Still struggling here to think of anything productive.
I keep getting stuck at how
weird it is that I can't click with her...
SOME THINGS I LIKE
The 'Warrior Woman' archetype. Behold all twelve Xena boxsets sat proudly on my shelf!
Identifying strongly with female heroes. From Babs to Emma, it tends to be the ladyfolk that I affiliate with as a reader.
The writing of Gail Simone and Greg Rucka.
The whole gay 'diva worship' thing. I am somewhat prone to this.
Mythology.
Kink.
Kinky Mythology.
Kitsch
Kinky Kitsch Mythology.
SOMETHING I DON'T LIKE
Wonder Woman.
Something isn't right here.
Katherine Kane
Were you aware of the fact that I am currently knee deep in that morass and losing my will to continue with every minute or is that another one of those savage synchronicities that plagues me?
The savage plague.
I'm fascinated by season six myself. It's awful, obviously, but it's probably one of the best and bravest ideas for a telly show I've seen. Watching how badly it's executed was heartbreaking for me at the time, but now is just an interesting and invaluable glimpse into the cracks in the
Buffy Project.
RichardGraysonNightwing
What she needs, like I said, is a writer that knows her history and can blend it into who she's becoming now.
That's what she's got, but sadly her history is the problem.
Hartley Rathaway
I have thought for a long time now that there should be a Wonder Boy in the Legion of Superheroes.
Weirdly, the one story that keep floating into my brain when I try and approach this from a "What would
I write?" angle is called
Wonder Woman and the Cohort of Superheroes.
Scott Free
The big thing is that Wonder Woman's back story is completely unrelatable compared to Batman and Superman. Superman is an immigrant made good. Batman is a man who has taken a tragedy to become the pinnacle of humanity. What's Wonder Woman? Someone made from clay who came to a Man's world?
The origin actually provides a nifty way to make the Trinity make sense. Though again the gender politics are an obstacle, as going this way with Feminist Icon Wonder Woman would be a horrible thing to do.
But... You've got Superman, the god. You've got Batman, the human who's made himself into a god. Then you've got Wonder Woman, the
thing that's made itself into a human.
The 'trinity' depicts the ladder by which base matter ascends to the divine!
Virgil Hawkins
I preface this by admitting I am really ******** drunk.
Give her a city. Get rid of Themiscrya. Get rid of ALL the Greek Gods stuff, Make her street level for a year, helping kids and rape victims and kittens in trees.
Although not drunk, I still managed to misread that as "helping kids rape victims and kittens in trees."
I wonder if giving her a city and making her street level might be more fun if we
didn't get rid of Themiscrya, but just made it a bit more interesting and messy. Then made
it the city.
Let's turn it into somewhere that feels like people
live there. And conspire, and study, and buy and sell, and take holidays. It's a place that's been devastated and rebuilt - or taken out of the material plane and returned - dozens of times; it must be layered with the strata of civilisation and dusted with traces of heaven. It should be less like island-of-the-boring-people-who-stand-around-looking-statuesque, and more a complex island-based city state...
Some alleyways haven't been completely restored to materiality and those who walk those streets risk turning into ideas. The ghosts of desecrated temples drift through the night air, settling in open spaces or possesing mundane buildings, filling grocery stalls and kanga stables with a sudden and inexplicable sense of the ineffable.
Sinister forces work to reactivate the sleeper units of metahumans who've lain dormant since the secret Rome/Carthage superhero arms race in the first century BC. BDSM tourists in scintillating fetishware flock to the island's now welcoming shores, where they brush shoulders with the staff of the Tartarus Embassy and the teams of archeologists who're struggling to make sense of finds that carbon date as older than the universe.
I'm thinking of a tone somewhere between the Verinas/Pullo segments of
Rome,
World of New Krypton, Pretsky's later
V. I. Warshawski novels and
Prospero's Books.
Wonder Woman: BLOOD ON THE STREETS OF PARADISE!