> The Blade/Dan Heng ship isn't torture, it's abuse.
Unfortunately, with the typical level of writing in this fandom, I am not sure many writers actually make that difference. =/
Especially on the CN side. I mean, a lot of BG romance novels are about really toxic relationships, but the abused female lead will still end up forgiving any number of physical and emotional damage done by her abuser after some token "repenting", and "live happily ever after". But there's a significant readership which still sees this as just angsty romance and not, y'know, abuse.
> What I would like to see is how Ratio's life philosophy informs his social interactions.
Hm... those kind of stories will probably need to have a side character that's from Ratio's academics side professor to actually lead into things. Unfortunately, most plots tend to focus on the business relationship with the IPC, or research side with the Guild/Genius Society. So that doesn't come up often, I guess.
I've seen one fic recently which does get a little into his academic profession as a career, so I'll throw this rec out here: The Egyhazo Incident. There are stuff that really bugged me about it, such as equating the Intelligensia Guild = University of Veritas Prime, and the bad sense of scale giving it a staff size that's closer to my local community college than an interstellar institution, and the anachronisms like *fax* in a setting that already has cell phones. But this setup does end up featuring more characters from the university side, which offers more of a peak into that side of the story.
Another rec I'll throw out here is this one: 以毒攻毒 - A rewriting of Ratio & Aventurine's first meeting. Aventurine takes up the mission of getting Ratio's cooperation with the Strategic Investment Dept. Negotiation starts off at Ratio's university class, then moves onto a politically unstable planet where the Intelligensia Guild is doing some educational charity work. (Dialogue there gets a bit soapboxy but at least the ideas espoused are within my characterization SOD.) Ends with some actiony teamup work. The romance at the end feels too sudden IMO, if we can ignore that, it would be a nice pre-slash story.
> Like the stuff was obviously written by people who have ZERO insight into the academic life or know that "Ph.D." stands for "Doctor of Philosophy".
LOL, yeah, that would be obvious. I had the expectation before that this CP might not be pairing for you, given that the academic side of Ratio's character is potentially rife for writing that would drive you up a wall. Which is why I didn't really mention it much in my HSR posts.
I mean, I think the canon writing is also guilty of having writers who obviously never got an actual bachelor's degree from an university doing the writing. Because the 8 doctoral degrees thing is *so* unnecessary. I mean, look at Newton, he only had a degree in math, but that doesn't stop him from being a pioneer in fields like astronomy, economics, physics, etc. Similarly, if I was the one doing the writing, Dr. Ratio might only need to have a degree in math and theology (and maybe biology), and the rest of his credentials can just be discoveries/inventions/achievements in the other various fields. Or even honorary degrees foisted on him by the university maybe. *shrug*
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Date: 2024-09-19 07:01 (UTC)Unfortunately, with the typical level of writing in this fandom, I am not sure many writers actually make that difference. =/
Especially on the CN side. I mean, a lot of BG romance novels are about really toxic relationships, but the abused female lead will still end up forgiving any number of physical and emotional damage done by her abuser after some token "repenting", and "live happily ever after". But there's a significant readership which still sees this as just angsty romance and not, y'know, abuse.
> What I would like to see is how Ratio's life philosophy informs his social interactions.
Hm... those kind of stories will probably need to have a side character that's from Ratio's academics side professor to actually lead into things. Unfortunately, most plots tend to focus on the business relationship with the IPC, or research side with the Guild/Genius Society. So that doesn't come up often, I guess.
I've seen one fic recently which does get a little into his academic profession as a career, so I'll throw this rec out here: The Egyhazo Incident. There are stuff that really bugged me about it, such as equating the Intelligensia Guild = University of Veritas Prime, and the bad sense of scale giving it a staff size that's closer to my local community college than an interstellar institution, and the anachronisms like *fax* in a setting that already has cell phones. But this setup does end up featuring more characters from the university side, which offers more of a peak into that side of the story.
Another rec I'll throw out here is this one: 以毒攻毒 - A rewriting of Ratio & Aventurine's first meeting. Aventurine takes up the mission of getting Ratio's cooperation with the Strategic Investment Dept. Negotiation starts off at Ratio's university class, then moves onto a politically unstable planet where the Intelligensia Guild is doing some educational charity work. (Dialogue there gets a bit soapboxy but at least the ideas espoused are within my characterization SOD.) Ends with some actiony teamup work. The romance at the end feels too sudden IMO, if we can ignore that, it would be a nice pre-slash story.
> Like the stuff was obviously written by people who have ZERO insight into the academic life or know that "Ph.D." stands for "Doctor of Philosophy".
LOL, yeah, that would be obvious. I had the expectation before that this CP might not be pairing for you, given that the academic side of Ratio's character is potentially rife for writing that would drive you up a wall. Which is why I didn't really mention it much in my HSR posts.
I mean, I think the canon writing is also guilty of having writers who obviously never got an actual bachelor's degree from an university doing the writing. Because the 8 doctoral degrees thing is *so* unnecessary. I mean, look at Newton, he only had a degree in math, but that doesn't stop him from being a pioneer in fields like astronomy, economics, physics, etc. Similarly, if I was the one doing the writing, Dr. Ratio might only need to have a degree in math and theology (and maybe biology), and the rest of his credentials can just be discoveries/inventions/achievements in the other various fields. Or even honorary degrees foisted on him by the university maybe. *shrug*