It owes a literary debt to the same tradition JK Rowling writes in (I wouldn't be the person I am today without Roald Dahl, and neither, I suspect, would JKR), but an even greater comedic debt to the Alternative comedy scene, as per comics like Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmonson. And, to be fair, my brother's twisted, twisted brain.
Other things you don't see in JK Rowling are angry dwarves punching people in the crotch for sport, jelly babies that don't stop screaming after you rip their heads off, transgender teenagers, morris dancers with enormous genitalia, pneumatic stoats, and, of course, manticores telling dead baby jokes. And, you know, pretty much everything else in the entire story...
But, as I say, for all the silliness, it's a queer fable. What it's *about* is gender and sexuality. I'm most pleased that I have been able to combine the different elements effectively so far. Somewhere near the end, Grimly will find out that he isn't under a curse, and being a boy who was born a girl is just something that *happens*. He'll also come out as gay to his friends, and when asked why he didn't just be a girl will tell them that's not how it works. But I'll find a funny way to do it, because tortured, literary, self-referential queer exposition scenes are SO not my thing right now.
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Date: 2011-09-20 07:53 am (UTC)Other things you don't see in JK Rowling are angry dwarves punching people in the crotch for sport, jelly babies that don't stop screaming after you rip their heads off, transgender teenagers, morris dancers with enormous genitalia, pneumatic stoats, and, of course, manticores telling dead baby jokes. And, you know, pretty much everything else in the entire story...
But, as I say, for all the silliness, it's a queer fable. What it's *about* is gender and sexuality. I'm most pleased that I have been able to combine the different elements effectively so far. Somewhere near the end, Grimly will find out that he isn't under a curse, and being a boy who was born a girl is just something that *happens*. He'll also come out as gay to his friends, and when asked why he didn't just be a girl will tell them that's not how it works. But I'll find a funny way to do it, because tortured, literary, self-referential queer exposition scenes are SO not my thing right now.