and there was much rejoicing
Dec. 1st, 2010 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glass_icarusFirst Deadline has been made! *\o/* (Okay, am a bit nervous about PDF previewing failure but I did check the online form about 230947 times, so.) Time for a celebratory linkspam, haha.
» some overdue fanspam
+ Check out the Merlin lexicon,risingsunpub!
+![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zahrawithaz wrote some Morgana meta!
+ I have spent shameful amounts of procrastination time devouring Guide Me Home, a gigantor Ursa/Hakoda fic. >.>
+ Also, Disclosure will never stop being hilarious. Mai/Zuko complementary failboats, ahahahahahah! &hearts
+ game on: Mai vs. Iroh in a pai sho showdown! Also Mai/Zuko cuteness, hahaha.
+![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
rs_small_gifts has begun posting, yay!
» foodspam (now I want a food carnival!)
+deepad: Doodh se Dhuli
+vi: gross, weird, inedible
+ Jha's Lunar Year's End! AWESOME. &hearts
+troisroyaumes: Seven things
» +1: Via deadbro, Keeping Hobbits White since 1937 made me laugh and laugh, but also prodded me into some thoughts regarding racebending.
See, I never expected to have a place in Tolkien's world, or in any white European fantasy land (which isn't always quite the same as generic fantasy land). I'm not saying that chromatic people haven't been erased from these fantasies, just that many mythologies built up around worlds full of elves and dwarves and fairies and goblins and whatnot read to me as specifically white European, intentional or not. I grew up with them, but I grew up knowing that they didn't belong to me, that those worlds were ones in which I had no part.
Part of me wonders whether this is a failure of my imagination, or perhaps a side effect of growing up surrounded by white-dominated media; I've only just started asking "why not?", after all. Racebending something as coded-white as Arthurian legend would never have occurred to me without Angel Coulby as BBC Merlin's Guinevere! But in the end, I personally am less interested in carving out chromatic spaces in white European mythologies. I would rather re/claim the stories that aren't explicitly coded, the blank "universal" narratives (e.g. superheroes or space explorers or cops-and-robbers capers), than expand upon the ones that were never mine to begin with.
» some overdue fanspam
+ Check out the Merlin lexicon,
risingsunpub!+
zahrawithaz wrote some Morgana meta!+ I have spent shameful amounts of procrastination time devouring Guide Me Home, a gigantor Ursa/Hakoda fic. >.>
+ Also, Disclosure will never stop being hilarious. Mai/Zuko complementary failboats, ahahahahahah! &hearts
+ game on: Mai vs. Iroh in a pai sho showdown! Also Mai/Zuko cuteness, hahaha.
+
rs_small_gifts has begun posting, yay!» foodspam (now I want a food carnival!)
+
deepad: Doodh se Dhuli+
vi: gross, weird, inedible+ Jha's Lunar Year's End! AWESOME. &hearts
+
troisroyaumes: Seven things» +1: Via deadbro, Keeping Hobbits White since 1937 made me laugh and laugh, but also prodded me into some thoughts regarding racebending.
See, I never expected to have a place in Tolkien's world, or in any white European fantasy land (which isn't always quite the same as generic fantasy land). I'm not saying that chromatic people haven't been erased from these fantasies, just that many mythologies built up around worlds full of elves and dwarves and fairies and goblins and whatnot read to me as specifically white European, intentional or not. I grew up with them, but I grew up knowing that they didn't belong to me, that those worlds were ones in which I had no part.
Part of me wonders whether this is a failure of my imagination, or perhaps a side effect of growing up surrounded by white-dominated media; I've only just started asking "why not?", after all. Racebending something as coded-white as Arthurian legend would never have occurred to me without Angel Coulby as BBC Merlin's Guinevere! But in the end, I personally am less interested in carving out chromatic spaces in white European mythologies. I would rather re/claim the stories that aren't explicitly coded, the blank "universal" narratives (e.g. superheroes or space explorers or cops-and-robbers capers), than expand upon the ones that were never mine to begin with.
