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mellicious) wrote2024-03-25 06:47 pm
mellicious) wrote2024-03-25 06:47 pm
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October Daye again
During Holidailies in December, I talked a couple of times about the October Daye books by Seanan McGuire. I have gotten to be more-than-just-mildly obsessed with these books. I talked about it with at least one other person who is a fan here, and I poked around the edges of the October Daye fandom - there's a wiki, for one thing. But I had already started making fairly extensive notes that were a combination of plot summaries and commentary before I even looked at that. These are books about fairies, pretty heavily based in folklore, but mostly my notes are more about the lore within the books. I am just starting to dip a toe into the actual folk-history related to this.
I've decided that since I have all this stuff, I really should put some of it up online. I should also make it very clear that I'm no expert about folklore in general - I was an English major once upon a time, and I'm sure they had folklore-related classes which I could have taken, but I didn't dip into that area. (My degree is in Liberal Arts, which I'm aware is completely out of fashion these days. I took the most classes in English Lit and also in Government but lots of other things as well.) Anyway, if I don't lose momentum I'm going to start typing this stuff up and putting it up here. It's mostly my own take on all this although as I said, I have looked a little at what other fan-made sites are around. (On the whole what I read didn't make me feel like I was wildly off-track with other people's takes.)
So this is just a little intro for if you see this stuff popping up and wonder what I'm up to. There will definitely be spoilers.
I've decided that since I have all this stuff, I really should put some of it up online. I should also make it very clear that I'm no expert about folklore in general - I was an English major once upon a time, and I'm sure they had folklore-related classes which I could have taken, but I didn't dip into that area. (My degree is in Liberal Arts, which I'm aware is completely out of fashion these days. I took the most classes in English Lit and also in Government but lots of other things as well.) Anyway, if I don't lose momentum I'm going to start typing this stuff up and putting it up here. It's mostly my own take on all this although as I said, I have looked a little at what other fan-made sites are around. (On the whole what I read didn't make me feel like I was wildly off-track with other people's takes.)
So this is just a little intro for if you see this stuff popping up and wonder what I'm up to. There will definitely be spoilers.