Cover models vs. canon characters.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

You know what I just realized? Merry in canon has a number of scars. One is directly over one of her breasts, and is in the shape of a large handprint.

Why the hell hasn't this scar ever been on any of the covers? I mean, it's plot-related, it's intriguing (hey, how'd she get that on her chest? read to find out!) and it would just plain look cool, even a bit sexy. I have numerous scars myself and have never understood the appeal, and even I think it'd be nice and artistic-looking.

Yet while the cover to A Stroke of Midnight displayed ample quantities of heaving bosom, there were no scars. I realize the scar is usually disguised by glamour, but there's no reason it couldn't be shown.

In fact, both of LKH's protagonists have scars, and the covers for both series portray basically naked women...with nary a scar or even a mole in sight. We don't even need to see all the scars; just the more (relatively) photogenic ones. Anita's cross and Merry's hand would make spiffy cover fodder, and appropriate for their respective series. It's a shame they were ignored in favour of "prettier" covers.

snarky Anita icons, anyone?

[vanity-lost.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if this is admissable or not... feel free to delete if it isn't. Anyway, there are some Anita Blake icons up here, by vanity_made.
sample:

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[larathia.livejournal.com]

Stop me if you've heard this one. Really. I think I need a hard smacking and this may well be the perfect place to come.

See, I love the Anitaverse. I just can't bloody stand Anita anymore, or LKH's writing of her.

...Which is tempting me to start an RPG. All originals, or second string characters, but no Anita - Anita's dead, her triumvirate is dead with her, and anyway the setting would be Chicago and not St. Louis, so while some of the old favorites might transfer, most wouldn't.

Oh. And no posted smut that hasn't got a provable plot bearing (like a vampire deep-rolling someone, so they can control them later, or a lycanthrope dominance contest).

I've poked around looking for Anitaverse RPGs and they're as All About The Smut as the Anitaverse itself has become. So one must assume that an Anitaverse RPG that was about the world and the laws and non-smut character interaction would probably either Go Nowhere or devolve into horribly written sex, weighed down by its canon.

*bows* Please cluebat me. Hard. The brain keeps thinking this is a good idea and should be tried. The brain is very bad and needs to be taught a lesson.