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Oct. 21st, 2011 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gryphonseggI found a good pair of antennae today! These are really nice antennae, not just something I could have bought the component parts of any of a hundred stores within driving distance and convinced a second-grader to put together in exchange for cookies. *looks askance at a certain other costume shop* Now I have everything I need for my alien costume. <3 I expect to post later this weekend with my character's personal backstory. I should have done that already, but I've been holding back because I've been thinking carefully about how to present it. I am dealing, after all, with a character who has no internal gender identity and who might never have developed a physical sex in the natural course of thing, who was forced to become what humans in general view as definitely and rather emphatically female. This is a character rejects gender outright and wears zir/her sex characteristics like war wounds.
I also finished The Truth of Valor this afternoon. I need to post about that too sometime. For now I'll just say that, while I am very aware of several issues on which major criticisms could be based, and while I know full well that I might end up discussing those at length myself, I really, really appreciate that this series exists. It's not a deep series by any means, but it's something that is (sadly) pretty special: an all-out, no-holds-barred power fantasy featuring a hero who is female. It is not a female power fantasy. It's not about a character having and learning to use and love feminine types of power. Nor is it about a character who gets to be the One Exceptional Woman and Better Than Other Girls. It's just a power fantasy, much like the thousands of other power fantasy stories in the genre, and its hero is female, and that's not an issue in the setting of the story.
I also finished The Truth of Valor this afternoon. I need to post about that too sometime. For now I'll just say that, while I am very aware of several issues on which major criticisms could be based, and while I know full well that I might end up discussing those at length myself, I really, really appreciate that this series exists. It's not a deep series by any means, but it's something that is (sadly) pretty special: an all-out, no-holds-barred power fantasy featuring a hero who is female. It is not a female power fantasy. It's not about a character having and learning to use and love feminine types of power. Nor is it about a character who gets to be the One Exceptional Woman and Better Than Other Girls. It's just a power fantasy, much like the thousands of other power fantasy stories in the genre, and its hero is female, and that's not an issue in the setting of the story.
