I want to draw parallels to racially "mixed" marriages pre-1970s or so, and LGBT relationships through the '80s and '90s and today.
Oh, yes yes yes. This strikes to the heart of why I was so annoyed by the ending of the second book. If you're writing a mainstream book where the mixed-race couple gets dissed by their families, and their reaction is to move to California "to work to improve race relations!!" I would... be highly skeptical, both of their motives and of their chance of success at their stated goal. I would totally think they were running away from their real problems to chase ideal figments... wait a moment.
Dag's family appearances struck me as more evidently dysfunctional.
Yeeees, there is that. Although Dag also appears to have a much better network of friends-and-relations. And he is, like, 70 or something, for crying out loud!
LMB does tend to write well-meaning but useless brothers and other family (hi, Ekaterin's relatives) in her romances.
Especially brothers. I'm not sure it's a coincidence that LMB herself has brothers... Ekaterin's brothers, Drou's brothers, Fawn's brothers, Cordelia immediately realizing Drou has brothers...
I haven't seen enough of that one to make me twitch. I don't plan to seek it out.
Eh. It's mercifully rare in mainstream fantasy, unless it's also doubling as romance. However, I was watching Enchanted the other day, which I actually liked quite a lot, but true love in one day, ick.
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Date: 2008-04-24 04:13 pm (UTC)Oh, yes yes yes. This strikes to the heart of why I was so annoyed by the ending of the second book. If you're writing a mainstream book where the mixed-race couple gets dissed by their families, and their reaction is to move to California "to work to improve race relations!!" I would... be highly skeptical, both of their motives and of their chance of success at their stated goal. I would totally think they were running away from their real problems to chase ideal figments... wait a moment.
Dag's family appearances struck me as more evidently dysfunctional.
Yeeees, there is that. Although Dag also appears to have a much better network of friends-and-relations. And he is, like, 70 or something, for crying out loud!
LMB does tend to write well-meaning but useless brothers and other family (hi, Ekaterin's relatives) in her romances.
Especially brothers. I'm not sure it's a coincidence that LMB herself has brothers... Ekaterin's brothers, Drou's brothers, Fawn's brothers, Cordelia immediately realizing Drou has brothers...
I haven't seen enough of that one to make me twitch. I don't plan to seek it out.
Eh. It's mercifully rare in mainstream fantasy, unless it's also doubling as romance. However, I was watching Enchanted the other day, which I actually liked quite a lot, but true love in one day, ick.