One of the things I really like about this story is, it uses a lot of the expected tropes from fairytales, and yet, each time they feel a little different. I don't really know how to explain it. Like the old woman- as soon as she appeared, I knew she was going to affect the course of the story. And I was completely unsurprised when she pulled her little powder stunt
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LOL broke the comment box, Part 1evil_whimseyNovember 12 2009, 07:45:40 UTC
'CatBoy in the Depression' is one of the greatest high-concept tag lines in the history of literature, dude. It is pure accidental genius, and may well go down as our Magnum Opus. Despite having written every installment I've done on my phone, I feel like I can finally say I've contributed something meaningful to the world, just by being a part of 'CatBoy in the Depression'. And my tongue really isn't that far in my cheek at all, saying that. It's a ridiculously pleasing story to me. Besides being a brilliant sanity-saver during the Autumn of Calamity, Everywhere.
And I wholeheartedly agree about the workable and approachable aspects of all this crack. Maybe one of these days, I'll get an urge to write a 'serious story' again (and god help me, then), but for now it is too immensely satisfying to romp around and play, and just let the stuff spin out off the top of my head.
I never let myself have that kind of freedom before; at least not for very long, before the solid conscientious voice muttering, C'mon, do the physics of
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Re: LOL broke the comment box, Part 2evil_whimseyNovember 12 2009, 07:46:09 UTC
I dunno where I'm going with this. I'd meant to talk about how awesome fairy tales are, because the tropes are all there, universally recognized and ripe for the breaking. And how you don't have to dress up your allegorical characters (like the witch, though she's mutated on me into someone else, kinda), because everybody already knows that in a fairytale, all the characters are metaphors. (According to Aristotle, all fictional characters are metaphors, period, but modern fiction standards make us disguise them as realistic, recognizable people. And sometimes that's a lot of goddamn effort.) Also, I have a lot of unresolved issues with fairytale values and their outcomes, and if this story lets me, I would like to mess with subverting some of those (eg, "The Princess And The Pea". That is either a deeply obnoxious story, or a deeply disturbing one. Why would any sane man choose a partner who gets her clock cleaned by A PEA to be his fellow Head of State? Or is the point that she's suitable because she can endure full-body
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And I wholeheartedly agree about the workable and approachable aspects of all this crack. Maybe one of these days, I'll get an urge to write a 'serious story' again (and god help me, then), but for now it is too immensely satisfying to romp around and play, and just let the stuff spin out off the top of my head.
I never let myself have that kind of freedom before; at least not for very long, before the solid conscientious voice muttering, C'mon, do the physics of ( ... )
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