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clevermanka) wrote2020-06-14 10:15 am
clevermanka) wrote2020-06-14 10:15 am
Entry tags:
Sunday Snippet, et. al.
Guardian/adjacent:
I am w-e-a-k for angry Zhu Yilong in any role.
Fanart: Just five more minutes. Kneeling together in the rain. Sleepytime.
They fall more in love as you scroll.
I have a TON of art thatnaye sent me, but I've already gone over my allotted social media time after catching up on reading, Tumblr, and typing out the below so I'll get to those later this week.
Several years ago I met Lori Morimoto at 221B Con. What with my own caution navigating a new con (I try to be careful in unfamiliar spaces--I know I can be large and loud) and her quiet nature meant we didn't really spend much time interacting but I thought she was just the coolest. Doing some digging on fandom and race stuff of course brought me to her Twitter and I found a couple very good threads. The first isn't really a thread--it's a link to a slide show of a presentation. This one struck me because I, too, watched Yuri on Ice and at the end thought "soooooooo... are they?" and chalked it up to cultural interpretation without really putting much thought into it because it didn't really affect my enjoyment of the show (I was interested to see that, according to Lori's analysis, I sorta walked the line between an American and Japanese fan). The other is her thread on the presence of a tag for slavery in a fic.
I also found this article that focuses on academia but can and should! be easily transferred to a fandom (or friend!) context.
And now for writing-related stuff! I didn't do this with Ghost Story because I had a much better grip on where I was going with that story and how I was going to get there, but I totally diagrammed Deconstruction like this. My friend Tessa does it for characters, too, which I think is a fantastic idea, especially for fic that has more of an ensemble cast than focusing on just the two main leads.
And now, a snippet from Deconstruction in which Shen Wei is having a painful conversation with Zhu Hong:
How could he explain? How could she possibly understand the depths of his failings, his inability to act in ways that didn’t ultimately harm any who came too close? She might be a leader, but she hadn’t lost thousands of tribe members due to ineptitude and poor decisions. Her friends and cousins had fallen at the hands of someone Shen Wei had misguidedly left alive. Didn’t she hate him for that? Could she not grasp the simple fact that Shen Wei didn’t deserve happiness? Taking a deep breath, he gathered strength to speak painful truth.
I am w-e-a-k for angry Zhu Yilong in any role.
Fanart: Just five more minutes. Kneeling together in the rain. Sleepytime.
They fall more in love as you scroll.
I have a TON of art that
naye sent me, but I've already gone over my allotted social media time after catching up on reading, Tumblr, and typing out the below so I'll get to those later this week. Several years ago I met Lori Morimoto at 221B Con. What with my own caution navigating a new con (I try to be careful in unfamiliar spaces--I know I can be large and loud) and her quiet nature meant we didn't really spend much time interacting but I thought she was just the coolest. Doing some digging on fandom and race stuff of course brought me to her Twitter and I found a couple very good threads. The first isn't really a thread--it's a link to a slide show of a presentation. This one struck me because I, too, watched Yuri on Ice and at the end thought "soooooooo... are they?" and chalked it up to cultural interpretation without really putting much thought into it because it didn't really affect my enjoyment of the show (I was interested to see that, according to Lori's analysis, I sorta walked the line between an American and Japanese fan). The other is her thread on the presence of a tag for slavery in a fic.
I also found this article that focuses on academia but can and should! be easily transferred to a fandom (or friend!) context.
And now for writing-related stuff! I didn't do this with Ghost Story because I had a much better grip on where I was going with that story and how I was going to get there, but I totally diagrammed Deconstruction like this. My friend Tessa does it for characters, too, which I think is a fantastic idea, especially for fic that has more of an ensemble cast than focusing on just the two main leads.
And now, a snippet from Deconstruction in which Shen Wei is having a painful conversation with Zhu Hong:
How could he explain? How could she possibly understand the depths of his failings, his inability to act in ways that didn’t ultimately harm any who came too close? She might be a leader, but she hadn’t lost thousands of tribe members due to ineptitude and poor decisions. Her friends and cousins had fallen at the hands of someone Shen Wei had misguidedly left alive. Didn’t she hate him for that? Could she not grasp the simple fact that Shen Wei didn’t deserve happiness? Taking a deep breath, he gathered strength to speak painful truth.