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dueltastic ([personal profile] dueltastic) wrote in [personal profile] delphi 2013-12-24 07:54 pm (UTC)

I'm also something of a casual fan - I saw the series when it came out, so it got filed away with sort of a fond footnote in my head, and I've recently started picking up the books after stumbling across a lot of mentions. It never occurred to me until you wrote a crossover for it that Jeeves fanfiction existed. (Except in the sense that somewhere there's fanfic of everything if you look hard enough. But fanfiction in actual rather than theoretical sense never occurred to me.) I think rare fandoms appeal to me in a strange way.

I'm a little fascinated by your thoughts on non-traditional protagonists and non-traditional narratives that will support them as heroes, and I'm pleased they've tumbled out of these questions. I'm not sure I've put the thought into dissecting narrative extensively enough to immediately see how those character types impact the narrative, but I'm interested. My feelings on the hero's journey are that it's an interesting analysis tool, but then one has this problem of having a hammer and suddenly seeing a lot of literary nails, and I don't yet have a theory of how to move these character types into more prominent roles.

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