When we see Michigan football M stuff we cringe or make mean comments or roll our eyes
Right back at ya, Buckeye.[*]
That's a very fine line to navigate, though. That 'ficlet about FE7 characters cheering on football teams was hilarious, but putting RL cultural points into 'fic can also read like... product placement. I often find it jarring, kind of like the moment in Please Save My Earth where the characters eat at a fake McDonald's. Why is Eliwood a Red Sox fan? It is because the author is a Red Sox fan? I don't want to read a thinly disguised version of the author. Why does Lyn like pepper jack cheese? Lyn would totally not eat pepper jack cheese! And so on.
I mean, maybe this is a 1970s AU and the kids go hang out at the park and the teenagers hang out at the junkyard doing dangerous stuff.
That sounds fun, actually.
* Kidding. Not a native Michigander and do not care.
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Re: and to think this is the short version LAWL
Date: 2011-09-29 05:50 pm (UTC)Right back at ya, Buckeye.[*]
That's a very fine line to navigate, though. That 'ficlet about FE7 characters cheering on football teams was hilarious, but putting RL cultural points into 'fic can also read like... product placement. I often find it jarring, kind of like the moment in Please Save My Earth where the characters eat at a fake McDonald's. Why is Eliwood a Red Sox fan? It is because the author is a Red Sox fan? I don't want to read a thinly disguised version of the author. Why does Lyn like pepper jack cheese? Lyn would totally not eat pepper jack cheese! And so on.
I mean, maybe this is a 1970s AU and the kids go hang out at the park and the teenagers hang out at the junkyard doing dangerous stuff.
That sounds fun, actually.
* Kidding. Not a native Michigander and do not care.