First crossover, yuri fic; and An author review.
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... )
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 ignoring it.
GODDAMN I CAN'T ESCAPE FROM IT. At least tell me that Brite is a little better about it? A little more Claudia, a little less Mona?
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