My brain is stewing in Young Adult drama
Nov. 20th, 2011 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrLast night, as the result of a "fic you would never write" meme, lizbee wrote me the perfect highschool AU for Avatar: the Lat Airbender. It's femslash! Set in Australia! And doesn't ignore the character's canon disabilities! And is also very funny and in character and sweet. Core Skills. (EDIT: Now with a working link!)
Anyway, after thinking about it and various other stories about adolescent characters, I went to sleep and had a dream which at the time I was convinced was based on some YA book I'd read years ago but on waking I think I invented. I'd be curious to know if anyone recognises any part of it though.
The actual plot wasn't quite this consistent, of course, and involved random cameos by Pizza Girl from Questionable Content etc.
So. The story begins at the start of summer in a small coastal town in eastern Australia (possibly Tasmania). Our protagonist (a girl of around 17) is celebrating the end of school with her friends. They decide to go swimming, and meet up with the weird sentient sea creature they met in the previous book ("Ug" thinks I. "Not only is it a cliched friends-with-mysterious-sea-creature book, but it's a sequel?"). It calls itself Youma(*), after the scientist who took it in and whose body it ate (thus gaining part of her memories) after she died. This was apparently the cause of much drama and misunderstanding in the first book.
The local farmers and fishers are up in arms in protest at the local arm of a multinational chemical processing plant, whose processes are using up all the iodine in the soil as well as decimating the local fish population. The smarmy head of the company holds a public forum, where he listens to the various complaints and agrees to the environmental restrictions the locals demand without question. This is entirely out of character, and I have a sudden flashback to the last time I read this book, and the fact that after various shenanigans it turns out that something the human Youma had figured out just before she died, and that the Evil Megacorporation has figured out since then, is that the weird sentient sea creatures are a much better source of the chemicals the Mecacorp needs than the current process. So the Evil Plan is to make the locals realise how much the current process damages the local economy, then make the Megacorp look like the good guys for coming up with this alternate process, and that way noone will complain about the ethical concerns. I was just trying to decide how to explain this to everyone when I woke up.
(*)Which googling has reminded me is a Japanese (or just Sailor Moon?) term for a type of monster.
lizbee wrote me the perfect highschool AU for Avatar: the Lat Airbender. It's femslash! Set in Australia! And doesn't ignore the character's canon disabilities! And is also very funny and in character and sweet. Core Skills. (EDIT: Now with a working link!)Anyway, after thinking about it and various other stories about adolescent characters, I went to sleep and had a dream which at the time I was convinced was based on some YA book I'd read years ago but on waking I think I invented. I'd be curious to know if anyone recognises any part of it though.
The actual plot wasn't quite this consistent, of course, and involved random cameos by Pizza Girl from Questionable Content etc.
So. The story begins at the start of summer in a small coastal town in eastern Australia (possibly Tasmania). Our protagonist (a girl of around 17) is celebrating the end of school with her friends. They decide to go swimming, and meet up with the weird sentient sea creature they met in the previous book ("Ug" thinks I. "Not only is it a cliched friends-with-mysterious-sea-creature book, but it's a sequel?"). It calls itself Youma(*), after the scientist who took it in and whose body it ate (thus gaining part of her memories) after she died. This was apparently the cause of much drama and misunderstanding in the first book.
The local farmers and fishers are up in arms in protest at the local arm of a multinational chemical processing plant, whose processes are using up all the iodine in the soil as well as decimating the local fish population. The smarmy head of the company holds a public forum, where he listens to the various complaints and agrees to the environmental restrictions the locals demand without question. This is entirely out of character, and I have a sudden flashback to the last time I read this book, and the fact that after various shenanigans it turns out that something the human Youma had figured out just before she died, and that the Evil Megacorporation has figured out since then, is that the weird sentient sea creatures are a much better source of the chemicals the Mecacorp needs than the current process. So the Evil Plan is to make the locals realise how much the current process damages the local economy, then make the Megacorp look like the good guys for coming up with this alternate process, and that way noone will complain about the ethical concerns. I was just trying to decide how to explain this to everyone when I woke up.
(*)Which googling has reminded me is a Japanese (or just Sailor Moon?) term for a type of monster.
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Date: 2011-11-20 04:23 am (UTC)Elements of your dream-novel sound a tiny bit like My Sister Sif by Ruth Park, but I think that's just the marine environmentalism.
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Date: 2011-11-20 05:00 am (UTC)(Mostly adjusted so that Toph isn't taking junior AND senior high school subjects. *facepalm*)
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