{"id":3247,"date":"2019-05-22T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T08:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T08:30:29","slug":"handle-with-care-the-paranormal-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"handle with care; the paranormal edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3248\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/hwc-the-paranormal-edition.png\" alt=\"hwc the paranormal edition\" width=\"1010\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not sure whether I&#8217;ve gotten the right definition of the paranormal, but I&#8217;m going to take another shot at it. We&#8217;ve got a mix of science-fiction and fantasy in here, and those are my favourite genres. But even I have to admit that sometimes there are aspects I do not mesh well with.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3249 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/the-starbound-trilogy2.jpg\" alt=\"the starbound trilogy2\" width=\"520\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People consider <strong>aliens<\/strong> to be part of the paranormal, thanks I think, to <em>The X-Files<\/em>. I have not read a lot of books with alien beings, and the ones that I have, well. Most of the time, alien beings are meant to parallel real world situations and people. Most of the time, it is either done too lightly. If you want to parallel real life, it should not reinforce the status quo but question it, and subvert it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Immortality<\/strong> can be done well, but mostly we get vampire stories, and those usually wind up romanticising the vampires. I am still waiting on a more comedy story on immortals (<em>What We Do In The Shadows<\/em> needs many companion books, thanks), but in the meantime, I am taking a lot of recommendations as well.<\/li>\n<li>Stories about <strong>deities<\/strong>, especially the more diverse ones coming out are rife with worldbuilding that is fascinating. But there are still times when these stories either build up the gods and goddesses too much and then fail to deliver on them. Or the system is not built up enough, and everything falls apart on further inspection. But ones like <em>Children Of Blood And Bone<\/em> by Tomi Adeyemi and <em>Empire Of Sand<\/em> by Tasha Suri balance having deities with their mortal counterparts very well, and we need more of that in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3250 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/empire-of-sand.jpg\" alt=\"empire of sand\" width=\"520\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am always going to be taking recommendations, so if you have some good ones for these broad topics, as always, feel free to send them my way.<\/p>\n<p>What are your favourite aspects of the paranormal? Do you have a favourite paranormal story?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3053\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer.png\" alt=\"footer\" width=\"1010\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer.png 1010w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer-768x304.png 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer-600x238.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3051\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post.jpg\" alt=\"pin this post\" width=\"1010\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post-300x15.jpg 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post-768x38.jpg 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post-600x30.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3251 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/hwc-the-paranormal-edition-pin-200x300.png\" alt=\"hwc the paranormal edition pin\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still not sure whether I&#8217;ve gotten the right definition of the paranormal, but I&#8217;m going to take another shot at it. We&#8217;ve got a mix of science-fiction and fantasy in here, and those are my favourite genres. But even I have to admit that sometimes there are aspects I do not mesh well with. People consider aliens to be part of the paranormal, thanks I think, to The X-Files. I have not read a lot of books with alien beings, and the ones that I have, well. Most of the time, alien beings are meant to parallel real world situations and people. Most of the time, it is either done too lightly. If you want to parallel real life, it should not reinforce the status quo but question it, and subvert it. Immortality can be done well, but mostly we get vampire stories, and those usually wind up romanticising the vampires. I am still waiting on a more comedy story on immortals (What We Do In The Shadows needs many companion books, thanks), but in the meantime, I am taking a lot of recommendations as well. Stories about deities, especially the more diverse ones coming out are rife with worldbuilding that is fascinating. But there are still times when these stories either build up the gods and goddesses too much and then fail to deliver on them. Or the system is not built up enough, and everything falls apart on further inspection. But ones like Children Of Blood And Bone by Tomi Adeyemi and Empire Of Sand by Tasha Suri balance having deities with their mortal counterparts very well, and we need more of that in the world. I am always going to be taking recommendations, so if you have some good ones for these broad topics, as always, feel free to send them my way. What are your favourite aspects of the paranormal? Do you have a favourite paranormal story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331],"tags":[332,581,629,59],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handle-with-care","tag-handle-with-care","tag-handle-with-care-the-paranormal-edition","tag-the-paranormal-edition","tag-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}