04-24-2004, 03:59 PM
I was being stubborn, and will continue to be. My story is not, nor do I ever intend for it to be, a Lemon. Therefore it is no more likely to be confused with Noto's Through the Looking Glass than a porn novel titled "Asian Days" would be confused with a non-pornographic novel of the same title, unless they had the same author.
I cannot guarantee I have read Noto's "Through the Looking Glass", unless it was submitted to one of my contests -- I do not often read any lemons these days, I just have more important things to do, and no private computer to use for reading them. However, my concept for the title was threefold. The first source was a vision of a Tamers edition, where Takato discovers the change as he wakes up and looks in his mirror. I have a similar scene in the current chapter, though not focused on a single character.
The second source was The Matrix, which used Lewis Carroll references throughout the first movie, including the White Rabbit, the rabbithole, and even the mirror which 'engulfed' Neo. I wanted to use the concept of turning the known world upside down, showing it as a construct or artificial, and so I am painting my events as "true", while those in the original series are considered (for purposes of this story) as the construct.
The final source, where I actually derived the title, was from Through the Looking Glass, which I haven't read in years. But there it was, on the bookshelf, as I was running through these concepts of a world that was blatantly /not/ the same as the shows, but in which the same general events occurred. That was when I thought "Wait, the changed appearance... as they would first encounter it, it would clearly be... their mirrors." And so, from there, it came together to become what these children saw, "Through the Looking Glass". And that became my title, one of the first times I've felt no desire at all to change a title.
If anybody on this site is confused by my "Through the Looking Glass" three-parter and Noto's "Through the Looking Glass" lemon, well, that's not my problem -- the story isn't published here.
I cannot guarantee I have read Noto's "Through the Looking Glass", unless it was submitted to one of my contests -- I do not often read any lemons these days, I just have more important things to do, and no private computer to use for reading them. However, my concept for the title was threefold. The first source was a vision of a Tamers edition, where Takato discovers the change as he wakes up and looks in his mirror. I have a similar scene in the current chapter, though not focused on a single character.
The second source was The Matrix, which used Lewis Carroll references throughout the first movie, including the White Rabbit, the rabbithole, and even the mirror which 'engulfed' Neo. I wanted to use the concept of turning the known world upside down, showing it as a construct or artificial, and so I am painting my events as "true", while those in the original series are considered (for purposes of this story) as the construct.
The final source, where I actually derived the title, was from Through the Looking Glass, which I haven't read in years. But there it was, on the bookshelf, as I was running through these concepts of a world that was blatantly /not/ the same as the shows, but in which the same general events occurred. That was when I thought "Wait, the changed appearance... as they would first encounter it, it would clearly be... their mirrors." And so, from there, it came together to become what these children saw, "Through the Looking Glass". And that became my title, one of the first times I've felt no desire at all to change a title.
If anybody on this site is confused by my "Through the Looking Glass" three-parter and Noto's "Through the Looking Glass" lemon, well, that's not my problem -- the story isn't published here.