Hello, world. I've been in China for the past couple of weeks, bothering ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jin_fenghuang and cadesama and doing a great deal of writing, reading, and eating. It was awesome.
I still need to finish that Comiket post I didn't have time to write before hopping on the plane to Changchun, so I'm not going to link to or blab about every interesting thing that was waiting for me on the internet when I got back to Kyoto. This piece by writer Aliette de Bodard struck a chord with me, though. On the prevalence of US tropes in storytelling is a bit ranty, as the author herself indicates, but several of the points she makes about the non-universality of US narrative tropes are things that I really needed a reminder of. Favourite bits:
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jin_fenghuang and cadesama and doing a great deal of writing, reading, and eating. It was awesome.I still need to finish that Comiket post I didn't have time to write before hopping on the plane to Changchun, so I'm not going to link to or blab about every interesting thing that was waiting for me on the internet when I got back to Kyoto. This piece by writer Aliette de Bodard struck a chord with me, though. On the prevalence of US tropes in storytelling is a bit ranty, as the author herself indicates, but several of the points she makes about the non-universality of US narrative tropes are things that I really needed a reminder of. Favourite bits:
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