LJ Idol Season Ten: "The Notorious B.U.N."

[halfshellvenus]

The Notorious B.U.N.
idol season ten | week eight | 1300 words
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[eeyore_grrl]

This is amazingly lovely!

I'm always a fan of fairytale, myth-revision type stuff. This was well crafted and fun to read! :-)

[halfshellvenus]

Thank you!

You would be surprised how much research it took, too. That'll learn me-- British, turn of the last century, AND legalese. :O

[tsuki_no_bara]

this is so freakin' cute. and i note the british spellings. :D

[halfshellvenus]

Hahaha-- I love that little furball of an icon.

So glad you enjoyed it, AND noticed the special spelling. Which was hard to do, with every part of me resisting and with Word flagging every alternate rendering of particular words.

[favoritebean]

This is so delightful! I love the idea of continuing the story of Peter Rabbit, the trial as absurd as it is. Also, the parallels to the current climate are quite telling.

[halfshellvenus]

I actually thought about titling this "reductio ad absurdum," but it wasn't a "fun"-sounding title. I'm glad the other one came to me. :O

That technique makes for one of the best environments for satire and crack, in my book-- pushing things to the extreme and seeing what breaks. :D

[kschlotwrites]

I haven't finished reading this yet, but I had to comment. I love the line, "Deranged danger bunny."

[halfshellvenus]

Hahaha-- so glad you enjoyed that line, and the story overall! :D

[i_17bingo]

That was an incredibly frustrating trial, especially because Peter Rabbit isn't necessarily innocent, but you definitely didn't want the court to win. It was a good take on the classic story.

I could hear the British accents on everyone in the story, so you really nailed that.

[halfshellvenus]

He IS completely guilty, the question is more one of whether there _should_ be a trial. Children's literature would say, "Why not? You have a rabbit wearing clothes whose mother goes to market to buy bread." On the other hand, he is on trial for essentially behaving like a rabbit. The one thing that is obvious is that the reaction is overblown-- but again, not unheard of in the genre.

One day you're trying to become a Real Boy and get side-tracked by a trip to a full-time carnival, and the next you've been turned into a donkey to pull the carts at the same carnival (in what apparently is a Ponzi scheme of misery).

It's almost as if the moral is, "Fate is uncertain! But yours probably will not be kind, at least not in the short-term."

I may have read entirely too many stories in this genre... ;)