BULLET, CHAPTER 32, PART ONE
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a_sporking_ratFirst, a wonderful explanation for Anita being...Anita...from Dottie Smith!
http://eternaleve.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/a-review-of-laurell-k-hamiltons-bloody-bones-chapter-sixteen/
Next, ratty stuff! Most rats love shoulders. Ratsputin, however, loves heads. He will climb up on top of mine and will squeak when I try to take him off. He's also growing a tail nail! Dominant rats get those; they lose them if their status in the cage goes down. Rose says Sid has grown one now too. I guess neither one was alpha (which was why they were fighting) when they were together so that's why they didn't have them before! For those wondering what that is, it's this little extra bit at the tip of the tail
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/befferoo/tailnail.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/jorats/Tip.jpg
Jenner has one too of course ;D I think the Anitaverse Rat Kings should have big ones they can stab people with!
One thing I hope that wererats don't have to deal with is penis plugs. (Warning: Link has pictures!)
http://www.ratballs.com/RatTails/Tails095.html
Jenner has gotten two big ones and one little one this week. He is an older rat, but he seems totally flexible as ever. So maybe he's just gotten inflexible in this one specific way...or, as a friend suggested, he's realized he can con me into cleaning his dong for him if he doesn't bother with it. Rats are as intelligent as dogs, and certainly understand cause and effect (do this and get a treat, don't do that and get a treat) so it's not that far-fetched a theory. I can't call his bluff either if that's the case, since a plug left alone can cause a lot of problems such as infection.
Still, even cleaning rat peens is better than...
BULLET, CHAPTER 32, PART ONE
She won't let Damian come with her and Nicky because, even though she doesn't think Jake will hurt her, she doesn't want to take the chance of getting Damian killed because it might kill Nathaniel. Damian and Nicky's lives are apparently worthless, I guess. Now, to be fair, I understand valuing some lives over others. It's not the fairest thing in the world to admit, but it's the human reality. I am going to value the life of my dad over not only the lives of total strangers, but over the lives of many other people I know, people I may personally care about too, but still aren't Dad-tier. But you know what? The lives of these other people are not tied to me. I am not responsible for them. Anita is responsible for Damian and Nicky, responsible in a way that I don't think even has a real-world equivalent, since even people who are dependent like children or owned like slaves still have free will even if circumstances may prevent them from exercising it. Nicky, Nathaniel, and Damian don't have that. Anita should be doing all she can for them. Instead, she'll happily throw one under the bus to save the one that's her favorite dick-toy, and the only reason she doesn't do the same to the remaining one is because said dick-toy is tied to him.
She says she knows that the guards have picked up Richard, and are waiting for a tow truck for his car. They're hoping it won't get reported to the police because it would be hard to explain bloodstains when Richard is uninjured. "Again, playing Clark Kent was a problem for our furry Superman." Furry Superman brought a very different image to my mind than I think LKH would have wanted.
She spends two paragraphs talking about what Asher's office looks like and how it's very plain and "it looked the same as when I'd first entered it years ago, when it was Jean-Claude's office. Asher had added nothing of himself to it. That seemed sad." Maybe he likes to keep it looking professional? I think keeping it plain and impersonal projects a much more businesslike air than, oh, I don't know, loads of velvet and lace or lots of photos of Anita's face or whatever it is she thinks he should have personalized the place with. Anita talks about Jake is "short, dark hair, medium complexion, brown eyes, attractive in a manly-man kind of way, but even there he was almost too ordinary" and how ordinary he is and how he can blend in like a good Harlequin spy type while "the weretigers who had come with him were the opposite: eye-catching blonds, tall, and beautiful, or handsome, and somehow unwordly, as if they'd only recently been let out of their cages."
Considering that the past of the golden tigers is that they were enslaved by Vittorio and kept by the Harlequin as their animals to call, aka metaphysically bonded servants, metaphors about cages are really in bad taste, Anita. Admittedly, she doesn't know this yet, but the comment is still a really dehumanizing one in general anyway.
Nicky is leaning against the wall. Jake asks if she's sure she wants to talk in front of him. Anita assure him that Nicky is okay and "I didn't feel the need to explain he was my Bride and couldn't repeat anything we said unless I told him I could." She sure likes to explain it to us though. She's mentioned a LOT so far over and over about how he has zero free will. I wonder if this is just regular AB repetition, or if LKH likes to linger on this fact particularly? Jake replies that "I have to trust your judgement since I trust you with the pretty kittens." You know, I get why vampires refer to the wereanimals as animals, especially in condescending ways like calling them kittens, but Jake is a werewolf, and he was an Animal to Call himself. Why does he do that? Is it a crab bucket type thing, does he enjoy that 'well I'm a level up from THEIR tier at last' or what? Speaking of that, Anita asks how a werewolf wound up with a bunch of weretigers. He says that he's "known these kittens their whole lives" and thinks they will be safer with Anita. Anita says exactly what I think: "You may be bringing your lambs to the slaughter."
Anita tells him about the assassination attempt on Richard, Jake calls the hit men amateurs, and Anita says she agrees even though she also admits they wouldn't have succeeded if the second bullet had his heart. He agrees with that, and Anita frowns because he says this "like it's no big deal." Anita, why should it be a big deal to him? He doesn't know Richard and has nothing to do with him and was involved with the big bad scary Harlequin, remember? Why should he get choked up talking about how your boyfriend could have died? NOT EVERYONE IS INVESTED IN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE. He tells her he didn't mean it that way and she realizes he sounds tired and has new lines around his eyes. She asks again why he brought the weretigers to her and says she wants the truth. And then we get this.
Jake: "I do think they're safer here with you, but ask me why I think they're safer." You couldn't just TELL HER?
Anita: "Pretend I asked, now answer the question?" You couldn't JUST REALLY ASK?
Jake: "Direct. I like that after dealing with all the old vampires. They're almost never direct."
RRRRGH THIS IS THE STUPIDEST WAY TO HAVE, NO, TO DELAY A CONVERSATION, AND I THINK IT WAS DONE JUST TO SHOEHORN IN THIS COMPLIMENT TO ANITA
Anita says for him to be direct back then if he appreciates it so much. He tells her that these tigers are purebloods. She says that he said they were clanless and that the purebloods all have clans. He says that one color doesn't have a clan. She brings up the blue weretiger, Cynric, but then he says yellow doesn't have a clan. She says that's because the last yellow tiger died here in St. Louis after trying to kill Anita and others. He tells her that this yellow tiger, Soledad, belonged to one of the Harlequin. Anita brings up how it's forbidden to say that word out loud and how doing so could be a death sentence. Is it ever even explained how the Harlequin would know? Anyway, he reminds her that he's the animal to call for one of the Harlequin, and she reminds us about what she said earlier on how most everyone at the Circus seems to have forgotten that as if they were "ordinary humans" that he "mind-fucked" into forgetting. Wait, can therians even do that? I thought rolling was vampire-only territory?
Also, so much for Jake being direct. Anita isn't helping either.
Jake says his master thought it would be better that way. Anita asks if he's contacting them officially. He says "Yes and no. I am here as an agent of some of the Harlequin, but I am not sanctioned by the Council to be in St. Louis."
It has now been an entire page since she told him to be direct on why the tigers are here. We still know nothing. I understand it if he needs to fill Anita in on some background stuff first, but there is no reason that guessing game about the clans had to happen.
Jake gushes about how anyone else would be astonished and asking questions galore about the idea that the Harlequin have broken ties the Council, she says that "we had some remote-viewing visits" from the Council. He asks if she knows what's happening then, she says just to tell him what he knows and she'll tell him what she knows. Ugh this is so painful to read. He tells her that MOAD isn't really dead, she nods, he's like she's visited you then, she says sort of, and Jake explains that when her body was destroyed she sent her essence out and got into some of the Council, as we know. He also says that "Once, so long ago that most do not remember, that was what the Council was, Anita. They would come to sit in their great chairs, but the deep dark secret was, once they took their places on the council the Mother possessed them" and that they "only pretended to vote and be fair; in truth they were all her puppets."
THAT. IS. SO. AWESOME! I LOVE IT! I FUCKING LOVE IT! GO MARMEE! MOTHER KNOWS BEST!
Anita says she's not surprised. Jake says that the Traveller seems free of her and is on the run with his Human Servant, and even the Harlequin don't know where they're hiding. Anita asks if some of the Harlequin are still on her side, and he says that yes, they are at war with each other via "a series of assassinations". Anita asks if he really thinks that her people can hide him and the weretigers from the likes of the Harlequin. He says no, that he's offering them his help, not vice versa. She asks if he thinks the Harlequin (I feel so dumb every time I type that name) will come, he says he knows they will, she asks when, he says it depends on how fast they can kill the ones that want to kill Anita, because "right now they see the other Harlequin was their greatest threat. Once we are neutralized, then they will turn to you." Anita responds that "so it behooves us to help you guys." Jake claims that's not why he's here and that "we will live or die as we always have, by our own hands." You weren't living by your own hands when you were working for the Council, dingus, which up until very recently you had been for a thousand years.
Anita asks what he wants from her lot then. He says that depending on how their feud goes within the group, some will come to St. Louis to aid or spy on Anita & Co while others are just plain neutral because they don't think Anita & Co can be Master of Tigers. I....how is that an answer? That wasn't an answer! She asks if they bugged their phones again, he says no, that their wererats sweep really well for listening devices now (wererats getting stuck with all the unglamorous technical stuff that is essential but thankless, I see, as usual) and Anita says that "once we learn something we don't forget it." Too bad you never learn anything, Anita.
Jake talks for a paragraph about how all the remaining pureblood tigers who aren't white or red belong to the Harlequin as their animals to call because when the MOAD took Vittorio's power away from him, she gave some of that power to the Harlequin and they gained the tigers through that. Okay, cool, that makes sense, though it sucks for the tigers. He says that Cynric is not actually the last blue tiger, that there is one more, one on the side of Anita and Jake, but she's fighting for her life alongside her master and so Cynric may indeed soon be the last blue tiger left in the world because Anita needs all the rarest shinies. Cynric is also never referred to by name in this spiel but only as a "boy" and a "teenager". Ugh. Because we need to be reminded of that.
Anita brings up black tigers, Jake says that they have one and that they used to have two "but when the Father of the Day regained some of his power, he called Sebastian away from us." Remember him? He was Vittorio's estranged tiger to call from Skin Trade. Anita sure remembers him because she feels "a little spurt of anger" over him never telling her he was a Harlequin member "because I had let him go when I could have turned him over to the police, or just kept him." Yes, you are so fucking gracious for not KEEPING another human being as another PET in your sick little sex stable, Anita, he sure owes you for that! That's like saying that I owe my dad for not molesting me growing up just because he could have, what the shit. Not to mention that giving out that information to her, given the nature of the Harlequin, probably could have gotten him a one-way ticket to assassination, and since it wasn't relevant at all, why would he even think to? Ughhhhh Anita has the most bizarre and illogical sense of entitlement EVER.
Jake does a little damage control by saying that "Sebastian was and wasn't one of us" because being bound to Vittorio means that the MOAD didn't trust him even though she allowed him to live, so while Jake and his master kept track of him he was still really on his own. Anita demands that he "tell me who's on our side and who isn't" because I guess she's still peeved about Sebastian not giving her his life story. He says that the master of the other black tiger is not, but that a male gold tiger and his master "have agreed to be on your side if we can prove to them that you can be Master of Tigers."
Anita. As Master of Tigers. As in all tigers? Like Vittorio was? Like Bibi brought up? I think I'm going to weep.
Anita asks how to do that and he says "Funny you should ask" and she gets huffy about his giving an "oblique answer" even though that's what this conversation has been made of from the start. He apologizes, and explains that when the MOAD declared the gold tigers destroyed, some of the Harlequin hid a few, helping them escape into various parts of the world, including America, while they wait for another Master of Tigers, "one who isn't evil." Anita unhelpfully adds "Or a sexual sadist." Thanks, Anita, it's not like 'evil' covers that or anything. Not to mention I honestly find Anita to be something of a sexual sadist. She may not get off on causing pain per se, but she sure gets off on mental enslavement, which is a much deeper violation than just hurting someone's physical body. She wants no resistance, and she effectively lobotimizes men to achieve that. I think if said lobotomy weren't magical, people would definitely class that as sexual sadism, the "serial-killer kind" as Anita would say, obnoxious out-of-place hyphen and all. After all, isn't that what Jeffrey Dahmer tried to do?
Anita says that "the other clans think the gold is destroyed and the strain of lycanthropy inside me is the last remnant of them."
Jake says "They would be wrong."
So basically if Anita can't be the very last gold tiger, she's going to own them instead. And of course it's going to be for their own good and the only way to defeat MOAD, I'm sure.
http://eternaleve.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/a-review-of-laurell-k-hamiltons-bloody-bones-chapter-sixteen/
Next, ratty stuff! Most rats love shoulders. Ratsputin, however, loves heads. He will climb up on top of mine and will squeak when I try to take him off. He's also growing a tail nail! Dominant rats get those; they lose them if their status in the cage goes down. Rose says Sid has grown one now too. I guess neither one was alpha (which was why they were fighting) when they were together so that's why they didn't have them before! For those wondering what that is, it's this little extra bit at the tip of the tail
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/befferoo/tailnail.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/jorats/Tip.jpg
Jenner has one too of course ;D I think the Anitaverse Rat Kings should have big ones they can stab people with!
One thing I hope that wererats don't have to deal with is penis plugs. (Warning: Link has pictures!)
http://www.ratballs.com/RatTails/Tails095.html
Jenner has gotten two big ones and one little one this week. He is an older rat, but he seems totally flexible as ever. So maybe he's just gotten inflexible in this one specific way...or, as a friend suggested, he's realized he can con me into cleaning his dong for him if he doesn't bother with it. Rats are as intelligent as dogs, and certainly understand cause and effect (do this and get a treat, don't do that and get a treat) so it's not that far-fetched a theory. I can't call his bluff either if that's the case, since a plug left alone can cause a lot of problems such as infection.
Still, even cleaning rat peens is better than...
BULLET, CHAPTER 32, PART ONE
She won't let Damian come with her and Nicky because, even though she doesn't think Jake will hurt her, she doesn't want to take the chance of getting Damian killed because it might kill Nathaniel. Damian and Nicky's lives are apparently worthless, I guess. Now, to be fair, I understand valuing some lives over others. It's not the fairest thing in the world to admit, but it's the human reality. I am going to value the life of my dad over not only the lives of total strangers, but over the lives of many other people I know, people I may personally care about too, but still aren't Dad-tier. But you know what? The lives of these other people are not tied to me. I am not responsible for them. Anita is responsible for Damian and Nicky, responsible in a way that I don't think even has a real-world equivalent, since even people who are dependent like children or owned like slaves still have free will even if circumstances may prevent them from exercising it. Nicky, Nathaniel, and Damian don't have that. Anita should be doing all she can for them. Instead, she'll happily throw one under the bus to save the one that's her favorite dick-toy, and the only reason she doesn't do the same to the remaining one is because said dick-toy is tied to him.
She says she knows that the guards have picked up Richard, and are waiting for a tow truck for his car. They're hoping it won't get reported to the police because it would be hard to explain bloodstains when Richard is uninjured. "Again, playing Clark Kent was a problem for our furry Superman." Furry Superman brought a very different image to my mind than I think LKH would have wanted.
She spends two paragraphs talking about what Asher's office looks like and how it's very plain and "it looked the same as when I'd first entered it years ago, when it was Jean-Claude's office. Asher had added nothing of himself to it. That seemed sad." Maybe he likes to keep it looking professional? I think keeping it plain and impersonal projects a much more businesslike air than, oh, I don't know, loads of velvet and lace or lots of photos of Anita's face or whatever it is she thinks he should have personalized the place with. Anita talks about Jake is "short, dark hair, medium complexion, brown eyes, attractive in a manly-man kind of way, but even there he was almost too ordinary" and how ordinary he is and how he can blend in like a good Harlequin spy type while "the weretigers who had come with him were the opposite: eye-catching blonds, tall, and beautiful, or handsome, and somehow unwordly, as if they'd only recently been let out of their cages."
Considering that the past of the golden tigers is that they were enslaved by Vittorio and kept by the Harlequin as their animals to call, aka metaphysically bonded servants, metaphors about cages are really in bad taste, Anita. Admittedly, she doesn't know this yet, but the comment is still a really dehumanizing one in general anyway.
Nicky is leaning against the wall. Jake asks if she's sure she wants to talk in front of him. Anita assure him that Nicky is okay and "I didn't feel the need to explain he was my Bride and couldn't repeat anything we said unless I told him I could." She sure likes to explain it to us though. She's mentioned a LOT so far over and over about how he has zero free will. I wonder if this is just regular AB repetition, or if LKH likes to linger on this fact particularly? Jake replies that "I have to trust your judgement since I trust you with the pretty kittens." You know, I get why vampires refer to the wereanimals as animals, especially in condescending ways like calling them kittens, but Jake is a werewolf, and he was an Animal to Call himself. Why does he do that? Is it a crab bucket type thing, does he enjoy that 'well I'm a level up from THEIR tier at last' or what? Speaking of that, Anita asks how a werewolf wound up with a bunch of weretigers. He says that he's "known these kittens their whole lives" and thinks they will be safer with Anita. Anita says exactly what I think: "You may be bringing your lambs to the slaughter."
Anita tells him about the assassination attempt on Richard, Jake calls the hit men amateurs, and Anita says she agrees even though she also admits they wouldn't have succeeded if the second bullet had his heart. He agrees with that, and Anita frowns because he says this "like it's no big deal." Anita, why should it be a big deal to him? He doesn't know Richard and has nothing to do with him and was involved with the big bad scary Harlequin, remember? Why should he get choked up talking about how your boyfriend could have died? NOT EVERYONE IS INVESTED IN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE. He tells her he didn't mean it that way and she realizes he sounds tired and has new lines around his eyes. She asks again why he brought the weretigers to her and says she wants the truth. And then we get this.
Jake: "I do think they're safer here with you, but ask me why I think they're safer." You couldn't just TELL HER?
Anita: "Pretend I asked, now answer the question?" You couldn't JUST REALLY ASK?
Jake: "Direct. I like that after dealing with all the old vampires. They're almost never direct."
RRRRGH THIS IS THE STUPIDEST WAY TO HAVE, NO, TO DELAY A CONVERSATION, AND I THINK IT WAS DONE JUST TO SHOEHORN IN THIS COMPLIMENT TO ANITA
Anita says for him to be direct back then if he appreciates it so much. He tells her that these tigers are purebloods. She says that he said they were clanless and that the purebloods all have clans. He says that one color doesn't have a clan. She brings up the blue weretiger, Cynric, but then he says yellow doesn't have a clan. She says that's because the last yellow tiger died here in St. Louis after trying to kill Anita and others. He tells her that this yellow tiger, Soledad, belonged to one of the Harlequin. Anita brings up how it's forbidden to say that word out loud and how doing so could be a death sentence. Is it ever even explained how the Harlequin would know? Anyway, he reminds her that he's the animal to call for one of the Harlequin, and she reminds us about what she said earlier on how most everyone at the Circus seems to have forgotten that as if they were "ordinary humans" that he "mind-fucked" into forgetting. Wait, can therians even do that? I thought rolling was vampire-only territory?
Also, so much for Jake being direct. Anita isn't helping either.
Jake says his master thought it would be better that way. Anita asks if he's contacting them officially. He says "Yes and no. I am here as an agent of some of the Harlequin, but I am not sanctioned by the Council to be in St. Louis."
It has now been an entire page since she told him to be direct on why the tigers are here. We still know nothing. I understand it if he needs to fill Anita in on some background stuff first, but there is no reason that guessing game about the clans had to happen.
Jake gushes about how anyone else would be astonished and asking questions galore about the idea that the Harlequin have broken ties the Council, she says that "we had some remote-viewing visits" from the Council. He asks if she knows what's happening then, she says just to tell him what he knows and she'll tell him what she knows. Ugh this is so painful to read. He tells her that MOAD isn't really dead, she nods, he's like she's visited you then, she says sort of, and Jake explains that when her body was destroyed she sent her essence out and got into some of the Council, as we know. He also says that "Once, so long ago that most do not remember, that was what the Council was, Anita. They would come to sit in their great chairs, but the deep dark secret was, once they took their places on the council the Mother possessed them" and that they "only pretended to vote and be fair; in truth they were all her puppets."
THAT. IS. SO. AWESOME! I LOVE IT! I FUCKING LOVE IT! GO MARMEE! MOTHER KNOWS BEST!
Anita says she's not surprised. Jake says that the Traveller seems free of her and is on the run with his Human Servant, and even the Harlequin don't know where they're hiding. Anita asks if some of the Harlequin are still on her side, and he says that yes, they are at war with each other via "a series of assassinations". Anita asks if he really thinks that her people can hide him and the weretigers from the likes of the Harlequin. He says no, that he's offering them his help, not vice versa. She asks if he thinks the Harlequin (I feel so dumb every time I type that name) will come, he says he knows they will, she asks when, he says it depends on how fast they can kill the ones that want to kill Anita, because "right now they see the other Harlequin was their greatest threat. Once we are neutralized, then they will turn to you." Anita responds that "so it behooves us to help you guys." Jake claims that's not why he's here and that "we will live or die as we always have, by our own hands." You weren't living by your own hands when you were working for the Council, dingus, which up until very recently you had been for a thousand years.
Anita asks what he wants from her lot then. He says that depending on how their feud goes within the group, some will come to St. Louis to aid or spy on Anita & Co while others are just plain neutral because they don't think Anita & Co can be Master of Tigers. I....how is that an answer? That wasn't an answer! She asks if they bugged their phones again, he says no, that their wererats sweep really well for listening devices now (wererats getting stuck with all the unglamorous technical stuff that is essential but thankless, I see, as usual) and Anita says that "once we learn something we don't forget it." Too bad you never learn anything, Anita.
Jake talks for a paragraph about how all the remaining pureblood tigers who aren't white or red belong to the Harlequin as their animals to call because when the MOAD took Vittorio's power away from him, she gave some of that power to the Harlequin and they gained the tigers through that. Okay, cool, that makes sense, though it sucks for the tigers. He says that Cynric is not actually the last blue tiger, that there is one more, one on the side of Anita and Jake, but she's fighting for her life alongside her master and so Cynric may indeed soon be the last blue tiger left in the world because Anita needs all the rarest shinies. Cynric is also never referred to by name in this spiel but only as a "boy" and a "teenager". Ugh. Because we need to be reminded of that.
Anita brings up black tigers, Jake says that they have one and that they used to have two "but when the Father of the Day regained some of his power, he called Sebastian away from us." Remember him? He was Vittorio's estranged tiger to call from Skin Trade. Anita sure remembers him because she feels "a little spurt of anger" over him never telling her he was a Harlequin member "because I had let him go when I could have turned him over to the police, or just kept him." Yes, you are so fucking gracious for not KEEPING another human being as another PET in your sick little sex stable, Anita, he sure owes you for that! That's like saying that I owe my dad for not molesting me growing up just because he could have, what the shit. Not to mention that giving out that information to her, given the nature of the Harlequin, probably could have gotten him a one-way ticket to assassination, and since it wasn't relevant at all, why would he even think to? Ughhhhh Anita has the most bizarre and illogical sense of entitlement EVER.
Jake does a little damage control by saying that "Sebastian was and wasn't one of us" because being bound to Vittorio means that the MOAD didn't trust him even though she allowed him to live, so while Jake and his master kept track of him he was still really on his own. Anita demands that he "tell me who's on our side and who isn't" because I guess she's still peeved about Sebastian not giving her his life story. He says that the master of the other black tiger is not, but that a male gold tiger and his master "have agreed to be on your side if we can prove to them that you can be Master of Tigers."
Anita. As Master of Tigers. As in all tigers? Like Vittorio was? Like Bibi brought up? I think I'm going to weep.
Anita asks how to do that and he says "Funny you should ask" and she gets huffy about his giving an "oblique answer" even though that's what this conversation has been made of from the start. He apologizes, and explains that when the MOAD declared the gold tigers destroyed, some of the Harlequin hid a few, helping them escape into various parts of the world, including America, while they wait for another Master of Tigers, "one who isn't evil." Anita unhelpfully adds "Or a sexual sadist." Thanks, Anita, it's not like 'evil' covers that or anything. Not to mention I honestly find Anita to be something of a sexual sadist. She may not get off on causing pain per se, but she sure gets off on mental enslavement, which is a much deeper violation than just hurting someone's physical body. She wants no resistance, and she effectively lobotimizes men to achieve that. I think if said lobotomy weren't magical, people would definitely class that as sexual sadism, the "serial-killer kind" as Anita would say, obnoxious out-of-place hyphen and all. After all, isn't that what Jeffrey Dahmer tried to do?
Anita says that "the other clans think the gold is destroyed and the strain of lycanthropy inside me is the last remnant of them."
Jake says "They would be wrong."
So basically if Anita can't be the very last gold tiger, she's going to own them instead. And of course it's going to be for their own good and the only way to defeat MOAD, I'm sure.
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Date: 2013-05-25 11:16 pm (UTC)(Also. Random. Ratsputin and headsitting reminds me of La Petite and the Ritten guards!)
I spent the entire time reading this just going "You know, if this was any other character, I would probably feel a bit bad about this level of hatred." But there's just so much /wrong/.
I can't imagine trying to get through it without your commentary to help.
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Date: 2013-05-25 11:25 pm (UTC)Awww!
I spent the entire time reading this just going "You know, if this was any other character, I would probably feel a bit bad about this level of hatred." But there's just so much /wrong/.
I feel the same way. I have never felt this level of hate for a fictional character before, let alone felt that it's JUSTIFIED.
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Date: 2013-05-25 11:53 pm (UTC)It's like... the opposite of character development. Because that's not development. That's like... taking a house that needs a bit of work and improvement and taking a wrecking ball to it.
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Date: 2013-05-26 12:07 am (UTC)And yeah, that is pretty much exactly what LKH does, it's kind of amazing.
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Date: 2013-05-26 12:29 am (UTC)It is. And the number of people she has in her cast... most of them are just cardboard with names.
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Date: 2013-05-26 12:55 am (UTC)And yeah, pretty much. Even the 'important' people are mostly pretty bland, especially if they came in after NiC. She needs to develop them or kill them off already, though the fact she hasn't done the former means their deaths probably wouldn't have an impact on anyone but her.
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Date: 2013-05-26 01:10 am (UTC)Well, I'm sure we'll mourn what they could have been with a competent author!
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Date: 2013-05-26 01:12 am (UTC)OH MY GOSH NOW I'M REALLY EXCITED
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Date: 2013-05-26 01:17 am (UTC)"IMPOSTER! YOU ARE NOT TRULY A RODENT! THIS MOCKERY SHALL NOT BE TOLERATED!"
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Date: 2013-05-26 12:55 am (UTC)So I have a senior cat (20 yrs) and she's at the point where she can't keep herself as clean anymore. I have to keep pet wipes on hand to clean her after she uses the litter box.
Cleaning rat peen and wiping cat asses are both much preferable activities to reading this tripe.
I love how everyone has just casually forgotten that cops are being slaughtered by vampires in Atlanta. Nope, it's more important to talk about potential fuckbuddies for Anita. She has priorities, people. Sex first, then sex again, argument, sex again, shit on Richard, sex and argue...then maybe she'll get around to the murder/mystery/crime/plot.
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Date: 2013-05-26 12:59 am (UTC)Nope, it just gets pushed to the epilogue! But we do get chapters of sex with those weretigers! Priorities!
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Date: 2013-05-26 04:56 am (UTC)My mom flew in this past week to help me move across country. I had Samhain's cage out in the living room with me, and when she saw her, she was all "Rachael!" all alarmed. I had my back turned, so I freaked out like, "Oh God, what did you forget at home/the airport?" She just stared at the rat, then looked at me with wide eyes. "That's not your rat!"
"What? Yes, it is."
"No, your rat was white!"
Now, don't get me wrong. I love my mom. Samhain is almost like a blue color, that is she's black with white throughout her coat, almost like a blue pitbull? She has white on her tummy, and a white tip on her tail. That's it.
So basically, my mom thought this new rat snuck in, murdered the original white rat, and dopplegangered it's place--without me even noticing. Like a changeling or something.
She's kind of silly. But yeah. Samhain is fine, and loved the rotisserie chicken I gave her the other day. :)
1. ...Wait, if Damien dies, then doesn't Nathaniel and Anita die? And if Nathaniel dies, doesn't Damien and Anita die? Like shouldn't she just be keeping Damien safe for the sake of keeping her second triumvirate alive? Like, what the fuck, Anita?
2. Of course it's okay if Nick dies. He's her pet sociopath *cringe*
3. Did you picture various fursuits wearing Superman costumes? :D BECAUSE I SURE DID AND IT'S FANTASTIC.
4. *splutters* WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO DO WITH BEING IN BONDAGE/ENSLAVED/BONDED/CAGED/TRAPPED? DOES LKH'S ISSUES WITH MARRIAGE NOT BEING A PERMANENT THING HAVE TO COME OUT IN EVERY SINGLE THING IN HER BOOKS? REALLY!? I MEAN JESUS CHRIST ON A BROOMSTICK, BATMAN.
5. *bursts out laughing and and rolls off into the sunset* THIS IS RIDICULOUS. ANITA IS THE LEAST DIRECT PERSON EVER! SHE TALKS AROUND A TOPIC FOR AGES BEFORE GETTING ANYWHERE, REPEATEDLY ASKS QUESTIONS THAT COVER THE SAME DAMN TOPIC FOR PAGES BEFORE SHE FINALLY FUCKING GETS IT. SHE'S THE ONE WHO GOES ALONG WITH THE DANCES BEFORE GETTING SHIT DONE. SHE'S NOT DIRECT AT ALL!
6. *still giggling that he called her direct and then this entire fucking conversation is the least direct thing on the fucking planet*
Wander: *planting bombs about the room behind Nick's back*
7. I think Wander should be the very last Master of Tigers. I think that'd be absolutely HILARIOUS and I think she should HATE IT. Just all "Wot? I 'ave to wot? Bleedin' 'ell no! ... Oh, but 'e is pretty."
I don't even get this "Master of [insert therian type]" bullshit anyway.
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Date: 2013-05-26 01:13 pm (UTC)I'd been standing in front of a window and the light had made Oldie look different XD She really thought some strange cat was in the house!
And awww, Sam sounds so pretty and I'm glad she liked her chicken!
I don't even get this "Master of [insert therian type]" bullshit anyway.
What's weird (though I guess good) is that it only applies to tigers. There's no Master of Wolves, Master of Rats, etc. I can certainly see differences between tigers and other therian groups, but I still can't really finagle in my head how this works out exactly. I think LKH just, shocker, didn't think it through with how it fits into the world she's already built.
1) Yuuup.
3) HAHAHA YES
5) SRSLY COME ON NOW
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Date: 2013-05-26 05:47 pm (UTC)She's adorable. I just wish she cuddled. But no, she's all about asploring and randomly checking in and being like "Pick me up! Okay, not put me back down!" And yep, she loves herself some chicken.
Yeah... I don't really even get what a Master of Tigers thing is? Like... what does it do? Like is it having the Animal to Call but that covering all the rainbow colors of tigers? I don't even get it. "You are my tigers, and I loves you. Pretty tigers." I would just want like two tiger boys so I could randomly have them be tigers and I could pet them. Yep.
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Date: 2013-05-26 06:02 pm (UTC)Hahahah, sounds like a stereotypical female rat XD My Sam is a lot like that.
Like is it having the Animal to Call but that covering all the rainbow colors of tigers?
I want to say yes, but thus far just being a vampire that calls tigers period seems to cover that. My best guess is maybe it means all tigers are under her control as if they're her human servants but without the metaphysical life-binding? I really don't know...for all that it's been hammered in as essential, it's really not clear, you're right.
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Date: 2013-05-26 10:53 pm (UTC)Then hell to the no, on Anita being Master of Tigers.
I support some random person being Master of Tigers. Does it have to be a vampire? It shouldn't. If so, it should be some young fledgling vampire of the rotting vampire line who has no fucking clue what's going on, and just happens to stumble into this whole thing. Her name can be Nova or something, and Lucy can bring her over, I don't even care. Anything to keep it from Anita.
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Date: 2013-05-26 06:14 am (UTC)"That's like saying that I owe my dad for not molesting me growing up just because he could have"
I think you've nailed the weird sense of entitlement that this woman has. I really do think that she sets up horrible (in theory, once you get to the 5th sexual sadist, it sort of loses the impact when he rubs blood on his nipples [or something]) monsters just so she can point and say "look, I haven't hooked you up to meat hooks yet! WORSHIP ME AS THE BENEVOLENT GODDESS THAT I AM, DAMMIT"
He says that he's "known these kittens their whole lives"
I can justify him calling the weretigers 'kittens' if he really has known them since their childhoods. It would be like how my aunt still calls me a kid. Sort of an affectionate nickname that recognizes your relationship with them.
"we will live or die as we always have, by our own hands."
I read this as "we are so powerful that only the Harlequin can kill Harlequin member" But then I realized that would be pretty cool, and would mean that he thought that Anita wasn't as powerful as him, and Anita is the most badass badass that every badly assed, so that can't be right
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Date: 2013-05-26 01:21 pm (UTC)I can justify him calling the weretigers 'kittens' if he really has known them since their childhoods.
Yeah, I can see that. I wish it weren't in front of Anita though, given her and Cynric...it seems like she'd go KITTENS HMM YES GOOD
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Date: 2013-05-26 12:51 pm (UTC)Maybe I'm just dumb today, but I don't get this. Who...I mean, is this saying the MOAD was secretly making decisions via the Council who would then present them to other vampires as their own ideas (ie, the Council didn't know they were being possessed?)? Or is it that the Council were like, "hey, let's get together this weekend and be possessed!" and they knew it was the MOAD controlling them and making them make decisions? I mean, this just seems like a waste of her time and energy to me. If she's possessing X number of council members and using them as puppets, she's effectively just playing with dolls and making them talk to each other. And she's making them make decisions that, as the MOTHER OF ALL FUCKING DARKNESS she is surely powerful enough to make and decree herself. Who's going to argue with THE MOTHER OF ALL FUCKING DARKNESS? Before she fell into her deep, dark eternal slumber from which only Anita's awesomeness could awake her, surely she was the ultimate power in the vampire world so why would she need a proxy council to play puppets with and manipulate into making the choices she wanted, as opposed to having the council exist as her spokespeople and just pass on her word?
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Date: 2013-05-26 01:18 pm (UTC)That seems to be the idea. You make a good point about WHO WOULD ARGUE WITH THE MOAD but perhaps she didn't trust the Council to be honest/accurate spokespeople (I know I wouldn't) so she possessed them subtly to think what they were decreeing was their own idea and thus they'd accurately represent it? That seems most logical to me...oh wait, logic has no place in this series so that can't be it.
I just like Mommy having the first, last, and only say either way =D BECAUSE SHE PUT YOU INTO THIS WORLD, DAMMIT, SHE CAN TAKE YOU OUT! SHE *WILL* TURN THIS CAR AROUND!
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Date: 2013-05-27 02:31 am (UTC)Poor Damian and Nicky. They know exactly what their lives are worth to their 'master'. I understand valuing some lives over other but they're supposed to be as close to Anita as Nathaniel is, even if the nature of their relationship with her is different. And, since she's deliberately gone out of their way to make them utterly dependent on her, Anita actually does owe it to them to be especially caring as to their well-being. The one time that she genuinely owes something to someone, Anita refuses to honor her self-imposed obligations.
They're hoping it won't get reported to the police because it would be hard to explain bloodstains
It's going to get reported to the police. Richard lives in the suburbs, not the country. People are going to notice gunshots, a horrific car wreck, and a pair of guys hunting some crawling guy through the streets. And Richard really SHOULD tell on his would-be murderers, if only to protect their future victims.
"Again, playing Clark Kent was a problem for our furry Superman."
LEAVE SUPERMAN OUT OF THIS AWFUL DRECK! SUPERMAN IS AWESOME!
She spends two paragraphs talking about what Asher's office looks like and how it's very plain
I'm actually very impressed that Asher's office is so plain because JC's aesthetic is so all-encompassingly tacky. Anita once described JC's office (at Guilty Pleasures, I think... but it could've been the Circus) and it sounded like hell's tackiest bordello. If anything, Asher probably removed stuff to get the professional, minimalistic look that he was going for. The "sad plainness" of Asher's office is very much the piece of himself that he's added to the room. (And I like what he's done with the office, by the way.)
"the weretigers... were... somehow unwordly, as if they'd only recently been let out of their cages."
Something awful is going to happen to all of these hot blond(e)s, isn't it? Anita/LKH doesn't portray these people as being kept property as reprehensible, morally, socially, or ethically. Instead, she implies that, because they have been kept in cages and only recently released, they are now "unworldly", which is implied to be a positive attribute that was gained only through their unwilling imprisonment.
"I didn't feel the need to explain he was my Bride and couldn't repeat anything we said unless I told him I could."
This Bride/Man thing between Anita and Nicky sounds a lot like those religious zealots' marriages - you know, the ones between an older man and a very young, often uneducated girl who is generally given to him by her (often poor) family. This ugly dynamic shows up all over the world, including the U.S. The "head of the family" has absolute control over their "bride/wife" and their life, all of their social interactions, and usually even their continued existence. The woman isn't supposed to have thoughts or free will of her own... like Nicky.
I wonder if this is just regular AB repetition, or if LKH likes to linger on this fact particularly?
I think it's a LKH Thing because she's been repeating shades of this dynamic throughout both this series and the one about the fairy princess (if the reports I've read on Lashouts are true.)
"I trust you with the pretty kittens."
Aside from the fact that Jake is no more respectful to the tigers than Anita is, the whole bit about 'pretty kittens' sounds fetishistic. It's alsp what bad fanfic writers use to denote a M/f relationship, for example in torrid Buffy/Spike fics. Also, AHAHAHA!! No one's safe with Anita. She's the biggest monster there.
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Date: 2013-05-27 02:41 am (UTC)Yes, exactly!
Richard lives in the suburbs, not the country
Apparently he lives out in the woods now! Random change in residence?
Agreed on Asher's superior sense of decor!
OH GOD YOU ARE SO RIGHT ABOUT NICKY/THE BRIDE THING AUUUGH
she's been repeating shades of this dynamic throughout both this series and the one about the fairy princess
She really creeps me out so much. Somehow it's a lot more creepy that she puts it into something that's not just straight advertised as specifically that kind of kink fic. If it was just in kink fiction where it belonged, it wouldn't bother me.
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Date: 2013-05-27 03:33 am (UTC)Agreed! Admittedly, mainstream fiction isn't as forthcoming about its kink content as kink fic is but it'd be a lot easier to stomach this if, as a reader, you know it's a deliberate choice on the part of the author as opposed to id + a series of really bad ideas + no editor.
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Date: 2013-05-29 08:31 pm (UTC)Apparently he lives out in the woods now! Random change in residence?
Okay, I actually live in the area where Richard lives (five minutes from Seckman). Here is the thing. It's not really a suburb type area and not quite middle of nowhere either. Honestly, we hear gunshots on a weekly basis around here so no, people would not really pay attention to said gunshot. There are also plenty of car accidents, which again, tend to go ignored unless you see someone in the car or near it.
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Date: 2013-05-27 02:56 am (UTC)The hit is only on her, JC, and Richard. The hit men only harmed their target despite the fact that Richard has lots of neighbors. So the contracted killers aren't a danger to the were-tigers. Also, why is Anita flaunting her knowledge of how to kill werewolves in this convo? Jake knows this stuff! And, as you say, Jake has no reason to be invested in Anita' personal life. But nooooo, it's just that Jake's tired instead of completely disinterested.
Jake: "I do think they're safer here with you, but ask me why I think they're safer."
I HATE HATE HATE THE CONVERSATIONAL CIRCLES IN LKH'S WRITING. THEY'RE NEITHER WITTY, CLEVER, OR AMUSING. THEY'RE JUST TEDIOUS.
Jake:"Direct. I like that after dealing with all the old vampires."
*dies laughing*
Anita makes the vampires look competent and direct despite their weird obsession with fetish wear and parties. I agree that this bit was written to shoehorn in another compliment to Anita -- and to tell us that she's SUPER DIRECT AND TAKE CHARGE, DAMMIT. Because given the "plot" up to now, we might have our doubts.
He tells her that these tigers are purebloods.
The emphasis on pureblooded-ness in this series is really, really gross. It's not cool in HP but at least that author realizes that it's not a plus.
Is it ever even explained how the Harlequin would know?
Nope, especially since I think it's mentioned on Lashout that the Harlequin that come to St. Louis are either rogues or imposters or something. Anyway, they're not the real deal. (And then there's this gross thing where Anita blood-bonds Malcolm's entire church and has a disgusting & sacrilegious "I am a god of love, worship me" thing. I always wondered if that meant that Anita was in charge of Church of Eternal Life vamps all across the country or just the ones in St. Louis.)
most everyone at the Circus seems to have forgotten that as if they were "ordinary humans" that he "mind-fucked" into forgetting. Wait, can therians even do that?
In this series, it IS vampire only territory. And it's a retcon. (And it's a plot hole since the vamps who came were fake Harlequin who came to steal JC's territory.)
"I am here as an agent of some of the Harlequin, but I am not sanctioned by the Council to be in St. Louis."
Why is he telling Anita everything that he knows about the Council? It'd be more interesting if he kept his mouth shut or lied and Anita had to figure it out on her own. Escept she's an idiot... So JC'd have to figure it out and spoon feed it to her.
Jake gushes about how anyone else would be astonished and asking questions galore about the idea that the Harlequin have broken ties the Council
This is another sideways compliment to Anita. She soooo cool and level-headed that she doesn't freak out when nasty, ordinary people would have done so.
she says just to tell him what he knows and she'll tell him what she knows.
This whole conversation is such a ginormous waste of time, especially the crappy, unintelligible recaps of the crappy, unintelligible "plot".
"They would come to sit in their great chairs, but the deep dark secret was, once they took their places on the council the Mother possessed them"
I took this to mean that vamp society fostered this whole perception that getting to the level of council member was the brass ring that everyone aspired to but, in reality, it was the promotion of the damned. When you made the rank of council member, the MOAD snatched away your free will and ruled all of your minions via your puppet-self. You basically hit your people's jackpot, got consumed, and got to watch the MOAD prance around and do stuff with your body. That way, everyone would think that she's asleep and merely terrifying as opposed to terrifying and a primordial evil that should be destroyed. Under this theory, the Traveler (and his line?) are apparently the descendents that inherited the Possession ability from MOAD.
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Date: 2013-05-27 03:29 pm (UTC)They're one of the most annoying things about her style, regardless of content, and one of the hardest to convey in sporkings without just typing out the whole thing to show how awful it was.
Anyway, they're not the real deal.
Whaaa--
You basically hit your people's jackpot, got consumed, and got to watch the MOAD prance around and do stuff with your body.
Yeeeesss, and I just love it! "Yeah, I reached Council status! This is great! WAIT NOOO STOP--"
Under this theory, the Traveler (and his line?) are apparently the descendents that inherited the Possession ability from MOAD
That's what I always figured!
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Date: 2013-05-27 03:18 am (UTC)Of course not. The Harlequin has proven themselves to be perfidious at best. And aligned with Anita at worst. (Although I live in hope that this is a ploy to get close to Anita, get trusted, and murder her to death.) And isn't Jake one of them?
he says it depends on how fast they can kill the ones that want to kill Anita
He apparently has no doubt that the pro-Anita faction will win. And Anita doesn't worry about them losing either. (Although I fail to understand why the Harlequin would want a new Father Day or Tiger Master or whatever.) This neatly removes a potential source of tension and plot.... I suppose it threatened to get in the way of the porn.
"right now they see the other Harlequin was their greatest threat. Once we are neutralized, then they will turn to you."
TO YOU, not ON YOU. More potential plot averted!
"so it behooves us to help you guys."
I'm shocked she knows the word "behooves" and that she came to such a conclusion on her own. There's no sex in this plan at all! And no one had to explain it to her three times! WHO PUT THAT THOUGHT IN HER HEAD?
"we will live or die as we always have, by our own hands."
I think the "we" here refers to the Harlequin as a group, rather than any individual person. And, while it's a good sentiment, it's not something that will work in a world with someone as overpowered and dictatorial as Anita.
Jake talks for a paragraph about how all the remaining pureblood tigers who aren't white or red belong to the Harlequin
Because those pure-blooded tigers are the best, obviously. Yech!
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Date: 2013-05-27 03:18 am (UTC)Also, she's a non-Anita woman. She isn't allowed to be competent, badass, or successful.
Cynric is also never referred to by name in this spiel but only as a "boy" and a "teenager". Ugh. Because we need to be reminded of that.
But his youth is the whole reason that he's part of the narrative!
Anita brings up black tigers
This whole boring State of the Tigers address is SOOOO much more interesting than that vamp master rampaging in Atlanta. Really.
"because I had let him go when I could have turned him over to the police, or just kept him."
I admit, I don't remember Sebastian but what is with her, the supposed LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, deliberately LETTING ALL THE CRIMINALS GO?! That's not what LEOs are paid to do! (Of course, they're also not supposed to keep an unwilling stable of sex slaves in their basement either so, yeah, she crossed the line awhile ago.) It's like no one ever told Anita/LKH that just because something is an option doesn't mean that it's an option that you (or any sane, semi-decent person) should take. Additionally, she has no right to expect everyone she ever meets to bare all their deep, dark secrets to her. Not everything is her business!
Anita demands that he "tell me who's on our side and who isn't"
Why would he KNOW this? And why doesn't anyone ever LIE to anyone, ever, in this series? Or change their mind?
a male gold tiger and his master "have agreed to be on your side if we can prove to them that you can be Master of Tigers."
I... am not certain why the tigers themselves would want to be enslaved by ANYONE, much less someone like Anita. Additionally, I'm not certain why THEY aren't trying to kill her on general principle. And, if they have to have a master, why can't it be someone that they choose and elect to power? Or, say, another tiger.
"Funny you should ask"
LKH shouldn't be allowed to use this phrase. It's a bit worn around the edges and whatever she says is funny really, really isn't.
explains that when the MOAD declared the gold tigers destroyed, some of the Harlequin hid a few
How would someone who infects her minions' brains have missed this? It would've been better if there were a few bastard golden tigers who have a super secret society.
"Or a sexual sadist."
What, because she isn't one? (And worse.) And I'd argue that Anita really does get off on causing others horrific amounts of truly harmful, non-consensual pain because she certainly likes to make people do things that hurt or disgust them in ways that they won't enjoy. If it isn't going to be genuinely hurtful or disgusting to at least one of her partners, she doesn't want to do it. (Richard having sex with men, Asher having sex with her, Nick's lobotomy, JC having sex with her and Asher at the same time, London & Nick & various other characters' forced addictions to her, etc.) Unlike Valentina, Anita DOES go directly for the things that will most hurt the person that she 'loves' -- Asher's self image issues, Jean-Claude's sexual past, Richard's sexual preferences, etc. And she enjoys their attempts to twist and wriggle free of the situations that she puts them in, especially since they won't escape her.
After all, isn't that what Jeffrey Dahmer tried to do?
I don't know. Wasn't he a cannibal?
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Date: 2013-05-27 06:36 am (UTC)He cannibalized them later on, yes. But originally what he wanted was a sexual vegetable, an always consenting lover that would do whatever he wanted and never protested. He just "did it wrong" and killed them. Then he'd have sex with the bodies until they were too decomposed to do so. The cannibalization was actually just to keep a part of them with him always, because he really "loved" them so much.
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Date: 2013-05-27 03:36 pm (UTC)http://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/9686.html
And why doesn't anyone ever LIE to anyone, ever, in this series? Or change their mind?
Fuckin' tell me about it!
I... am not certain why the tigers themselves would want to be enslaved by ANYONE, much less someone like Anita.
Seriously! I mean, I guess this one tiger is going along with it because his own master is, but what about the rest?
Additionally, I'm not certain why THEY aren't trying to kill her on general principle.
That would make way too much SENSE
someone that they choose and elect to power? Or, say, another tiger.
Again, too much sense!
How would someone who infects her minions' brains have missed this? It would've been better if there were a few bastard golden tigers who have a super secret society.
YOU AND YOUR SENSE, STOP WITH THIS
I don't know. Wasn't he a cannibal?
As wandering worlds said, he did this, yes, but his main thing was, to quote Wikipedia, trying to "turn his victims into "zombies" — completely submissive, eternally youthful sexual partners – and attempted to do so by drilling holes into their skulls and injecting hydrochloric acid or boiling water into the frontal lobe area of their brains with a large syringe, usually while the victim was still alive"
...sounds all too familiar if you replace syringes with "metaphysics" doesn't it?
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Date: 2013-05-27 05:51 pm (UTC)*is aghast* That does sound incredibly familiar. *is looking at Nicky and Nathaniel and London and pretty much everyone after NiC*
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Date: 2013-05-28 02:33 pm (UTC)Because that’s all he is to Anita, really. He’s just another young body for her to lust over. Why address him by name? It’s not like he’s a person or anything.
/Yes, you are so fucking gracious for not KEEPING another human being as another PET in your sick little sex stable, Anita, he sure owes you for that!/
Given Anita’s twisted approval of slavery and objectification of therians, it would be interesting if anybody did a crossover Anita Blake/Island of Dr. Moreau fanfic. Anita would meet her match when it came to sadism and enslavement. Of course, Dr. Moreau wasn’t intended to be a hero, which puts H.G. Wells light-years ahead of LKH when it comes to moral standards.
/"I didn't feel the need to explain he was my Bride and couldn't repeat anything we said unless I told him I could."/
WHY ARE WE SUPPOSED TO THINK THAT THIS IS OKAY?! No, Anita, it’s NOT okay when somebody’s freedom of speech and free will are taken away from them. Would it be okay if you couldn't say anything unless your boyfriend told you that you could? He’s not your “Bride,” he’s your mental slave. Also, I'm pretty sure that Dracula's "brides" (they're not actually called that in the book) had more freedom than he has. But I forgot, in the happily remarried LKH's world: marriage equals slavery, hence the term, "Bride." That's so good to know. It's not like that's an unfair, demeaning, and childish stereotype.
/if Anita can't be the very last gold tiger, she's going to own them instead. And of course it's going to be for their own good and the only way to defeat MOAD, I'm sure./
How convenient.
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Date: 2013-05-29 01:25 pm (UTC)I think LKH just gets off on taking supposedly dangerous people and turning them into something fluffy and helpless, to be honest. Sometimes it's done figuratively as with her insisting on using the term "kitty" for werecats, and sometimes, as with Nicky, it's... rather more literal. ^_^;
THAT. IS. SO. AWESOME! I LOVE IT! I FUCKING LOVE IT! GO MARMEE! MOTHER KNOWS BEST!
It kinda is. :D The MOAD sat on the Council as the first among equals, oh yes. That's because all the other Council members were her, too. What, you thought any of them could in themselves be her equals? Ahahahahaha not bloody likely. :D
Anita sure remembers him because she feels "a little spurt of anger" over him never telling her he was a Harlequin member "because I had let him go when I could have turned him over to the police, or just kept him."
I have noticed that Mary Sues tend to have a lot of these weird moments of unrestrained anger at people acting in a way they don't like - and if the other characters have been reasonably characterised and you see where they are coming from, those really jars. See also Rahl, Richard, and Deegan, Dominick. :P
Anita unhelpfully adds "Or a sexual sadist."
Even aside from the fact that "evil" did indeed cover it and she just wanted to bring in the topic of (sigh) sexual sadism, there is something very annoying with the way she keeps using that term. It's just so... precise, too clinical. It's like that character in Fifty Shades of Grey talking about "vaginal orgasms." No one actually uses those terms in conversation. They use them in writing, when they can take care to clarify exactly what they're saying. A real person might say, perhaps, "or someone who got his kicks from hurting people" and expect that to get her point across. The only exception I can think of is if someone thought it was important to be clear that it was about sex, and this is the Anitaverse - of course it's freaking about sex, it's always about sex! :P