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attributions and memes
Feb. 19th, 2012 12:47 pmWhen I wrote last year's au_bigbangs, I vaguely referred to two other fandoms within the stories - for the lulz! - and then amused myself by stuffing as many references to as many others of mine as I could shove in. I always meant to do a proper attribution post, but just ... forgot. But now I've remembered! So here they are. (The citations are in white, so feel free to guess if it amuses you.)
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Last Words
Aug. 10th, 2010 09:22 pmAwhile back, I read a rather ... hm, peculiar essay on Pride and Prejudice. (Yes, I know. Shocking.) It argued that P&P's conclusion is sekritly subversive and anti-establishment and blah blah blah. This is nothing new, but the essay in question based its argument on the 'fact' that the last words of the book are about the many inconveniences in Darcy and Elizabeth's lives, rather than the 'happily ever after' that the misguided romantics may be expecting.
(In actuality, the last two lines of P&P are as follows:
With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.
I know. It's so edgy.)
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(In actuality, the last two lines of P&P are as follows:
With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.
I know. It's so edgy.)
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thinking about Mary Sues
Apr. 16th, 2010 07:55 amThere's a lot of discussion going on about Mary Sues, and what makes a Mary Sue, and Sue shaming and so on. I'm kind of ambivalent, or at least confused, so I have all the following thoughts about it:
-- awesome male character = badass. awesome female character (often) = Sue. Double standards at their worst.
-- wish-fulfilment is not bad. It is not necessarily good either. It can be done badly (too many things to count) or it can be done well (P&P!). I think it's easier to do badly than many things, and where a lot of us (all of us?) start. My first original character was a golden-haired, sapphire-eyed princess-healer-seeress-sorceress with the most powerful magical talent EVER HEARD OF. And she was Chosen by Fate to save the world from an alien invasion.
-- awesome male character = badass. awesome female character (often) = Sue. Double standards at their worst.
-- wish-fulfilment is not bad. It is not necessarily good either. It can be done badly (too many things to count) or it can be done well (P&P!). I think it's easier to do badly than many things, and where a lot of us (all of us?) start. My first original character was a golden-haired, sapphire-eyed princess-healer-seeress-sorceress with the most powerful magical talent EVER HEARD OF. And she was Chosen by Fate to save the world from an alien invasion.
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