ruminations on the nature of narrative and unreliable protagonist narrators
and Tuzzy-Muzzy derring do
What’s Tuzzy-Muzzy* derring do?
It’s that thing where the trans dude folk hero of your book is so besotted with his lady love that he accomplishes all kinds of impressive feats to get back to her.
Seriously… go read it.
*18th century slang for pussy… this book tells an entire second story in its footnotes
May you write 1,500 words with ease.
May your characters be lively and not cardboard.
May you need little editing.
May your muse visit you as soon as you sit.
May the Internet not distract you much.
May your phone lie dormant while you write.
Oh yes please, Twelfth Night – I knew nothing about Toby S when I first saw it on tv twenty years ago, but his scenes with Cesario are so tender, so gently homoerotic, they made me melt al over the place. Very much like the scenes between Yentl (I forgot her male name) and Avigdor. I am drawn to girl-in-drag-plus-slightly-older-man scenarios because the man teaches the “boy” how to act, move, work, speak in the PUBLIC dimension, which of course he wouldn’t do if he were interacting with a woman. And the “boy” loves being out and about in the world, but knows that as long as “he” is a boy “he” can’t openly have the man who is “his” mentor AND the object of “his” desire.
Either/or.
And it all goes belly-up at the end, of course, because the Duke and Viola get married, and that’s the end of riding and smoking as equals. And Avigdor and Yentl part, however tearfully, because as a woman she can’t ever study in public.
hey! this is so lovely thank you! since you said you’re already checking out my A03, take a look at my bookmarks there’s some great stuff in there. other than that here’s a short list of my favorite silverflint fics off the top of my head:
i need to stop now because i’m getting distracted re-reading everything. hope this helped! let me know if you need more 🙂 (also be sure to look into ratings/warnings etc.)
Flint: You were right. About the toll it took, playing this part.
Thank you, all those who pointed out that the “journey into the dark” can be read literally (what just happened between Silver and Dufresne) and also metaphorically (what is happening between Silver and Flint). Great notion, each bringing light to the other’s mind.
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