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sarasa_catOver the next few days or weeks or maybe even months, I will alternate between squeeing and ranting about issues of Passing, Privilege, and Silence (oh, and Culture Loss too, which rides along with this troika) how that little itch in the back of my mind in DA2 was actually DA2 getting it right (yes, I’m into Act III as of 1:30am last night), and how fucking frustrated I am when writing about things I want to write because the issues are subtle and, far too often, the audience insists you to hit them over the head with it in a language THEY understand, which isn’t the same language. It’s a translation where Meaning Gets Lost.
At this moment, I am understanding years of frustration I’ve had in the English-speaking market for fantasy fiction, particularly at writers groups, particularly when they force my hand, think in black-and-white terms, and insist I show my ethnic minority card. Particularly. Particularly. Particularly.
As some of you know, I have been really, really, really frustrated with my original fiction for five years. Five fucking years. I know why: it is so damn hard to craft the kind of world I need for telling the kinds of stories I want to tell. *FUCK*
(Why was it so much easier to write fiction when I was an undergraduate university student? Why? All of the fiction I wrote back then was interesting and steeped in critical theory but definitely not to the point that it wrecked story/screenplay structure. Ugh.)
Anyhow. I’m feeling crank and ranty (but I need to get back to work). Somehow I am certain some very solid critical analysis will eventually get written.
All I will say for now (time contraints… and this is relevant) is that I gave a bit of a cop-out response to Question 18 (which DA character are you most like) last night. Or perhaps it wasn’t a cop-out answer but one that requires readers from a “high context culture” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_context_culture) rather than a low context cultures (which probably includes many of the people on my friends list???). When ------ said that I’m most like diplo+blunt f!Hawke, there was a hell of a lot of subtext in that comment that he and I take for granted. Yep. He nailed it. The house too.
