Every post will contain spoilers, definitely in the content I upload and quite probably in the comments. I do not mind spoilers in this case, but am warning so others will know.
( Explanation of Project behind the cut )
Addendum: Links to the Cultural Appropriation Imbroglio for those unaware of the background can be found at
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rydra_wong's Journal here Chapter 1 Blood and Iron There be spoilers!
Chapter 2 Blood and Iron. There be spoilers!
Chapter 3 Blood and Iron. There be spoilers!
Chapter 4 Blood and Iron. There be spoilers!
( Blood and Iron Chapter 5 Ware Spoilers! )
Every post will contain spoilers, definitely in the content I upload and quite probably in the comments. I do not mind spoilers in this case, but am warning so others will know.
( Explanation of Project behind the cut )
Addendum: Links to the Cultural Appropriation Imbroglio for those unaware of the background can be found at
rydra_wong's Journal here Chapter 1 Blood and Iron There be spoilers!
Chapter 2 Blood and Iron. There be spoilers!
Chapter 3 Blood and Iron. There be spoilers!
( Blood and Iron Chapter 4 Spoilers )
Every post will contain spoilers, definitely in the content I upload and quite probably in the comments. I do not mind spoilers in this case, but am warning so others will know.
( Explanation of Project behind the cut )
Addendum: Links to the Cultural Appropriation Imbroglio for those unaware of the background can be found at
rydra_wong's Journal here Linkgs to Previous Chapters
Chapter 1 Blood and Iron There be spoilers!
Chapter 2 Blood and Iron. There be spoilers!
ETA: Thanks to
vom_marlowe who dropped a link to images of Vanners (Gypsy bred caravan horses) in the comments: and I think there's a good argument to be made for these incredibly gorgeous animals as one possible inspiration/image for Whiskey/horse/ETA( Blood and Iron Chapter 3 )
Short and sweet for those who missed: I'm reading a chapter a night/day and posting as I go. I hadn't read Bear before; I am reading in the wake of the current debate on Cultural Appropriation. I know she is in LJ (her username is one I cannot "hear" which means I can never remember it, which is why I refer her by her offline name!). There will be spoilers, but I will always cut. Last FYI: She knows about this project but told me she'll be sitting on her hands to avoid commenting (I think a good thing since the presence of a writer inevitably changes the nature of the discussion).
Oh, and quick note about icon because I cannot resist it: it's an albatross which is to say, tl;dr (like the Ancient Mariner!). It's a reference to my academic self.
( Blood and Iron Chapter 2 )
I have read her blog a number of times when a post was linked, and enjoyed the posts for the most part, but never subscribed (just didn't grab me).
But with all the squee around her work, I picked up a book of hers.....a while ago. Turns out it is Blood and Iron.
So I decided in the wake of the recent discussion to read, posting my responses as I go along. There will be spoilers (and I will always cut my responses). I will make some academic moves (because I am an academic), but this sort of first-reading response is what I would do as a brainstorming/worksheet for a academic analysis which, for me, is a multiple-draft process (three four drafts to get to a 10 page presentation--then maybe a few more drafts to expand to a 25 page essay--then MANY moar revisions once I get editorial feedback from a journal editor--and so on and so forth).
It took me years to learn to write academic essays (heck, if it comes to that, after fifteen or so years, I'm *still* learning--I still have to revise); quite a few of my earliest grad papers had bemused comments along the lines of "beautifully written but what are you trying to say?" scribbled at the end. I have a bunch of projects lined up (enough to keep me busy for at least the next three years, maybe five), so I don't anticipate doing any presentations/publications on Bear, but you never know. Paper topics find me more often than note.
Clearly, I am a reader informed by the discussions that have taken place about cultural appropriation and racism during the past....week? But these are not issues I've learned about only recently--my dissertation was about constructions of race and ethnicity in feminist theory and narratives in North America from the 1960s-1990s. (And I snuck in a while bunch of science fiction under that rubric!)
( Responses to chapter 1; includes spoilers )
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