Yeah, I love that about fandom too. That and the fact that no one will ever tell you you read too much into works of fiction is why I stick around fandom even between fandoms, if that makes sense.
a particularly mainstream cross-section of the population is a good way to put it.
This is the group I'm working for in French, yes. I'm venting in English bevause it forces me to paraphrase and not copy-paste, because I suppose it distances me from the thing a bit and because I feel more at ease in English in writing (50/50 when talking). That last one is the reason I joined the group in the first place. I really want to be at least a little better at writing fiction in French. (Pipedream: write a novel in French.) This is not a thing that's coming easy to me, I have to say.
I can understand why you'd think setting a story in Philadelphia is surprising for a French person (although it's sadly not*), but elves? There's nothing particularly not-French about elves. (It's humans being racists to elves and not racist elves, but I don't suppose that changes anything.) To be fair to N, her story is set about a century after some kind of Apocalypse, so research might not be super super relevant, but still. I except it to stay diverse unless something major happens.
It's fine that you had me gendered as female, I don't mind. I'm still mostly unsure about gender, but I'm edging towards "don't care"/genderqueer/neutral, I guess. As far as pronouns go, I like singular they or Elverson (ey/eir/em/eirs/emself -- basically them minus th).
Hahaha, sure I'll send it to you. Is your email still the same?
*Because Americentrism of the media. "America is where the stories happen." It's something it took me a long time to question. There's a lot of stories on that site that are set in the US apparently just because. It is annoying, but not a fight I feel like fighting right now. Maybe later.
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Date: 2014-05-19 11:44 pm (UTC)a particularly mainstream cross-section of the population is a good way to put it.
This is the group I'm working for in French, yes. I'm venting in English bevause it forces me to paraphrase and not copy-paste, because I suppose it distances me from the thing a bit and because I feel more at ease in English in writing (50/50 when talking). That last one is the reason I joined the group in the first place. I really want to be at least a little better at writing fiction in French. (Pipedream: write a novel in French.) This is not a thing that's coming easy to me, I have to say.
I can understand why you'd think setting a story in Philadelphia is surprising for a French person (although it's sadly not*), but elves? There's nothing particularly not-French about elves. (It's humans being racists to elves and not racist elves, but I don't suppose that changes anything.) To be fair to N, her story is set about a century after some kind of Apocalypse, so research might not be super super relevant, but still. I except it to stay diverse unless something major happens.
It's fine that you had me gendered as female, I don't mind. I'm still mostly unsure about gender, but I'm edging towards "don't care"/genderqueer/neutral, I guess. As far as pronouns go, I like singular they or Elverson (ey/eir/em/eirs/emself -- basically them minus th).
Hahaha, sure I'll send it to you. Is your email still the same?
*Because Americentrism of the media. "America is where the stories happen." It's something it took me a long time to question. There's a lot of stories on that site that are set in the US apparently just because. It is annoying, but not a fight I feel like fighting right now. Maybe later.