I sort of felt like that was at least a bit better than most people attempting similar ideas at the same time?
I wish I knew more about how other people were writing disability at the time. I'm not sure if Evil Cripple was a cliche in 1935. I kinda assume it was because this stuff doesn't come out of nowhere, but all the references I can find for the trope have to do with things that came along later.
The Undies! So CREEPY. Eeew.
He very often seems like he's putting on his love for women - not that there's reason to doubt that he thinks various women are hot, but kind of like he's mentioning it because he feels he should, or expressing it a certain way because he thinks that's how he should express it.
Yes! I really notice that with his xenophobic comments as well. He goes on about foreigners and all the while he lives with Wolfe and Fritz. Hi Archie, contradiction much? (did this come up when we were talking about Fer-de-Lance? I remember talking about it with somebody.) Sometimes it seems as though Archie says the things that he expects himself to say even though the words don't actually mesh up with his actions. Really, Archie Goodwin is a lot stranger than Archie Goodwin is willing to admit.
As for women...I don't think there ever was a woman, or even another man, that excited Archie the way Wolfe does. When people from other fandoms find out that I'm into slash about the two of them, a lot of people assume that it's all about Wolfe lusting after Archie. Yes, Wolfe loves Archie, but Archie finds Wolfe absolutely compelling. I doubt he could take his eyes off Wolfe long enough to fall in love with a woman. Seriously, he notices women for the time it takes them to sit in the red leather chair, and then he's back to going on about what Wolfe's lips are doing, and what Wolfe's hands are doing, and what Wolfe's eyes are doing, and whether Wolfe is moving his head in a 1/16th of an inch nod.
It seemed to me like Archie takes the relapses quite seriously; he's not like "and we got him assessed by a doctor" about it, but he never as far as I know/noticed made any "aaand Wolfe should just snap out of it the big baby" kind of comments either.
Archie is pretty clear about the fact that he doesn't coddle Wolfe through them. While Wolfe was eating the 10lb Goose, Archie sat in the corner with a ham sandwich and glared at him. He doesn't have a "snap out of it, you big baby" attitude...it's more like he accepts it as another aspect of Wolfe's eccentricity that must be contended with, so he tries to goad Wolfe out of it, much like he goads Wolfe into working.
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I wish I knew more about how other people were writing disability at the time. I'm not sure if Evil Cripple was a cliche in 1935. I kinda assume it was because this stuff doesn't come out of nowhere, but all the references I can find for the trope have to do with things that came along later.
The Undies! So CREEPY. Eeew.
He very often seems like he's putting on his love for women - not that there's reason to doubt that he thinks various women are hot, but kind of like he's mentioning it because he feels he should, or expressing it a certain way because he thinks that's how he should express it.
Yes! I really notice that with his xenophobic comments as well. He goes on about foreigners and all the while he lives with Wolfe and Fritz. Hi Archie, contradiction much? (did this come up when we were talking about Fer-de-Lance? I remember talking about it with somebody.) Sometimes it seems as though Archie says the things that he expects himself to say even though the words don't actually mesh up with his actions. Really, Archie Goodwin is a lot stranger than Archie Goodwin is willing to admit.
As for women...I don't think there ever was a woman, or even another man, that excited Archie the way Wolfe does. When people from other fandoms find out that I'm into slash about the two of them, a lot of people assume that it's all about Wolfe lusting after Archie. Yes, Wolfe loves Archie, but Archie finds Wolfe absolutely compelling. I doubt he could take his eyes off Wolfe long enough to fall in love with a woman. Seriously, he notices women for the time it takes them to sit in the red leather chair, and then he's back to going on about what Wolfe's lips are doing, and what Wolfe's hands are doing, and what Wolfe's eyes are doing, and whether Wolfe is moving his head in a 1/16th of an inch nod.
It seemed to me like Archie takes the relapses quite seriously; he's not like "and we got him assessed by a doctor" about it, but he never as far as I know/noticed made any "aaand Wolfe should just snap out of it the big baby" kind of comments either.
Archie is pretty clear about the fact that he doesn't coddle Wolfe through them. While Wolfe was eating the 10lb Goose, Archie sat in the corner with a ham sandwich and glared at him. He doesn't have a "snap out of it, you big baby" attitude...it's more like he accepts it as another aspect of Wolfe's eccentricity that must be contended with, so he tries to goad Wolfe out of it, much like he goads Wolfe into working.