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yuletide authors were revealed.
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franzeska. It seems to have been well-loved. In fact I think I've gotten more feedback and recs for it than any other single piece of writing ever, which has been giving me much-needed warm fuzzies for the past week. So, formula for sucessful short fic: Write anonymous g-rated slash about ugly cranky old guys, one of whom is canonically dead, for a fandom which doesn't exist; sprinkle the fic and especially the summary liberally with typos, and have people visualize the principles as Goofy and McDuck. Don't reply to feedback.
I was given a nummy, basically un-shippy Good Omens fic, The Best Christmas Ever, with much Whore of Babylonishness, byfox1013 which I wish to thank her for again, now that I know who she is. (The requested pairing, btw, was Shadwell/Tracy. bwahah.)
Lots of other good stuff; go look up your fandoms or semi-fandoms. Almost tempted to break with tradition and actually post recs, but really, there's not that many, and they're all good, and b'sides, it's too late. I scanned down the new year's list. I don't see offhand anything I could write, but y'never know. And I want want want to see someone do the Methos/Aziraphale which was requested. WANT.
I'm being a combination bemused/disquieted over the debate that's going on about the Sherlock Holmes submission The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland, not the least because it was written by my recipient. It's a question of racism and racial perceptions; the sticky question of whether stereotyping is justified if you're writing in a milieu and POV that is authentically prejudiced. I bring this up particularly because someone wondered "whether I'd be quite so complacent if it had been, say, an evil money-grubbing Jewish villain at the heart of the story instead." (of a Balinese terrorist) And, um, yeah. I did that in my story. Well, sorta, I don't as a rule do 'evil' characters or villains, but I didn't even think about the problems of the 'Jewish userer' stereotype until after I'd posted the story. That's what I get for posting at two in the morning. And I'd like to think the reason it didn't occur to me is that it didn't even cross my mind-- I had other, plottish reasons for turning the character Jewish-- but I'm fairly sure it did affect my decision, and the literary stereotype is just so internalized for me that I simply saw it is an opportunity to play with cliche and missed the PC-ness aspects entirely.
I mean, I merely find it hilarious when people play off the Keillorish Lutheran stereotypes, and revel in being descended from chicken farmers in the Outhouse of Maryland, and not only enjoy but write wifey heroines, but I realize that really is different in kind. And certainly I don't apply that stereotype to real people, any more than I have any clue what lutefisk is. But to shy away from those issues in literature is weasel writing of the worst sort. Gah. Curse my liberal upbringing. Take this as my wimpy apology to anyone who might possibly have been (although hopefully wasn't) offended.
yuletide authors were revealed.I wrote the Christmas Carol one-- The One Thing More Ridiculous-- for
franzeska. It seems to have been well-loved. In fact I think I've gotten more feedback and recs for it than any other single piece of writing ever, which has been giving me much-needed warm fuzzies for the past week. So, formula for sucessful short fic: Write anonymous g-rated slash about ugly cranky old guys, one of whom is canonically dead, for a fandom which doesn't exist; sprinkle the fic and especially the summary liberally with typos, and have people visualize the principles as Goofy and McDuck. Don't reply to feedback.I was given a nummy, basically un-shippy Good Omens fic, The Best Christmas Ever, with much Whore of Babylonishness, by
fox1013 which I wish to thank her for again, now that I know who she is. (The requested pairing, btw, was Shadwell/Tracy. bwahah.)Lots of other good stuff; go look up your fandoms or semi-fandoms. Almost tempted to break with tradition and actually post recs, but really, there's not that many, and they're all good, and b'sides, it's too late. I scanned down the new year's list. I don't see offhand anything I could write, but y'never know. And I want want want to see someone do the Methos/Aziraphale which was requested. WANT.
I'm being a combination bemused/disquieted over the debate that's going on about the Sherlock Holmes submission The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland, not the least because it was written by my recipient. It's a question of racism and racial perceptions; the sticky question of whether stereotyping is justified if you're writing in a milieu and POV that is authentically prejudiced. I bring this up particularly because someone wondered "whether I'd be quite so complacent if it had been, say, an evil money-grubbing Jewish villain at the heart of the story instead." (of a Balinese terrorist) And, um, yeah. I did that in my story. Well, sorta, I don't as a rule do 'evil' characters or villains, but I didn't even think about the problems of the 'Jewish userer' stereotype until after I'd posted the story. That's what I get for posting at two in the morning. And I'd like to think the reason it didn't occur to me is that it didn't even cross my mind-- I had other, plottish reasons for turning the character Jewish-- but I'm fairly sure it did affect my decision, and the literary stereotype is just so internalized for me that I simply saw it is an opportunity to play with cliche and missed the PC-ness aspects entirely.
I mean, I merely find it hilarious when people play off the Keillorish Lutheran stereotypes, and revel in being descended from chicken farmers in the Outhouse of Maryland, and not only enjoy but write wifey heroines, but I realize that really is different in kind. And certainly I don't apply that stereotype to real people, any more than I have any clue what lutefisk is. But to shy away from those issues in literature is weasel writing of the worst sort. Gah. Curse my liberal upbringing. Take this as my wimpy apology to anyone who might possibly have been (although hopefully wasn't) offended.