The December Post
With Christmas and New Year’s just days away, I’ve been meditating about many things: writing, fandom, motherhood, feminism, etc.
Organizing is a daily process, I’ve noticed. Papers from school create a weekly blizzard only tamed by the use of boxes.
Fandom is wild and crazy and oh so fun, yet it seems like a lot of the fans don’t care how showing their tributes and ideas in fandom are taken. I’m talking about the ones who butcher the English language/canon1 and take any sort of criticism personally, rather than a way to improve and get better. But perhaps they think they can’t change or improve, that they are perfect in every way, but sad to say nobody is perfect, and can only be the best they can be.
Writing is both a joy and a cross. On one hand, finding out how a story develops, and characters change is exciting and wonderful, but then the actual sitting down and making oneself do the work is the cross. So many wonderful distractions, so little time!
Motherhood. I was thinking about that while on my daughter’s field trip to Knoxville last week. We saw A Year With Toad and Frog plus toured the McClung Museum. I was thinking about how I’m one of the younger mothers to actually participate and be involved and that it seemed to be sad that it was mostly the older mothers who were more involved with their children. Or it just may be a quirk in my daughter’s kindergarten class and school. Speaking of which, it seemed just yesterday it was her first day of school and now the year is half over.
Feminism. A bugaboo to many women, who seem to think that feminism means not being a woman, but trying to be a man in all ways. I’m of the opinion that one should have the right to be ourselves, rather than conforming to others’ perceptions of us. It is a necessity that women are accepted as human beings, not as brood mares or prizes or objects to be collected, fawned over, etc., but ordinary humans with equally valid viewpoints and beliefs.
1 Canon in this case meaning the creator’s version-what is published be it manga, anime, books, TV shows or movies.