BULLET, CHAPTER FIVE, PART TWO
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BULLET, CHAPTER FIVE, PART TWO
Anita asks Nathaniel and Micah if this is a surprise to them as it is to her, and they nod that it is but Micah says Asher has been getting "pushier" lately and Anita brings up the attempt at a kiss from earlier as an example of how. Anita asks Asher not to do this and to just talk to her instead. Asher replies that "Your master has forbidden me to bring up certain topics. He has left me few avenues to demonstrate my displeasure, but the ways he has left open to me I will now take. I want to know where everyone in this room stands. I want to know where I stand with everyone in this room, and I want to know now." If he's referring to Jean-Claude simply as Anita's master, then damn oh damn must he be peeved at him, wow.
Anita tells jean-Claude to tell Asher that he can tell her whatever it is and that it's a bad idea to "start this kind of dominance thing with our own people." Yeah, it could go horribly wrong, like Anita finding out not everyone sees her as superior to them!
Someone (Asher? JC?) says for the guards to leave, but Claudia and Truth don't think that's a good idea. Whoever said for them to leave tells them again to go. Then Asher says that their master told them to leave, so I guess it was JC who said it. Claudia responds that "He's not my master, I just work here". Wicked says he's our (his and his brother's ) master, but then Truth says he's not. Wicked and Truth look at each other, then they both look at Anita. I guess that means Anita is their master. What a surprise. She tells them to go. Claudia and Fredo say this is a bad idea again, but Anita says she trusts JC and Asher. All the guards start to leave, but Asher calls for Perses and Dares, the werehyenas, to stay.
One day I want to find out just what Narci's reason for renaming all his werehyenas after Greek lore is. Because I have a big fat hunch that it's very much a personal Narci thing, not a werehyena culture thing in general.
Perses, who is "the shorter, dark one" says that "We're hired to guard Jean-Claude nd his people" and Asher says "I'm not talking about who signs your paychecks. I'm talking about who your master is in this room." Micah says "Don't do this" and Anita says that Micah must see "some danger that I was still oblivious to." Yeah, me too, I really am not amped or scared over something that is apparently a normal vampire custom everywhere that just happens to not be done here because they're informal. Asher wanting to know where he stands is totally a reasonable thing, and if Anita says she trusts him, why doesn't she trust him not to rip the throats out of whoever offers them? This whole thing just seems like a really pointless conflict to have, let alone spend so much time and discussion over.
Asher asks if Micah will offer his neck to him, Nathaniel says that he will, and Asher says that he Nathaniel have no dominance issues between them. Micah tells Nathaniel that "this isn't about sex, it's about power" and "he wants me to acknowledge him as more powerful." Why the fuck would anyone, even Nathaniel, think this was about sex? Sex has not been mentioned (shockingly) once so far in relation to this custom and so likely has nothing to do with it. Although I bet sex still ends up coming in somehow. Did I mention my prediction yet that they'll all just bang Asher and everything will be peachy again?
Asher says that "there were other things I wanted from you, Micah" then quotes Machiavelli about love and fear and says that since "you don't love me, so I will settle." AND I SWEAR TO GOD I AM TIRED OF THAT LINE IN THIS SERIES. I find funny that each time a character quotes that line, either they have to say so themselves that Machiavelli said it (as Asher does here) or another character has to (like Anita did when Belle Morte said it). The line itself never gets quoted without it being said it's from Machiavelli, even though it's his most well-known phrase. I think LKH just wants to make sure we don't miss it and that we know she knows Machiavelli (but I'm betting she's actually never read The Prince.) Also, that line is in reference to the best way for a leader to be viewed by his people, it's not about personal relationships and what to do when romantically rejected. Again, I'm pretty sure LKH never read the source and this is the only phrase from it she knows.
Micah says "You are not doing all this just because I don't like boys." Oh Micah, it's the Anitaverse, everything is about sex, I'm pretty sure this might indeed be just over that. Asher laughs, and uses his vampire power to make it hurt "as if the sound of it had bits of glass to rend the skin." Anita says she should have been immune to this, and "that I wasn't meant Asher had grown in power since last he'd tried shit like this." Asher says he used to believe Micah on that but that he "saw you with your kitten" tonight and we get this little ball of gender-essentialism binarist crap:
Anita: "Wait, are you doing all this because you think Micah is...doing Nathaniel but not you? That's such a girl reason to fight."
Asher: "No, it's not. It's a very male reason for a fight. A man's ego can only take so much rejection, Anita."
Micah: "Oh my God."
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY, MICAH
Anita thinks that Micah has figured something out (versus just being frustrated at her sexist stupidity) and Anita asks him what he's realized, and we get some more dialogue you have to read to believe.
Micah: "You sleep in the same bed with him almost every night. We find you naked together dead to the world during the day when none of us are with you" they find them when none of them are with them wait what how does that work "Are you really telling me that you and he aren't--"
Anita: "Aren't what?"
Nathaniel: "Lovers."
Anita: "What?"
Micah or Nathaniel (not specified): "They aren't lovers."
Anita: "Who aren't lovers?" OH MY GOD HOW IS SHE THIS THICK
Nathaniel: "Jean-Claude and Asher."
Anita to JC: "Are you telling me that even when I'm not with you, you're still not..."
And Asher says that, nope, they're not doing anything, and says JC to look how everyone thought "we were together as of old." Then Anita asks JC if "Are you saying that you've had him in our bed, in your bed, naked all this time and you still haven't...been, oh, hell, you aren't completely lovers?"
YES, ANITA, THAT IS WHAT EVERYONE IS TRYING TO TELL YOU
JC asks what Anita would have done if she'd walked in on them. My guess is either thrown a hissy fit on not being included, gotten all yaoi-fangirl fetishistic on them, or both. Anita says she would have been "a lot less upset than if I caught you with another woman" and JC is like so you would be upset then and Anita says she doesn't know and that all five of them have been in bed together and she "thought you were saving the more intimate stuff for when I wasn't there."
No, it would be make WAY too much sense for JC to have sex with the man he was with for centuries long before you came around whether you liked or not. I mean, geez, that might even actually imply, shock and horror, that the world doesn't revolve around Anita!
JC says that "you have taught me to fear your moral compass". Yeah, I fear Anita's moral compass too, Jean-Claude, namely the fact she doesn't have one at all. Anita points out that JC loves Asher and has for centuries. Asher says that "He loves you more. He loves you enough to have refused me again and again, to have stopped my touch, my body, and if you attract one more mostly heterosexual man to our little group I am going to do something violent." Asher laughs bitterly again and then says that, oh wait, he's going to do something violent tonight anyway. He then tells Perses and Dares to come stand by him.
Te blond one says they'd rather just leave and that "this sounds more personal than bodyguard." Asher says he wants to make a point and that they're going to help him do that. He then "held out his arm and called them to him" and the werehyenas "simply turned and went to him" and "took up posts behind the loveseat, at Asher's back." Man, that just must be so freaky for therians, to have someone controlling you by your beast from the inside out like that. I can barely imagine, uggh, gives me the shivers!
Micah says for what I swear must be the third time "Don't do this" and Asher says there's no leopards here to help Micah and no wolves to help Jean-Claude and "the rats belong to no one" so he is "the only master in the room who has help at hand". Micah says that's not true, Asher asks if he means Nathaniel, Micah says he's not talking about himself, and Anita asks him "Don't make me do this" and Micah says Asher is the one making the rules here and Asher says that Anita and he "established that she'd bow to me long ago." Anita asks what that means.
ANITA, DO YOU EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH?
Asher says that Anita lets him dominate her in the bedroom, and Anita says that in the bedroom is different. This is true; what goes on in a person's sex life doesn't dictate how they are outside it, or how their relationships with others are outside it. But in the Anitaverse, ironically, Asher's version has actually always been the case instead--that people are submissive sexually are also submissive socially in terms of their general personality and are submissive/weak supernaturals in terms of their metaphysical power and political positions. Ditto for people who are dominant. So I really don't know who to side with, because while Anita is technically correct about how things SHOULD work, and do realistically work in the real world, Asher is the one who is right about how we've always so far seen things to work in-universe, much as I disagree with it.
Asher brings up a time that Anita let him feed from her almost to the point of death, when they'd been alone and the power he used to make his bite orgasmic had made it feel too good for Anita to fight for life and make him stop. Well, that's creepy. But I can see how that power would be useful as a weapon, I suppose. Anyway, apparently they've never told anyone else about it and have just avoided being alone together for feedings ever since.
Anita: "Don't push me, Asher."
Asher: "Or what? You'll kill me? I don't think so."
JC: "Just as you won't kill us, and if death is off the table, then what is left to prove."
Asher: "That I have grown too powerful to be your second. I need a territory of my own and lovers who aren't ashamed of me.""refuses my body because you would reject him if you saw us together" even though Asher pointed out that Anita was just fine when Jean-Claude and Augustine got freaky with each other (Danse Macabre) and that he knew for sure that Jean-Claude had lied when "I saw your cats kissing in public" (yeah, and calling them her cats is better than Monica calling them 'it' how?) and now he's figured out that it's not that Anita has any problem with "sharing yourself with men who are sharing each other; it is Jean-Claude who doesn't want to be with me again. You are his excuse"
Micah: "I don't know what you thought you saw at the recital."
Asher: "I saw two men who love each other and aren't afraid to show it in public. Don't deny it."
Micah: "I had no intention of denying how I feel about Nathaniel."
Nathaniel puts his head on Micah's shoulder, and considering Micah is 5'3 and Nathaniel is taller than that, I guess he has to lean down and it must look terribly awkward. Anita asks if the guards can please go for the rest of the discussion. Asher says this is proof she's embarrassed by him. Anita says "I'm embarrassed in general."
You and I both, Anita. Seriously, this is embarrassing just to read. And we still have one more third of the chapter to go!
http://www.apopo.org/en/
And speaking of giant rats...
http://voices.yahoo.com/friendly-giant-bosavi-woolly-rat-discovered-extinct-4211039.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uP-kOPirdg
Too bad there are none in...
BULLET, CHAPTER FIVE, PART TWO
Anita asks Nathaniel and Micah if this is a surprise to them as it is to her, and they nod that it is but Micah says Asher has been getting "pushier" lately and Anita brings up the attempt at a kiss from earlier as an example of how. Anita asks Asher not to do this and to just talk to her instead. Asher replies that "Your master has forbidden me to bring up certain topics. He has left me few avenues to demonstrate my displeasure, but the ways he has left open to me I will now take. I want to know where everyone in this room stands. I want to know where I stand with everyone in this room, and I want to know now." If he's referring to Jean-Claude simply as Anita's master, then damn oh damn must he be peeved at him, wow.
Anita tells jean-Claude to tell Asher that he can tell her whatever it is and that it's a bad idea to "start this kind of dominance thing with our own people." Yeah, it could go horribly wrong, like Anita finding out not everyone sees her as superior to them!
Someone (Asher? JC?) says for the guards to leave, but Claudia and Truth don't think that's a good idea. Whoever said for them to leave tells them again to go. Then Asher says that their master told them to leave, so I guess it was JC who said it. Claudia responds that "He's not my master, I just work here". Wicked says he's our (his and his brother's ) master, but then Truth says he's not. Wicked and Truth look at each other, then they both look at Anita. I guess that means Anita is their master. What a surprise. She tells them to go. Claudia and Fredo say this is a bad idea again, but Anita says she trusts JC and Asher. All the guards start to leave, but Asher calls for Perses and Dares, the werehyenas, to stay.
One day I want to find out just what Narci's reason for renaming all his werehyenas after Greek lore is. Because I have a big fat hunch that it's very much a personal Narci thing, not a werehyena culture thing in general.
Perses, who is "the shorter, dark one" says that "We're hired to guard Jean-Claude nd his people" and Asher says "I'm not talking about who signs your paychecks. I'm talking about who your master is in this room." Micah says "Don't do this" and Anita says that Micah must see "some danger that I was still oblivious to." Yeah, me too, I really am not amped or scared over something that is apparently a normal vampire custom everywhere that just happens to not be done here because they're informal. Asher wanting to know where he stands is totally a reasonable thing, and if Anita says she trusts him, why doesn't she trust him not to rip the throats out of whoever offers them? This whole thing just seems like a really pointless conflict to have, let alone spend so much time and discussion over.
Asher asks if Micah will offer his neck to him, Nathaniel says that he will, and Asher says that he Nathaniel have no dominance issues between them. Micah tells Nathaniel that "this isn't about sex, it's about power" and "he wants me to acknowledge him as more powerful." Why the fuck would anyone, even Nathaniel, think this was about sex? Sex has not been mentioned (shockingly) once so far in relation to this custom and so likely has nothing to do with it. Although I bet sex still ends up coming in somehow. Did I mention my prediction yet that they'll all just bang Asher and everything will be peachy again?
Asher says that "there were other things I wanted from you, Micah" then quotes Machiavelli about love and fear and says that since "you don't love me, so I will settle." AND I SWEAR TO GOD I AM TIRED OF THAT LINE IN THIS SERIES. I find funny that each time a character quotes that line, either they have to say so themselves that Machiavelli said it (as Asher does here) or another character has to (like Anita did when Belle Morte said it). The line itself never gets quoted without it being said it's from Machiavelli, even though it's his most well-known phrase. I think LKH just wants to make sure we don't miss it and that we know she knows Machiavelli (but I'm betting she's actually never read The Prince.) Also, that line is in reference to the best way for a leader to be viewed by his people, it's not about personal relationships and what to do when romantically rejected. Again, I'm pretty sure LKH never read the source and this is the only phrase from it she knows.
Micah says "You are not doing all this just because I don't like boys." Oh Micah, it's the Anitaverse, everything is about sex, I'm pretty sure this might indeed be just over that. Asher laughs, and uses his vampire power to make it hurt "as if the sound of it had bits of glass to rend the skin." Anita says she should have been immune to this, and "that I wasn't meant Asher had grown in power since last he'd tried shit like this." Asher says he used to believe Micah on that but that he "saw you with your kitten" tonight and we get this little ball of gender-essentialism binarist crap:
Anita: "Wait, are you doing all this because you think Micah is...doing Nathaniel but not you? That's such a girl reason to fight."
Asher: "No, it's not. It's a very male reason for a fight. A man's ego can only take so much rejection, Anita."
Micah: "Oh my God."
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY, MICAH
Anita thinks that Micah has figured something out (versus just being frustrated at her sexist stupidity) and Anita asks him what he's realized, and we get some more dialogue you have to read to believe.
Micah: "You sleep in the same bed with him almost every night. We find you naked together dead to the world during the day when none of us are with you" they find them when none of them are with them wait what how does that work "Are you really telling me that you and he aren't--"
Anita: "Aren't what?"
Nathaniel: "Lovers."
Anita: "What?"
Micah or Nathaniel (not specified): "They aren't lovers."
Anita: "Who aren't lovers?" OH MY GOD HOW IS SHE THIS THICK
Nathaniel: "Jean-Claude and Asher."
Anita to JC: "Are you telling me that even when I'm not with you, you're still not..."
And Asher says that, nope, they're not doing anything, and says JC to look how everyone thought "we were together as of old." Then Anita asks JC if "Are you saying that you've had him in our bed, in your bed, naked all this time and you still haven't...been, oh, hell, you aren't completely lovers?"
YES, ANITA, THAT IS WHAT EVERYONE IS TRYING TO TELL YOU
JC asks what Anita would have done if she'd walked in on them. My guess is either thrown a hissy fit on not being included, gotten all yaoi-fangirl fetishistic on them, or both. Anita says she would have been "a lot less upset than if I caught you with another woman" and JC is like so you would be upset then and Anita says she doesn't know and that all five of them have been in bed together and she "thought you were saving the more intimate stuff for when I wasn't there."
No, it would be make WAY too much sense for JC to have sex with the man he was with for centuries long before you came around whether you liked or not. I mean, geez, that might even actually imply, shock and horror, that the world doesn't revolve around Anita!
JC says that "you have taught me to fear your moral compass". Yeah, I fear Anita's moral compass too, Jean-Claude, namely the fact she doesn't have one at all. Anita points out that JC loves Asher and has for centuries. Asher says that "He loves you more. He loves you enough to have refused me again and again, to have stopped my touch, my body, and if you attract one more mostly heterosexual man to our little group I am going to do something violent." Asher laughs bitterly again and then says that, oh wait, he's going to do something violent tonight anyway. He then tells Perses and Dares to come stand by him.
Te blond one says they'd rather just leave and that "this sounds more personal than bodyguard." Asher says he wants to make a point and that they're going to help him do that. He then "held out his arm and called them to him" and the werehyenas "simply turned and went to him" and "took up posts behind the loveseat, at Asher's back." Man, that just must be so freaky for therians, to have someone controlling you by your beast from the inside out like that. I can barely imagine, uggh, gives me the shivers!
Micah says for what I swear must be the third time "Don't do this" and Asher says there's no leopards here to help Micah and no wolves to help Jean-Claude and "the rats belong to no one" so he is "the only master in the room who has help at hand". Micah says that's not true, Asher asks if he means Nathaniel, Micah says he's not talking about himself, and Anita asks him "Don't make me do this" and Micah says Asher is the one making the rules here and Asher says that Anita and he "established that she'd bow to me long ago." Anita asks what that means.
ANITA, DO YOU EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH?
Asher says that Anita lets him dominate her in the bedroom, and Anita says that in the bedroom is different. This is true; what goes on in a person's sex life doesn't dictate how they are outside it, or how their relationships with others are outside it. But in the Anitaverse, ironically, Asher's version has actually always been the case instead--that people are submissive sexually are also submissive socially in terms of their general personality and are submissive/weak supernaturals in terms of their metaphysical power and political positions. Ditto for people who are dominant. So I really don't know who to side with, because while Anita is technically correct about how things SHOULD work, and do realistically work in the real world, Asher is the one who is right about how we've always so far seen things to work in-universe, much as I disagree with it.
Asher brings up a time that Anita let him feed from her almost to the point of death, when they'd been alone and the power he used to make his bite orgasmic had made it feel too good for Anita to fight for life and make him stop. Well, that's creepy. But I can see how that power would be useful as a weapon, I suppose. Anyway, apparently they've never told anyone else about it and have just avoided being alone together for feedings ever since.
Anita: "Don't push me, Asher."
Asher: "Or what? You'll kill me? I don't think so."
JC: "Just as you won't kill us, and if death is off the table, then what is left to prove."
Asher: "That I have grown too powerful to be your second. I need a territory of my own and lovers who aren't ashamed of me.""refuses my body because you would reject him if you saw us together" even though Asher pointed out that Anita was just fine when Jean-Claude and Augustine got freaky with each other (Danse Macabre) and that he knew for sure that Jean-Claude had lied when "I saw your cats kissing in public" (yeah, and calling them her cats is better than Monica calling them 'it' how?) and now he's figured out that it's not that Anita has any problem with "sharing yourself with men who are sharing each other; it is Jean-Claude who doesn't want to be with me again. You are his excuse"
Micah: "I don't know what you thought you saw at the recital."
Asher: "I saw two men who love each other and aren't afraid to show it in public. Don't deny it."
Micah: "I had no intention of denying how I feel about Nathaniel."
Nathaniel puts his head on Micah's shoulder, and considering Micah is 5'3 and Nathaniel is taller than that, I guess he has to lean down and it must look terribly awkward. Anita asks if the guards can please go for the rest of the discussion. Asher says this is proof she's embarrassed by him. Anita says "I'm embarrassed in general."
You and I both, Anita. Seriously, this is embarrassing just to read. And we still have one more third of the chapter to go!
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Date: 2013-03-09 06:37 pm (UTC)With that out of the way, on to the sporking:
Wow. Welcome to Bizarro-world, where the readers are forced to agree with Micah!
Asher, dearheart (maybe I'm reading too much of the Saint), why didn't you finish the job when you were in a position to kill Anita? Then you could nurse JC back to health!
I still want the story where Asher makes good on his threat to leave with the werehyenas.
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Date: 2013-03-09 08:27 pm (UTC)They were banned in America for awhile, but they're not anymore. However, you can only get one if it was bred in America, no imports, and since they were banned for so long there's not a lot of American breeders or American stock to breed anymore :C
Me too, me too. I think he finally does in Kiss the Dead, actually.
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Date: 2013-03-09 08:18 pm (UTC)But I will say every time I read "Fredo" my mind immediately translates it into "Frodo" and the entire scene is suddenly very hilarious and awkward.
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Date: 2013-03-09 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-09 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-09 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-11 05:51 am (UTC)Mainly because I heard "Good job, Fredo" in a thick accent.
Oh God I'm giggling again.no subject
Date: 2013-03-09 10:21 pm (UTC)....Dafuq did I just read?
The more of this I read, the sorrier I feel for Asher. Seriously. Poor guy.
*waves Team Asher flag*
You are a brave, brave soul for slogging through this mess. I commend you.
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Date: 2013-03-10 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-10 01:51 am (UTC)Good to know.
Also: "I need...lovers who aren't ashamed of me" This broke my heart a bit.
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Date: 2013-03-10 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-10 03:14 am (UTC)"Anita is technically correct about how things SHOULD work, and do realistically work in the real world, Asher is the one who is right about how we've always so far seen things to work in-universe, much as I disagree with it."
I think it was in that rejected chapter miniwank thing where Jean-Claude explains at length and stiltedly that Anita is a bottom, because in no way could she ever be submissive in anything ever. But I think she's the only one who gets special treatment as far as the in-world trend you've pointed out, where what you are in the bedroom is what you are in real life. Anita = superspecial - is anyone surprised? :/
"You have taught me to fear your moral compass" - " I need a territory of my own and lovers who aren't ashamed of me."
Sometimes I get the feeling that LKH's subconscious knows she's doing wrong and tries to break out through the less-sexzombified characters.
"That's such a girl reason to fight."
Can we go one fucking page without casual misogyny? Please?
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Date: 2013-03-10 07:11 pm (UTC)Can we go one fucking page without casual misogyny?
NOPE
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Date: 2013-03-10 10:46 pm (UTC)That sounds like something a woman would say. a blonde woman.
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Date: 2013-03-11 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-10 11:34 pm (UTC)2. Wait... so Truth recognizes Anita as his master, but Wicked doesn't? Talk about Awkward... Also talk about emasculating JC when he's right there. Anita, stop stealing JC's people because you're going to make him look weak(er) and he's going to get pissed off. Maybe. Or maybe it'll just be Asher who gets pissed off.
3. *banging head against everything in the house, pulling pots and pans out of the cupboards to use when I run out of walls* JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ANITA HOW CAN YOU BE SO FUCKING STUPID?!
4. BULLSHIT! I'M CALLING BULLSHIT ON HER BLASE ANSWER. Like hell she'd have been "a lot less upset"! Even though that implies she'd still be upset! BUT GOD DAMMIT JC SHE OBVIOUSLY GIVES NO SHITS ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS WHY NOT TRY THAT WITH HERS AND BE WITH ASHER! How hard is that?! It's hardly like she's being Super Duper Faithful Monogamous (oh god that was so funny to write for her) to you, so fuck Asher. Fuck him all night and make Anita feel the pleasure you're getting without her. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE MORE POWERFUL THAN HER NOW SHOW IT.
5. ...AHAHAHHAHAHAHA HE'S AFRAID OF HER MORAL COMPASS?! A CENTURIES OLD VAMPIRE IS AFRAID OF HER MORAL COMPASS? THAT'S SO FUCKING RICH. My GOD LKH you are so...oblivious to what you're writing.
6. This is reminding me of that scene in the new(ish) A-Team movie when Hannibal has that voice recording of the dead guy's voice going "Don't do this" "Don't make me do this, Hannibal" and it just repeats the same thing over and over. THAT NEVER STOPS THE VILLAIN. BEGGING AND PLEADING NEVER STOPS THEM UNLESS THEY'RE DISNEY VILLAINS AND THEN THEY ONLY PAUSE TO TELL YOU THEIR NEFARIOUS PLANS. Granted I'm not entirely sure what Asher is trying to do, but the fact he's obviously going to make Anita submissive to him in power is pretty blatant. Anita, you should consider having your brain removed and all the cum wrung out of it.
7. Actually... what's stopping Asher from just killing Anita? Would that kill JC? Because at this point, JC is being a dickhead and it'd be a pretty nice flouncy break-up thing for as melodramatic of a vampire as Asher is being. And it'd kill Micah, and... I don't even know if Nathaniel is a threat. But a lot of Anita's other enthralled men would die or at least be severely weakened, right? So really, Asher, do us all a favor, and just KILL her.
8. Now I'm just confused. One minute, Micah sounds like he's going to deny what Asher saw at the recital. But then he's snippily saying he'd never deny his feelings for Nathaniel.
9. ASHER, DUDE, IF JC WANTS TO BREAK-UP THEN FUCKING BREAK UP WITH HIM. OR TAKE OVER. YOU'D BE LESS PUSSY-WHIPPED AT THIS POINT. OR JUST LEAVE. OR SOMETHING. BABE DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN THIS AWKWARD THING. If you're going to be melodramatic about shit, then tear off heads and make torrents of blood. At least that'd seem more vampire.
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Date: 2013-03-12 01:39 pm (UTC)7. Yeah, it would kill JC. But hey, he's clearly chosen his side, right? And if Anita's other guys all fall with her, that leaves the city open for Asher...
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Date: 2013-03-12 11:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-12 02:49 am (UTC)Oh, yes, because men *never* snipe at each other or fight with each other over women. Only *girls* do catty and shallow things like that. It’s not like there have been famous epics where two men literally fought a war over the same woman or real-life crimes of passion where a furious husband killed his wife’s male lover or vice versa. Shut up, Anita.
/Anita says she would have been "a lot less upset than if I caught you with another woman"/
Umm, why? Is it because you know Jean-Claude and his history with Asher? Or is cheating somehow less painful if your male significant other cheats on you with a man instead of another woman? Why, because two guys together is “hot?” Is this supposed to be the idiotic gender-reversal of “Oh, if this guy found out that his wife was cheating on him with a woman, he wouldn’t get mad; he’d join in!”? No, guys, real life isn’t a porno.
/he "established that she'd bow to me long ago." Anita asks what that means./
Oh, my Lord, why is this woman so stupid? Does LKH think that this makes her look endearing? Is Anita supposed to be the stand-in for the reader? Do you not understand what the word “bow” means and the connotations that it has in the English language, you impossibly dense twit? Or has your brain been taken over by aliens who can’t comprehend human phrases and actions?
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Date: 2013-03-12 01:42 pm (UTC)No, guys, real life isn’t a porno.
Lies, lies!
I really don't know why she's so dumb. I think it's supposed to inform the reader of things through her, but that assumes that the reader is really dumb too too for that matter, and I always got the impression we're supposed to THINK that Anita is smart.