Two asides about Narnia fic
Mar. 20th, 2011 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laleia1. So here's thing. In Narnia fic, I find that Pevensiecest makes so much sense, and at the same time, I find it creepy.
And then there are times where I read Narnia fic where ... where I spend the fic trying to figure out whether the author intended for the Pevensiecest subtext to be so blatant, and waiting for the other shoe to drop, for the Pevensiecest to actually happen and it never does.
Then I wonder whether I'm overthinking things, but the subtext is as blatant as, say Anne/Diana subtext in Anne of Green Gables, which is to say if this fic were written in the early 1900s where people wrote stuff that presumably was intended platonicly/friendshippy but reads as romantic by modern readers, then I would say I was reading too much into it, but this is the current day in fandom.
2. So a while back I went on a Narnia kick, specifically searching for my ultimate Narnia fic (which would be something about the Pevensies back in England, preferably with Susan kicking ass and with minimal Peter). Something along the lines of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
burntcopper's National Service series.
Anyways, one of the fics I came across was a mediocre Narnia fic where Edmund and Peter went to some sort of boarding school together. So the thing was, Edmund had some sort of skeevy deal going on with the Headmaster so he could ~protect Peter~ and I was ... so convinced that the skeevy deal involved some sort of sexual abuse or molestation. I mean, you have Edmund being super-ashamed about it, there is another boy who has crises because he also has a similar deal, a lot of the language used and the implications and the fade-to-blacks really ... had me thinking the worst.
The writing was a bit more heavyhanded than I prefer, so I stopped reading it and basically started skimming through because I wanted some sort of emotionally satisfying resolution. Only ... it turned out that the skeevy deal was because Edmund was very smart so he frequently had to be the PR rep for the school and do interviews and media appearances and stuff and ... and that was the oh-so-skeevy thing. I mean, it is possible in my skimming, I missed out on the actual revelation (I doubt it), but ... uh ... I was super-confused.
I mean when you have ominous scenes like, "What you have done, Mr. Pevensie, cannot be forgiven .... unless ..." *cue fade to black* followed by a scene of Edmund being super-depressed ... I feel this not just a case of me reading too much into it.
And then there are times where I read Narnia fic where ... where I spend the fic trying to figure out whether the author intended for the Pevensiecest subtext to be so blatant, and waiting for the other shoe to drop, for the Pevensiecest to actually happen and it never does.
Then I wonder whether I'm overthinking things, but the subtext is as blatant as, say Anne/Diana subtext in Anne of Green Gables, which is to say if this fic were written in the early 1900s where people wrote stuff that presumably was intended platonicly/friendshippy but reads as romantic by modern readers, then I would say I was reading too much into it, but this is the current day in fandom.
2. So a while back I went on a Narnia kick, specifically searching for my ultimate Narnia fic (which would be something about the Pevensies back in England, preferably with Susan kicking ass and with minimal Peter). Something along the lines of
burntcopper's National Service series.Anyways, one of the fics I came across was a mediocre Narnia fic where Edmund and Peter went to some sort of boarding school together. So the thing was, Edmund had some sort of skeevy deal going on with the Headmaster so he could ~protect Peter~ and I was ... so convinced that the skeevy deal involved some sort of sexual abuse or molestation. I mean, you have Edmund being super-ashamed about it, there is another boy who has crises because he also has a similar deal, a lot of the language used and the implications and the fade-to-blacks really ... had me thinking the worst.
The writing was a bit more heavyhanded than I prefer, so I stopped reading it and basically started skimming through because I wanted some sort of emotionally satisfying resolution. Only ... it turned out that the skeevy deal was because Edmund was very smart so he frequently had to be the PR rep for the school and do interviews and media appearances and stuff and ... and that was the oh-so-skeevy thing. I mean, it is possible in my skimming, I missed out on the actual revelation (I doubt it), but ... uh ... I was super-confused.
I mean when you have ominous scenes like, "What you have done, Mr. Pevensie, cannot be forgiven .... unless ..." *cue fade to black* followed by a scene of Edmund being super-depressed ... I feel this not just a case of me reading too much into it.
