I can see you giving advice now: "Put more 'I will watch your back' in, Rachel loves that sort of thing. Also, make the food descriptions longer and more detailed."
You seem to be making two incompatible arguments: (1) Show me where Brekke was raped (2) Every dragonrider had unforeseen sexual encounters. I'd suggest you pick one.
Pern is a created culture; as such, its biases are the choices of the author, not inherent in reality. Pern is in many ways more classist and sexist than, for instance, the real European medieval period, in which non-ruling-class people could rise to power, and further in which many women held substantial power.
In any case, how does it diminish your enjoyment of Pern if another reader of Pern sees flaws in the work and would like to see fanfic address them?
Re: Perngreen_knightDecember 19 2010, 12:44:32 UTC
Pern is in many ways more classist and sexist than, for instance, the real European medieval period
Absolutely. Pern has no cities for people to run away to, no territorial expansion (internal or external) where people were needed and nobody cared too much about their heritage. If you were born a drudge, well, tough.
In any case, how does it diminish your enjoyment of Pern if another reader of Pern sees flaws in the work and would like to see fanfic address them?
I think that's a pretty obvious mechanism: Someone is saying 'hey, this thing you enjoy so much? Its flaws, let me show you them.' And when you've loved something unconditionally and maybe even dreamt of being part of it admitting that there's an elephant in the room (and an ugly one, too) is uncomfortable.
Mature adults go 'shit, I never saw this' and engage with their own attitudes. Others, well...
What is with you? No wonder you're anon; you'd be banned from the challenge if you weren't. And so you should be. You don't flame Yulegoat letters. Rant on your own journal in your own time if you must. But trolling? Really? Classy.
I was poking around the yuletide letters and I just wanted to say YES to everything you've said here about Mirrim and McCaffery and the way she changed the Pern stories.
Heh. I was putting off reading these until I'd finished my story, but now the archive is swamped, so I'm going to bookmark them and read them when AO3 is a little less, um, overwhelmed.
The summaries look great, though, and I'm going to read a bunch of your other stories as well.
(In other news, Hi, great to meet you, I'm Stasia.)
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Pern is a created culture; as such, its biases are the choices of the author, not inherent in reality. Pern is in many ways more classist and sexist than, for instance, the real European medieval period, in which non-ruling-class people could rise to power, and further in which many women held substantial power.
In any case, how does it diminish your enjoyment of Pern if another reader of Pern sees flaws in the work and would like to see fanfic address them?
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Absolutely. Pern has no cities for people to run away to, no territorial expansion (internal or external) where people were needed and nobody cared too much about their heritage. If you were born a drudge, well, tough.
In any case, how does it diminish your enjoyment of Pern if another reader of Pern sees flaws in the work and would like to see fanfic address them?
I think that's a pretty obvious mechanism: Someone is saying 'hey, this thing you enjoy so much? Its flaws, let me show you them.' And when you've loved something unconditionally and maybe even dreamt of being part of it admitting that there's an elephant in the room (and an ugly one, too) is uncomfortable.
Mature adults go 'shit, I never saw this' and engage with their own attitudes. Others, well...
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The summaries look great, though, and I'm going to read a bunch of your other stories as well.
(In other news, Hi, great to meet you, I'm Stasia.)
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