Myinsufficiently disguised Inu Yasha/Abhorsen crossover was not awesome, but that had more to do with the fact that I couldn't write worth crap at fourteen than anything else. I like to think about fiction as a conversation. Fanfic is saying "dear so and so" instead of "to whom it may concern".
I talk more about Westmark here, if you want more information before you go hunting: http://attackfish.livejournal.com/45155.html
As for married heroines and heroines with children, I don't think it's just about the prosaic verses the heroic. We have whole genres based around that, superheroes who have to keep up their grades or are constantly at risk for being fired, etc. Also, there are plenty of older heroes who left wife and children behind to go adventuring, so leaving and reentering the domestic world is permissible. But for women, there is still the assumption that marriage is the end of our story. When we marry, we have achieved our real goal, if it were, and with marriage and motherhood, we are assumed to subsume our identity to our spouse and family. There is no more heroine to have an adventure.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2013-01-30 05:07 pm (UTC)I talk more about Westmark here, if you want more information before you go hunting: http://attackfish.livejournal.com/45155.html
As for married heroines and heroines with children, I don't think it's just about the prosaic verses the heroic. We have whole genres based around that, superheroes who have to keep up their grades or are constantly at risk for being fired, etc. Also, there are plenty of older heroes who left wife and children behind to go adventuring, so leaving and reentering the domestic world is permissible. But for women, there is still the assumption that marriage is the end of our story. When we marry, we have achieved our real goal, if it were, and with marriage and motherhood, we are assumed to subsume our identity to our spouse and family. There is no more heroine to have an adventure.