So I'm trying to get my 500 words/day in on the fic I'm mostly working on now, a post-Superman Returns fic with Kara Zor-El (Supergirl), and I've realized that my seminary classwork has seriously affected this. Among other things we're doing in Systematic Theology is studying "theologies of liberation," which include perspectives from just about every oppressed group you can imagine. I was writing Kara's perspective and all of a sudden there was all this stuff about voicelessness and the way language shapes thoughts/identity and cultural imperialism in there that I had no clue about until I started writing ten minutes ago but seriously makes sense from what we know of Krypton. (Not that she can really articulate it, atm.) This is not the first such revelation I've had with this fic. However, I think it will require serious betaing when I'm done with it because I'm too close to it, and can't tell if I'm being too heavy with it or too oblique. Also because I'm a white middle-class American female young enough to have encountered no serious gender discrimination in her life, either practically or theoretically, so I would kind of like someone who has experienced such things check out the whole perspective of the oppressed thing Kara's sort of sprouted (not that she counts herself as oppressed, mind). But that'll be a while. 6,000 words in and they haven't even left the Fortress, yet.
