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Nov. 9th, 2018 03:05 pm I randomly googled 'stubbleglitter' which I do from time to time to see what's going on with that persona (don't pretend y'all don't do that too or I won't believe you) and I found an academic paper about fandom that referred to my fic smile for the fans. The basic gist of the (really, quite nasty little) story is that JC finds the fans kind of grotesque and intrusive and awful, but pretends he loves them because, y'know, they pay his bills.
What shocked me a little was that the writer of this paper took it to mean that I'd intended to sympathize with JC's disgust, and provide an inside look at how hard it is to be a fancy popstar and have to fake enjoyment of shitty pencil crayon drawings of yourself and rage internally at the unfairness of the squandering of your musical genius. I mean, blah blah authorial intent doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how the story's read and interpreted, but this is the first time I've had it happen to me personally and it's weird, lol! Couldn't she have just quoted one of, I dunno, the GSF stories and said something about female subversion of the male gaze?
What shocked me a little was that the writer of this paper took it to mean that I'd intended to sympathize with JC's disgust, and provide an inside look at how hard it is to be a fancy popstar and have to fake enjoyment of shitty pencil crayon drawings of yourself and rage internally at the unfairness of the squandering of your musical genius. I mean, blah blah authorial intent doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how the story's read and interpreted, but this is the first time I've had it happen to me personally and it's weird, lol! Couldn't she have just quoted one of, I dunno, the GSF stories and said something about female subversion of the male gaze?
