This is hardly a comment directed at you, but this:
It allows people to write something that they know
is in fact the problem. Because, even when I read a romance produced by an experienced writer, nine times out of ten I think, "Who are these people? Where did my soldiers/scientists/doctors/astronauts go?"
Which is problematic when you're in it for the psychological realism--and I understand that's a minority interest in this land.
Like Connie, I certainly don't think sex is incompatible with story: it's a basic human drive. But fanfic romance blows it out of proportion (all romance does, to my mind, but that's neither here nor there), and more fundamentally it erases the web of mechanisms, the structure that makes sex a component of a whole, and because a story is subject to the same systemic constraints as anything else, that distorts the characters as well.
I gotta say, finding an instance of epistemological individualism in a relativistic bastion such as fandom is an irony that doesn't pass me by.
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Date: 2008-02-21 07:15 pm (UTC)It allows people to write something that they know
is in fact the problem. Because, even when I read a romance produced by an experienced writer, nine times out of ten I think, "Who are these people? Where did my soldiers/scientists/doctors/astronauts go?"
Which is problematic when you're in it for the psychological realism--and I understand that's a minority interest in this land.
Like Connie, I certainly don't think sex is incompatible with story: it's a basic human drive. But fanfic romance blows it out of proportion (all romance does, to my mind, but that's neither here nor there), and more fundamentally it erases the web of mechanisms, the structure that makes sex a component of a whole, and because a story is subject to the same systemic constraints as anything else, that distorts the characters as well.
I gotta say, finding an instance of epistemological individualism in a relativistic bastion such as fandom is an irony that doesn't pass me by.