I love your imagination! With those adorable pony tails and her lovely, uh-oh expression, she looks like one of my all-time favorite heroines, Dorothy, from The Wizard of Oz. Now, if only your imagination could become my reality by clicking heals...
As ever, thank you for your kind words. I can see what you mean about the Wizard of Oz; maybe she's a friend of Dorothy? I actually think she kinda looks like Danielle Panabaker, who plays Caitlin Snow in the Flash. But I think I tend to see similarities in faces that others don't. So YMMV, as they said back in 1998. I wrote this as a kind of self-parody, I wanted to gently mock some of the cliches of TG caps. I'm pretty sure most people would freak out and touch themselves if they changed sex, and it's a fundamental component of any TG fiction, but after writing over 270 of these things, it was kind of fun to imagine a world where such behaviour is considered rather gauche. Anyway, glad you liked it!
Honestly, either this world is seriously weird, or your character is pretty OOC.
I mean she's visiting all female space colonies in an age where changing sex is about as common as changing hair color.
Basically she's considering people who don't usually change hair color hicks, but on the other hand visits a colony of people who'll only accept brown haired.
"People who refuse to use smartphones are so primitive. I don't get them," she thought while doing a trip to an amish colony.
You raise an interesting point, but I think you're slightly misrepresenting things. It's more that she's visiting people who only accept brown-haired people, but sneering at people who get really excited about dying their hair. There's three groups of people here. 1. The female seperatist colonists who only allow women to live there - and presumably don't allow people to change sex willy-nilly, and have all sorts of rules about gender and so on. 2. Normal earth people, who change sex quite rarely and make a big deal of it. 3. Sophisticated space diplomats (or whatever the hell she is) who change sex regularly and for whom it's not a big deal.
So our character is from group 3, but is looking down at group 2.
I love your imagination!
ReplyDeleteWith those adorable pony tails and her lovely, uh-oh expression, she looks like one of my all-time favorite heroines, Dorothy, from The Wizard of Oz.
Now, if only your imagination could become my reality by clicking heals...
Thank you, Rachel.
-CL
As ever, thank you for your kind words.
ReplyDeleteI can see what you mean about the Wizard of Oz; maybe she's a friend of Dorothy? I actually think she kinda looks like Danielle Panabaker, who plays Caitlin Snow in the Flash. But I think I tend to see similarities in faces that others don't. So YMMV, as they said back in 1998.
I wrote this as a kind of self-parody, I wanted to gently mock some of the cliches of TG caps. I'm pretty sure most people would freak out and touch themselves if they changed sex, and it's a fundamental component of any TG fiction, but after writing over 270 of these things, it was kind of fun to imagine a world where such behaviour is considered rather gauche.
Anyway, glad you liked it!
When you explain it like that, it's even funnier. I love your wit.
ReplyDeleteBTW: I had to look up YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary - Urban Dictionary... LOL again
-CLake
Thank you. :)
DeleteHonestly, either this world is seriously weird, or your character is pretty OOC.
ReplyDeleteI mean she's visiting all female space colonies in an age where changing sex is about as common as changing hair color.
Basically she's considering people who don't usually change hair color hicks, but on the other hand visits a colony of people who'll only accept brown haired.
"People who refuse to use smartphones are so primitive. I don't get them," she thought while doing a trip to an amish colony.
You raise an interesting point, but I think you're slightly misrepresenting things. It's more that she's visiting people who only accept brown-haired people, but sneering at people who get really excited about dying their hair. There's three groups of people here.
ReplyDelete1. The female seperatist colonists who only allow women to live there - and presumably don't allow people to change sex willy-nilly, and have all sorts of rules about gender and so on.
2. Normal earth people, who change sex quite rarely and make a big deal of it.
3. Sophisticated space diplomats (or whatever the hell she is) who change sex regularly and for whom it's not a big deal.
So our character is from group 3, but is looking down at group 2.