It's all 'cos of the movies. There was a Narnia fandom before, but then LWW came out and the fandom grew a little more, but PC brought on the real second wave. Because it was wildly different from the books, it brought on a wildly different strain of fans, and now here we all are, being all invested and emotional and dorky about it. lol big claims about Narnia, THAT IS ALL I AM DOING HERE. XD
trufax, the Pevensies never get to return to anything. Return is the TRAGIC LIE. All Pevensies do is move forward ever onward!
POSTNARNIA. OH MY PANZER WE ARE TOTALLY THAT KID omg lolz <3333333 \o/
When the Gilead article talks about the reader/audience, it totally sounds like she's talking about Susan, which was how I got the idea. And hey why not, because if Susan is the reader, and I identify with Susan, AND I'm also the one writing the essay, then HEY trifecta! Everything is a symbol for everything else, and SUBJECTIVITY IS A LIE and apparently not an option here hahahaha. But we won't tell my professor. But somehow the paper would be Susan's observations on herself as she reads the story of her life. IS THAT MY PAPER OR IS IT FIC? This class is a total trip.
I don't know about the story of Merlin itself, because I think if I were going to take on the Arthurian legends, I'd have to account for the billions of retellings. I am no Arthurian scholar. But what IS interesting is Merlin fandom itself! How the fandom becomes an arena for the reclamation/discussion of the subaltern! I have never been in a fandom like Merlin before. I'm just like O_O sometimes! On top of everything else, everyone is so hyperaware (or at least hyperconcerned) of the race/gender implications in the narrative, and everyone is all about EMPOWERMENT. I mean, you wanna talk about emotional investment? Everybody wants to write empowering stories with happy payoffs all the effing time! Seriously, before 'Merlin' came along, my default writing mood was ~dark~, but then 'Merlin' fandom came along and was like, "Lighten up! Let's have a gender party instead! Whee, gender! Empowerment yay!" Then it threw some glitter on me and danced a jig, I swear.
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trufax, the Pevensies never get to return to anything. Return is the TRAGIC LIE. All Pevensies do is move forward ever onward!
POSTNARNIA. OH MY PANZER WE ARE TOTALLY THAT KID omg lolz <3333333 \o/
When the Gilead article talks about the reader/audience, it totally sounds like she's talking about Susan, which was how I got the idea. And hey why not, because if Susan is the reader, and I identify with Susan, AND I'm also the one writing the essay, then HEY trifecta! Everything is a symbol for everything else, and SUBJECTIVITY IS A LIE and apparently not an option here hahahaha. But we won't tell my professor. But somehow the paper would be Susan's observations on herself as she reads the story of her life. IS THAT MY PAPER OR IS IT FIC? This class is a total trip.
I don't know about the story of Merlin itself, because I think if I were going to take on the Arthurian legends, I'd have to account for the billions of retellings. I am no Arthurian scholar. But what IS interesting is Merlin fandom itself! How the fandom becomes an arena for the reclamation/discussion of the subaltern! I have never been in a fandom like Merlin before. I'm just like O_O sometimes! On top of everything else, everyone is so hyperaware (or at least hyperconcerned) of the race/gender implications in the narrative, and everyone is all about EMPOWERMENT. I mean, you wanna talk about emotional investment? Everybody wants to write empowering stories with happy payoffs all the effing time! Seriously, before 'Merlin' came along, my default writing mood was ~dark~, but then 'Merlin' fandom came along and was like, "Lighten up! Let's have a gender party instead! Whee, gender! Empowerment yay!" Then it threw some glitter on me and danced a jig, I swear.