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thoth_moon

First crossover, yuri fic; and An author review.

Jul 27, 2009 16:15

First, the first crossover and first yuri fic accomplished by Yours Truly, Peony. I've got to give both mhmartini's meme and my awesome hat some credit for making me do some things I wouldn't normally do (the crossover thing, not the yuri part). In this case the pairing spat out by meme and hat is Botan and Rurouni Kenshin's Megumi. Which is, of ( Read more... )

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akai_senshi July 27 2009, 23:37:20 UTC

I'm sorry, but while her work may be good, Poppy Z. Brite is batshit insane.

A "non-op" transsexual, and she makes no effort to appear/act male? And why the fuck is she married? Y HELO THAR "TRANS" IDIOT WHO WON'T GIVE UP STR8 PRIVILEGE.

thoth_moon July 28 2009, 04:06:12 UTC

I've only read a little bit before about the gender thing. Basically, that she identifies more as male than female, but hasn't and doesn't plan to do transition. Doesn't really bother me any which way. In some societies, like many of the American Indian tribes, there's up to six or more genders, and an individual's recognized as capable of being more than one of those simultaneously. I'm pretty sure I've encountered more than one living example of similar ambiguity before (no shit: my uncle used to play matchmaker for a genuine hermaphrodite and I'm damn sure I've even met a eunuch before), so I guess that's why I'm nonreactive to it.

akai_senshi July 29 2009, 20:58:47 UTC

That's actually pretty cool.

It's just that I've had bad experiences with people who call themselves "non-op FtM's". To me, it just reads "crazed yaoi fangirl"; I even had one steal my life story to make herself sound genuine when she was on my FL.

Plus I don't really like people who use their genital sex to get married- if they see their relationship as a gay relationship. It's spitting in the face of the cisgender gay couples who can't get married, as well as the straight couples with one trans partner (MtF/man, FtM/woman) who are "same-sex" under the law.

rotynd July 31 2009, 12:40:55 UTC

Ooh, I'm going to have get on the Brite train as well, aren't I. You are just cruel, you know that? CRUEL.

Haha, and yeah, I was going to say - I saw "not like that Twiligh crap" and then "eat their way out of mommy" and I was like, "...Actually, that's not a far cry." However, it's all in the writing. Also Renesmee came out already practically self-sufficient just so that mommy could hand her off to her pedo-love wolf and get back to sexing her husband up without worrying about mundane things like diapers. Also she was growing up fast enough that she'd be about seven when she hit physical sixteen, so hey, Jacob didn't have long to wait!

Ah, sad day, can't even bring up vampires without us going off on the people we hate. Although speaking of, as much as I like most of the Vampire Chronicles, and think that the money thing and wallowing in materialism fit the themes-and-feel like whoa, and would like to point out that really it was only Lestat who went off for pages about his clothes and that... well, that's just Lestat (although ( ... )

thoth_moon August 1 2009, 00:24:05 UTC

I get why someone like Lestat's going to go on and on about his frock coats and the type of wood some desk is made of and shit like that--which might be why I snorted so much reading the opening of The Vampire Lestat where he's hiking up the mountain in buckskin making to assassinate a pack of woods like he's Grizzly Adams or something; at the same time, though, most if not all of Rice's poor/poorer characters seem to be either servants or just dangling down there on the whole intelligence scale. Which is a classic Gothic motif, I know, but still, got aggravating every now and then.

I guess ... there is some pedo and/or rape type of stuff in some of Brite's writing--probably the two most disturbing things of hers in that category involve the relationship of Nothing and Zillah, and the story in Wormwood featuring the ghost of Jean Lafitte (don't worry: he didn't do anything)--but at the same time, we don't have no middle-school heiresses seducing their eighty-year-old cousins, either.

Yes, I am most, most happy, yes I am.

rotynd August 1 2009, 13:22:33 UTC

No no, that was Lestat's Brokeback moment, not Grizzly! He made wild gay eyesex WITH HIMSELF. He fell even more in love with himself that night, and you know it.

Oh god, I've been blocking that. She does suck at anyone without lots of money. Also I really don't like the way she writes about black people, which strikes me as at least low-level racist. Like when she had whoever it was going "x isn't from the South, they don't know how to treat black people" and it was a little... Oh, there are special rules for manuevering these murky waters? Which, it was fine for the character as far as I remember, but she hadn't really earned the right to be all gritty that way because god, is her New Orleans a bastion of whiteness in general. And I really wish she'd done something about Louis and slaves; the man broods about everything under the sun but having owned people? And I'd buy him just never coming to terms with the fact that it was wrong, because he was raised that way and all, but they could have at least dealt with that instead of ( ... )