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Good essay on Gojyo and Hakkai and incest in Saiyuki by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
harukami. Massive spoilers if you don't know their backstories and how they met.
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Something I was thinking about in regards to the Tale of Genji: back when I was lurking on rec.arts.sf.fandom (or possibly it was rec.arts.sf.composition), I vaguely remember reading someone's post about medieval history. She said that once she really paid attention to the ages of the historical figures in question and realized that medieval Europe was being run by the equivalent of her highschool football team, medieval politics suddenly made so much more sense.
I think the same can be said for Heian Japan, at least as it's presented through the Tale so far. Someone in a comment on one ofrachelmanija's posts about it made a crack about it being the first fanfiction, and it's so damn easy to find fanfic tropes in it, and rachelmanija's mentioned that the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagan, who was a contemporary of Murasaki, the Tale's author, reads just like Livejournal. And apparently Murasaki made some thinly-veiled slams at other court ladies in her book, including Sei Shonagan. Which makes me want to map her onto fanfiction.net, if Sei Shonagan maps onto Livejournal.
*fights temptation to fandom_wank them*
ETA: Andwordsofastory says in a comment on my post about chapters 1-3 that the bit about Genji being compelled to sleep with the unattractive lady reminds her of a highschool jock being forced by his mother to take the geeky next-door neighbor to a dance. See? IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE!
harukami. Massive spoilers if you don't know their backstories and how they met.----------
Something I was thinking about in regards to the Tale of Genji: back when I was lurking on rec.arts.sf.fandom (or possibly it was rec.arts.sf.composition), I vaguely remember reading someone's post about medieval history. She said that once she really paid attention to the ages of the historical figures in question and realized that medieval Europe was being run by the equivalent of her highschool football team, medieval politics suddenly made so much more sense.
I think the same can be said for Heian Japan, at least as it's presented through the Tale so far. Someone in a comment on one of
rachelmanija's posts about it made a crack about it being the first fanfiction, and it's so damn easy to find fanfic tropes in it, and rachelmanija's mentioned that the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagan, who was a contemporary of Murasaki, the Tale's author, reads just like Livejournal. And apparently Murasaki made some thinly-veiled slams at other court ladies in her book, including Sei Shonagan. Which makes me want to map her onto fanfiction.net, if Sei Shonagan maps onto Livejournal.*fights temptation to fandom_wank them*
ETA: And
wordsofastory says in a comment on my post about chapters 1-3 that the bit about Genji being compelled to sleep with the unattractive lady reminds her of a highschool jock being forced by his mother to take the geeky next-door neighbor to a dance. See? IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE!
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