refining these impatient ores

[lotesse]

I am taking the day off. The Boy is off, and my class this morning was canceled, and amazingly enough I don't have any major deadlines to meet for the next two weeks. Of course, then it will be the end of the semester - but today is mine, at any rate, to do whatever I like with! At present that means reading fic. Later I think it will mean going to the movies. Paul, maybe, or something else. There's Metropolitan Opera this weekend, and I'm excited about that!

Watched How To Train Your Dragon again last night - I am in total imminent danger of picking it up as a new fandom. It's so many things that I liked in kidlit - moppetty little boy makes good, and the sweetness of the animal friend story. Not to mention the lovely lessons in anti-disablism and nonviolence and forgiveness and the ability to befriend those who aren't exactly like yourself. And Hiccup is a great protagonist, between the sarcasm and the quick wits and his underlying sweetness.

I would not be at all surprised to find myself writing it. Or at the very least offering for yuletide next year.

Comments

[thistlerose]

Yeah, I've heard that too and I believe it. Rather, I believe that that's what the publishers and producers think. I just wish like hell that parents and teachers would do what they can to counter this idea that girls can only be protagonists if the target audience is female.

I read a lot of fantasy/adventure books when I was younger, and while I loved most of the male protagonists, I was drawn more to the girls - like Eilonwy, Eowyn, and Aravis - and wish they, or women/girls like them, had had starring roles.