trauma as structural conceit and fannish tropes: "freedom" by synecdochic

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I've been very interested in the general response to synecdochic's Freedom, and I wanted to collect my thoughts and hopefully hear some different/opposing interpretations. Some of these ideas are influenced by the comments I read (esp. the author's interchange with luthien and cesperanza), some are from comments synecdochic made directly. I have decided to focus on two (among the myriad of things) that interested me in the story, and I hope it's OK to post them together.

( trauma as structural conceit )

( fannish tropes )