Extremely belated Kaleidoscope reveals
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springgreenThis is embarrassingly belated! I forgot to post my reveals for 2011, so have that as well as the belated stories for 2012.
2011
The Ballad of Natty Cooper was written for![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
sanguinity. It's based on the (afaik) nonexistent fandom of Stephen Graham Jones' book The Bird Is Gone, but mostly on a few appendix entries. This was incredibly difficult to write, since I did that "omg what was I thinking?!" exchange thing of writing for a source I didn't sign up for! And also hadn't read prior to that! On the other hand, the appendix entries were so compelling! And I really don't regret it, since without the challenge, the book would probably still be on my tbr list. Anyway, there is some extremely thinly disguised RPF here, as well as a Neil Armstrong cameo, a lot of very unreliable narrators, a lot of very unreliable narratives, a lot of very unreliable information sources, and I have my own version of what I think happened.
whole is a teeny Hwang Jin-yi drabble fortroisroyaumes. It feels a bit silly to write commentary on it, when it would probably be longer than the piece itself....
2012
Yeol, Han (열, 한) is a Capital Scandal fic written forGramarye. It has a few spoilers up through the first five episodes or so, and it mainly focuses on Cha Song Ju and Na Yeo Kyeong. And apparently AO3 won't let me edit it for notes, so: thanks very much to troisroyaumes for the quick and excellent beta and for the help with the title! 열 (yeol) roughly means "heat," and 한 (han) roughly means "coldness." While I love the outfits and the ridiculous plot of Capital Scandal, I wanted to write something that acknowledged more of the realities of Japanese occupation and what it meant and cost to simply live under that, and what it meant and cost to the people who resisted it.
Searching for Scheherazade is a One Thousand and One Nights pinch hit written forfresne. Gah! What was I thinking, to pick up a pinch hit when I hadn't even started my original fic! Such are the ways of fic exchanges!
I grew up reading a translation of One Thousand and One Nights and idolized Morgiana, who pours boiling oil over the heads of thieves. But I have so many qualms about why OTON is popular in Western culture and why Wiki lists more Western adaptations of it than Arabic-source adaptations (I am hoping it is merely because Wiki people lack knowledge of a lot of the Arabic-language adaptations, but don't actually know). The translation history of OTON is also incredibly tangly and really gross at certain points, and then I kept reading that OTON is more respected in translation than in its original language, since it was seen as mere oral storytelling by Arabic literature people. I took that with many grains of salt, because hey, Wiki and Western self congratulation.
I wanted something about translations and cultural appropriation and what happens when you find out your important stories are actually betrayals fed to you by those who have sanitized them and oral traditions and how stories must and do change and unattributed female storytellers that would hopefully still read as a story and not as a credo, though of course, I am the last person who can judge if I succeeded or not.
2011
The Ballad of Natty Cooper was written for
whole is a teeny Hwang Jin-yi drabble for
2012
Yeol, Han (열, 한) is a Capital Scandal fic written for
troisroyaumes for the quick and excellent beta and for the help with the title! 열 (yeol) roughly means "heat," and 한 (han) roughly means "coldness." While I love the outfits and the ridiculous plot of Capital Scandal, I wanted to write something that acknowledged more of the realities of Japanese occupation and what it meant and cost to simply live under that, and what it meant and cost to the people who resisted it. Searching for Scheherazade is a One Thousand and One Nights pinch hit written for
I grew up reading a translation of One Thousand and One Nights and idolized Morgiana, who pours boiling oil over the heads of thieves. But I have so many qualms about why OTON is popular in Western culture and why Wiki lists more Western adaptations of it than Arabic-source adaptations (I am hoping it is merely because Wiki people lack knowledge of a lot of the Arabic-language adaptations, but don't actually know). The translation history of OTON is also incredibly tangly and really gross at certain points, and then I kept reading that OTON is more respected in translation than in its original language, since it was seen as mere oral storytelling by Arabic literature people. I took that with many grains of salt, because hey, Wiki and Western self congratulation.
I wanted something about translations and cultural appropriation and what happens when you find out your important stories are actually betrayals fed to you by those who have sanitized them and oral traditions and how stories must and do change and unattributed female storytellers that would hopefully still read as a story and not as a credo, though of course, I am the last person who can judge if I succeeded or not.
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Date: 2013-01-03 12:07 am (UTC)[ETA totally inconsistent, me, but I don't have the hangeul IME set up on dayjob computer.]
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Date: 2013-01-03 12:14 am (UTC)Looked up Gaksital, though, and oh man, really want to watch it now!
Capital Scandal is... hrm. The ton is very uneven, and like I said, it doesn't handle nearly as much politics as I would like, but I like it a lot, and really love the main characters. That said, you kind of have to hold the serious political story with the love story and the slapstick together in your head, which can give you a bit of whiplash...
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Date: 2013-01-03 12:52 am (UTC)Uneven tone here, too, but I think it's deliberate: the first episode is practically a thriller, the rest isn't. Reverses or wrings the neck of a good dozen kdrama staples, like amnesia and life-threatening vow. But I am waiting to see the final ep (18) next week before deciding whether it's one of my favorite kdramas ever or a horrible cheat. :P
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Date: 2013-01-06 12:16 am (UTC)Did I mention before that I love this fic? I love this fic.
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Date: 2013-01-04 11:50 pm (UTC)Also, fic about the founding of Ae Mul Dan would be so cool! Mostly I have been looking up stuff about resistance movements and assassinations on Wiki, so, not very good research, but definitely enough to know that I want to know a lot more.