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aliana1. This is entirely your fault.
Ali has a really nice discussion about STIs going on over at her blog. In my own comment (here) I discuss my own half-drafted story about Boromir's escapades with a chambermaid, which has gonorrhea as a plot element. It's really about power dynamics and where exactly you draw the line between consensual sex and rape in Middle-earth, and that's a big part of why I never finished it. It just felt too preachy, too much of an import of RL political concerns into fanfic.
But now I am thinking about it and am sorely tempted to dust it off and see if it's salvageable.
Most weeks that would be okay. But this week I really must work on my dissertation proposal, plus I have several blogging challenges coming up. And I have at least one story in the queue ahead of it to finish off. So this is really not the best time.
And yet... nuzgul.
P.S.: DO check out the thread. I'm sure Aliana would love your thoughts on STIs in Middle-earth, and you might find other folks' theories interesting, too. This topic may not feature that often in our fanfic, but that doesn't mean we writers haven't thought it through.
aliana1. This is entirely your fault.Ali has a really nice discussion about STIs going on over at her blog. In my own comment (here) I discuss my own half-drafted story about Boromir's escapades with a chambermaid, which has gonorrhea as a plot element. It's really about power dynamics and where exactly you draw the line between consensual sex and rape in Middle-earth, and that's a big part of why I never finished it. It just felt too preachy, too much of an import of RL political concerns into fanfic.
But now I am thinking about it and am sorely tempted to dust it off and see if it's salvageable.
Most weeks that would be okay. But this week I really must work on my dissertation proposal, plus I have several blogging challenges coming up. And I have at least one story in the queue ahead of it to finish off. So this is really not the best time.
And yet... nuzgul.
P.S.: DO check out the thread. I'm sure Aliana would love your thoughts on STIs in Middle-earth, and you might find other folks' theories interesting, too. This topic may not feature that often in our fanfic, but that doesn't mean we writers haven't thought it through.
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Date: 2013-01-28 06:05 pm (UTC)But this week I really must work on my dissertation proposal...
I find that I tend to be most prolific in creative writing when I actually have academic writing that I'm supposed to be doing. Procrastination, thou art indeed a mighty wind.