Yuletide musings

[rachelmanija]

I know I'm not the only one thinking about this already!

I have two interesting thoughts for Yuletide requests next year.

One, if Anne McCaffrey is still eligible, would be to fix the horrible misogynist fate of Mirrim, who was one of my very favorite characters in the early books. I was thrilled when she impressed a fighting dragon. But lo! She then turned into a horrible bitch whom everyone hated, and the nicest thing even her best friend Menolly could say about her was that she might be nicer once she got raped laid.

My possible Yuletide request: Write dragonrider Mirrim the way McCaffrey should have written her.

Dragonsong (The Harper Hall Triology)

Two, George R. R. Martin's "Thousand Worlds" series: his '70s space opera stories, all far-flung planets and romantic sense of wonder and doom. Original characters would be fine, since his mostly die.

Dreamsongs: Volume I

ETA: Three thoughts.

Three, Red Cliff. Zhuge Liang/Zhou Yu. Slashy slash slash!

View Red Cliff on Amazon: BATTLE OF RED CLIFF PART 1 & PART 2 ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 2 DVDS

What are your preliminary desires?

Comments

[veejane.livejournal.com]

It is crazy to say that I want someone to rewrite The Secret Sharer with a completely different secret sharer? I'm not sure anybody's ever done Conrad for yuletide.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

What is The Secret Sharer?

[veejane.livejournal.com]

A novella by Joseph Conrad. It's about an unsure-of-himself ship's captain who runs across a fugitive and harbors that fugitive for no reason. I'm feeling my way through a long, drawn-out psychohistory of Conrad at the moment (and especially his treatment of race adn globalism), and I wondered suddenly while reading one of his other novels what The Secret Sharer would have been like if the (white) fugitive had been an Indian or a black man.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

That would be fascinating!