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[petronia]

It seems to be a... a good publishing week(?). Congratulations, you guys. ^-^

I met baby_pen last night. She's in Montreal for French immersion study. We walked around town and had Indian food and coffee and cake, and talked a lot - well, I talked a lot ^^; - mostly not about fandom, surprisingly. Although I did babble at length about how I find Kuwabara Mizuna's mindset "congenial", which in retrospect was probably not the best angle to take with someone who's actually going to read the books, but then I think the... second?... conversation I ever had with bp involved me recounting the plot of a massively angsty BL epic I made up that also ends rather badly. So really it's been settled that I'm evil, we can move on to bigger and brighter things. XD

I could explain at length what I mean by "congenial" but I have to run in five minutes to a meeting and hence to a colleague's birthday lunch. ^^; Basically, while I have my issues with the series - as oft aforementioned the mechanics of storytelling improve considerably throughout, while locally the text suffers from problems that ahh in fandom parlance may be summed up as "so not beta read" (actually the ideas presented also mature considerably; one is aware that book 1 is written by a 20-year-old but book 22 is written by a 27-year-old. Being halfway through the process myself as it were, whoo boy am I ever aware), I honestly can't think of any instances where I fundamentally disagree with where she's taking her story. If that makes sense. ^^; I'm thinking about the end of Guy Gavriel Kay's Sailing to Sarantium, my favorite of the Kay books I've read, where I put the thing down and said "That was very touching but not the way it should've ended."

In fact - I noticed this when I was making the FST (which is really a form of ficcing) but most clearly now that I'm writing proper fic - I tend to anticipate the course of the canon when I extrapolate. XD;; One of the pieces I wrote a few days ago for 31_days was a list of - well, not so much philosophical koans in the sense that they're readily answerable; signposts to certain trains of thought concerning the implication of Mirageverse I find important let's say - and while reading book 22 yesterday I had a sudden revelation: Kuwabara means to go ahead and deal with all of these points in canon. I am not used to that at all. XD I'm used to "overthinking".

Of course then the mental image of Reijirou... but more on that later in the day.

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[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

I honestly can't think of any instances where I fundamentally disagree with where she's taking her story. If that makes sense. ^^

No, it makes sense. I think it's perhaps one of the things I'm seeking in books and such. Overthinking is fun, but how much better is it when it's not 'wasted action' (admittedly a biased way of looking at things) but a vindicating anticipation of the course of canon?

I still need to read Sailing to Sarantium. Started it and got distracted by the lack of realism.

[baby-pen.livejournal.com]

And I think we`ve established that I make a good listening buddy :) Are we meeting up next Wednesday, or before that?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

O, before that if you like? Sunday perhaps? :D