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It may sound like my bringing my work home with me, but I've always really enjoyed blindfic. I think it's the way it changes the character's behaviour, and the restrictions it places on them and the people around them - and the way it limits and changes the relationship that builds between them and whichever character is the love interest. As well, in good blindfic, the writer uses other sensory details to bring the world to life, and when it's done well, it's so immersive. I love it. I even tried my hand at it myself, with one of my original projects - it was a fantastic challenge.
What I don't get, though, is why people always seem to feel the need to 'fix' it at the end of the fic, no matter what the original cause of the blindness was. Surely the fact that it is a lifelong disability is the whole point of making the character blind?
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ionaonie about an episode of House MD I watched today, in the space of one episode a main character gets a brain tumour, loses her sight, then is 100% cured with no repurcussions. Medicine doesn't work like that,, and while professionally I wish it did, narratively it never should. There should be no easy-outs.
I went to try and find a blindfic on my delicious for today's daily rec, but found that I have been remiss in my tagging and couldn't find the one I wanted. So, have this one instead! It's deep and painful and beautiful, and though the pairing seems impossible, Julad is a clever enough writer to make it seem inevitable.
Night-blooming Heartsease byjulad. Extract: Eventually Snape did appear, and he had that washed-out look of people who've done too much apparating. He ignored Neville and tore open his sack, inspecting what was inside.
Tags: harrypotter, snape/neville, slash, fic, angst, a:julad
What I don't get, though, is why people always seem to feel the need to 'fix' it at the end of the fic, no matter what the original cause of the blindness was. Surely the fact that it is a lifelong disability is the whole point of making the character blind?
It's like I was saying to
ionaonie about an episode of House MD I watched today, in the space of one episode a main character gets a brain tumour, loses her sight, then is 100% cured with no repurcussions. Medicine doesn't work like that,, and while professionally I wish it did, narratively it never should. There should be no easy-outs.I went to try and find a blindfic on my delicious for today's daily rec, but found that I have been remiss in my tagging and couldn't find the one I wanted. So, have this one instead! It's deep and painful and beautiful, and though the pairing seems impossible, Julad is a clever enough writer to make it seem inevitable.
Night-blooming Heartsease by
julad. Extract: Eventually Snape did appear, and he had that washed-out look of people who've done too much apparating. He ignored Neville and tore open his sack, inspecting what was inside.Tags: harrypotter, snape/neville, slash, fic, angst, a:julad
