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M ([personal profile] recessional) wrote in [personal profile] starlady 2011-12-01 09:37 pm (UTC)

Yeah, it's something I'm much less squidgy about touching in my own original stuff; it helps that, frankly, my view of reality is not based on those WASP US/Brit assumptions. My position isn't that of a FN reader immersed in FN culture, but in some ways it's closer to it*. (This DOES make a huge chunk of fantasy really aggravating and insulting to me, as it happens - if I bothered to rant about every time a story I read commits viewpoint!fail, my journal might be nothing but.)

With HP, I'm stuck with the assumptions of canon. And what's what I mean when I say I'm not sure I could respectfully integrate them (which in turn is different from saying I'm not sure if they COULD be respectfully integrated - I'm just such an outsider, it makes me nervous.)

(Also, that proposal sounds awesome.)

*that is, non-standard-WASP-Christian, non-monotheistic, non-easily-divided-into-"gods"-and-other-things etc etc viewpoint. Reading modern fantasy, especially modern urban fantasy, has not been a rewarding experience for me.

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