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Jul. 18th, 2017 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steffanMost of dreamwidth (at least the active stuff on http://www.dreamwidth.org/latest ) is fan fiction of some type.
I'm wondering if I could start writing fan fiction for a story that doesn't exist. (Yeah, I get it, that would just be *fiction* genius.) But I mean a story that is plugged in to an unspoken yet constantly referenced canon that exists for the characters and just assume my audience knows exactly what that canon is...
Sort of related to that, vice had an interesting article on Snape identifying as a trans woman... it's remarkably well thought out, and whether Rowling put it there or tapped into it subconsciously, there is definitely something to it:
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/bjx8xm/the-shockingly-convincing-argument-that-severus-snape-is-transgender
"Snape is a character who inhabits a fluid, ambiguous position for most of the narrative—always between two worlds, and often quite literally lurking in the shadows of a room, outside looking in, Ensnapingthe senses said. "Snape reads as someone in the closet, and tragically so."
To understand trans Snape scholarship, you have to immerse yourself into the text. Snape's profession is a useful entry point for this discourse: As Hogwarts' potions teacher, Professor Snape reveals her personal appreciation for the power of potion making in the first book, telling students that "there will be no foolish wand-waving" in her class. In 2011, author Racheline Maltese wrote a compelling, iconic essay about Snape as a female heroine, noting that Snape's seemingly insignificant comment about wands here is actually an early indication to the reader that "this character is, on some level, a rejection of masculinity, especially in light of the many moments of phallic humor wands provide us throughout the series."
I'm wondering if I could start writing fan fiction for a story that doesn't exist. (Yeah, I get it, that would just be *fiction* genius.) But I mean a story that is plugged in to an unspoken yet constantly referenced canon that exists for the characters and just assume my audience knows exactly what that canon is...
Sort of related to that, vice had an interesting article on Snape identifying as a trans woman... it's remarkably well thought out, and whether Rowling put it there or tapped into it subconsciously, there is definitely something to it:
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/bjx8xm/the-shockingly-convincing-argument-that-severus-snape-is-transgender
"Snape is a character who inhabits a fluid, ambiguous position for most of the narrative—always between two worlds, and often quite literally lurking in the shadows of a room, outside looking in, Ensnapingthe senses said. "Snape reads as someone in the closet, and tragically so."
To understand trans Snape scholarship, you have to immerse yourself into the text. Snape's profession is a useful entry point for this discourse: As Hogwarts' potions teacher, Professor Snape reveals her personal appreciation for the power of potion making in the first book, telling students that "there will be no foolish wand-waving" in her class. In 2011, author Racheline Maltese wrote a compelling, iconic essay about Snape as a female heroine, noting that Snape's seemingly insignificant comment about wands here is actually an early indication to the reader that "this character is, on some level, a rejection of masculinity, especially in light of the many moments of phallic humor wands provide us throughout the series."
