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FLIRT, CHAPTER FIVE
Jan. 23rd, 2013 12:58 pmTiras is such a tunneler! He's built multiple routes through the bedding of his cage, and has linked up tunnels underneath all the little cardboard boxes he has in his cage (and has gnawed secret escape trapdoors through the bottom of said boxes). He's the shyest of the mice, and he uses these secret rotes to avoid me. Many a time I've seen him dart into or under one box, only to pick it up and find he's not under there---he's underneath the box on the opposite side of the cage! He took one of his little tunnels to get away from the big scary hand!
I am planning to introduce Sam to water sometime this week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7end071b3zA
I never got past the paint roller tray'n'pebbles stage with Justin, Jenner, and Scurvy. They all eventually realized treats were in the water and that the water was harmless, but beyond getting to the treats they just had no interest in the water itself. Given their personalities, I can see why. Jenner is Mister Alpha, and since he can't really mark the water as 'his' by pissing on it or chewing it up, he doesn't think it's worth bothering with. Justin is concerned with food and food only, and has never been much for exploring. Scurvy, being a people rat rather than a pool rat, was far more interested in getting cuddles and picked up by me than he was in splashing around, and would basically ignore the water in favor of begging me for attention. I think that Sam might be up for it though! She's an enthusiastic explorer like Jenner, but unlike him she isn't interested in conquering what she explores, so she won't be turned off by being unable to 'claim' the water. She's also not very treat-motivated in the first place, so water won't lose its allure the second there ceases to be food in it like with Justin. And while she is a sweetie pie and clamors for my attention when she's in the cage the way Scurvy did, she's a lot more interested in things OTHER than me once she's outside the cage! I might try it with Blatz too; she's blind, and Justin was very slow at this owing to his vision problems, but I don't mind being patient. Plus, she frets if Sam is away and starts searching for her if she wasn't awake when I took Sam out and thus doesn't realize she's with me.
In vampire news, I came across this and thought I'd share it. I don't necessarily agree with all of it, especially not the "all killer child vampires are Claudia" bit, but I do agree with the bit about Gifts, flammable blood, and maybe Baby Jenks/Bree Tanner. Though I am bugged by how the term "European" is used the same way LKH uses it, as if it's just one big mass culture/place/way of being.
http://satireknight.wikispaces.com/Satireknight+Rants+-+Stephenie+Meyer+vs.+Anne+Rice
I've only read Interview and Queen of the Damned, so I didn't know about most of the Gifts, and I've never read any of Twilight (and don't plan to, not even for sporking) so I had never had occasion to make comparisons, but I found the ones here pretty interesting, and I thought that people have read one or the other or both, or are just enthusiasts of vampires, might like to read it too.
It also got me thinking about Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles in general and how much they shaped the modern vampire genre.
She's the first, to my knowledge, to write about vampires as a species. Varney, Dracula, Carmilla, Lord Ruthven/Lord Strongmore (depending on your edition of Polidori's 'The Vampyre'), they were all solitary, singular entities, and while there were suggestions in some they were not the only ones of their kind, they were the only ones around. Rice's vampires were the first I know of that lived in groups, and had a species-wide culture, rules, etc., including a worldwide code of secrecy as a species. Hers are also the first I know of with an origin story of how vampires came to be at all. Rice's vampires are also, I think, what solidified 'super strength, super speed, super senses' as the trinity of traits that all or most vampires in modern fiction seem to have.
LKH was one of the first to set a lot of the conventions for current urban fantasy trends--the snarky first-person usually-female protagonist who is a detective or investigator of some type, for instance--but as far as vampires go, I think she did get the aforementioned building blocks from Rice (the superpowers trinity, organized versus solitary, an all-mother, extremely vulnerable to fire). Which is not to say she copied (ok, I think MOAD is a little too much a rip-off of Akasha in some ways) because for the most part her vampires very much became her own, what with their various positions, terminology, bloodlines, culture, etc. It's just interesting for me to see what could have come from where is all. Any thoughts?
( FLIRT, CHAPTER FIVE, in which the bad guy is revealed and Anita nearly fucks the lion dudes in his house )
I am planning to introduce Sam to water sometime this week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7end071b3zA
I never got past the paint roller tray'n'pebbles stage with Justin, Jenner, and Scurvy. They all eventually realized treats were in the water and that the water was harmless, but beyond getting to the treats they just had no interest in the water itself. Given their personalities, I can see why. Jenner is Mister Alpha, and since he can't really mark the water as 'his' by pissing on it or chewing it up, he doesn't think it's worth bothering with. Justin is concerned with food and food only, and has never been much for exploring. Scurvy, being a people rat rather than a pool rat, was far more interested in getting cuddles and picked up by me than he was in splashing around, and would basically ignore the water in favor of begging me for attention. I think that Sam might be up for it though! She's an enthusiastic explorer like Jenner, but unlike him she isn't interested in conquering what she explores, so she won't be turned off by being unable to 'claim' the water. She's also not very treat-motivated in the first place, so water won't lose its allure the second there ceases to be food in it like with Justin. And while she is a sweetie pie and clamors for my attention when she's in the cage the way Scurvy did, she's a lot more interested in things OTHER than me once she's outside the cage! I might try it with Blatz too; she's blind, and Justin was very slow at this owing to his vision problems, but I don't mind being patient. Plus, she frets if Sam is away and starts searching for her if she wasn't awake when I took Sam out and thus doesn't realize she's with me.
In vampire news, I came across this and thought I'd share it. I don't necessarily agree with all of it, especially not the "all killer child vampires are Claudia" bit, but I do agree with the bit about Gifts, flammable blood, and maybe Baby Jenks/Bree Tanner. Though I am bugged by how the term "European" is used the same way LKH uses it, as if it's just one big mass culture/place/way of being.
http://satireknight.wikispaces.com/Satireknight+Rants+-+Stephenie+Meyer+vs.+Anne+Rice
I've only read Interview and Queen of the Damned, so I didn't know about most of the Gifts, and I've never read any of Twilight (and don't plan to, not even for sporking) so I had never had occasion to make comparisons, but I found the ones here pretty interesting, and I thought that people have read one or the other or both, or are just enthusiasts of vampires, might like to read it too.
It also got me thinking about Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles in general and how much they shaped the modern vampire genre.
She's the first, to my knowledge, to write about vampires as a species. Varney, Dracula, Carmilla, Lord Ruthven/Lord Strongmore (depending on your edition of Polidori's 'The Vampyre'), they were all solitary, singular entities, and while there were suggestions in some they were not the only ones of their kind, they were the only ones around. Rice's vampires were the first I know of that lived in groups, and had a species-wide culture, rules, etc., including a worldwide code of secrecy as a species. Hers are also the first I know of with an origin story of how vampires came to be at all. Rice's vampires are also, I think, what solidified 'super strength, super speed, super senses' as the trinity of traits that all or most vampires in modern fiction seem to have.
LKH was one of the first to set a lot of the conventions for current urban fantasy trends--the snarky first-person usually-female protagonist who is a detective or investigator of some type, for instance--but as far as vampires go, I think she did get the aforementioned building blocks from Rice (the superpowers trinity, organized versus solitary, an all-mother, extremely vulnerable to fire). Which is not to say she copied (ok, I think MOAD is a little too much a rip-off of Akasha in some ways) because for the most part her vampires very much became her own, what with their various positions, terminology, bloodlines, culture, etc. It's just interesting for me to see what could have come from where is all. Any thoughts?
( FLIRT, CHAPTER FIVE, in which the bad guy is revealed and Anita nearly fucks the lion dudes in his house )
