Fic: Even Otherwise I Love You (Dostana)
Title: Even Otherwise I love you
Author: Jay Tryfanstone ( tryfanstone on livejournal)
Fandom: Bollywood - Dostana
Rating: R
Pairing: Sam/Kunal
Summary: A Bollywood love story starring Sameer and Kunal, two men drawn together by fate. And a little help from Sam's mum.
Beta: With many thanks,
bethia_cathrain and
q_i . Thanks also to the smallfandom mods for the challenge: appreciated.
There's a whole meta post here about being English, white, non-Hindi speaking and writing Bollywood, a culture which is itself not Indian or western Asian but something entirely itself: About writing American and English Asian culture as seen through a lens of Mumbai-based film-making. About worrying about writing Bollywood when not worrying about writing America - am I really concerned about my own perception of writing a culture to which I don't belong simply because the people involved speak a different language and have different colour skin? Why should there be any difference? Why should be I unconcerned about spn - ladies, I'm planning for SPN Big Bang this year (blame
q_i ) - and unsure about the appropriation of culture I've done here? Do I still feel guilty about the Empire, about the racism that Asian people in the UK still face? Why should that have anything to do with a story I ... just wanted to write? (And let's face it, maybe six people will read.)
It's just story-telling. I have no answers. But I'm still thinking.
Original post: Here on smallfandom - if anyone would like to comment, it's probably polite there.
Off-site link: Even Otherwise I Love You.
Author: Jay Tryfanstone ( tryfanstone on livejournal)
Fandom: Bollywood - Dostana
Rating: R
Pairing: Sam/Kunal
Summary: A Bollywood love story starring Sameer and Kunal, two men drawn together by fate. And a little help from Sam's mum.
Beta: With many thanks,
bethia_cathrain and
q_i . Thanks also to the smallfandom mods for the challenge: appreciated.
There's a whole meta post here about being English, white, non-Hindi speaking and writing Bollywood, a culture which is itself not Indian or western Asian but something entirely itself: About writing American and English Asian culture as seen through a lens of Mumbai-based film-making. About worrying about writing Bollywood when not worrying about writing America - am I really concerned about my own perception of writing a culture to which I don't belong simply because the people involved speak a different language and have different colour skin? Why should there be any difference? Why should be I unconcerned about spn - ladies, I'm planning for SPN Big Bang this year (blame
q_i ) - and unsure about the appropriation of culture I've done here? Do I still feel guilty about the Empire, about the racism that Asian people in the UK still face? Why should that have anything to do with a story I ... just wanted to write? (And let's face it, maybe six people will read.)
It's just story-telling. I have no answers. But I'm still thinking.
Original post: Here on smallfandom - if anyone would like to comment, it's probably polite there.
Off-site link: Even Otherwise I Love You.
