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so what if Saiunkoku were a huge fandom?
Saturday, May 9th, 2009 07:53 pmPSA: I have been receiving some anonymous comment spam on Dreamwidth. Because of this, I will now elect to show a captcha to anonymous commenters. To do this yourself, go to account settings>Privacy, and where it says "Anti-spam" change the setting.
Am still rereading the Saiunkoku book in preparation for summarizing it. Senka still enrages me. I feel kind of like the narrative gives him brownie points for something a parent ought to be doing anyway. (Though this is mostly just a feeling). IIRC, more stuff is added about the crown prince. This makes me think we'll eventually get either a gaiden about the succession crisis, or it'll come up in the main narrative.
On the second story, which I'm about halfway through now, I feel it's a bit too long, and that the author really should have written it before, and not put it in now, when we have all of this big suspenseful plot hanging over our heads. I also think that Saiunkoku has gotten much crueler as a story. If it had a big fandom, I honestly wonder what people would make of the increasing grimness.
If Saiunkoku were a big fandom with lots of people discussing the series and writing fanfic? Well, even if the novels were translated, it would be doubtful (shoujo with actual romantic plot elements are a fanfic-fandom inhibitor. I suspect that a female protagonist is also an inhibitor)
( but why not imagine, just for the heck of it? )
Am still rereading the Saiunkoku book in preparation for summarizing it. Senka still enrages me. I feel kind of like the narrative gives him brownie points for something a parent ought to be doing anyway. (Though this is mostly just a feeling). IIRC, more stuff is added about the crown prince. This makes me think we'll eventually get either a gaiden about the succession crisis, or it'll come up in the main narrative.
On the second story, which I'm about halfway through now, I feel it's a bit too long, and that the author really should have written it before, and not put it in now, when we have all of this big suspenseful plot hanging over our heads. I also think that Saiunkoku has gotten much crueler as a story. If it had a big fandom, I honestly wonder what people would make of the increasing grimness.
If Saiunkoku were a big fandom with lots of people discussing the series and writing fanfic? Well, even if the novels were translated, it would be doubtful (shoujo with actual romantic plot elements are a fanfic-fandom inhibitor. I suspect that a female protagonist is also an inhibitor)
( but why not imagine, just for the heck of it? )
