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dolorosa_12We're up to Day Twenty of the fandom meme:
T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
I'm not sure I'd quite go to the extreme of dying to defend it, but I remain eternally irritated with the ending of Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows series. I'll explain my irritation (and the headcanon which negates it) behind a cut, due to spoilers.
This series ends with one of my least favourite tropes: characters having to leave the place in which they found home and a sense of family and community, and separating from that family and community. This series, to me, is about a group of misfits, refugees, migrants, and dispossessed people finding themselves and each other in a city which is built on migrants, refugees, misfits and the dispossessed. Very few people who live there were actually born there originally, and although it can be a cruel place to them, it's the place where they achieve the closest thing to home that's going to be possible.
And thus, it is deeply irritating to me that Bardugo seems to think the only happy ending for her messed up band of dispossessed misfits is to split them all up and send most of them back where they came from. I'm probably projecting way too much here, but I really, really dislike stories where immigrants never feel at home in the places to which they migrate, and who will only ever be happy 'back where they came from'. I don't like stories that tell hurt, damaged people that the only way they can heal from that damage is to return to the place they lived before the damage happened.
As you can probably imagine, therefore, my headcanon for this group of characters is firstly that none of the dies (I'm still bitter about that character's death) and secondly that they all remain in Ketterdam, realising that their home is each other, and Ketterdam. I generally only write and read fic that handwaves Bardugo's ending, or at least has the characters admitting (after they've gone their separate ways), that they need to go back to Ketterdam and be with each other.
U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
V: Which character do you relate to most?
W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!
T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
I'm not sure I'd quite go to the extreme of dying to defend it, but I remain eternally irritated with the ending of Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows series. I'll explain my irritation (and the headcanon which negates it) behind a cut, due to spoilers.
This series ends with one of my least favourite tropes: characters having to leave the place in which they found home and a sense of family and community, and separating from that family and community. This series, to me, is about a group of misfits, refugees, migrants, and dispossessed people finding themselves and each other in a city which is built on migrants, refugees, misfits and the dispossessed. Very few people who live there were actually born there originally, and although it can be a cruel place to them, it's the place where they achieve the closest thing to home that's going to be possible.
And thus, it is deeply irritating to me that Bardugo seems to think the only happy ending for her messed up band of dispossessed misfits is to split them all up and send most of them back where they came from. I'm probably projecting way too much here, but I really, really dislike stories where immigrants never feel at home in the places to which they migrate, and who will only ever be happy 'back where they came from'. I don't like stories that tell hurt, damaged people that the only way they can heal from that damage is to return to the place they lived before the damage happened.
As you can probably imagine, therefore, my headcanon for this group of characters is firstly that none of the dies (I'm still bitter about that character's death) and secondly that they all remain in Ketterdam, realising that their home is each other, and Ketterdam. I generally only write and read fic that handwaves Bardugo's ending, or at least has the characters admitting (after they've gone their separate ways), that they need to go back to Ketterdam and be with each other.
U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
V: Which character do you relate to most?
W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!