Everything Changes and thus a Rebrand, It’s The Hunch Now

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Welcome to “The Hunch” because I can’t change the URL

This blog launched in late 2010 as “The Hunchblog of Notre Dame”. Originally intended to discuss, analyze, and review adaptations of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I had gotten into the novel about a year prior to the blog’s launch when I randomly watched Belle from Notre Dame de Paris on youtube. It was intriguing enough that I watched the rest of the musical that day. 

From there I read the book, and watched any of the movie versions I could get my hands on. This is very on track for me since I did the something with The Phantom of the Opera a few years prior.

 The original intent was that I would review the Hunchback works and move on to something else but I didn’t. Instead I have kept going and very early in the blog’s life I was reviewing other works like the Disney Sequels, Fairy-Tale/Fantasy movies, the entirely of the main show of  Once Upon a Time, and more recently Netflix’s Wednesday.

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This a small but a very important update regarding  posts moving forward. 

In the past I have tried to separate the word usage of Romani and the Romani characters in Hugo’s novel and various adaptations of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. My thought was that for the collective group of  people I would use “Romani” and when referencing characters like Esmeralda I used the word that  the adaptations and Hugo’s novel often used. 

I no longer feel it is appropriate to use the “G-word” in this or any capacity anymore and I will just not be using that term in any posts moving forward. I will just call any Romani character as such.  (Edit- the words I will use will be either “Travelers” or “Nomads.” )

I was on the fence about using the term  for direct quotes like if I was quoting a lyric like from Hellfire  for example but I think I will censor the word if I’m quoting something.  Which I don’t often do but could come up. 

This also extends to any and all Facebook and Twitter posts I make and Hubpages articles I write on Hunchback. The point of the matter is I will just no longer use that derogatory word again in blogging, a social media capacity or in my daily life. 

I don’t know if  I will edit past posts at this point but I might. The possibility exists. I have been editing my Hubpages articles that are Hunchback in content albeit slowly. 

I’m making this post for transparency. It’s  not for “kudos”or to show that I’m a oh so enlightened white person. It’s a hateful, ignorant word and shouldn’t be used. No one can change how the word was used in past versions or the book but we can move beyond it.

I’m not a filmmaker so I don’ know how future versions will handle using that word but I do hope they air on the understanding side with regards to the Romani.

(Regarding Comments, in the past I have kept them turned off due to mental health issues. I’m allowing them right now on this post for the moment (3 months as I have the setting on right now.) I really don’t think I will get any comments since the blog has been in a state of hiatus since 2019. If you do leave a comment be respectful. I will delete and ban any troll/out-right rude comments.