You reference Ulysses, which I've yet to read (though a classmate's creative thesis drew heavily on Joyce -- and okay I only just now got the pun -- so "yes" made me think of the hella important endword in her book and I felt like I sorta *got* the reference even though not) but I was all "Ooh, smartfic."
I haven't actually, you know, read Ulysses; everything I know about it I learned from Andrew Greeley novels. And I missed the pun until you pointed it out. Wow.
Which nicely keeps the reader from thinking too much about just how bizarre and impossible this all is
And the writer. :)
I think the biggest meta-problem with making Dawn all queer and kinky like I wanna is that dude, monks; they're gonna create wholesome normalcy; so it makes sense that dirtybadwrong would be retroactively whitewashed.
My view of the monks' spell is that I think of it as a lot less, um, intentional? than most people think of it. Like, I think the basic demographics of the person they created (girl, Buffy's sister, young) were in place, but that the magic itself drew a lot from Buffy, both physically (not to remind you of your "Gift" issues, but, you know) and also emotionally, etc -- and from the people around Buffy. I just don't think that the spell was specific enough to say, "And make a girl, and make her NOT HAVE A CRUSH ON TARA." And given that she developed a wholly canonical entirely unwholesome crush on Spike within months of being inserted, I think that writing Dawn as non-vanilla is not implausible.
And damn, it makes the whole life!rewrite even creepier than it already is.
With my obsession for remembering accurately and chronicling my life, both the Dawn-insert and the Connor-mindwipe squick me big time.
Thanks for your usual excellent level of feedbacking. Love you too. :)
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I haven't actually, you know, read Ulysses; everything I know about it I learned from Andrew Greeley novels. And I missed the pun until you pointed it out. Wow.
Which nicely keeps the reader from thinking too much about just how bizarre and impossible this all is
And the writer. :)
I think the biggest meta-problem with making Dawn all queer and kinky like I wanna is that dude, monks; they're gonna create wholesome normalcy; so it makes sense that dirtybadwrong would be retroactively whitewashed.
My view of the monks' spell is that I think of it as a lot less, um, intentional? than most people think of it. Like, I think the basic demographics of the person they created (girl, Buffy's sister, young) were in place, but that the magic itself drew a lot from Buffy, both physically (not to remind you of your "Gift" issues, but, you know) and also emotionally, etc -- and from the people around Buffy. I just don't think that the spell was specific enough to say, "And make a girl, and make her NOT HAVE A CRUSH ON TARA." And given that she developed a wholly canonical entirely unwholesome crush on Spike within months of being inserted, I think that writing Dawn as non-vanilla is not implausible.
And damn, it makes the whole life!rewrite even creepier than it already is.
With my obsession for remembering accurately and chronicling my life, both the Dawn-insert and the Connor-mindwipe squick me big time.
Thanks for your usual excellent level of feedbacking. Love you too. :)