• (ReacTor) Five SFF Stories About Making Amends

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 26 10:21:30 2025
    Five SFF Stories About Making Amends

    People adopt very different strategies when it comes to making
    up for mistakes.

    https://reactormag.com/five-sff-stories-about-making-amends/
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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jul 1 15:37:10 2025
    In article <1040hbd$2qi5k$[email protected]>,
    Tony Nance <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 6/26/25 10:21 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five SFF Stories About Making Amends

    People adopt very different strategies when it comes to making
    up for mistakes.

    https://reactormag.com/five-sff-stories-about-making-amends/

    After some days of on-and-off thinking, the only halfway decent example
    I can add is our favorite guilt-driven angst-ridden wizard, Harry Dresden.

    I believe there are 17 novels in the series so far, and he spends most
    of the middle 15 of them[1] blaming himself for just about
    everything.[2] These aren't book-long angst-fests, but when they crop up
    it can be annoying.

    Tony

    [1] I kid, I kid. But it is definitely prominent in roughly 6-7 books in
    the middle - starting around Dead Beat or Proven Guilty and then pretty >consistently through Ghost Story.

    [2] To be fair, a very small number of those things are indeed his fault.

    Reminds me of a youtube skit about getting your "Southern Card", something like:

    Well, North Dakota's a stretch, but you've already apologized
    three times for things that aren't your fault, so we're just
    gonna let you in...

    Not written, but Xena's whole character arc from s1e01 through s6e22
    is guilt ridden expiation.
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 20 00:35:46 2025
    On 1 Jul 2025 15:37:10 GMT, [email protected] (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
    wrote:

    Reminds me of a youtube skit about getting your "Southern Card", something >like:

    Well, North Dakota's a stretch, but you've already apologized
    three times for things that aren't your fault, so we're just
    gonna let you in...

    In that quote was the speaker admitted to the Deep South or to Canada?
    (I could well imagine either one and of course ND is much closer to
    Canada than the South)

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