First: But this... is beautiful. Hauntingly wonderful. [snip] The flow (have you noticed I'm a big fan of flow? *grin*) and imagery are enchanting.
Eee! Thanks so much!
But secondly and more generally, on the topic of Joyce (since meta=my favorite past time):
First of all, since I have a mommy!kink approximately the size of Manhatten, the fact that Joyce is a mom isn't really the kind of stumbling block I know it is for a lot of people. Also, I don't tend to identify with Buffy, so she's a mom, but not my mom, if that makes sense. If there is a character in all of fandom who's like my mom, it's Leanne Mars in Veronica Mars, and I think ficcing her sexually would be a lot harder for me than ficcing Joyce was here.
I guess with getting into Joyce's head... she *is* a mother. She will always be a mother. She has other interests and hobbies, sure, but first and foremost she will *always* be a mother. I think part of what I at least tried to do here was to eroticize motherhood? In the sense of Joyce can be and must be at the same time a mother and a sexual being, because she never stops being either.
And while it makes sense to me that we de-eroticize our own parents, it's weird that parents in general are desexualized since the act of becoming a parent is, at least biologically, sexual. And it's all so weird!
But yeah. I'm glad you enjoyed and commented, etc. :)
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Date: 2005-07-27 05:06 pm (UTC)But this... is beautiful. Hauntingly wonderful. [snip] The flow (have you noticed I'm a big fan of flow? *grin*) and imagery are enchanting.
Eee! Thanks so much!
But secondly and more generally, on the topic of Joyce (since meta=my favorite past time):
First of all, since I have a mommy!kink approximately the size of Manhatten, the fact that Joyce is a mom isn't really the kind of stumbling block I know it is for a lot of people. Also, I don't tend to identify with Buffy, so she's a mom, but not my mom, if that makes sense. If there is a character in all of fandom who's like my mom, it's Leanne Mars in Veronica Mars, and I think ficcing her sexually would be a lot harder for me than ficcing Joyce was here.
I guess with getting into Joyce's head... she *is* a mother. She will always be a mother. She has other interests and hobbies, sure, but first and foremost she will *always* be a mother. I think part of what I at least tried to do here was to eroticize motherhood? In the sense of Joyce can be and must be at the same time a mother and a sexual being, because she never stops being either.
And while it makes sense to me that we de-eroticize our own parents, it's weird that parents in general are desexualized since the act of becoming a parent is, at least biologically, sexual. And it's all so weird!
But yeah. I'm glad you enjoyed and commented, etc. :)