PKM resurgat

[wombat1138]

I have no idea how I initially ran into Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's now-defunct website, lizardqueen.com, several years ago-- even now, I think I've only read two or three of her books, and none of them before then-- but I enjoyed reading it and I was sorry when it vanished. While the site still hasn't returned, she now has a blog at http://mojohotel.blogspot.com/ ; it'll probably take a while for me to catch up with her archive of past posts.

While acknowledging that she may've lost some of her "Keltiad" fanbase by discouraging fan-neepery thereof in the strongest possible way, she doesn't seem to regret that aspect. It's always fascinating to see the wide range of authorial reactions to fandom appropriation (I mutter, guiltily glancing sideways at the doujinshi I'm currently translating-- although even if two wrongs don't make a right, three lefts do).

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[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

Well, one of her primary tenets is that she married Jim Morrison in a pagan ceremony, giving her the moral authority to guard his memory from people who didn't know him and try to twist his image into their superficial, misguided notions of who he was. It's consistent with her process in Blackmantle, where the lightly-veiled RPF is based on people she has directly known and loved-- with certain exceptions for whom she entirely *intends* the sort of disrespect which she describes as being involuntarily perpetrated by distant fans upon their would-be idols.

I should probably note that while I enjoy reading her essays, most of the subject matter ends up falling into my mental wasteland of "this is all very interesting, but I have no real sense of my own reaction to the substance of what's being said"-- sometimes it's because I don't completely grok what's going on, sometimes it's because I don't perceive any connection to egotistical moi and therefore can't be bothered to care, sometimes it's because I can't disentangle the objective core from the subjective presentation, etc. etc., but most of the time I have no idea whyfor things have been mentally wastelanded; they just are.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

BTW, firedrake_mor is a friend of hers, if you're curious enough to ask questions. :)

I don't quite get her fan-use position myself, although I would've been annoyed to receive something signed 'Aeron Queen of Celts' without being PKM anyway! That was pretty obnoxious, especially to the canon's creator.

Blast, I really need a general-Celtic icon.