idle thought #302
Nov. 17th, 2021 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madimpossibledreamergot sucked into reading more tumblr criticism (as in, an academic reading) and was thinking about how superwholock failed us
and then went
wait
that ending
the really cool one that could have happened
where the supernatural dudes beat the author and it's all meta
and then I had a thought
...could we read the First as a prototype meta 'fight the author' thing? I highly doubt it was intended, but:
*without special powers, authors can't actually go into the fic and fight their own characters, but they can create author inserts. Generally, the author insert doesn't get super involved with the events (Rohan Kishibe is kinda an exception)
*They would seem really crazy powerful to the characters, though.
*Because authors have words, and that can be legit terrifying. Words can hurt, or verbal abuse wouldn't be possible.
*They know everything. Inherently. Because they created the universe. They could and often do use the knowledge to terrify their characters.
*They create the antagonists and minions to send against the heroes.
*They can control characters and make them 'act OOC'.
Part of the reason I love this reading is that after years of crap treatment by her authors (esp Whedon), Buffy gets the last laugh. But (ignore the time of posting), this is legit a 3 am thought, I'm exhausted, and I'm frazzled because I didn't get the things done I needed to get done, so it's not as fleshed out as I'd like.
and then went
wait
that ending
the really cool one that could have happened
where the supernatural dudes beat the author and it's all meta
and then I had a thought
...could we read the First as a prototype meta 'fight the author' thing? I highly doubt it was intended, but:
*without special powers, authors can't actually go into the fic and fight their own characters, but they can create author inserts. Generally, the author insert doesn't get super involved with the events (Rohan Kishibe is kinda an exception)
*They would seem really crazy powerful to the characters, though.
*Because authors have words, and that can be legit terrifying. Words can hurt, or verbal abuse wouldn't be possible.
*They know everything. Inherently. Because they created the universe. They could and often do use the knowledge to terrify their characters.
*They create the antagonists and minions to send against the heroes.
*They can control characters and make them 'act OOC'.
Part of the reason I love this reading is that after years of crap treatment by her authors (esp Whedon), Buffy gets the last laugh. But (ignore the time of posting), this is legit a 3 am thought, I'm exhausted, and I'm frazzled because I didn't get the things done I needed to get done, so it's not as fleshed out as I'd like.
