Danse Macabre, Chapter 19
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This chapter is a foreplay/beginnings of sex scene in an Anita Blake book. That means blabbering and Issues and manipulation and grossness and weirdness. This chapter isn't quite as blatant about its rapitude as the scene in which Anita and Jean-Claude raped everyone metaphysically connected to Auggie within a certain radius (how many miles does the ardeur reach, anyway?) But it is still explicitly not completely consensual. It reads to me like LKH set out to write a consensual sex scene, but she just plain could not make herself do it.
Before the boinking, there must be babble. JC and Nathaniel insult Richard. JC claims all of them but Richard “behaved themselves admirably” (163). I hate Jean Claude so much. He's a slimy, manipulative rapist who pretends to be an innocent angel. He doesn't even work as a villain; not only is he too transparent in his selfish manipulations, he's also too whiny.
Nathaniel says he's glad Richard's gone because Nathaniel wants to hold Anita all night and “Richard wouldn't let me in the bed.” Shouldn't Anita be able to choose what man, if any, holds her through the night? I hate Nathaniel too, but he makes me roll my eyes more than rage, at least so far. Maybe if he weren't a wereorchid, I'd take him more seriously and therefore hate him more. But he's got hair that trails along the floor and he smells like vanilla. I think I had a My Little Pony like that.
Anita feels bad about these assholes insulting Richard, and doesn't know why. Maybe because you love him? Maybe because this is completely antithetical to being a happy “poly” group? It's a disaster even for a harem, though I will give LKH this: she got harem politics right, at least in everyone hating everyone else (barring a couple alliances), trying to manipulate the harem owner, endangering everyone including the harem owner, etc. Richard is at a serious disadvantage because he's the only one of the harem who's honest.
JC calls Anita “ma petite” twice, but not “Anita” once. He says that he and Asher will leave Anita with Micah and Nathaniel because she is tired. Not because she's said she's tired, because she hasn't said a damn thing. The consent issues in this book reach to literally everything. I don't know how to convey how deep they go. Anita has no say over anything at all that happens in her life whatsoever.
Happily, things get unintentionally funny again. Anita ponders how she's sent JC and Asher off to sleep in Asher's room a bunch, but has never before considered what they do when they're there. They've been lovers for centuries. Gee, I dunno, maybe they play Scrabble?
Micah says that Damian doesn't die in the morning if he's with Anita, so they should find out if the same happens with JC. This makes Anita angry. This is the third time on this page alone that she's had an emotion and not known why. She's obviously in serious turmoil. But Micah has no shits to give. Supposedly it's “practical” for JC to stay with them tonight so that Belle Morte will have a harder time controlling Anita.
So, first Anita is given no choice when JC goes to leave. Now, Anita will be given no choice when JC stays, though she clearly does not want him here. Actually, no: I'm sure it's because she does not want him here. Asher is disappointed and leaves, and Anita feels guilty, but “I didn't really want to have one corpse in the bed, let alone two” (163). She never said anything approaching “yes” to JC staying, by the way. As for Anita suddenly regarding JC as a corpse... well, he is. Vampires gross me out too, but then, I'm not screwing one. JC disgusts Anita and she is in a sexual relationship with him. Remember how she said therians noticing someone was naked would be like your cat noticing? Anita dehumanizes everyone she has sex with. As if she's not worthy to fuck an actual human being?
Anita's exhausted and thinks, “I had had all I could handle for one night.” Nathaniel notices she's “beat”, and she nods, which is the closest she's come to voicing her wants so far. They all go to the bed, which is a fourposter and completely red, from sheets to curtains to pillows. Anita says she had once complained that JC decorated everything in black and white, and he'd switched to red, and she'd stopped complaining, “afraid of what he might do next” (164). She doesn't even have a say in the color of sheets on her damn bed. Actually, no, this might be JC's bed. I'm not sure. It's “orgy-size”, and Anita realizes it's the same size as Belle Morte's bed, which makes her feel cold (164). Anita is confused and scared and I am sickened that she's going to be berated into sex by people who claim to love her.
Nathaniel is naked (she calls him “nude”, which is an odd word choice), and this makes Anita uncomfortable. Of course. Because literally everything so far in this chapter has existed to make Anita uncomfortable. And... eugh. “At twenty he was growing into what some people hit at seventeen, or earlier. Genetics is a wonderful and confusing thing.” Seventeen or earlier. I'm going to assume Nathaniel is supposed to look sixteen. Anita thinks this is wonderful. Now, it's common for male fantasy authors to write slobbering sex and rape scenes with young teenage girls in them. And that's disgusting. This is not as bad, because Nathaniel is not actually a teenager (also he's a manipulative git), but I'm still grossed out.
He gets in bed and smiles at her in a way that is “all male” (165). His smile has gonads? From the ensuing description, I think it's supposed to be “male” because he enjoys the fact that Anita finds him attractive, like that's a solely “male” trait. Anyway, the smile makes Anita blush and look away. %$#@%!@$)*(&*!
Nathaniel tells Anita to come to bed creeptastically. “Come to bed, Anita... you know you want to.” No she does NOT. You insufferable little prick. You just noticed that she was wiped out, and now you're telling her she wants to fuck. Anita gets angry immediately, which at least makes her no longer embarassed. She says she doesn't like being taken for granted. I don't think she's being taken for granted; I think Nathaniel's trying to manipulate her into having sex when she does not want to, and being turned on by the fact that she does not want to. I wouldn't call that being taken for granted; I'd call it being seriously abused. But at least Anita's standing up for herself a little bit.
Nathaniel responds, “you've made a lot of progress in your comfort zones, don't lose ground now.”
Again, $#%@#%!@#!#!@%#@!
“Comfort zones”, otherwise known as “boundaries”, are not there to be broken. They are there to keep one safe, to keep one's sense of self and control over that self intact. It is one thing to say, “I'd like you to push my boundaries.” That's inviting someone else in, and implicit in that is the fact that you can throw them out at any time if you choose. It's another thing entirely for some asshole to try to guilt you into having your sexual boundaries pushed. When someone does that, they are trying to take your boundaries from you, to control you, to co-opt your rights to your very self. It means they do not respect your personhood on the most basic level.
Having one's boundaries pushed and “comfort zones” tested sexually can be an amazing thing. But, as with everything else to do with sex, only if you choose for it to happen. Anita gets no choice. Not only that, but she's very, very low at the moment. She's just finished a 50-page argument with Richard and found out she's pregnant. Nathaniel and Micah think this is the perfect moment to get her to have sex she blatantly does not want. Because it's okay to manipulate and pressure and command someone to have sex when they don't want it if they're in a sexual relationship with you.
I take it back about this not being as blatantly rapetastic as the chapter in which Anita and JC rape all those people. I'm not sure, but it might be worse. It's not actually possible to metaphysically rape someone. This scene, however, has a feeling of verisimilitude that's much more disturbing.
Micah presses himself against Anita physically and says, “let's go to bed, Anita.” She nods. It's obvious that she's given up.
More talking! Anita realizes she's uncomfortable because JC stuck his dick in Auggie's ass. Not because she and JC raped a bunch of people. Because she discovered that she's turned on by men fucking. She's embarassed to admit this, of-fucking-course. Then there's a story about how Anita was friends with a woman who confessed she was a lesbian in college, and “she went into that guy category for me. You don't undress in front of people who see you as a sex object” (169).
1) Being attracted to a gender does not mean seeing everyone of that gender as a “sex object” and 2) everyone who is attracted to women is not attracted to all women, nor do they see women as sex objects, whether or not they want to fuck said women. This is a window into LKH's views on sex, though, and it matches Anita's dehumanization of the men she fucks. They're sex objects to her, and they see her as a sex object, and she thinks this is normal. No wonder they all treat each other like sex toys, with no emotion involved at all.
Anita gets angry at Micah again for some reason or other and pushes him so hard he stumbles. They all giggle. They keep talking and talking and TALKING about how Anita now likes slash, she's afraid JC will want to fuck Micah and Nathaniel, blah blah blah. Then Claudia pops up. She and the rest of the bodyguards have been standing in a corner of the room this whole time. Oh hi embarassment squick. Anita's not embarrassed about this. Embarrassed about seeing one of her boytoys naked, yes. Not about her employees watching said boytoys be naked, or about having this conversation in front of employees.
Claudia says that straight vampires “take more liberties” with “opposite-sex victims” and gay vampires “take more liberties” with “same-sex vics” (171). ARGH! I hate the Anitaverse, it runs entirely on rape! And just how are all these vampires running around victimizing and “taking liberties” with, aka raping, all these people without law enforcement getting involved? Stupid worldbuilding! Stupid stupid stupid! Claudia points out that JC doesn't differentiate, but he victimizes mostly men in front of Anita because otherwise she'd be jealous – waah why are you raping her instead of me! Yeah that makes sense. I love how Anita can't even figure out her own emotional responses without someone else telling her what they are. Because she has to have no power at all, even the power to understand her own emotions.
Anita finally kicks everyone out who's not going to fuck. Graham wants to join the fucking, but Claudia (not Anita of course) tells him to “can it”.
Okay, on to the sex. Sigh. This is a long chapter.
Nathaniel says to Anita, “you are my most favoritest toy” (172). It's twee and childish and objectifies Anita while supposedly complimenting her. I'll keep going, but that is all you need to know about this scene. Or, possibly, about this series.
All the men play with Anita's body without apparently touching each other once. She just lies there, being a good little sex toy. I'm not turned on by dudes fucking, but I really wish they would here because it is so ridiculous that they don't even touch each other. I don't understand how it's even physically possible; but then, I didn't understand how the Anita/Auggie/JC scene was physically possible either.
JC says that thinking sticking a cock in a cunt is the only way to have sex is “so American”. No, it's so stupid. Also ignorant, prudish, and just plain sad. JC is wrong. But we must be reminded how sexily Frenchily French he is.
I don't find French accents sexy. Or French people with superiority complexes toward Americans. (My cousin is married to such a French person.) Or skin the color of white-out, or dead guys, or rapists, or thigh-high leather boots... it's like JC was created to kill my libido.
We learn that Micah has a huge, thick dick. Well, that “he” is huge and thick, anyway. Anita thinks of Richard, and how he's the only one who can compare to Micah, but that “Richard didn't seem as aware of it as Micah” (173).
Soooo... while having sex with Micah, Anita thinks of Richard's cock, and how Micah is far more arrogant about his cock than Richard is about his. Uh, that's... interesting. I think it shows Anita would much rather be with Richard.
“Nathaniel was definitely more, just not as more as Micah.” Wut. That sentence is bad enough to have been written by Stephenie Meyer. LKH then deigns to inform us of a dick fact that's pretty well known, while juxtaposing “men” and “girls” sexually.
Time to talk some more! JC almost leaves, they talk him back, it's both boring and uncomfortable. Frankly, none of these people should be having sex with each other. It's all issues on top of issues on top of more issues. Then Anita thinking about slash is brought up again, to talk over again, because it was so interesting the first time.
Anita thinks about how she can't help Richard, but at least she can help JC. JC is obviously a second choice at best. It's clear that Anita wants to be with Richard instead so hard it hurts. I want her to be with him instead too. Sigh. Well, he deserves better. Still, the more I read this book, the more I feel like Anita collects all these men in an attempt to fill the hole Richard left. (Not that hole.) It doesn't work, and can't work, because she won't admit to herself that she's in love with Richard and only Richard. Since she doesn't admit to the problem, she can't fix it, either by staying with only Richard or by letting him leave and getting over him.
JC says he'll leave. Anita tells us, “I'd already watched Asher and Richard walk out; I did not want to lose another of my men tonight. I needed as many around me as I could manage” (175). She's a hoarder.
Anyway, JC stays. Micah insults Anita, then shushes her and tells her not to take it personally. They've been blabbering so long, the men are no longer hard. They haven't actually been talking for very long since the guys got hard, and they were talking about sex, so, er, I guess they just deflate fast. They say “Nimir-Raj” at each other a couple times. Anita calls Nathaniel her “sweetie”, and I remove one of her kidneys.
Nathaniel says he's fine with not being asked about the fuckings. Because LKH thinks that's how submissives work, which fuck shit hell NO. If Anita or any of the other people here were Nathaniel's dom and they had an agreement that he'd fuck when told to do so and he had a safeword and etc., then yes. But Anita refuses to dominate Nathaniel or let anyone else dominate him. He just doesn't have an opinion because LKH thinks submissives will do whatever anyone with a supposedly "dominant" personality wants them to do.
Anita badgers Nathaniel into telling her what to do (he's a sub and she's forcing him to dom instead, lovely), and he says, “suck my dick, so we can fuck” (177). Apparently men are allowed to swear in the Anitaverse. And er... he has to have his dick sucked before it will get hard again? That's.... um. Unusual. Every guy has times when he can't get it up, but that's not what's happening with Nathaniel; instead, it's treated as completely normal that this 20-year old guy needs to have his cock sucked before it can get hard enough to penetrate the cunt of his regular lover when he has not had sex for many hours. Which, no. Here's usual: “Hey, wanna have sex?” Or, in extreme cases, “look, I have boobs!”
So, next chapter: more sex. Or the strange approximation that LKH thinks is sex, anyway.
This chapter is a foreplay/beginnings of sex scene in an Anita Blake book. That means blabbering and Issues and manipulation and grossness and weirdness. This chapter isn't quite as blatant about its rapitude as the scene in which Anita and Jean-Claude raped everyone metaphysically connected to Auggie within a certain radius (how many miles does the ardeur reach, anyway?) But it is still explicitly not completely consensual. It reads to me like LKH set out to write a consensual sex scene, but she just plain could not make herself do it.
Before the boinking, there must be babble. JC and Nathaniel insult Richard. JC claims all of them but Richard “behaved themselves admirably” (163). I hate Jean Claude so much. He's a slimy, manipulative rapist who pretends to be an innocent angel. He doesn't even work as a villain; not only is he too transparent in his selfish manipulations, he's also too whiny.
Nathaniel says he's glad Richard's gone because Nathaniel wants to hold Anita all night and “Richard wouldn't let me in the bed.” Shouldn't Anita be able to choose what man, if any, holds her through the night? I hate Nathaniel too, but he makes me roll my eyes more than rage, at least so far. Maybe if he weren't a wereorchid, I'd take him more seriously and therefore hate him more. But he's got hair that trails along the floor and he smells like vanilla. I think I had a My Little Pony like that.
Anita feels bad about these assholes insulting Richard, and doesn't know why. Maybe because you love him? Maybe because this is completely antithetical to being a happy “poly” group? It's a disaster even for a harem, though I will give LKH this: she got harem politics right, at least in everyone hating everyone else (barring a couple alliances), trying to manipulate the harem owner, endangering everyone including the harem owner, etc. Richard is at a serious disadvantage because he's the only one of the harem who's honest.
JC calls Anita “ma petite” twice, but not “Anita” once. He says that he and Asher will leave Anita with Micah and Nathaniel because she is tired. Not because she's said she's tired, because she hasn't said a damn thing. The consent issues in this book reach to literally everything. I don't know how to convey how deep they go. Anita has no say over anything at all that happens in her life whatsoever.
Happily, things get unintentionally funny again. Anita ponders how she's sent JC and Asher off to sleep in Asher's room a bunch, but has never before considered what they do when they're there. They've been lovers for centuries. Gee, I dunno, maybe they play Scrabble?
Micah says that Damian doesn't die in the morning if he's with Anita, so they should find out if the same happens with JC. This makes Anita angry. This is the third time on this page alone that she's had an emotion and not known why. She's obviously in serious turmoil. But Micah has no shits to give. Supposedly it's “practical” for JC to stay with them tonight so that Belle Morte will have a harder time controlling Anita.
So, first Anita is given no choice when JC goes to leave. Now, Anita will be given no choice when JC stays, though she clearly does not want him here. Actually, no: I'm sure it's because she does not want him here. Asher is disappointed and leaves, and Anita feels guilty, but “I didn't really want to have one corpse in the bed, let alone two” (163). She never said anything approaching “yes” to JC staying, by the way. As for Anita suddenly regarding JC as a corpse... well, he is. Vampires gross me out too, but then, I'm not screwing one. JC disgusts Anita and she is in a sexual relationship with him. Remember how she said therians noticing someone was naked would be like your cat noticing? Anita dehumanizes everyone she has sex with. As if she's not worthy to fuck an actual human being?
Anita's exhausted and thinks, “I had had all I could handle for one night.” Nathaniel notices she's “beat”, and she nods, which is the closest she's come to voicing her wants so far. They all go to the bed, which is a fourposter and completely red, from sheets to curtains to pillows. Anita says she had once complained that JC decorated everything in black and white, and he'd switched to red, and she'd stopped complaining, “afraid of what he might do next” (164). She doesn't even have a say in the color of sheets on her damn bed. Actually, no, this might be JC's bed. I'm not sure. It's “orgy-size”, and Anita realizes it's the same size as Belle Morte's bed, which makes her feel cold (164). Anita is confused and scared and I am sickened that she's going to be berated into sex by people who claim to love her.
Nathaniel is naked (she calls him “nude”, which is an odd word choice), and this makes Anita uncomfortable. Of course. Because literally everything so far in this chapter has existed to make Anita uncomfortable. And... eugh. “At twenty he was growing into what some people hit at seventeen, or earlier. Genetics is a wonderful and confusing thing.” Seventeen or earlier. I'm going to assume Nathaniel is supposed to look sixteen. Anita thinks this is wonderful. Now, it's common for male fantasy authors to write slobbering sex and rape scenes with young teenage girls in them. And that's disgusting. This is not as bad, because Nathaniel is not actually a teenager (also he's a manipulative git), but I'm still grossed out.
He gets in bed and smiles at her in a way that is “all male” (165). His smile has gonads? From the ensuing description, I think it's supposed to be “male” because he enjoys the fact that Anita finds him attractive, like that's a solely “male” trait. Anyway, the smile makes Anita blush and look away. %$#@%!@$)*(&*!
Nathaniel tells Anita to come to bed creeptastically. “Come to bed, Anita... you know you want to.” No she does NOT. You insufferable little prick. You just noticed that she was wiped out, and now you're telling her she wants to fuck. Anita gets angry immediately, which at least makes her no longer embarassed. She says she doesn't like being taken for granted. I don't think she's being taken for granted; I think Nathaniel's trying to manipulate her into having sex when she does not want to, and being turned on by the fact that she does not want to. I wouldn't call that being taken for granted; I'd call it being seriously abused. But at least Anita's standing up for herself a little bit.
Nathaniel responds, “you've made a lot of progress in your comfort zones, don't lose ground now.”
Again, $#%@#%!@#!#!@%#@!
“Comfort zones”, otherwise known as “boundaries”, are not there to be broken. They are there to keep one safe, to keep one's sense of self and control over that self intact. It is one thing to say, “I'd like you to push my boundaries.” That's inviting someone else in, and implicit in that is the fact that you can throw them out at any time if you choose. It's another thing entirely for some asshole to try to guilt you into having your sexual boundaries pushed. When someone does that, they are trying to take your boundaries from you, to control you, to co-opt your rights to your very self. It means they do not respect your personhood on the most basic level.
Having one's boundaries pushed and “comfort zones” tested sexually can be an amazing thing. But, as with everything else to do with sex, only if you choose for it to happen. Anita gets no choice. Not only that, but she's very, very low at the moment. She's just finished a 50-page argument with Richard and found out she's pregnant. Nathaniel and Micah think this is the perfect moment to get her to have sex she blatantly does not want. Because it's okay to manipulate and pressure and command someone to have sex when they don't want it if they're in a sexual relationship with you.
I take it back about this not being as blatantly rapetastic as the chapter in which Anita and JC rape all those people. I'm not sure, but it might be worse. It's not actually possible to metaphysically rape someone. This scene, however, has a feeling of verisimilitude that's much more disturbing.
Micah presses himself against Anita physically and says, “let's go to bed, Anita.” She nods. It's obvious that she's given up.
More talking! Anita realizes she's uncomfortable because JC stuck his dick in Auggie's ass. Not because she and JC raped a bunch of people. Because she discovered that she's turned on by men fucking. She's embarassed to admit this, of-fucking-course. Then there's a story about how Anita was friends with a woman who confessed she was a lesbian in college, and “she went into that guy category for me. You don't undress in front of people who see you as a sex object” (169).
1) Being attracted to a gender does not mean seeing everyone of that gender as a “sex object” and 2) everyone who is attracted to women is not attracted to all women, nor do they see women as sex objects, whether or not they want to fuck said women. This is a window into LKH's views on sex, though, and it matches Anita's dehumanization of the men she fucks. They're sex objects to her, and they see her as a sex object, and she thinks this is normal. No wonder they all treat each other like sex toys, with no emotion involved at all.
Anita gets angry at Micah again for some reason or other and pushes him so hard he stumbles. They all giggle. They keep talking and talking and TALKING about how Anita now likes slash, she's afraid JC will want to fuck Micah and Nathaniel, blah blah blah. Then Claudia pops up. She and the rest of the bodyguards have been standing in a corner of the room this whole time. Oh hi embarassment squick. Anita's not embarrassed about this. Embarrassed about seeing one of her boytoys naked, yes. Not about her employees watching said boytoys be naked, or about having this conversation in front of employees.
Claudia says that straight vampires “take more liberties” with “opposite-sex victims” and gay vampires “take more liberties” with “same-sex vics” (171). ARGH! I hate the Anitaverse, it runs entirely on rape! And just how are all these vampires running around victimizing and “taking liberties” with, aka raping, all these people without law enforcement getting involved? Stupid worldbuilding! Stupid stupid stupid! Claudia points out that JC doesn't differentiate, but he victimizes mostly men in front of Anita because otherwise she'd be jealous – waah why are you raping her instead of me! Yeah that makes sense. I love how Anita can't even figure out her own emotional responses without someone else telling her what they are. Because she has to have no power at all, even the power to understand her own emotions.
Anita finally kicks everyone out who's not going to fuck. Graham wants to join the fucking, but Claudia (not Anita of course) tells him to “can it”.
Okay, on to the sex. Sigh. This is a long chapter.
Nathaniel says to Anita, “you are my most favoritest toy” (172). It's twee and childish and objectifies Anita while supposedly complimenting her. I'll keep going, but that is all you need to know about this scene. Or, possibly, about this series.
All the men play with Anita's body without apparently touching each other once. She just lies there, being a good little sex toy. I'm not turned on by dudes fucking, but I really wish they would here because it is so ridiculous that they don't even touch each other. I don't understand how it's even physically possible; but then, I didn't understand how the Anita/Auggie/JC scene was physically possible either.
JC says that thinking sticking a cock in a cunt is the only way to have sex is “so American”. No, it's so stupid. Also ignorant, prudish, and just plain sad. JC is wrong. But we must be reminded how sexily Frenchily French he is.
I don't find French accents sexy. Or French people with superiority complexes toward Americans. (My cousin is married to such a French person.) Or skin the color of white-out, or dead guys, or rapists, or thigh-high leather boots... it's like JC was created to kill my libido.
We learn that Micah has a huge, thick dick. Well, that “he” is huge and thick, anyway. Anita thinks of Richard, and how he's the only one who can compare to Micah, but that “Richard didn't seem as aware of it as Micah” (173).
Soooo... while having sex with Micah, Anita thinks of Richard's cock, and how Micah is far more arrogant about his cock than Richard is about his. Uh, that's... interesting. I think it shows Anita would much rather be with Richard.
“Nathaniel was definitely more, just not as more as Micah.” Wut. That sentence is bad enough to have been written by Stephenie Meyer. LKH then deigns to inform us of a dick fact that's pretty well known, while juxtaposing “men” and “girls” sexually.
Time to talk some more! JC almost leaves, they talk him back, it's both boring and uncomfortable. Frankly, none of these people should be having sex with each other. It's all issues on top of issues on top of more issues. Then Anita thinking about slash is brought up again, to talk over again, because it was so interesting the first time.
Anita thinks about how she can't help Richard, but at least she can help JC. JC is obviously a second choice at best. It's clear that Anita wants to be with Richard instead so hard it hurts. I want her to be with him instead too. Sigh. Well, he deserves better. Still, the more I read this book, the more I feel like Anita collects all these men in an attempt to fill the hole Richard left. (Not that hole.) It doesn't work, and can't work, because she won't admit to herself that she's in love with Richard and only Richard. Since she doesn't admit to the problem, she can't fix it, either by staying with only Richard or by letting him leave and getting over him.
JC says he'll leave. Anita tells us, “I'd already watched Asher and Richard walk out; I did not want to lose another of my men tonight. I needed as many around me as I could manage” (175). She's a hoarder.
Anyway, JC stays. Micah insults Anita, then shushes her and tells her not to take it personally. They've been blabbering so long, the men are no longer hard. They haven't actually been talking for very long since the guys got hard, and they were talking about sex, so, er, I guess they just deflate fast. They say “Nimir-Raj” at each other a couple times. Anita calls Nathaniel her “sweetie”, and I remove one of her kidneys.
Nathaniel says he's fine with not being asked about the fuckings. Because LKH thinks that's how submissives work, which fuck shit hell NO. If Anita or any of the other people here were Nathaniel's dom and they had an agreement that he'd fuck when told to do so and he had a safeword and etc., then yes. But Anita refuses to dominate Nathaniel or let anyone else dominate him. He just doesn't have an opinion because LKH thinks submissives will do whatever anyone with a supposedly "dominant" personality wants them to do.
Anita badgers Nathaniel into telling her what to do (he's a sub and she's forcing him to dom instead, lovely), and he says, “suck my dick, so we can fuck” (177). Apparently men are allowed to swear in the Anitaverse. And er... he has to have his dick sucked before it will get hard again? That's.... um. Unusual. Every guy has times when he can't get it up, but that's not what's happening with Nathaniel; instead, it's treated as completely normal that this 20-year old guy needs to have his cock sucked before it can get hard enough to penetrate the cunt of his regular lover when he has not had sex for many hours. Which, no. Here's usual: “Hey, wanna have sex?” Or, in extreme cases, “look, I have boobs!”
So, next chapter: more sex. Or the strange approximation that LKH thinks is sex, anyway.
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Date: 2013-12-18 02:57 pm (UTC)there's a lot here for me to be freaked about so I'll just pick two
: "And... eugh. “At twenty he was growing into what some people hit at seventeen, or earlier. Genetics is a wonderful and confusing thing.” Seventeen or earlier. I'm going to assume Nathaniel is supposed to look sixteen. Anita thinks this is wonderful." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
"Claudia says that straight vampires “take more liberties” with “opposite-sex victims” and gay vampires “take more liberties” with “same-sex vics” (171). ARGH! I hate the Anitaverse, it runs entirely on rape! " SO BASICALLY THEY CAN'T EVEN EAT WITHOUT MOLESTING SOMEONE
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Date: 2013-12-19 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-21 01:35 pm (UTC)Arrrrghhh.
And seriously about the blushing about her naked men but not the guards!!!! We are so far into everyone fucking everyone that being embarrassed about seeing anyone naked at this point is nothing short of lunacy. It's like LKH is trying to insert some kind of normalcy into Anita, which she doesn't really need and it in fact just makes her sound even more stupid.
I'm so glad you are writing these reviews so I don't have to read the books!
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Date: 2013-12-21 09:17 pm (UTC)