Subject: On floral gender:
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Posted on: 2015-04-08 10:32:00 UTC
As seen in the third part of 'Ephemerals', at least one Flower was entirely unaware that 'gender' and 'sex' (which it assumed were total synonyms) had any significance at all beyond 'which set of pronouns you pick'.
And then mentioned this to Lux. Yeeeeah.
hS
This has nothing to do with The Host's comment in the thread below, I swear. No, really. I've been working on this one. ...Why are you guys looking at me like that?
In which Rina and Zeb get an unusually bratty Sue. At least the fic was short.
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This one takes place after the Time Lady!Rose fic I tackled a few threads down, but before the cowrite with Desdendelle.
Next non-cowrite, I'll be heading into Alagaësia, and whoo boy is it going to be a doozy. Not to mention longer than this, I promise.
I’m sorry to say this, but when I’m not longer immersed in the story, because I was forced to read Slytherin common room twice in one sentence and think, "Huh, what’s this", then the work isn’t perfect. But I don’t really know how to do it better.
HG
I guess the Flowers are only mostly racist. But seriously, well done.
I don't think the Flowers are particularly aware of race at all. They're not even mammals, and they seem to have genders mostly as a convenience for the agents--what would they care about different types of humans? I think they categorize humans mostly into groups like, "Wielding a Weed Whacker," "Yelling incoherently about asparagus," and, "Likely to have a couple more good missions in them."
As seen in the third part of 'Ephemerals', at least one Flower was entirely unaware that 'gender' and 'sex' (which it assumed were total synonyms) had any significance at all beyond 'which set of pronouns you pick'.
And then mentioned this to Lux. Yeeeeah.
hS
I think the Mary Sues are getting more inventive/over-the-top lately. Guess the PPC will have to follow suit. >:)
Also, wow, Alagaësia, huh? I actually used to like Paolini, but now I think he's just "meh". Good luck and don't go any more insane!
Now I shove it into the dark corner of my past that includes my old Twitard knowledge.
Unfortunately, I still know both series very well, and it seems a shame to let that go to waste when the Plot Continuum nees me and ahaha I can't keep a straight face. Nah, this mission is going to be Zeb's territory. Rina's memories didn't all copy over properly, right? So she refamiliarized herself with the fandoms she liked... leaving Zeb their canon expert for Eragon fics. The Flowers still need to teach the guy who actually pulled the stunt a lesson, after all.
I read it around the time it first came out. I was in the appropriate demographic to really enjoy it. I still reread them on occasion. It isn't the greatest writing in the world, but it isn't the worst. It is very good for the up to 16 range that might find Game of Thrones and LotR a bit heavy or a bit out of their comfort zone.
I remember way back when, I had actually started working on a fanfic for it. I never posted it, and lost all back ups of it, but from what I remember, the OC was a very blatant Stu. Ancient Dragon Rider who happened to be somewhere off over the sea while all important events happened. It was going to be bad.
I've read the first couple books, too, and I didn't think they were horrible. They were mildly entertaining, making for a decent book-on-tape to listen to while I packed for moving one day (so I suppose I listened to rather than read them? Close enough.)
They read like a decent author's early work, like something you might write for a college creative writing course. They're rough around the edges--this person needed more practice before they got published. If I remember correctly, the author was unusually young to be starting his career as an author when he wrote them.
People oughtn't to get their work published just because they are good at writing for their age. These books would've been much more at home as a serial novel in a school newspaper, and would have gotten a good reception there.
He started work on it at 15 and it was definitely published before he was 20. I do not remember the exact age he was though, somewhere between 17 and 19 I think. But as far as reception is concerned, keep in mind they did spend it was on the best seller's list for its demographic for over 121 weeks I think. It was well received. Now the film on the other hand...don't get me started on that.
But I do agree with them being kind of meh as you put it. I loved them at the time, but I was reading the first two when I was 13-15 or so. After a few more years I have come to acknowledge that as far as children's books are concerned, they are good, but that's it. They have lost appeal to older demographics, because to me, they never really matured. Unlike say, Harry Potter which by the time Deathly Hallows came around, it had gotten much more mature. And I would even say that DH was bordering the YA and Adult demographics.
Then again, by the time Brisingr and Inheritance were released, my own personal tastes took a turn for the darker, which may have contributed to my subsequent neutrality to the series.
It's nice to have a breather from the Rina-breaking nightmares. Although again, I'm not exactly one to talk about torturing one's own creations...
This does actually take place after the cowrite. My bad.
~Iximaz is good at timelines.