a step to the left and whoosh

[seraphcelene]

My desk does not face the window. Too distracting. It faces the kitchen, which is equally distracting considering that Pigskin Porkchop and I will talk across the bar, and our conversations are always epic.

Anyway, my desk does not face the window, so when I turned around after writing 5000 words I was stunned to find sun light. Clock declare it 7AM! I haven't done this since London and that was when the sun came up at four.

So, feeling good. 5000 words and on edit, they're not bad. It'll be a good first draft. Thanks to mallyns and cheebs for the good wishes. You guys ROCK!

In other news:
j_crew_guy is hosting a Joyce fic-a-thon.

Go sign up, kittens!

Comments

Re: fangirl squealing

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'll think about it! Also considering the Dawn one. And currently working on my Free Verse story. Ahhh, too many tantalizing challenges!

Btw, very cool thesis title, Passing is full of interesting self-invention stuff.

Re: fangirl squealing

[seraphcelene]

Go you! Dawn AND Joyce. *swoon* I can't wait.

As for my thesis, there's been some work done on the mulatto character as a destabilizing figure. It's all tied into race and gender as performance, you know, Judith Butler. The closing argument basically goes - the mulatta has to be killed off or absorbed into the black community (figurative death) in order to stabilize the social constructions founded through appeals to bodily differences. MY argument is that death, specifically in Passing only further subverts identitiy constructions and it's all mediated through the main character who writes, casts and performs the gender/race drama. yada yada yada blah blah blah.

I've been thinking that when this is done I might want to start on an essay and apply parts of the argument to BtVS. Performing Normalacy, primarily in seasons 1 through 5. And then there's always the idea of vampirism as performance, which can be applied particularly well to Spike throughout the seasons, but perhaps more specifically in seasons 5 through 7.

Oh, the ideas.

Re: fangirl squealing

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Oooh, fabulous ideas; a lot like how bisexuality is rejected by both the gay and straight communities because it introduces a third option which doesn't mesh with people's binary worldviews. Like Derrida's binary structured systems. Germaine Greer also has an essay about how transexuality creates a third gender which gets defaulted into female (the culturally/socially weaker sex) because society can't deal with the concept. Um, not to make this all about sex. ;) But it seems like the mulatta is very much the same thing, in a way, something which contains elements of both base identities but is separate and distinct. Are you applying any of Henry Louis Gates' stuff about signifying and doublemeanings and stuff?

And I would kill to read that as a Buffy essay!