Ah, the weekend
The deadline is over, and I've had two decent nights of sleep, and I am being productive. The Big Bang fic is back up and running, as is LiveJournal--well, intermittently--and I'm catching up on the inbox. And this afternoon, I'm going to exercise. It's going to be amazing.
I've been reading myself to sleep on Bujold, and Komarr is even better on the re-read, possibly because I let myself linger rather than tearing excitedly through it. Shards of Honor is still one of my favorites, but I finally put my finger on why it bothered me so much that she took the thing with Bothari as far as she did. It's not that Bujold let him take it that far--though obviously it's disturbing and wrong and horrible, but I see that the whole point of his character is exploring someone who's so deeply damaged and has done such disturbing and horrible things (shades of Bothari in Mark, I think)--it's that Aral did. And he's never called on it. When he explains that obscene illusion of a marriage to Cordelia, neither of them address the fact that Vorkosigan knew what was going on behind closed doors and made no attempt to stop it. Maybe this is actually addressed in Warrior's Apprentice, but I don't remember that it came up. It's going to sour me on that book, which makes me unhappy.
ETA that I spoke too soon on LiveJournal--my replies are all being eaten. *sighs*
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I've been reading myself to sleep on Bujold, and Komarr is even better on the re-read, possibly because I let myself linger rather than tearing excitedly through it. Shards of Honor is still one of my favorites, but I finally put my finger on why it bothered me so much that she took the thing with Bothari as far as she did. It's not that Bujold let him take it that far--though obviously it's disturbing and wrong and horrible, but I see that the whole point of his character is exploring someone who's so deeply damaged and has done such disturbing and horrible things (shades of Bothari in Mark, I think)--it's that Aral did. And he's never called on it. When he explains that obscene illusion of a marriage to Cordelia, neither of them address the fact that Vorkosigan knew what was going on behind closed doors and made no attempt to stop it. Maybe this is actually addressed in Warrior's Apprentice, but I don't remember that it came up. It's going to sour me on that book, which makes me unhappy.
ETA that I spoke too soon on LiveJournal--my replies are all being eaten. *sighs*
comments at http://pendrecarc.dreamwidth.org/139207.html. Feel free to comment wherever you prefer.