Comments | gehayi: Against Willful Stupidity

gehayi

Against Willful Stupidity

Jul 04, 2007 16:27

Happy Fourth of July to all the Americans on my flist ( Read more... )

blatant stupidity, romances, writing

Comments 28

erinlin July 4 2007, 21:39:42 UTC

The ending of your story is *wonderful*!

gehayi July 4 2007, 23:10:02 UTC

Thank you! Oooh, and I love your icon!

erinlin July 4 2007, 23:31:50 UTC

Thanks! There's a whole bunch here- http://iconzicons.livejournal.com/

neotoma July 4 2007, 21:51:39 UTC

The Earl's smile was vicious. "Ballistics."

Yeah. I used to go to the local Sisters in Crime luncheons with my mother, and the guest speakers were always instructive ... sometimes terrifyingly so.

gehayi July 4 2007, 23:11:46 UTC

I believe it. What was the scariest speaker that you heard, out of curiosity? I've always been rather curious about Sisters in Crime.

neotoma July 4 2007, 23:24:58 UTC

The twenty-year veteran homicide detective, I think. The case he related about the mother who'd killed her child while on PCP (or LSD?) was particularly gruesome.

On the other hand, now that I'm going to be in a better location for traveling on the Metro, I might be able to join back up and go to the luncheons. Though from what I recalled the local chapter of Sisters in Crime might have well been named "Genteel Retirees Murder and Tea Society"

bktheirregular July 4 2007, 21:59:57 UTC

Very Prattchet-esque. Got a distinct Discworld vibe off your response.

(That was intended very much as a compliment.)

gehayi July 4 2007, 22:51:51 UTC

Very much taken as one! Thank you. I adore Pratchett.

rwday July 4 2007, 22:13:23 UTC

Why, I've heard tales where a king fancied a girl tricked out like a boy, and didn't know he'd got a girl, even after they were in bed

Seriously? Granted that kings aren't selected for their brains, but that's just a wee bit implausible. Even a half-assed editing job ought to have pegged that as a problem.

gehayi July 4 2007, 22:46:04 UTC

It's by Pamela Kaufman and it's called Banners of Gold. King Richard even TELLS the girl he couldn't tell that she was a girl:

"Then I met you. Did I think you were a boy when we went to bed the first time? Yes Alix, I did."

I couldn't make this shit up.

neotoma July 4 2007, 23:28:03 UTC

Was Richard particularly stupid? I know he was pretty terrible as King of England and didn't spend time there if he could avoid it anyway, but really, there's willing to ignore your intuition, and just plain DIM.

rwday July 5 2007, 01:22:53 UTC

My God. I'm trying to imagine the sex scene where Richard I, who definitely knew what a boy should look like, mistook a girl for a boy. Did he think 'he' was castrated, or just incredibly poorly endowed? That's not bad history, that's just plain bad writing.

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tazlet July 4 2007, 22:33:10 UTC

Mostly because there's no good nickname for Horror.

"But what's wrong with Horrie?" said the convenient bride. "I was named after Mr. Walpole after all."

rikibeth July 4 2007, 22:54:43 UTC

That's one of my favorite Heyers EVAR. That and Friday's Child with Hero Wantage.

tazlet July 4 2007, 23:36:53 UTC

Hey! Good on yez!

[I should point out that the above is not a quote from the book (which I no longer own a copy of) but merely a paraphrase.]