Oops, Wendy, that's not at all what I meant by "circular" - what I was trying to suggest was that the needs of some readers and the needs of some writers blurr into each other and overlap and so they becomes part of a circle, in which it's difficult to tell where the reader's needs start/end and where the writer's needs start /end.

Does that make any sense?

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I can't think of one story where Lois - in life OR in death - was trivialized and deemed unimportant.
If I go back over the years, I can think of several off the top of my head which did do just that. Now that's my own interpretaion of how those fics portrayed the character and may or may not be what the author wished to do, in fact, nor will it necessarily be how other readers interpret that same portrayal. I can think of a couple fics which did the same for Clark, too, btw.

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