I’m rereading the Dragonriders books. Yes, I am perfectly aware of the foolishness of this course of action.
They’ve actually aged worse than Mercedes Lackey. I don’t know if it’s that Lackey’s big fetishes (the H/C and the angsty slash and the didactic liberalism) have actually retained their cultural relevance more than McCaffrey’s (the bodice-
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Actually, I was kind of sad a couple years ago when I realized I'd apparently outgrown her. I mean, trying and failing is still trying, which is more than a lot go for.
I couldn't read the gay guys books because...well, they were really, really bad, IIRC, but I remember that the lesbians in the first books, and then other same sex (and IIRC, bisexual) characters later on were treated as perfectly normal. Like, she drew attention to them so you'd notice "yes, I do mean for them to be gay," but it wasn't UNUSUAL.
Now, the one whose lifemate was his horse? She did treat that one as a bit unusual.
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Aaaaand then over a decade ago I managed to get in an argument on the internet with a man who insisted that EVERY WORD WAS PERFECT AND NOTHING SHOULD BE CHANGED because the book really helped him to cope with being a gay teen. Lesson learned: do not argue details of writing and editing with someone who is speaking from a deeply emotional and personal stance. (I am very happy that he found the right book at the right time! It doesn't mean the books couldn't have been better.)
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I was really surprised when I reread them a while back and realized how abrupt and weird that whole romance was. His aunt shows up just a couple hours after it begins to give a speech validating it. Because his boyfriend was talking to her telepathically, about his self-esteem and identity problems, while they were still in bed together! Word-count-wise, people spend more time talking about their relationship than they do talking to each other.
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(I'm sure I'll think of like a million other things later, but right now I need to go to work.)
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Want to go to the city tomorrow? I want to try to go to that cosmetics store in Furumachi to get stickers.
See if you can figure out google maps, and tack yourself on one. I am going to drive out to Nishi.
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(I'm kind of phrasing this carefully because I don't actually feel things have gotten much better, but then I'm also not reading much recent fantasy.)
Also, she provided angsty slash pre-internet. I suspect that that gave her a boost.
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