I used to love Arthurian legends and Faerie as well, but I also ended up burning out on those. I also wonder a bit how adolescent reading contributes to falling out of love with a trope; I know part of my eye-rolling at epic fantasy and vampires in love is directly related to how many bad ones I read as a teen.
I do generally feel less self conscious about enjoying a story kink story with a kink I disapprove of but cannot seem to shake, if the storyteller is one I trust with the politics of things.
*nods* Yeah, me too. I do think it's a very different thing to generally be a feminist and talk about feminism and turn toward comfort reading with skanky gender issues because you just cannot fight everything all the time, versus not paying attention to gender issues at all and consuming lots of media with skanky gender issues.
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Date: 2007-08-26 07:16 am (UTC)I used to love Arthurian legends and Faerie as well, but I also ended up burning out on those. I also wonder a bit how adolescent reading contributes to falling out of love with a trope; I know part of my eye-rolling at epic fantasy and vampires in love is directly related to how many bad ones I read as a teen.
I do generally feel less self conscious about enjoying a story kink story with a kink I disapprove of but cannot seem to shake, if the storyteller is one I trust with the politics of things.
*nods* Yeah, me too. I do think it's a very different thing to generally be a feminist and talk about feminism and turn toward comfort reading with skanky gender issues because you just cannot fight everything all the time, versus not paying attention to gender issues at all and consuming lots of media with skanky gender issues.
Would love to hear any more thoughts you had ^_^.