. She never presented this as healthy, but she didn't exactly condemn it either.
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Oh, I know. I hang my head in shame at how much I used to love Liadan as a character, how I didn't notice the awfulness of her treatment of Niamh, and how EPIC and REDEMPTIVE I thought the love between her and Bran was.
Oh, Sara Douglass books, the historical fantasy where feminism died a brutalised, painful death. Basically, she got massively annoyed when her fans preferred the (self-sacrificing, abused) secondary heroine to her (less self-sacrificing, less abused) main heroine, and spent every other book punishing them by having every central, supposedly romantic relationship be abusive. She never presented this as healthy, but she didn't exactly condemn it either.