"It's like two milkshakes making out. I do not find this appealing." LKH has a weird food fetish. I'm not sure whether she doesn't take breaks for snacks when she writes or what, but she starts rambling on about it at the weirdest moments. Isn't this the book where she has Anita go into great detail about which person would be which flavor of ice cream?
"If your character has sex with Isabela in Dragon Age 2, the fact that she's a bristling armory and you have to get rid of all these knives to get near each other is played for laughs. Isabela has a sense of humor about it. Guess whether Anita has a sense of humor about it. Two guesses, and the first doesn't count." Hm, you're almost tempting me to get Dragon Age 2. :\
"It feels like there are a couple totems here: the humongous knife, which would be difficult to walk around with and likely wouldn't do much good anyway; and the idea that if you do notice a huge knife like that, you're more safe. " If this was a better series, it would be interesting to write a speculative fic about the knife actually being useless, but her faith in it causing her to do better in combat. If a yuppie can repel vampires with a credit card... (Anita in general would make more sense if she were unconsciously powered by faith. It's not that she's actually competent in the slightest, it's that she has such utter self-worship that even the mightiest foes cringe before her ego.
Come to think of it, the power of faith would explain why so many high-ranking therianthropes and vampires are utter psychopaths. Since psychopaths and some narcissists don't have any self-doubt and often have grotesquely inflated egos, they are empowered by believing that they're god-tier powers, even if their raw competence wouldn't allow them to defeat an irritated mongoose. ...Dang it, now I want to write a story brutally deconstructing The Power Of Belief along those lines. *takes notes for later*)
"On the other hand, it is possible that Thea already knows that Anita is just that stupid." At this point (or later), she probably has the reputation of a female Henry VIII. Which is an insult to old Henry, since he could actually be quite savvy and cunning when he could pull his head out of partying for a minute, but the point still stands. 'Throw your prettiest men her way, and you will be well rewarded...'
"Not because of the whole centuries-old-mindrapist thing, though, that's perfectly understandable." So she's basically an older Anita? Except much more civilized, since she only kissed Anita and tried to seduce her rather than literally pinning her against a wall and forcing herself upon her.
I wonder what Anita would think if she knew some men have been nicknamed "Bunny"? Including a computer security expert, and Anita's particular brand of gender-essentialism usually holds that science is a career requiring THE MANLIEST OF BRAINS. So, ah... tell me again what a girly name that is, Anita?
"She says, "at least I'm only whoring for one man, not a dozen." Hahahahahahahah okay yeah, I suppose what Bunny said was sort of not cool, but I still love it." In all fairness (and I may be defending the indefensible), whoring seems to be a legitimate way to support yourself in vampire/therianthrope society. Belle Morte's line LIVES off of it. Submissive wereanimals often survive by doing it - indeed, Anita's POV suggests that socially-submissive wereanimals are forced to be sexually submissive as well. (We'll ignore that she thinks this is just their natural state...) It seems to also be a way to sign your allegiance to a master, given that human servants sometimes have affairs with their masters, we see some animals-to-call wed to their masters, etc.
And remember, Anita is Jean-Claude's human servant. By the rules of vampire society, he IS her master.
If we take a critical view of the text, Bunny's comment could have less to do with sexual promiscuity per se and be more about Anita's behavior indicating that she "serves" several masters - which is preeeetty much accurate, given her nominal allegiances. (Never mind that Anita is only loyal to herself - Bunny has no way of knowing quite what's going on.) According to both Anita's behavior and that of others (particularly Jean-Claude), this is regarded as raw treachery in vampire society, and possibly in therian society as well. Bunny, in contrast, is a loyal servant to one master and one alone. So, according to the NORMAL rules, she's honorable and Anita's a craven traitor in the making.
...Yeah, I realize this is hideously fucked-up with parallels to slavery of all sorts, but that the world Anita glamorizes. By the rules of the slaver society SHE adores, she is the lowest of scum.
"She's wrestled out of the room by a couple bodyguards and sent back to Chicago. Actually, she should count herself lucky. In later books, Anita will rape and beat the shit out of women for much less." I'd like to think Bunny's written one of those tell-all anonymous blog posts that's gone viral by now. 'I used to be involved with a big vampire hot-shot. As part of his retinue, I got to meet the Master of St. Louis and his human servant - who, let's say, has a day job in which her bosses would be VERY interested to learn just how far her associations with the preternatural criminal underworld go. I'm about to give you all an account of what it was like - and, I swear to God, I'm not making any of this up...'
"As if Anita were a toddler who invariably puts her toys in her mouth and chews on them. Which is pretty much correct." *spittake*
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Date: 2013-08-08 08:04 pm (UTC)LKH has a weird food fetish. I'm not sure whether she doesn't take breaks for snacks when she writes or what, but she starts rambling on about it at the weirdest moments. Isn't this the book where she has Anita go into great detail about which person would be which flavor of ice cream?
"If your character has sex with Isabela in Dragon Age 2, the fact that she's a bristling armory and you have to get rid of all these knives to get near each other is played for laughs. Isabela has a sense of humor about it. Guess whether Anita has a sense of humor about it. Two guesses, and the first doesn't count."
Hm, you're almost tempting me to get Dragon Age 2. :\
"It feels like there are a couple totems here: the humongous knife, which would be difficult to walk around with and likely wouldn't do much good anyway; and the idea that if you do notice a huge knife like that, you're more safe. "
If this was a better series, it would be interesting to write a speculative fic about the knife actually being useless, but her faith in it causing her to do better in combat. If a yuppie can repel vampires with a credit card...
(Anita in general would make more sense if she were unconsciously powered by faith. It's not that she's actually competent in the slightest, it's that she has such utter self-worship that even the mightiest foes cringe before her ego.
Come to think of it, the power of faith would explain why so many high-ranking therianthropes and vampires are utter psychopaths. Since psychopaths and some narcissists don't have any self-doubt and often have grotesquely inflated egos, they are empowered by believing that they're god-tier powers, even if their raw competence wouldn't allow them to defeat an irritated mongoose. ...Dang it, now I want to write a story brutally deconstructing The Power Of Belief along those lines. *takes notes for later*)
"On the other hand, it is possible that Thea already knows that Anita is just that stupid."
At this point (or later), she probably has the reputation of a female Henry VIII. Which is an insult to old Henry, since he could actually be quite savvy and cunning when he could pull his head out of partying for a minute, but the point still stands. 'Throw your prettiest men her way, and you will be well rewarded...'
"Not because of the whole centuries-old-mindrapist thing, though, that's perfectly understandable."
So she's basically an older Anita? Except much more civilized, since she only kissed Anita and tried to seduce her rather than literally pinning her against a wall and forcing herself upon her.
I wonder what Anita would think if she knew some men have been nicknamed "Bunny"? Including a computer security expert, and Anita's particular brand of gender-essentialism usually holds that science is a career requiring THE MANLIEST OF BRAINS. So, ah... tell me again what a girly name that is, Anita?
"She says, "at least I'm only whoring for one man, not a dozen." Hahahahahahahah okay yeah, I suppose what Bunny said was sort of not cool, but I still love it."
In all fairness (and I may be defending the indefensible), whoring seems to be a legitimate way to support yourself in vampire/therianthrope society. Belle Morte's line LIVES off of it. Submissive wereanimals often survive by doing it - indeed, Anita's POV suggests that socially-submissive wereanimals are forced to be sexually submissive as well. (We'll ignore that she thinks this is just their natural state...) It seems to also be a way to sign your allegiance to a master, given that human servants sometimes have affairs with their masters, we see some animals-to-call wed to their masters, etc.
And remember, Anita is Jean-Claude's human servant. By the rules of vampire society, he IS her master.
If we take a critical view of the text, Bunny's comment could have less to do with sexual promiscuity per se and be more about Anita's behavior indicating that she "serves" several masters - which is preeeetty much accurate, given her nominal allegiances. (Never mind that Anita is only loyal to herself - Bunny has no way of knowing quite what's going on.) According to both Anita's behavior and that of others (particularly Jean-Claude), this is regarded as raw treachery in vampire society, and possibly in therian society as well. Bunny, in contrast, is a loyal servant to one master and one alone. So, according to the NORMAL rules, she's honorable and Anita's a craven traitor in the making.
...Yeah, I realize this is hideously fucked-up with parallels to slavery of all sorts, but that the world Anita glamorizes. By the rules of the slaver society SHE adores, she is the lowest of scum.
"She's wrestled out of the room by a couple bodyguards and sent back to Chicago. Actually, she should count herself lucky. In later books, Anita will rape and beat the shit out of women for much less."
I'd like to think Bunny's written one of those tell-all anonymous blog posts that's gone viral by now. 'I used to be involved with a big vampire hot-shot. As part of his retinue, I got to meet the Master of St. Louis and his human servant - who, let's say, has a day job in which her bosses would be VERY interested to learn just how far her associations with the preternatural criminal underworld go. I'm about to give you all an account of what it was like - and, I swear to God, I'm not making any of this up...'
"As if Anita were a toddler who invariably puts her toys in her mouth and chews on them. Which is pretty much correct."
*spittake*
Looking forward to the next spork!