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Take Two, Knightly
Over in the LJ version of the comments to this fine article by Zeborah, the author raises the spectre of 'Lancelot as Frensshe troubadour's Arthurian Marty Stu' - a spectre which makes such wicked sense, I'm not sure I shall ever be able to banish it.
Worse thoughts are following in its train.
If Arthurian fandom busied itself with creating stroke-for-stroke renditions of duels between knightly pairings who failed to fight in the source material, would that be 'hack-and-slash fiction'?
The Damosel of the Tourmaline Tower by nim4balin - Lamorak/Alisander (mtd, ft, skill<>, angst, magic, implied woman)...
AAAAAAAGH! Makeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstop!
Oh, and what we should make all of those tournament scenes in Malory...
Worse thoughts are following in its train.
If Arthurian fandom busied itself with creating stroke-for-stroke renditions of duels between knightly pairings who failed to fight in the source material, would that be 'hack-and-slash fiction'?
The Damosel of the Tourmaline Tower by nim4balin - Lamorak/Alisander (mtd, ft, skill<>, angst, magic, implied woman)...
AAAAAAAGH! Makeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstop!
Oh, and what we should make all of those tournament scenes in Malory...