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queenursula (queenursula) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-03 17:36:00

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char: captain america/steve rogers, char: deadpool/wade wilson, char: lady deadpool, creator: rob liefeld, publisher: marvel comics

Introducing Lady Deadpool!

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	jacobmb 2009-11-03 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	Laurell K. Hamilton? Whew, that's cold. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jupiterrhode
2009-11-04 06:24 am UTC (link)

I happen to enjoy Hamilton's work, and think her stories have progressed logically. But those that disagree will see only a woman having sex with multiple men and not being ashamed of it (even thought Anita has been ashamed of it in the past, and is just now starting to grow out of it). But then again, I've never heard a "critique" of Hamilton's work that didn't bring up the sexual aspect at least once, and didn't sound at least unconsciously misogynist.

But whatever, different strokes.

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va1tyr
2009-11-04 10:41 am UTC (link)

I bailed on the Anita Blake series at Obsidian Butterfly; it was actually a good one, and that motivated me to pack it in, because I wanted to read about a cool, gritty animator who got entangled in supernatural politics, and I wasn't really getting that anymore. I quite liked the Triad, too. But it seemed like she warped the story to pack more and more sex in, and all the men couldn't resist Anita.

Conversely, I don't mind the Merry Gentry series because all the sex and irresistability to men were built into the story from the start.

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box_in_the_box
2009-11-04 10:59 am UTC (link)

Bullshit. Micah is such unrepentant dogshit that it doesn't even work as SIMPLE PORN. LKH uses the phrase "hot, wet and tight" to describe Anita's vagina more frequently than Jackie Collins resorts to describing the muscles of one of her male characters as "rippling." Anita Blake is about as much of a "feminist" role model as Bella Fucking Swan is, so don't even TRY and play that punk card. If the EXACT SAME STORY was written by Chuck Austen, this wouldn't even be a QUESTION - EVERY woman who read it would want to string the author of the later Anita Blake novels up by his nutsack for his demonstrated on-the-page misogynistic characterization of Anita as a woman, and RIGHTLY FUCKING SO.

I'd actually expect better writing from a teenage virgin fanfic author online than what LKH churns out. It's OBJECTIVELY bad.

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	jupiterrhode 2009-11-04 04:24 pm UTC (link)
	Except for the part where it objectively isn't. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ex_darkblade992 2009-11-04 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	I have issues with any story that uses sex as a deus ex machina regardless of the gender of the main character. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jupiterrhode 2009-11-04 06:55 pm UTC (link)
	Why? As far as deus ex machinas go, at least sex makes sense mythologically. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ex_darkblade992
2009-11-04 09:37 pm UTC (link)

No it doesn't.

The original vampires were purely savage creatures whose attacks were akin to barbarians raping and murdering civilized folks. Bram Stroke's vampires while more cultured and the sexual elements increased only improved themselves as far as date rape. So sex with vampires being used as deus ex machina has no mythological roots.

For the life of me I can't even think of an example of werecreature sex in fiction at all from before the furry fandom became well known so I really don't see any mythological basis for the werecreatures deus sex machina.

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	jupiterrhode 2009-11-05 03:43 am UTC (link)
	Not with vampires specifically, but sex and love have always been used as deus ex machinas in fiction, and now that vampires have transformed form mindless savage to suave sexual bring it makes sense that the sex deus ex machina follows them over. (Reply to this) (Parent)

jacobmb
2009-11-06 05:39 am UTC (link)

The reason I dropped the series is because Anita stopped kicking ass and she stopped being in danger. Of course a lead protagonist is highly unlikely to die, but by OB it became clear Anita was never going to be placed in serious peril again. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, a series that started out as an action-horror fantasy, got boring. That's an unforgivable sin as far as I'm concerned.

One can say the secondary characters can be hurt or killed, but IMO, the secondary characters are barely entities in the series, which makes it hard to care about them. It's all Anita, all the time; there's little to no room for character development for anyone not Anita. When a TV show, movie, comic book, or book series narrows its focus to the holy importance of a single character and their whatever, then that's my jumping off point.

The plot holes and second-rate porn didn't help either.

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