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Dec. 18th, 2013 10:01 pmOh, golly. Okay, for the 18th, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
marginaliana asked me if I could commission the perfect piece of fiction, what it would look like.
This is a very hard question! I think the best I can do is provide an incomplete list of things that appeal specifically to my id:
- multiple different relationships between women that are important to the narrative
- strong and important relationships between siblings BUT NOT IN AN INCEST-Y WAY
- sympathetic characters getting on each other's nerves
- characters developing as people over the course of the story
- characters engaged in the act of performing or writing or some form or some sort of conscious creation of story
- complex and multi-layered portrayals of politics and revolution
- multiple different viewpoints presented as understandable and sympathetic
- a balance between scenes that are heart-wrenching and scenes that are hilarious
- characters being implausibly witty
- characters putting their responsibilities over their personal desires
- really epic set pieces
- really intense and fraught dance scenes
- lesbians
- cross-dressing
I am slightly tipsy right now after grad school cohort's December birthdays celebration, so you know this comes from the heart! If anybody would like to undertake the challenge of describing their own ideal piece of fiction in response, PLEASE FEEL FREE.
marginaliana asked me if I could commission the perfect piece of fiction, what it would look like. This is a very hard question! I think the best I can do is provide an incomplete list of things that appeal specifically to my id:
- multiple different relationships between women that are important to the narrative
- strong and important relationships between siblings BUT NOT IN AN INCEST-Y WAY
- sympathetic characters getting on each other's nerves
- characters developing as people over the course of the story
- characters engaged in the act of performing or writing or some form or some sort of conscious creation of story
- complex and multi-layered portrayals of politics and revolution
- multiple different viewpoints presented as understandable and sympathetic
- a balance between scenes that are heart-wrenching and scenes that are hilarious
- characters being implausibly witty
- characters putting their responsibilities over their personal desires
- really epic set pieces
- really intense and fraught dance scenes
- lesbians
- cross-dressing
I am slightly tipsy right now after grad school cohort's December birthdays celebration, so you know this comes from the heart! If anybody would like to undertake the challenge of describing their own ideal piece of fiction in response, PLEASE FEEL FREE.
