{"id":2699,"date":"2012-10-07T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:03:20","slug":"followup-on-tiger-lilys-death-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/10\/07\/followup-on-tiger-lilys-death-toll\/","title":{"rendered":"Followup on Tiger Lily&#8217;s death toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/688502.html\">I first wrote<\/a> about Jodi Anderson&#39;s tedious slog of a novel Tiger Lily, I predicted that Pine Sap, Disabled Stereotype Extraordinaire, was going to die.<\/p>\n<p>Now, having finished the book [give me a medal for endurance], I would like to apologize. I&#39;m sorry. I was wrong. Pine Sap does not die. Instead, he becomes Tiger Lily&#39;s Consolation Prize Husband after Peter leaves Neverland to grow up in the UK as Wendy&#39;s husband. [I&#39;m not gonna even go into how narratively <i>wrong<\/i> that is.] Pine Sap&#39;s status as Permanent Runner-up is not at all an improvement over my assumption that he would be the Tragic Dead Guy. He&#39;s still portrayed as inherently pathetic and not as awesome as Peter because of his disability.<\/p>\n<p>So guess who dies? Tik Tok. Yes, Tiger Lily&#39;s adoptive dad bites it. On insistence from a shipwrecked &quot;Englander,&quot; the Sky Eaters force Tik Tok to change his gender presentation and wear men&#39;s clothes. He loses his spirit and commits suicide as an instructive object lesson to Tiger Lily about what happens when you try to deny your true self.<\/p>\n<p>Really, Anderson? You&#39;re gonna go with the Tragic Dead Queer trope? You realize it&#39;s a fucking evil stereotype, right?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;No, apparently you don&#39;t. Boy, you really <i>do<\/i> have shit for brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first wrote about Jodi Anderson&#39;s tedious slog of a novel Tiger Lily, I predicted that Pine Sap, Disabled Stereotype Extraordinaire, was going to die. Now, having finished the book [give me a medal for endurance], I would like to apologize. I&#39;m sorry. I was wrong. Pine Sap does not die. Instead, he becomes&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/10\/07\/followup-on-tiger-lilys-death-toll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Followup on Tiger Lily&#8217;s death toll<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[696,647,656],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books-that-piss-me-off","tag-people-with-disabilities","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}