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Author: InsomniacWeasel

Nov 18th 2011 at 1:16:05 AM

* Here's a drinking game to play while reading "HunchbackTheLurching", a fan gameline for the WorldOfDarkness: take a shot whenever the Hump is described as "Cancerous", "Malignant" or "Tumorous". Just don't blame me when you lose your liver.

* Elizabeta from the manga GunslingerGirl was a young Russian ballerina who developed bone cancer in her teenage years because she spent a period of her childhood in an area of the Ukraine that was heavily affected by the Chernobyl incident. Due to the generally primitive state of public healthcare in ex-USSR areas, the cancer is not contained properly and by the time Elizabeta arrives in Italy for further treatment, the doctors decide that the best bet would be to amputate her leg before the cancer spreads. Realizing that she will never be able to dance again, Elizabeta tries to kill herself ([[{{Understatement}} it's not a very happy manga]]). This is remarkable because of all the other girls' backstories, this one is the second most detailed (by far) and the most often referenced (usually by people expressing pity over the poor, poor girl with the cancer), while the stories of girls who were nearly murdered, mutilated by car accidents, raped or born with horrific disfigurements get barely a line. The only story that gets more screen time than Elizabeta's is of the girl who was ''used as a living prop in snuff porn films.''