Comments | polytechnics: peeling back the sausage casing, or "come back home special DVD bonus features"

nen_yim in polytechnics

peeling back the sausage casing, or "come back home special DVD bonus features"

Oct 25, 2013 11:56

WHOA DUDES, I FINISHED A FIC. Insanity!!! Many many thanks to everyone who read it, commented on it (here or FFN or AO3 or wherever), or even just looked it sideways ( Read more... )

fandom: anne of green gables, !ramble, series: come back home

Comments 4

winegums November 5 2013, 18:36:48 UTC

Thank you for the fic bb, and for everything that went into it. I love RoI to death and don't mind its rather old-fashioned view of war, considering the times, but one does like to see the other side (and if that means reversing canon, so be it).

I have no idea why I like Walter/Una so much, really. Especially Una. She's not the classical 'spunky' heroine of most literature, and I suppose that's because characters like her can be a little tough to get inside their heads (I tried), but you put her front and centre with such absolute ease, I loved it.

nen_yim November 5 2013, 21:06:18 UTC

Omg not at all, I'm still blown away that people were reading it at all :O I have mixed feelings about RoI because I'm so attached to parts of it (history! Walter! Una! Rilla being hilarious! Morgan on the Care of Infants!) but other times I'm like, "Oh no, this is unfortunate." I go back and forth being like "Of course Walter had to be the one to die" and feeling like it was a bit of a cop-out, as he was the one least-prepared to live in the postwar world. I don't even know, ~*~*~I just have a lot of feelings~*~*~

Ngl, I basically started shipping it from the moment I read, "Una thought Walter very handsome", I think maybe because characters like Una don't often get the guy. Tbh I was a lot like her when I first read the books, so I became attached to her really quickly and was Very Put Out that she didn't get a happy ending, haha.

winegums November 5 2013, 21:31:42 UTC

Too true, I think I like Una precisely because she's so unlike the usual heroine. Though I know the story is Rilla of Ingleside and of course focus remains on Rilla, it kills me sometimes that we hardly get anything on the other Blythe and Meredith girls in canon once they're grown (I think in The Road To Yesterday it's mentioned that Faith and Jem are married - but still! just crumbs really. (ofc my #1 is Walter/Una, but I would be alllll over Nan/Jerry and Jem/Faith, or Di and anyone). And it seems even more unfair when the nice, sweet ones like Una end up screwed over by life and war.

nen_yim November 6 2013, 00:31:39 UTC

Yeah, I really wish quiet, sweet characters didn't have such bummer storylines. I think particularly for female characters, people try to get away from making them "housewifely" and "cookly" (as Rilla would say), but it's also bothersome that girls in fiction have to be spunky! sassy! exciting! to be considered interesting. I like Faith well enough, but it did always bother me that her ending is so much happier than Una's. Idk if you've read The Blythes Are Quoted? I'm not sure how much it differs from the Road to Yesterday, but I believe Nan and Jerry are married in that as well (not that we didn't all figure it out from RoI, haha). I wish they got more development as well -- they become rather flat and fall into the same sort of pretty-accomplished-spunky mold, instead of having traits like Una's wistfulness, Rilla's vanity, or even Mary Vance's loudmouthed ego. I just want to know ~*~more~*~