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wisdomeagle) wrote2005-08-24 11:23 am
wisdomeagle) wrote2005-08-24 11:23 am
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some (mostly fannish) tidbits.
1. am typing up the headers for ficlets, and one of them, the one where the whole crew of Serenity gets married? I'm typing, "Grouping: Mal/Zoe/Kaylee/Fre--" wait a second. Fred's not in this fic! I am so pathetic, I am.
2. Archiving drabbles. Do they get full headers? Cos, sometimes? That would make the header longer than the fic. Should each drabble get its own page, or should they be archived in batches? Many of my drabbles come in batches, but many don't. I guess they should be arranged by fandom/pairing, maybe? Stupid frelling work.
3. due South. I think by virtue of watching S1, and doing so slowly, savoring it, I'm going to find myself 180 degrees from the rest of fandom re: Rays, amn't I?
4. *waves to new friends "Library Science" earned me*
5. Re: the BSC. Something that annoys me is the implication (or more like the anvil!characterization) that Kristy (and Mary Anne) are "baby-ish" "immature" and "less grown up" because they don't care about boys or clothes. I mean, frankly, you don't get much more mature than Kristy at that age. She's responsible, she's smart, she's an organizer and a leader, she's very good with people, and so what if she wears jeans and a turtle neck everyday? That doesn't make her less mature.
Now. I think that Ann and possibly even her staff realize this. I think that they understand that their narrators are biased and don't understand what true maturity means. Which is okay. And I'm torn. Because on the one hand, we have biased narrators, which is A+, stylistically. On the other hand, we have books intended for kids my sister's age and younger, who aren't necessarily sensitive to the complexity of narrative bias, and are reading these things voraciously and getting the message pounded home, "If you don't care about how you look, you are babyish and immature. If you aren't interested in boys, you will be soon enough, when you grow up a little more."
I'm so torn! Because authorial freedom is obviously very important and Ann should write whatever she damn well wants to write without worrying about the precious egos of pre-teen girls -- although I wonder if there are special... not rules, but standards? for kid!lit. On the other hand? The BSC certainly started as a labor of love, but past a certain point, it wasn't even Ann any more. I think when your staff is ghost-writing your best-selling series, the question of artistic integrity is sort of a moot point. (Now, I don't begrudge Ann her ghost-writers. I'm just saying that perhaps it changes the context of the discussion a bit.
I guess this is something that was metafandomed fairly recently, about authorial responsibility? But I feel that because it's a kids' series, perhaps there should be different standards? But that doesn't seem fair to me either! And the fact that there's a moral in every book and it's not exactly subtle... ack! Someone help me resolve this dilemma.
2. Archiving drabbles. Do they get full headers? Cos, sometimes? That would make the header longer than the fic. Should each drabble get its own page, or should they be archived in batches? Many of my drabbles come in batches, but many don't. I guess they should be arranged by fandom/pairing, maybe? Stupid frelling work.
3. due South. I think by virtue of watching S1, and doing so slowly, savoring it, I'm going to find myself 180 degrees from the rest of fandom re: Rays, amn't I?
4. *waves to new friends "Library Science" earned me*
5. Re: the BSC. Something that annoys me is the implication (or more like the anvil!characterization) that Kristy (and Mary Anne) are "baby-ish" "immature" and "less grown up" because they don't care about boys or clothes. I mean, frankly, you don't get much more mature than Kristy at that age. She's responsible, she's smart, she's an organizer and a leader, she's very good with people, and so what if she wears jeans and a turtle neck everyday? That doesn't make her less mature.
Now. I think that Ann and possibly even her staff realize this. I think that they understand that their narrators are biased and don't understand what true maturity means. Which is okay. And I'm torn. Because on the one hand, we have biased narrators, which is A+, stylistically. On the other hand, we have books intended for kids my sister's age and younger, who aren't necessarily sensitive to the complexity of narrative bias, and are reading these things voraciously and getting the message pounded home, "If you don't care about how you look, you are babyish and immature. If you aren't interested in boys, you will be soon enough, when you grow up a little more."
I'm so torn! Because authorial freedom is obviously very important and Ann should write whatever she damn well wants to write without worrying about the precious egos of pre-teen girls -- although I wonder if there are special... not rules, but standards? for kid!lit. On the other hand? The BSC certainly started as a labor of love, but past a certain point, it wasn't even Ann any more. I think when your staff is ghost-writing your best-selling series, the question of artistic integrity is sort of a moot point. (Now, I don't begrudge Ann her ghost-writers. I'm just saying that perhaps it changes the context of the discussion a bit.
I guess this is something that was metafandomed fairly recently, about authorial responsibility? But I feel that because it's a kids' series, perhaps there should be different standards? But that doesn't seem fair to me either! And the fact that there's a moral in every book and it's not exactly subtle... ack! Someone help me resolve this dilemma.