Silvermoon Interview with Ivory Moon
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| Title: | Silvermoon Interview with Ivory Moon |
| Interviewer: | Helen Vader |
| Interviewee: | Ivory Moon |
| Date(s): | 2002 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Horatio Hornblower |
| External Links: | "interview was here". Archived from the original on 2008-02-17. |
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Ivory Moon was interviewed for Silvermoon.
See Silvermoon Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
Why did you choose your pen name?
Ivory Moon is actually a song, by Larry Neeck, I think, that our high school jazz ensemble once played, and is recorded on a CD they released. I really liked it, and when I registered on fanfic.net, I needed a good name, and that song was playing on the stereo. So that's where I got Ivory Moon.
Would you agree that fanfiction is a genre dominated by women, and if so, why do you think it's so?
It is dominated by women, I agree. I have absolutely no idea why, but I've never met a guy who has seen a movie, read a book, or what have you, and immediately asked "I wonder what that scene would have looked like if..." or "I wonder what happened next?" I have, however, sat up with several female teenaged friends at four in the morning brainstorming fanfic ideas. I'm sure there's a logical explanation for it...somewhere.
This is a site devoted to antagonists. Could you reveal us your favourite Mr. Bad Guy?
My favourite literary bad guy is Anne Rice's vampire, Lestat de Lioncourt. He's not so much of a bad guy as an anti-hero, a creature of the night who has walked the world for hundreds of years. He's an amazing character, though, because he watches the mortals around him with an irrepressible sense of wonder and humour. The other vampires call him "the brat prince" and "the damndest creature". I think he's a character in whom we can all identify.
In the movies, my favourite evil character is more obscure. Midshipman Jack Simpson is the antagonist in a Horatio Hornblower movie, The Duel. Played by Dorian Healy, he's the ultimate bully. A sadistic, embittered, purely EVIL individual, he tortures the young men around him both physically and mentally for sheer enjoyment. There's no goodness in this person. In one respect, he's one-dimensional, because there is no "good side" to his character. He exists to be evil. On the other hand, he revels in his own darkness. This is one guy who never saw the light, or turned "good" in the end, nor did he justify his own reasons for being evil. His life ends at the hand of a righteous captain with a pistol, but his nasty legacy lives on through at least three more of the Hornblower movies. You've got to respect a bad guy who can leave such a path of destruction behind him. :) Not to mention he beats the tar out of Hornblow.