Samuel Proulx on Nostr: A reflection that's vaguely related to another discussion I just had: I wonder if it ...
A reflection that's vaguely related to another discussion I just had: I wonder if it would be possible to write a #fanfic of #Xanth (or any other Piers Anthony book) that re-contextualizes and usefully responds in some way to the yucky themes of pedophilia and misogyny present in those works? I *think* a fix-fic of the mode series maybe? Or a rewrite of the adept series where people behave more realistically? A XANTH #fanfiction would just devolve into puns; XANTH isn't really trying to say anything anymore, and hasn't been for a long time. I think the thing that appeals to me about Piers Anthony's works to this day is that I still wish I could pretend the world works the way he thinks it does, even though I'm older and wiser and I know that it doesn't. So it could well be that a fic like this would be depressing anti-fun, at least if I wrote it.
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