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Re: All of the issuefic * outs self*

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the recip, I asked for no issuefic, and none of the story read as issuefic to me --i love it to pieces for the vivid setting and the take the bull by the horns approach to racial injustice and life as an activist at for racial Justice in the fic took. It reminds me rather a lot of "the Watsons Go to Birmingham", which I read recently and also loved. My only complaint is that I had to periodically mentally replace "flat" with "apartment"".

Re: All of the issuefic * outs self*

[(Anonymous)]

.... coalie. The Watsons Go To Birmingham is a moralistic children's book. It's a decent moralistic children's book, but it is literally a moralistic children's book. I just double-checked. Penguin has it listed for 8-12 year olds. Is that your standard of sophistication for books about Black people?

Re: All of the issuefic * outs self*

[(Anonymous)]

SC

I mean, like your gift! That's great! I think there's things to recommend about a parable-like approach to telling these stories. But it's weird to praise it for the vividness and specificity of its approach to the setting and it's weird to set up a "first novel for young readers" as the standard of a good story about the period.

Also, what do you think issuefic is?

Re: All of the issuefic * outs self*

[(Anonymous)]

From stories about black people generally? No. That depends entirely on the canon/author and other indicators. . I'd expect something deeper if I'd requested "Lilith's Brood" fic, for example.

But 8-12 is about the level of sophistication I expect from a <2k fic based on a gifset AU of a Disney animated lion Hamlet, so I wasn't disappointed. (Tbh I'd be looking for a different kind of fic from something set in the Ashanti or Mali empire, or from a fic based off the Broadway show as well.)

Re: All of the issuefic * outs self*

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, dear.