Facebook flog - Apr 30 2014

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Link: Apr 30 2014, 21:37
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises

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[ext_1626743]

A woman who is beautiful and sexy is not a sex kitten. Beyond the misogyny of the term, its meaning is not so general. I also haven't heard anyone use it within my lifetime -- the only place I've seen or heard it is from 50s and early 60s stuff. But then this is Laurell K. Hamilton; expecting her to either realize it is the 21st century or to understand words would be foolish.

Also "stud puppy" sounds like a kind of fish to me for some reason.

[suzycat]

Plus, a puppy cannot be a stud BECAUSE IT IS NOT MATURE ENOUGH TO BREED GAH.

[ext_1626743]

Yep, just like kittens can't have sex. But "stud" when talking about animals has a very specific meaning, making her brilliant new term even grosser, or maybe it just sounds grosser because I'm not acclimated to it. In any case, we already call hot men "studs", or used to not very long ago anyway (I am not hep to the lingo of the groovy Tumblr kids these days), so... why is "puppy" necessary? Besides that LKH has a thing for combining sex and immaturity, like Sesame Street tattoos and Anita fucking someone she's the guardian of and going to his PTA meetings and etc. Okay, answered my own question.

[suzycat]

I'm surprised more of the very powerful ancient supernatural beings in her books don't have cutesy names actually. "Auggie"? I mean REALLY? I expect Occy and Sammy and all the others will soon join her adorbs ickle harem in time.

[wanderingworlds]

Technically, cats can have sex as early as 6 months, depending on the female cat's first heat. So I mean, a kitten COULD have sex... Unless by the very sexual maturation, it isn't defined as a kitten anymore. (I personally think it's a kitten at 6 months.)

[ext_1626743]

You know, considering how many times I've gone through living with a cat in heat because the vet thought she wasn't old enough to be spayed, I really should have remembered this.

[magdalen77]

There is a mudpuppy which is a fish that can exist on land. Kind of a prehistoric fish that has both lungs and gills. I had to dissecting one in comparative anatomy.

[ext_1626743]

That must be it, thanks! It was bugging me. Also it makes what LKH said even more unintentionally hilarious.

[magdalen77]

Oops, I messed up a bit. The mudpuppy is considered a type of salamander. But it does indeed have both lungs and gills, so sort of halfway between a fish and an amphibian. My excuse is that I took comparative anatomy in 1978 and I haven't much thought about mudpuppies since.

[ext_1626743]

My memory of it was also that it was a fish. In any case, whether fish or salamander: still funny. I'm imagining a similar kind of creature called a "studpuppy" wearing a poet shirt open to the navel and high-heeled boots.

[magdalen77]

That is a hilarious mental picture. If I had any artistic talent I'd try to draw it.