tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post2676231398020289432..comments2024-01-09T18:40:53.465-08:00Comments on Ramblings of a Creative Double Dipper: Caress of Twilight--chapter 22Christwriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-9844613411927006742013-02-27T10:36:13.871-08:002013-02-27T10:36:13.871-08:00In the interest of fairness, I looked at that scen...In the interest of fairness, I looked at that scene, and several things stood out:<br /><br />1. LKH doesn't understand how diplomatic immunity works. You can't "claim" it, you already HAVE it. The police cannot charge Merry with anything she does. She can literally murder somebody and burn the body on her own front lawn and all the cops can do is have the fire department stand by and hose the surrounding houses down. So there's no reason for her to be sitting in the police station. <br /><br />2. The lead detective is "Alvera" and not Pearson. So Pearson must have been somebody in the dogpile afterwards. <br /><br />3. Alvera gives his permission to be touched as a demo that the potion works, and he almost resists it until Merry deliberately drags a finger across her breasts because "she's out of patience tonight". To me, she's already proved the damn stuff works and now should be sitting really still while everybody else gets the detective out of the room. <br /><br />4. When the other cops start dragging Alvera off Merry, she starts grabbing every male in the room because she's just SOOOOO NEEEDY, deliberately spreading the oil out as far as it will go. To cops who did NOT give their permission for a demo. <br /><br />5. The lesbian cops get half a paragraph, and it ends with "Nothing like being outed at work!" with that exact punctuation. <br /><br />I think the reason they all picked Merry is because she's Sidhe, and according to the book, a few pages back, the potion can turn a human into a sidhe lover for one night, so the attraction is a racial thing. I guess. Christwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-10637867668904915672013-02-26T20:59:30.061-08:002013-02-26T20:59:30.061-08:00Okay, serious Holy Shit moment here... LKH wrote a...Okay, serious Holy Shit moment here... LKH wrote an attempted-rape scene where the woman <i>really did</i> provoke her attackers. With rape-provoking magic that meant they really couldn't help themselves. And it was a DELIBERATE provocation on her part that just got a little out of hand.<br /><br />LKH isn't real. She's an elaborate hoax perpetrated by MRAs. That's the only explanation.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05828438966741169694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-11095650947379966342013-02-26T19:48:55.092-08:002013-02-26T19:48:55.092-08:00Don't forget about the magical rape potion acc...Don't forget about the magical rape potion accidentally outing a few lesbians on the force, and boy gee wize how embarrassing that must have been for them, tee hee!<br />Because heaven forbid we spare a second to think about how dangerous it can be to be outed, and if nothing else how violating that would be on a personal level to have that sort of thing revealed when you don't want it to be.<br /><br />I don't know why (okay, I do, but let's pretend I don't) the horror of that scene wasn't played up. I mean, we're talking about a whole roomful's worth of people trying to gang rape one woman (although didn't the potion just make you want to have sex, so why were they all going after the same woman? Right, because Merry is the sexiest sexdoll that ever had sex.) Now, I may be misremembering the scene, but I have a feeling I'm not. Korenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-61831289288754937632013-02-26T17:29:29.662-08:002013-02-26T17:29:29.662-08:00This series has rapist-eating giant spiders? Aweso...This series has rapist-eating giant spiders? Awesome!<br /><br />Merry Sue dosed a guy with a mind-controlling rape drug? BRING FORTH THE RAPIST-EATING GIANT SPIDERS.<br /><br />This book sucks. These characters are terrible. There is no plot worthy of note. The author is a self-righteous judgemental prick masquerading as an edgy kinkster. Have I missed anything?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05828438966741169694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-27427190251654679712013-02-26T12:37:38.070-08:002013-02-26T12:37:38.070-08:00Every time I read one of LKH's writing blog po...Every time I read one of LKH's writing blog posts it makes me want to hurl. Or scream. Or do both one after the other. <br /><br />I mean, I get it when things are going slow and you have no enthusiasm (I have enthusiasm for this book, but I am aware of how many little loose ends I have to tie up while keeping things interesting, and I've probably forgotten a few, and I haven't hit the fire stage yet) but that's why you get PAID for writing. I'm making a grand total of 15-20 bucks a month on my writing, but it's money I am paid in compensation for banging my head against the wall. 90% of the time when I change horses midstream, it's not because the characters are talking to me. It's because the book isn't INTERESTING enough as-is, and I need to change things around to make it more so. <br /><br />Yes. Merry was coated in the Magical Potion of Sex, which exposed her princessness to the whole world, by a guy she was invesitgating who was going to rape her. She knew this going in, which doesn't exactly make it any better. Doyle killed the SOB by having him eaten alive by spiders. However, Pearson didn't buy the magical aphrodisiac rape explination because the Magical Potion of Sex was top secret fairy stuff they didn't want people to know about. <br /><br />So Merry touched his cheek with her potion-drippy hand and he immediately jumped her. And then she got more of the potion all over everybody else while they were trying to pull Pearson off her. <br /><br />Something she didn't have to do because she could have invoked diplomatic immunity IMMEDIATELY and gotten the fuck out of department before the potion put anybody other than her shiny royal person in danger. <br /><br />Given that Pearson is a cop, and he probably holds rapists somewhere below worms and pondscum, the level of violation he felt more than justifies his telling her to fuck off. Christwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-45290125330849563602013-02-26T08:07:18.805-08:002013-02-26T08:07:18.805-08:00“It's not some magical or mystical connection ...“It's not some magical or mystical connection to characters.” Gasp! But then how can you be a GREAT WRITER like LKH?<br /><br />OH MY GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY SHE DID WHAT TO PEARSON?!<br /><br />TO THE ENTIRE POLICE DEPARTMENT?!<br /><br />How does LKH expect us to side with protagonists like these?!<br /><br />RFhttp://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.com