Fannish Friday

[phantomtomato]

• Writing this week: drafted an exchange fic for my first exchange in many months! This is the longest piece of creative writing I’ve done since before the spring term, I think. Wild how much that saps my time and focus, something I somehow manage to forget at the start of each new term. I’ve also started on a just-for-me fic, the Forster crossover Tibby/Cecil which I mentioned in my last reading roundup. It is… just dialogue for now. This is one for which I need a bit of canon review!



• On that canon review: so the first step I took was to search the web for Tibby and Cecil’s names together and click through old blog posts and academic work, as one does. I read a 50-page MA thesis which seemed so promising—it was about effeminate men in Forster, with Tibby and Cecil as its two examples!—but which steadfastly denied homosexual interpretations of the two characters and disagreed with all prior literature suggesting we read them as gay. D: Why must the work specifically about these two reject homosexuality so staunchly? (I mean, I can guess why. I was just surprised to see it in a literary analysis about how Forster played with gender identity.)
  
  At least the author cited a bunch of other literature to disagree with it calling Tibby and Cecile gay!

Comments

[vriddy]

Writing! \o/ Congrats on the exchange draft and good luck with the canon review :D

[phantomtomato]

Thank you! <3

[garonne]

*At least the author cited a bunch of other literature to disagree with it calling Tibby and Cecile gay!

Haha, how unintentionally helpful of them :D

[phantomtomato]

We take what we must, right? :)

[regshoe]

Yay for the exchange fic, and for the Tibby/Cecil crossover (which may be just-for-you, but I am looking forward to reading it!)

I am going o_O at the idea of anyone writing a 50-page MA thesis on effeminate men in the novels of E. M. Forster, of all people, while steadfastly denying that the men in question might be gay. Some very strange choices and priorities there.

[phantomtomato]

When deciding what to write next, I had this embarrassing moment of realization that for all Forster has dominated my mind in the past year, I’ve only written a single fic for his work. Tibby/Cecil it was!

It was so disappointing to get into the body of the thesis and realize that this was all very intentional. There really is very little academic discussion of Tibby, and most about Cecil seems to be focused on comparing him to George, which is just not my interest. This author found the gap, and then absolutely wasted it.

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

Seconded about the Tibby/Cecil fic - I'm very much looking forward to reading it too! :D