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[Azalais Aranxta]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, quietann wrote:

> On 1/4/07, Azalais Aranxta <tiamat at tsoft.com > wrote:
>
> And actually in my Vorkosiverse fic, I try to be *very*
> consistent with canon (or whatever AU I'm following though with
> the Vorkosiverse there's really only one well-developed AU).
> It is really a matter of filling in blanks, that don't have to
> be filled in, but for some reason my imagination fills them in
> anyway and then I go write it all down.

There's a difference between wanting to tell the side of a story
a writer ignores or seems to tell unfairly in his/her canon and
wanting to be inconsistent with canon.  When I was writing "House
of Ill Faith" actively, nothing that I wrote was inconsistent
with the canon that existed at that time; it just looks that way
now, because there've been two more books published since then.

What was different was the spin on the events of canon.  And a
lot of people thought it was a very canonical universe at the
time--because Rowling hadn't got a website yet and wasn't posting
screeds and interviews just to make sure that anyone who had
Missed Her Point wasn't aware that it meant they were probably
doomed to a life of bad relationships or something.

> > (I am not willing to go into the specifics of this on this list
> > or in any other public place; I refuse to serve as a chewtoy for
> > Rowling's reason-impervious drooling fanpoodles any longer.
>
> Oh, don't worry.

I don't, about you, but this email wasn't addressed just to you.
Periodically someone writes to me offlist or onlist and says
"...but why do you SAY that?"  Answering offlist gets me into
interminable conversations I don't want to have, and onlist,
there's inevitably at least one person who can't let go of the
fact that Draco reminds them of some kid who beat them up in
grade school or is so utterly convinced of the flawed Nazi
analogy that they think anyone who remotely likes the DEs...yeah.

Not to mention there are people on this list who post to Fandom
Wank.

> Oh, by the time we meet him in canon, he is utterly and
> completely depraved, and I don't like him at all!  But at the
> same time it's apparent that whatever he did with Aral however
> many years ago wasn't casual (or why would he be so excited
> about getting revenge on Aral after 18 years?)

Well, that's probably true, but crazy people can make things out
to be more important than they really were.  I mean, there was
once a man who claimed to have fallen in love with me due to my
posting in bad Japanese on an Ozaki Yutaka fans BBS, and after
meeting me f2f once he developed hysterical deafness (I sh*t you
not) that subsided only when I called him, or something like
that.  I feel so sorry for his poor wife.  His shrink and the
university finally made him stop calling me.

> In my world, he's got this "thing" with his sister that borders
> on incest. Seeing her married off to Aral gives him a lot to
> anticipate and a lot to worry about, too.
>
> (And yeah, I squicked myself pretty badly with that "thing" he
> has with her -- but it propelled the story in all sorts of
> interesting directions that were very compelling.)

I write Wincest.  Who am I to judge?

> Hm.  Writing from Ges's POV doesn't mean that I'm taking his
> side.  Though readers have told me I made them think more
> sympathetically of him, it's a very different "him" than the
> one in the books.  Aral's a lot harder to write, too.

Yes, but did you feel you needed to write it because of what was
never said in canon?

I have written in fandoms with canon I dearly loved
(Supernatural) but a lot of it is because I know what I see will
never make it onto broadcast television as text, whether or not
the subtext is intentional.

~malfoy :)

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