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lliiraCN: Anita Blake book
I wrote myself into an oubliette in what I'm working on, and I have no idea how to get out, which means I might have to throw out about 10,000 words, so I decided to do the next Danse Macabre chapter. Since I'm in such a good mood.
The chapter begins with Anita, JC, and Richard all cuddling. Anita claims that “all lycanthropes” need to snuggle a lot (110). Why does LKH make her supernatural creatures both ultra-violent and twee? Why would anyone think those things combined well? It gives me the icks.
Richard comments on JC's hair and starts playing with it. This leads to half a page of hair talk. JC freezes and Anita knows exactly why: “if Richard had been a woman, [JC]'d have taken it as foreplay” (112). Yeah, tell me again about how all this touching is soooo non-sexual. Also, I think LKH does not know the difference between foreplay and flirting. There's the implication that the only reason Richard might not like JC coming on to him is because Richard is homophobic. Because having a sexuality that does not cater to LKH's fetishes means you're a bigot.
Anita calls herself and Richard JC's “metaphysical sweeties”. After I knock her teeth out, I will pluck each individual hair from her lovers' heads and burn them, one at a time.
Claudia knocks on the door and they're all super startled. Samuel and his oldest son want to talk to them. Richard puts his shirt back on – I don't remember it being taken off but I probably missed it amidst the hair talk – and JC and Anita put on robes. JC's is black brocade with fur cuffs, which I think is something a Liza Minnelli impersonator might wear. Anita's is black silk. Which does not strike me as practical for a bathrobe, because silk is generally not happy with water in my experience, but maybe extra-expensive silk is better.
JC and Anita are twinsies with their pale white skin and black bathrobes, whereas Richard has actual color in his skin and clothing and therefore feels he doesn't fit in. He quotes Sesame Street, because mixing rape with kids' TV shows in your books is an awesome idea. He feels bad about himself instead of cracking up about how utterly ridiculous JC and Anita both look. I'm pale with dark hair too, and in my late teens, I thought I looked AWESOME in black. Now I know that lots of unrelieved black makes me look slightly dead and very silly.
JC tells Richard he would set Richard free from the triumvurate if he could, but I'm pretty sure JC's lying. Richard responds by blaming himself for what other people did, and promising he'll go along with all the idiotic and evil plans JC is sure to have in the future. Anita is tentatively happy that Richard is what she calls “more reasonable” now (114), but she doesn't trust it will last. How dare Richard not be happy that JC can control him utterly and that he's bound for eternity to these jackholes! He should bow his head to the yoke with a smile on his face, like any properly therapized person would do.
This chapter was really short, and yet it managed to cram tons of victim-blaming and Richard-hating in. LKH, if you hate Richard so much, why don't you have him leave Missouri or kill him off? You're obviously keeping him around to kick regularly, and that is gross.
I wrote myself into an oubliette in what I'm working on, and I have no idea how to get out, which means I might have to throw out about 10,000 words, so I decided to do the next Danse Macabre chapter. Since I'm in such a good mood.
The chapter begins with Anita, JC, and Richard all cuddling. Anita claims that “all lycanthropes” need to snuggle a lot (110). Why does LKH make her supernatural creatures both ultra-violent and twee? Why would anyone think those things combined well? It gives me the icks.
Richard comments on JC's hair and starts playing with it. This leads to half a page of hair talk. JC freezes and Anita knows exactly why: “if Richard had been a woman, [JC]'d have taken it as foreplay” (112). Yeah, tell me again about how all this touching is soooo non-sexual. Also, I think LKH does not know the difference between foreplay and flirting. There's the implication that the only reason Richard might not like JC coming on to him is because Richard is homophobic. Because having a sexuality that does not cater to LKH's fetishes means you're a bigot.
Anita calls herself and Richard JC's “metaphysical sweeties”. After I knock her teeth out, I will pluck each individual hair from her lovers' heads and burn them, one at a time.
Claudia knocks on the door and they're all super startled. Samuel and his oldest son want to talk to them. Richard puts his shirt back on – I don't remember it being taken off but I probably missed it amidst the hair talk – and JC and Anita put on robes. JC's is black brocade with fur cuffs, which I think is something a Liza Minnelli impersonator might wear. Anita's is black silk. Which does not strike me as practical for a bathrobe, because silk is generally not happy with water in my experience, but maybe extra-expensive silk is better.
JC and Anita are twinsies with their pale white skin and black bathrobes, whereas Richard has actual color in his skin and clothing and therefore feels he doesn't fit in. He quotes Sesame Street, because mixing rape with kids' TV shows in your books is an awesome idea. He feels bad about himself instead of cracking up about how utterly ridiculous JC and Anita both look. I'm pale with dark hair too, and in my late teens, I thought I looked AWESOME in black. Now I know that lots of unrelieved black makes me look slightly dead and very silly.
JC tells Richard he would set Richard free from the triumvurate if he could, but I'm pretty sure JC's lying. Richard responds by blaming himself for what other people did, and promising he'll go along with all the idiotic and evil plans JC is sure to have in the future. Anita is tentatively happy that Richard is what she calls “more reasonable” now (114), but she doesn't trust it will last. How dare Richard not be happy that JC can control him utterly and that he's bound for eternity to these jackholes! He should bow his head to the yoke with a smile on his face, like any properly therapized person would do.
This chapter was really short, and yet it managed to cram tons of victim-blaming and Richard-hating in. LKH, if you hate Richard so much, why don't you have him leave Missouri or kill him off? You're obviously keeping him around to kick regularly, and that is gross.
