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I am a bitter Fantasy fan (now with recs)

Dec 26, 2009 13:05

I have been reading Fantasy written by English and American authors ever since I was fourteen. It is my favourite genre, and most of my favourite books are Fantasy books. This genre was my cure for sadness, loneliness, and boredom ever since I discovered it. And even though I love that genre and spend quite an amount of time defending its literary ( Read more... )

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nightcrawler_2_ December 26 2009, 12:58:36 UTC

Ah yes, the slash writers... Let's not talk about them. I quit reading fanfiction ages ago because it looks like the only thing people can write is porn, and I'm not very interested in that. I mean, sure, everything has its place, but come ON. You can barely find a fic without a sex scene these days.

I have to admit that I'm guilty of the "my personal preference" thing, and I know why. I mostly watch shounen shows, and the Japanese stereotype of a "good" woman is... questionable. Most of them are only there as decoration. They don't add anything to the story, except maybe screaming the male lead's name every few minutes. I suppose this could be fixed by watching shoujo, but those storylines are uninteresting to me (I hatehateHATE romance stories). Frankly, the few female characters I could relate to in anime were the Major from Ghost in the Shell and Utena.

/thoughts on yaoi

But yes. Fantasy authors FAIL at writing women (Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, I'm looking at you. Stop with the cleavage descriptions already!)

mothwing December 26 2009, 17:07:33 UTC

That's what bothers me - I like my porn, but when ALL fanfiction seems to be written with porn or fetishistic voyeurism lurking somewhere in the near future, it starts getting pointless.

ishyface December 26 2009, 21:57:25 UTC

Oh, God, Robert Jordan's female characters are terrible. SO MUCH SPANKING. AND FOOT-STOMPING.

lisaquestions December 27 2009, 02:13:22 UTC

And sniffing. And braid-tugging. And terminally passive-aggressive.

I hate Jordan's writing so much.

nightcrawler_2_ December 27 2009, 03:18:53 UTC

The whole female cast of Wheel of Time is in need of some serious psychotherapy. They seem so *angry* all the time, it can't be pleasant!

squinting_kitty December 27 2009, 04:36:53 UTC

Agreed that his characters are pretty suck most of the time, but Egwene in the most recent book (the one that was finished posthumously by Brandon Sanderson) kicks ass.

mothwing December 27 2009, 13:32:54 UTC

Wow, that sounds horrid. Good thing I steered clear of those.

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