it's a bit late for resolutions, but . . .

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All the recent talk of Yuletide 2011 made me realize that I'd better hurry up and write a New Year's Resolution story (I dropped out of the last Yuletide and I want to be sure I'm eligible to sign up again this year). One nice thing about NYR is that you can pick a prompt that suits you; probably no one will be surprised that I picked Tintin

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*grins* I had started working on it yesterday when I commented that I was writing an NYR story, but I thought I'd better not say that in case I didn't finish it. I'm really thrilled that you like it.

There's a really stark element of realism in Picaros, like the two matched panels of Tintin's airplane flying over the slums, and the references to the influence of the banana company. And also a really interesting element of self-criticism in the way we see what Tintin doesn't: that the revolution hasn't helped the poor one bit. So, being me, I took all the grim implications and made them worse.

I'm glad both Tintin and Haddock read as being a little bit older here (I'm picturing this as set a couple of years after Picaros). We see a lot of change in Tintin in Picaros, notably the way he doesn't immediately rush into the adventure. The grief and fear and loneliness he went through in Tibet knocked a lot of the boyishness out of him, I think. The change is already becoming visible in Les Bijoux de la Castafiore, the way Tintin is interested in small acts of local justice, like the Romany folks having a decent place to camp.

HADDOCK, oh my, I love him so much

Yay! I was a bit worried that the snuggliness at the end comes out of nowhere, but, well, Haddock is like that, all bluster with a soft center.