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[skygiants]

Things accomplished today:

1. Handed in finished creative writing project, with cover letter and everything, five minutes before deadline. Yay!

2. Had obligatory panic attack because I couldn't remember where to turn in seminar essay. Not unexpected!

3. Handed in finished seminar essay two hours before deadline. Was first one there, which explains panic attack, resolved when second person there came to hand in her essay. Yay!

4. Painted tea mug at Color Me Mine, because we have nothing to do at work until January and thus it was decreed that we would take today to go paint things and each acquire our own personal tea mug. With money from the keep-workers-happy budget. Because my job and boss are awesome. GREAT YAY!

Therefore, basking in the glow, I join the herd. Unpopular Fandom Opinions meme!

The rules:
01. Post this on your journal.
02. Your friends will comment with some of your fandoms or some general topic about fandom.
03. In a new post (or in comments) respond back with one or two of your unpopular opinions for that fandom or topic.

Caveat: I don't actually know a lot of what's unpopular. Um. So I put a popular opinion by accident, oops?

Comments

[skygiants]

*giggles* We totally count as a Fionavar fandom! Um. Lessee. I will give you the opinions I do not think a lot of us share:

- I do not, sadly, much care for Jen. I get why she does what she does, but . . . in her very decision not to use Darien, she's totally using him. That in itself is enough to leave me a little cold.

- I am usually not much of a non-canon 'shipper, and I really like platonic relationships and respect them, etc. That being said, I secretly 'ship Aileron/Kim. Shhhhh.

- Speaking of friendships and platonic relationships, Dave and Kevin's dynamic is one of the most interesting in the series for me - possibly because it's the one that has the slowest and most natural development, friend-wise. This could also have to do with my strong and irrational Dave!love, of course.

- I love Paul and Jaelle, both. I also love Paul/Jaelle together. That being said, the concept of Jaelle as the man-hating virgin priestess who Leaves It All for True Happiness once she's known the Love of a Good Man makes me more than a little uncomfortable (as does the fact that it's okay for Leila to replace her because Leila's already lost her True Love, come to that). It would make me even more uncomfortable if Paul was not such a broken little ball of inner neediness himself, but as it is I can make it work for me.

- Along the same lines, I wish Sharra, whom I love, did more than wait around places for Diar after their scene in the Temple.

- I bawl for the lios for the obvious reasons. All the same, I find Brendel kind of uninteresting. I find Leyse entertaining, but in large part because she is a giant Sue. *pats her*

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

In her very decision not to use Darien, she's totally using him.

I came to that conclusion in my last reread the other day. I mean, "He's my Wild Hunt." How is that not using Darien?

Now, here's where we part ways: I like Jen because she uses Darien. She's brave and cold and willing to do what she must for her own plans and for the worlds. She's always marked by her other life, and she behaves like that other would.

There's nothing wrong with Aileron/Kim. If a few things had happened differently in the organization of the books, it could have been canon.

I like Dave-Kevin, but I'm not in love with either of them or with their friendship. As you probably know, I think Kevin is an incoherent collection of entirely incompatible backstory pieces and plot elements. Dave makes more sense to me, but there's nothing about him that enthralls me.

I hate Leila. Hate her hate her hate her. Sue.

Also, I may be even more bored by the lios alfar than you are. I don't care for Brendel, Leyse is bland even for an Elaine figure, and I can't say that I've ever desired to bawl on account of the lios. I actually write the whole race off as signs that GGK hadn't waited to get over his Tolkien fanfic urge before writing the Fionavar Tapestry.

[skygiants]

*grins* oh, I understand that, totally. I think part of the problem for me is that she's not necessarily admitting that, but making the stand that her position is entirely unselfish. I mean, she makes Kim feel horrible and like she's done something wrong for assuming that Jen might actually care about Darien for himself. Which is really not an unreasonable assumption. *dry* Darien comes to the charitable conclusion that Jen trusts him; I do not.

Yeah. *giggles* I know your feelings about Kevin. To be fair, though, GGK is not great on backstory for any of the five- either he sticks it in to be convenient, or he completely ignores it. (Bitter? Not at all!)

Yeah. Leila is totally a Sue. *cheerful* But the fact that she becomes High Priestess bothers me not so much of that as because of the pattern that is established: it's okay to be High Priestess when you don't have a man! Otherwise, totally go for the sex.

There is really only one moment when I bawl for the lios. - and, okay, I don't mind Ra-Tenniel. But yeah, the rest of them are really incredibly bland. Brendel has no character! At all!

. . . but I'm not so much a fan of the Tolkein elves either, so.