and I just found out about "shipping," too
Mar. 3rd, 2011 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerSince I live to kill off my own beloved characters, I have to live with readers' reactions - and so, of course, do the readers.
Although it doesn't specifically mention my Riverside stories "The Death of the Duke" or "The Man with the Knives", the recent acafenic essay by Racheline Maltese, Tangible Reality of Absence: Fan Communities and the Mourning of Fictional Characters , has a lot of interesting things to say about responses to the deaths of fictional characters, from Wilbur's friend Charlotte the Spider to Ianto Jones [argh! he dies?! OK, I'm behind...] to Severus Snape (mais biensur. He had it coming. Delia & I like to play a little game while watching TV (at the commercials) or new plays (at intermission) called "Marked For Death" - as in, "Is s/he..?"), to Sherlock Holmes (though, like Halley's Comet, he tends to come 'round again). Cool stuff. And what can I say? As an artist, I love seeing things through to the bitter end - and I've always responded to tragedy as a genre - with the understanding that they're not always the same thing.
Oh, yeah; and Thomas the Rhymer, don't forget that. Sorry, folks; it's just the way I roll, given world enough, and time.
Although it doesn't specifically mention my Riverside stories "The Death of the Duke" or "The Man with the Knives", the recent acafenic essay by Racheline Maltese, Tangible Reality of Absence: Fan Communities and the Mourning of Fictional Characters , has a lot of interesting things to say about responses to the deaths of fictional characters, from Wilbur's friend Charlotte the Spider to Ianto Jones [argh! he dies?! OK, I'm behind...] to Severus Snape (mais biensur. He had it coming. Delia & I like to play a little game while watching TV (at the commercials) or new plays (at intermission) called "Marked For Death" - as in, "Is s/he..?"), to Sherlock Holmes (though, like Halley's Comet, he tends to come 'round again). Cool stuff. And what can I say? As an artist, I love seeing things through to the bitter end - and I've always responded to tragedy as a genre - with the understanding that they're not always the same thing.
Oh, yeah; and Thomas the Rhymer, don't forget that. Sorry, folks; it's just the way I roll, given world enough, and time.