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bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2009-07-09 04:08 pm
bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2009-07-09 04:08 pm
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Why Unironic Twilight Fans Are Not Fantasy Nerds
Nothing like some good space opera music to get you into the mood to write .. well, space opera. And there is no more enthusiastic soundtrack than New Star Trek’s. It’ll make you want to discover the hell out of some new life and new civilizations.
Anyway, while I’m off giving my characters a hard time, I figure I can let y’all read an interesting link having to do with speculative fiction:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
narnian_dreamer’s analysis of Twilight and how it relates to the larger culture of speculative fiction readers. (There’s a second part right after it on Bella’s martyr complex and Stephenie Meyer’s inability to read her own subtext, which is also pretty interesting.)
It may explain why normal fantasy fans react so violently to fans of books like Twilight and Eragon, and to any book that doesn’t seem to carry out its ideas to logical conclusions. We’re looking for speculative fiction that actually speculates—that uses the premises it comes up with. It’s back to my old argument about what nerds like—seeing limits and rules as tools and frameworks instead of hindrances and cages. And that’s so many of us we Just Don’t Get the appeal of worlds where the rules get broken.
Anyway, while I’m off giving my characters a hard time, I figure I can let y’all read an interesting link having to do with speculative fiction:
narnian_dreamer’s analysis of Twilight and how it relates to the larger culture of speculative fiction readers. (There’s a second part right after it on Bella’s martyr complex and Stephenie Meyer’s inability to read her own subtext, which is also pretty interesting.)It may explain why normal fantasy fans react so violently to fans of books like Twilight and Eragon, and to any book that doesn’t seem to carry out its ideas to logical conclusions. We’re looking for speculative fiction that actually speculates—that uses the premises it comes up with. It’s back to my old argument about what nerds like—seeing limits and rules as tools and frameworks instead of hindrances and cages. And that’s so many of us we Just Don’t Get the appeal of worlds where the rules get broken.