Telepathic Bitches

[peppermintyrose]

I knew you'd all read it if I called it that, but I promise it wasn't an advertising gimmick - I'm actually going to talk about telepathic bitches. :D Mr. Minty and I were discussing the books, and some of the meta themes. Now, he's only up to All Together Dead, but we were discussing Eric's character, and how intensely interesting he makes the

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[peppermintyrose]

Yeah, it's called desperation. If I stuck to canon, I'd have to read a lot more Bill fic, and there isn't enough. I still want my AH to have tensions in it, and actually be good. I have been burned a few times, getting invested in stories that had shitty endings, but so too with canon fic.

One that I'm reading, Golden Gothic, Eric is linked to the mob. In one - the Home series, Eric is so freaking high handed, he's gone behind Sookie's back to start looking for new houses to buy - oh, and named the baby she's still pregnant with, without her agreement. In Can't Stop the Waves, Sookie realises that in her past she's let guys take control of her life. In The Ballad of Love and Hate, Eric is absolutely cold hearted and aloof, bringing around girls to sleep with while he lives with Sookie, and meanwhile she's searching for herself. In First Day of my Life, Sookie is a lesbian, struggling with prejudice and hatred, and looking for acceptance. Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

While AH doesn't have all the juicy goodness I expect from canon, lots of canon fics don't have what I expect from canon. But AH has aspects - yes, the Eric in Home isn't a vampire, but he still has so many Eric qualities that it allows exploration of his personality. Of course, Sookie has to be likeable, and I do like her in every AH fic I review. If she's more the writer, and the writer is weak-minded, then I tend not to like her.

[peppermintyrose]

I don't live in NYC, so I don't mind. I don't mind a little bit of convenience in the AH, because after all, it's character I'm looking for, not where they live.

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2326957/Ooshka - top notch stuff, full world (and I mean full - there's Bill, Lorena, Judith, Calvin, Amelia, Felicia, Sam, Indira, Clancy, Rashaun etc. etc.) maybe a whole 5 chapters (out of over 100) where plot doesn't move - her fluff. Characters in character. But, she has an English lit masters' degree - and it shows. In over 100 chapters, she's never failed to get a review from me, and I set the same bar for her every single time.

[peppermintyrose]

I'd think the writer was American. :D :D

I read bad fic, so it doesn't bother me as much. But that's not the same as reviewing - I don't review if it's bad fic. Even to tell them they suck.

You've gotta remember - one of the things there's a lot of shit talk about is crime. Vampires commit a lot of crime, and writers looooove to write about crime, and they're often terribly wrong. They loooooove to write about university professors. All of this stuff from the outside looking in is crap.

[ext_376601]

I think that getting the setting wrong irks the readers the from that area the most. The rest of us would be fine with some vague notion that it could work.

It also depends on how much the setting plays a part in the story. If Dan Brown got the details of the Louvre and the streets around it comepletely wrong, then it would destroy the story.

It funny how something as big as Sex and the City also reportedly took poetic license on the money the girls made and whether they could afford their apartment. I highly doubt an unsyndicated columnist could become a VIP at Prada.

@PMR - University professor huh? I think I read an AH like that and guess what happened by the second chapter?

[peppermintyrose]

Seinfeld too was apparently in a million dollar apartment, as was Mad about You. I think I heard that anyway - I just find I don't care.

Lol - let me guess. They fucked their student. Totally what happens. I love those false ideas when I get a new male student who crushes on me and thinks there might be a shortcut to being teachers pet. Love it. Particularly as the tutor for ethics

[peppermintyrose]

Lol.

[thyradane]

Hehe, I`m having the same problems when I read stories taking place in Scandinavia and having the sun go down at 6 in the summer. Or having Eric speak Google Translate-Swedish.

I usually situate all my stories in Scandinavia because of that but now I`m writing from New York (ugh). I`m so glad my Sookie does not have a spare room in her apartment LOL and I will consider having them take the subway. Only thing is - we hardly took the subway ourselves when we were there. Manhattan is so tiny, we walked everywhere.

Re: I don't know that I'd call Manhattan small

[thyradane]

It`s something about NYC being larger than life when you haven`t been there. And then going there and seeing all the famous places being so close to one another - that really surprised me. In NYC there are four to five times the number of people as in all of Norway - and Norway is a three hour flight from north to south. Distances is really nothing here. And we do love to walk.

We quickly found that cabs that got stuck in traffic and the subway where you have to go down, down, down and then up, up, up were slower than walking. Of course we were tourists and could afford to take our time but I`d looked forward to taking the subway and ended up finding it was a waste of time.

32 degrees Celsius would be a heat wave here as well but it`s even worse on the Faroe Islands. I was there once when it was 24 degrees. People fainted in the streets. I`ve also been to Iceland where people walked around in skimpy dresses in 10 degrees Celsius. Heck, we do that here as well on a Friday night. Even at minus 10. Temperature is definitely relative :-D.

And I`ll be moving my story home very soon - I hate placing my stories where I don`t live/have lived :-)