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solradguy · 1 year ago

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I wish there were more books from a sad/angry monster's point of view like Grendel by John Gardner but every time I look for "books similar to grendel by john gardner" the lists are just a bunch of books I've already read and aren't the same as Grendel; Beowulf, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Sir Gawain & The Green Knight... Not the same... These are all heroes, show me the monster's point of view. Tell me about the agonies of Fafnir and Dracula and St George's dragon before they were murdered by the hero...

#textpost #I love a good monster. A good monster has at least a few sympathetic traits to it #Fafnir was turned into a dragon by greed and is considered evil now for it even tho for most of his story he's just lazing around treasure #Dracula is a villain because of the connection to Satan and because he needs blood to survive. Are leeches and wolves evil too?#St George's dragon did extort a village for treasure/animals and then human sacrifices and I will admit that one is actually pretty bad lol #But also the village was entirely ok with the human sacrifice compromise until a member of royalty was chosen by the dragon for sacrifice #Then suddenly it's like oh ok so this is bad now that it's someone with money huh??#Obviously there's still killing and actually bad stuff in most cases that keeps the monster from being entirely irredeemable #but it always makes me wonder that if the circumstances were different #If the monster found a way to survive without hurting humans would it still be considered a monster?

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