Jun 30, 2010 15:56
It's so hard for me to write happy stories, it's true that it's easiest to start stories with "a man walks in with a gun".
It's so morbid too, how I'm more drawn to fandoms with bloody canons and then crave fluffy fix its, fix its that fix all the cracks revealed when heroes fell to the fatal flaws.
I think, I'm going to write the saddest stories first, bring out the most extreme and dark in a character, and then, I'll write again, about how they avoided driving off the cliff this time. E Branch is already lighter. Yes, imma writing it to reflect Canada, so there is going to be a lot of rape and murder hidden nicely beneath our fluffy sweaters in the past that lives on to haunt the present and continues to kill, but the future, it could be brighter.
Fuck, the reason I love speculative fiction and superhero comics in the first place, is the future, the bright things we COULD have. So I'll write E Branch with a dark past and a murky present, but I can keep making things brighter, I won't wait for present Canadian politics to get out of the mess we are in now, I'll have to think up the WAYS it could be better already, and paint it.
I deconstructed before I constructed? Hn. Or maybe I deconstructed Known Tropes, and then attempt to reconstruct them.
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