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Admittedly, I haven't gotten very far into the novel version of 'Silence of the Lambs', but seeing the film(s) I had the strong impression that he was set up as, well, at least an antihero of sorts. But that the audience was - to a degree - invited to identify. Which, admittedly, made me pretty uneasy, but that's not saying it shouldn't be done just because of that. Or (you've seen 'Gladiator', right?) inviting quite a bit of the bloodthirstiness it condemned on the surface in the viewer...
The great advantage of fandom is that I *don't* have to censor myself :). And well, of course some things may be offensive to others - but would I stop following my political convictions just because someone else might not like them? Not likely. For me, one of the fun things about writing the dark stuff is *that* it gives me a quirky look into my own subconsciousness. Though I'm not sure how far it goes - I may enjoy to go very dark in writing, but it's still not remotely *me* - just things to play with... Which may not make sense :(.
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Admittedly, I haven't gotten very far into the novel version of 'Silence of the Lambs', but seeing the film(s) I had the strong impression that he was set up as, well, at least an antihero of sorts. But that the audience was - to a degree - invited to identify. Which, admittedly, made me pretty uneasy, but that's not saying it shouldn't be done just because of that. Or (you've seen 'Gladiator', right?) inviting quite a bit of the bloodthirstiness it condemned on the surface in the viewer...
The great advantage of fandom is that I *don't* have to censor myself :). And well, of course some things may be offensive to others - but would I stop following my political convictions just because someone else might not like them? Not likely. For me, one of the fun things about writing the dark stuff is *that* it gives me a quirky look into my own subconsciousness. Though I'm not sure how far it goes - I may enjoy to go very dark in writing, but it's still not remotely *me* - just things to play with... Which may not make sense :(.