Kate MacLean
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| Name: | Kate MacLean |
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| Type: | fan writer |
| Fandoms: | The Professionals |
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Kate MacLean is a Professionals fan writer whose fanworks have appeared in fanzines. Very few of her stories have appeared online.
Notable Works
- All or Nothing (in Unprofessional Conduct 9)
- Building on Rainbows (in Unprofessional Conduct 3)
- Choosing (in Unprofessional Conduct 8)
- Redemption (a zine novel)
- Scenes from the Edge (in Unprofessional Conduct 5)
- Telling Marge (in No Holds Barred 6)
- The Yellow Brick Road (a zine novel)
Reactions and Reviews
Gargh. Have just read Choosing, All or Nothing and Yellow Brick Road. Wow. The best thing (which was a weird feeling) is that I didn't feel particularly comfortable through any of these - but I did love them. All. And they were all very different. Two are from Bodie's pov, and one from Doyle's, and that alone drew different reactions from me. But what I love is how she can make you feel uncomfortable and then totally resolve why she did that. Feeling is so much of a fic to me, and as long as I'm caught in along the way then I can go with whatever feeling that may be - happy, sexy, tragic, deathly sorrow - but it is nice to be able to empathise with the feelings at the end, and at the end of these I totally sat there and went Oh! So that's why he.... And it was okay. Which was a very good thing, because in particular I didn't really like how Doyle was portrayed, but luckily all was explained by the end and it made total sense. [1]
KM's stories are all about ... emotional conflict, between B and D but also internal, within each of them - emotional conflict, and emotional turmoil; more specifically, the turmoil that is stirred up in independent, self-sufficient, cynical, emotionally well-guarded - and more than that (to use a sort of psychobabble neither KM in her stories nor her B and D would ever employ, but is nonetheless analytically useful, and I think, accurate), emotionally damaged, and to a certain extent emotionally ... oh, crippled maybe, or stunted, or at least inaccessible - men who are suddenly faced with unexpected (and sometimes unwanted) feelings: self-deception, the loss of perspective that love can induce, the desperation and panic arising from dawning realization of growing need and loss of self-sufficiency, the struggle with - and against - unwelcome intensity of feeling, the discomfort of changing self-image, the despair and pain of acknowledging unwanted but seemingly inescapable vulnerability. [2]
References
- ^ from Cowley/- fic, Kate McLean, Larton and of course - the weather., byslantedlight (February 5, 2006)
- ^ from Pros musing: thoughts on Kate MacLean....; Pros musing: thoughts on Kate MacLean.... dated August 2006; WebCite; Archive.is link.