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secretfanspaceA space to chat fandom! Anon!
Got a WIP you're excited about? Want to rave about your fave? Or is your fandom absolutely in love with a character who detracts from every scene they bumble into, and you need somewhere to vent? You're in the right place!
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Got a WIP you're excited about? Want to rave about your fave? Or is your fandom absolutely in love with a character who detracts from every scene they bumble into, and you need somewhere to vent? You're in the right place!
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Re: Books - Currently Reading
Date: 2021-04-23 04:51 pm (UTC)Re: Books - Currently Reading
Date: 2021-04-23 04:56 pm (UTC)Haha, I didn't know she was selling books until recently! Looking forward to catching up. But then I like het, not slash (though by the same token, nothing against slash, just not my thing. And tbf I end up disliking most het bc I'm picky) I really enjoyed the structure of Spinning Silver; hall-of-mirrors fairytale-inversion... A lot of fun! :D
Re: Books - Currently Reading
Date: 2021-04-23 05:35 pm (UTC)Re: Books - Currently Reading
Date: 2021-04-23 05:52 pm (UTC)LOL as someone who's read basically all of her fic, astolat has a specific kink for super-powerful, morally ambiguous men/tops. Loki/Thor, Merlin/Arthur, however you spell the Witcher dudes' names...xD I don't mind it in slash, but in het the gender dynamics are def a bit more squicky.
Re: Books - Currently Reading
Date: 2021-04-23 05:57 pm (UTC)This makes this anon want to read it more. :P
Re: Books - Currently Reading
Date: 2021-04-23 06:31 pm (UTC)I haven't read any of her fic, but I'm not against that relationship dynamic -- I read a ton of historical romance, which loves making the hero a duke or a criminal or both. But I specifically dislike how she writes it. Any controlling behavior or coldness towards the beginning should be balanced out by kindness or warmth towards the end. She really falls down on the job.
Re: Books - Currently Reading
Date: 2021-04-23 07:01 pm (UTC)Huh, interesting point and I agree. The odd thing is, she usually DOES balance out the controlling factor with warmth by the end of her fic. Maybe she misses that a bit in her books and that's why the romances don't work for me.
Re: Books - Currently Reading
Date: 2021-04-23 07:37 pm (UTC)Based on the three romances among those two books, she doesn't want the hero to have to "change" at the end, because she thinks that character type is hot. Fair enough. Howl's moving castle is a great prototype for that sort of thing. But if you've described in careful detail the emotional anguish the heroine endured at the beginning, and at the end the heroine has a pragmatic "oh, I understand him" reaction ... I don't believe that the heroine loves him, and I don't believe that he understands or appreciates her, because he wouldn't change to show it, and the heroine's change in affections seems totally unmotivated. Gah.
Re: Books - Currently Reading
Date: 2021-04-23 07:43 pm (UTC)I can believe a romance if I think the hero is a wanker. I can't believe a romance if the HEROINE thinks the hero is a wanker and then he doesn't improve.
Re: Books - Currently Reading
Date: 2021-04-23 11:08 pm (UTC)Oh, I love Howl's Moving Castle. There's an example of het that really works for me.