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Dec. 21st, 2019 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflydreaming Movie today. I have big feelings, and the biggest is that I will continue to avoid all discussion and commentary about Episode 9 until the dust settles. I just can't with people.
My own brother is being such a bro. I knew he would be, too. I'm staying off Facebook for a few weeks!
In related, but regarding a different work of fiction, as I anticipated, the we-all-read-the-same-fanfic-this-month fic club on Discord voted for what we're reading the next six months, and none of the fics that won are the three I wanted to read. But! I do have them bookmarked. It's a ship-specific server, and there are times when how I perceive the pairing is notably different from most of the active voices in the group. It's part of why I still feel like an intruder there. Nothing to be done about it. I really want someone to talk to me about the things I love, it doesn't happen, that's how it is.
I had a story idea earlier, but it has since slithered away from me. I hope it comes back. I inevitably had some small fic ideas that are canon compliant, but then this one popped up but I was in the midst of a conversation, and I couldn't stop to jot notes.
EDIT: I remembered!
I was having a conversation about a traditional story, in which a young woman catches the eye of a noble. He secretly marries her (she can't refuse due to him being noble) but his family doesn't acknowledge the marriage. So when he leaves to go off and study or whatever, she is unprotected when the local official wants her for himself, and imprisons her when she refuses him. In the end, the secret husband comes back and "rescues" her, praising her virtue. But what choice did she have, really?
So I was thinking about the whole virginity thing, and had the thought: what if there was a maiden who had a very loyal handmaiden. The handmaiden didn't need to protect her purity (for reasons), so when suitors came for the maiden, when the lights were out, the handmaiden would take her mistress's place, thus keeping the maiden virginal. And I saw this as a love story between the women. I feel like I could work with that idea.
My own brother is being such a bro. I knew he would be, too. I'm staying off Facebook for a few weeks!
In related, but regarding a different work of fiction, as I anticipated, the we-all-read-the-same-fanfic-this-month fic club on Discord voted for what we're reading the next six months, and none of the fics that won are the three I wanted to read. But! I do have them bookmarked. It's a ship-specific server, and there are times when how I perceive the pairing is notably different from most of the active voices in the group. It's part of why I still feel like an intruder there. Nothing to be done about it. I really want someone to talk to me about the things I love, it doesn't happen, that's how it is.
I had a story idea earlier, but it has since slithered away from me. I hope it comes back. I inevitably had some small fic ideas that are canon compliant, but then this one popped up but I was in the midst of a conversation, and I couldn't stop to jot notes.
EDIT: I remembered!
I was having a conversation about a traditional story, in which a young woman catches the eye of a noble. He secretly marries her (she can't refuse due to him being noble) but his family doesn't acknowledge the marriage. So when he leaves to go off and study or whatever, she is unprotected when the local official wants her for himself, and imprisons her when she refuses him. In the end, the secret husband comes back and "rescues" her, praising her virtue. But what choice did she have, really?
So I was thinking about the whole virginity thing, and had the thought: what if there was a maiden who had a very loyal handmaiden. The handmaiden didn't need to protect her purity (for reasons), so when suitors came for the maiden, when the lights were out, the handmaiden would take her mistress's place, thus keeping the maiden virginal. And I saw this as a love story between the women. I feel like I could work with that idea.
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Date: 2019-12-24 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-12-26 11:51 pm (UTC)And then her father goes a bit too far and she ends up actually married to the domineering Hero and of course she has to sleep with him for real (although she manages to put it off one way or another for quite a long time). The plot is basically an excuse for a whole series of sex/quasi-rape scenes as per genre: the main bit I remember is the hero going in a puzzled way mid-coitus "you're actually not enjoying this much, are you?" and the heroine mentally going "of course I'm not, you idiot!", although I don't think she actually says it out loud ;-p
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Date: 2019-12-27 01:43 am (UTC)That's horrific on a few levels, yikes.