There's a bit in Paper Bullets where not!Kip talks about someone exoticizing/fetishizing mixed-API people, and not!Kip's urge to bring a parade of ugly mixed-API people past. Re the selection that appeared in the book, I appreciated that it didn't default toward pretty; all the other media in my life shows me way too many beautiful people. (And more irritatingly, beautiful people playing non-beautiful people.)
:: but then he said shucks, no-one's ever fetishized me, I don't know how it feels. ::
Not!Kip is fetishized in Paper Bullets. But he's also really slow to pick up on it.
Mm, Paper Bullets might irritate you, too: gender grounds and/or being overly facile. There's a bit near the end where not!Kip is guest-lecturing, and tells the audience that he wants his art to "fuck" the viewer; not!Kip then spends the rest of the lecture obessessing that everyone in the room is now looking at him and seeing just a giant walking erection. On reading that I thought, "But dude, you are a giant walking erection." Because as much as I was loving the book in other ways, there is something giant walking erection about it, too.
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Date: 2009-06-23 04:13 am (UTC):: but then he said shucks, no-one's ever fetishized me, I don't know how it feels. ::
Not!Kip is fetishized in Paper Bullets. But he's also really slow to pick up on it.
Mm, Paper Bullets might irritate you, too: gender grounds and/or being overly facile. There's a bit near the end where not!Kip is guest-lecturing, and tells the audience that he wants his art to "fuck" the viewer; not!Kip then spends the rest of the lecture obessessing that everyone in the room is now looking at him and seeing just a giant walking erection. On reading that I thought, "But dude, you are a giant walking erection." Because as much as I was loving the book in other ways, there is something giant walking erection about it, too.