#fandine

[baranahayo]

“La razón de la sinrazón, que a mi razón se hace, de tal manera mi razón enflaquece, que con razón me quejo de la vuestra fermosura”. Relata Cervantes #Hvth . . . #Weekend #Streetleaks #Candelaria #Fandine #Sunday #Frases #Quijote (en I ♥ Bogotá) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUBTN7_LtTP/?utm_medium=tumblr

[theladyragnell]

You described the feeling I had while reading The Foxhole Court perfectly. I enjoyed the books very much and in fact burned through them in two days (at various airports), and it read to me like fanfiction from a very early stage--which is not a bad thing! I just couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was, and I wondered if you had any thoughts about that you would be willing to share? Is it the writing itself? The pacing? Use of tropes?

It’s so interesting! Because I’ve read other books where I can spot at 100 paces that the author has been/is in fandom (recently I read “Beanstalk” and its sequel by E. Jade Lomax on the rec of an anon, and despite the general lack of romance just the writing style read rather like fannish to me, and earlier in the year I read “The Untold Tale” by JM Frey and hoooooo boy was that written by someone in fandom) but they still don’t have that this-feels-like-there’s-a-canon-it’s-based-on feeling that The Foxhole Court gave me.

(... Although I guess it’s worth noting that Beanstalk has some fairy tale takeoffs and The Untold Tale is about a student who got sucked into the books she wrote her graduate thesis on? Fandom likes to acknowledge other texts even in its original fiction, I guess.)

And I’m not sure what did it? It’s such a heightened reality, but plenty of fiction is in a heightened reality. Like, I’m the first to say that sports culture gets culty, but with the numbers on the faces and the ridiculous training regimen from the Ravens and all the multiple identities and organized crime and everything being a non-stop mess it was very much A Sports Thriller Romance but ... I mean, maybe that’s why it felt like extrapolation? But that doesn’t really make sense either, because plenty of canons are extremely heightened on drama and coincidence and such.

Perhaps it’s that particularly it feels like fanfic of an RPF canon that we’re all missing out on. Like, I can see how tumblr looks in The Exy Universe. “You guys, I know it sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I’m pretty sure Neil Josten wears colored contacts and dyes his hair. Why???” and someone else chiming in “um, I looked for him online and can’t find any record of him before like a year before he signed with the Foxes,” and other people theorizing about why Andrew Minyard only ever plays one half of a game ...

I don’t know what made it so vivid! But it’s an impression I can’t shake.