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said_scarlett) wrote2006-08-18 11:23 am
said_scarlett) wrote2006-08-18 11:23 am
Happy Friday Everybody!
Wow, I woke up in a really awesome mood this morning. I have no idea why. Maybe I've inadvertently feng shui'ed my room or something. But when I got up I was bright eyed and bushy tailed and full of energy. And I still am, but there isn't much for me to spend it on. I had myself an iced chocolate chai for breakfast, and now I'm contemplating lunch and bath before I settle in for some RO time. I'm always torn as to which should come first.
I finished Demon Deathchase the other day. You might remember my posting about it, and all I'd heard about how it was full of rape. I was warned so emphatically and repeatedly that it nearly put me off reading the book. But I loved Bloodlust, and I really wanted to see how the stories differed. So I read it.
Maybe fandom has jaded me. I don't know. But there were two instances of rape in the book, and neither were described in any detail. One was just mentioned in passing as having happened, and the other was a 'fade to black' sort of thing. Compared to Raiser of Gales - which was, indeed, full of rape and incest - I really don't see what the big deal was. And psychologically speaking, the rapes made sense and it wasn't random or OOC.Unless you get stuck on movie characterizations. Oh, Grove...
I'm reading Tale of the Dead Town now, and I think it's my favorite. If only for the interaction between Pluto VII and D. I never thought I'd actually like the idea of D in an actual pairing, but I think I could totally get into Pluto/D. Because Pluto wins.
Alright, I'm going to make some burritos and take a bath, and then e-mail Cori for some RO time!
I finished Demon Deathchase the other day. You might remember my posting about it, and all I'd heard about how it was full of rape. I was warned so emphatically and repeatedly that it nearly put me off reading the book. But I loved Bloodlust, and I really wanted to see how the stories differed. So I read it.
Maybe fandom has jaded me. I don't know. But there were two instances of rape in the book, and neither were described in any detail. One was just mentioned in passing as having happened, and the other was a 'fade to black' sort of thing. Compared to Raiser of Gales - which was, indeed, full of rape and incest - I really don't see what the big deal was. And psychologically speaking, the rapes made sense and it wasn't random or OOC.
I'm reading Tale of the Dead Town now, and I think it's my favorite. If only for the interaction between Pluto VII and D. I never thought I'd actually like the idea of D in an actual pairing, but I think I could totally get into Pluto/D. Because Pluto wins.
Alright, I'm going to make some burritos and take a bath, and then e-mail Cori for some RO time!
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I think that reading stuff like that in fiction is different than.. say.. if it was real. Which of course it isn't. I find myself strangely willing to read a lot of things that I really wouldn't approve of in real life. I don't want that to make me sound weird, but.. yeah. It's not like I read anything really bad though, even though I could. :P It's more like I usually don't want to.
Are you ready yet? :D I haven't gotten an email though, hm..
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Yeah, fiction is much, much different. And if the dark/icky/weird stuff makes sense, than I don't mind it. There was actually a discussion on the VHD community a while back, about the level of casual violence/rape in the books. Someone was really freaked out by it, and a lot of people popped up to point out that a) in this culture, violence is a way of life and b) these people have n control over their lives at all thanks to the vampires and have to find ways of establishing control wherever they can. So I don't mind it in this setting. *smooches* And you don't sound weird at all. Fiction isn't reality, and there are too many people who just don't get that. I've been called a sick freak for some of the stuff I write, and it just makes me shake my head and sigh.
I am ready now! I shall pop onto the server!
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Have fun RPGing!
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I know exactly what you mean about fandom. I'm so used to the rape, incest, kink, etc that when I read a book that's supposed to be controversial I'm always a little disappointed. I've found that most of what goes into print is a lot milder than what gets posted online, for obvious reasons! ;)
Oops, I'm going over to redux right now to reply to your post! I was finishing my
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Yeah, exactly. Some of the things my friends have written - hell, some of what I've written - is so dark and squicky and whatnot that when people go on and on about things in published books, I read it and go '...what's the big deal?'. I realize that to someone not in fandom, yes, routine sibling gang-rape is probably shocking, but I read it and went 'that's it?'.
Whoot, ficcage! Yeah, I posted fic a bit ago, actually, too. Yay for getting things done!
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Dude, like um, Raiser of Gales has incest in it? I like incest pairings! I want to read that. Okay I'm running away now before I freak you out.