SO I don't know why it posted that comment, sorry.
as I was saying
rain rain rain all week. But I did get out a little bit yesterday, which was nice!
...YOU GAVE ME THE TITLE OF AN ACTUAL BOOK I THOUGHT YOU WERE GIVING ME A TITLE AND I HAD TO MAKE UP A PLOT FOR IT. well if it's already been written I will stop writing it in my head then. I am intrigued. Tell me more. (What part of the analysis?)
My parents are pretty awesome and my dad is pretty much unreal. One of my mom's nicknames for me is the female version of Dad's name because we are so much alike. Anyway, one of my favorite stories about my dad:
[SCENE: Jade's fourteenth birthday party. All her little eighth grade friends are spending the night and discussing how Jade really needs to get instant messaging so she can be up on everyone's social lives. They devise a plan wherein as soon as Jade's dad enters the room, they will ask him in unison to allow this.]
[ENTER Jade's dad]
Jade's friends, on the count of three: MR. SABRE, CAN JADE GET AIM?
[Jade's dad carefully surveys each and every girl in the room.]
Jade's dad: People in hell want ice water.
[EXIT Jade's dad]
[A pause]
Jade's friend #1: ...your dad is SO COOL. Jade: WHAT. JF #2: My dad would NEVER say something like that to me! Jade: WHAT NO. Jade's friends: WOW your dad is so neat that was totally awesome! Jade: GUYS GUYS WERE YOU PAYING ATTENTION HE SAID NO THAT'S NOT COOL AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH
fin.
ANYWAY.
I think the only time that female protagonists show any sort of hormonal emotionalness is when they're pregnant and haven't realized it, or when they're about to get their period for the first time/are going through puberty. And after it's been dealt with and they've gotten their birth control charm, Tamora Pierce, it's never an issue again. It's just such a hard thing to work in, you know? Like it requires you the author to know where your character is in her cycle in a given scene (and if you're like me and have a terrible sense of time you're in trouble) and like you have to decide if it matters to the scene or not, but at the same time how often do you read about female kickbutt heroines being like "uuuuuuuuuuuugh I really can't fight today the cramps are too bad"? And I feel like that's a part of female experience that deserves to be brought up in fantasy. But at the same time you want to be subtle about it, instead of just being like SHE'S PMSING GUYS. Which, in the end, is why we really just don't bother.
I am EXCITED it's done by a Frenchman too I just...don't know how I'll ever get a chance to see it. /weeps for local movie theatres.
OH YES. I STILL HAVE THE EARRINGS QUARK GAVE ME. I'M ACTUALLY WEARING THEM IN MY MILITARY ID PICTURE because I couldn't find my peace sign earrings I think I left them at home but dragons are pretty good too I think.
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Date: 2012-08-08 02:20 pm (UTC)as I was saying
rain rain rain all week. But I did get out a little bit yesterday, which was nice!
...YOU GAVE ME THE TITLE OF AN ACTUAL BOOK I THOUGHT YOU WERE GIVING ME A TITLE AND I HAD TO MAKE UP A PLOT FOR IT. well if it's already been written I will stop writing it in my head then. I am intrigued. Tell me more. (What part of the analysis?)
My parents are pretty awesome and my dad is pretty much unreal. One of my mom's nicknames for me is the female version of Dad's name because we are so much alike. Anyway, one of my favorite stories about my dad:
[SCENE: Jade's fourteenth birthday party. All her little eighth grade friends are spending the night and discussing how Jade really needs to get instant messaging so she can be up on everyone's social lives. They devise a plan wherein as soon as Jade's dad enters the room, they will ask him in unison to allow this.]
[ENTER Jade's dad]
Jade's friends, on the count of three: MR. SABRE, CAN JADE GET AIM?
[Jade's dad carefully surveys each and every girl in the room.]
Jade's dad: People in hell want ice water.
[EXIT Jade's dad]
[A pause]
Jade's friend #1: ...your dad is SO COOL.
Jade: WHAT.
JF #2: My dad would NEVER say something like that to me!
Jade: WHAT NO.
Jade's friends: WOW your dad is so neat that was totally awesome!
Jade: GUYS GUYS WERE YOU PAYING ATTENTION HE SAID NO THAT'S NOT COOL AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH
fin.
ANYWAY.
I think the only time that female protagonists show any sort of hormonal emotionalness is when they're pregnant and haven't realized it, or when they're about to get their period for the first time/are going through puberty. And after it's been dealt with
and they've gotten their birth control charm, Tamora Pierce, it's never an issue again. It's just such a hard thing to work in, you know? Like it requires you the author to know where your character is in her cycle in a given scene (and if you're like me and have a terrible sense of time you're in trouble) and like you have to decide if it matters to the scene or not, but at the same time how often do you read about female kickbutt heroines being like "uuuuuuuuuuuugh I really can't fight today the cramps are too bad"? And I feel like that's a part of female experience that deserves to be brought up in fantasy. But at the same time you want to be subtle about it, instead of just being like SHE'S PMSING GUYS. Which, in the end, is why we really just don't bother.I am EXCITED it's done by a Frenchman too I just...don't know how I'll ever get a chance to see it. /weeps for local movie theatres.
OH YES. I STILL HAVE THE EARRINGS QUARK GAVE ME. I'M ACTUALLY WEARING THEM IN MY MILITARY ID PICTURE because I couldn't find my peace sign earrings I think I left them at home but dragons are pretty good too I think.