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mandragoraI nipped into Forbidden Planet last week and picked up a few (*cough*) books. Among them is one called Melusine and well, anyone know if the author is a slash fanfiction writer?
Because this book reads like Original Slash. Oh God, does it ever. One of the (male) protaganists is a beautiful, haughty, long-haired immensely powerful wizard, who is the lover of the city ruler's brother and...
was a teenage prostitute (yes, really), who is enslaved to another, evil wizard. The evil wizard rapes our beautiful protaganist as part of his nefarious scheme to bring down the city and then sets up the beautiful former-whore to take the blame. And of course everyone loathes him and hates him and he Suffers Horribly.
The other protaganist is a cat burglar, who may have a Connection to the beautiful wizard (am not sure as yet, as I haven't finished the book, through lack of time).
It's glorious, glorious stuff and reads very much like a (very good) slashy fanfiction epic. If the author, Sarah Monette, doesn't write fanfiction herself surely she must have read a truckload.
Because this book reads like Original Slash. Oh God, does it ever. One of the (male) protaganists is a beautiful, haughty, long-haired immensely powerful wizard, who is the lover of the city ruler's brother and...
was a teenage prostitute (yes, really), who is enslaved to another, evil wizard. The evil wizard rapes our beautiful protaganist as part of his nefarious scheme to bring down the city and then sets up the beautiful former-whore to take the blame. And of course everyone loathes him and hates him and he Suffers Horribly.
The other protaganist is a cat burglar, who may have a Connection to the beautiful wizard (am not sure as yet, as I haven't finished the book, through lack of time).
It's glorious, glorious stuff and reads very much like a (very good) slashy fanfiction epic. If the author, Sarah Monette, doesn't write fanfiction herself surely she must have read a truckload.
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Date: 4 October 2006 21:21 (UTC)no subject
Date: 4 October 2006 21:46 (UTC)I'm not even an acquaintance of hers, so it feels presumptuous to speak for her, but having read a lot of meta on "that side of the tracks" (the part of LJ where published authors hang out) I don't think she's very comfortable with fanfiction, actually. (Or maybe she said she wouldn't be comfortable reading fanfiction of *her* work, which is fair enough. I don't remember.) So I don't think she's ever written it herself.
But she definitely knows how to tap the id vortex!
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Date: 4 October 2006 21:55 (UTC)If she's not comfortable with fanfiction per se, fair enough. I still think she's read some original slashy stuff, though. Or, as you write, knows how to tap the id vortex. And how! *g*