"These Boots Are Made For Concrit"

[pith]

Found at belmanoir's journal. Credit goes to mrs_laugh_track for the adaptation. It's originally in reference to fanfic and beta reading and such, but most of it applies to LKH.

(And no, I don't particularly agree with the comma placement in "You put commas, where there oughta be periods", but I felt "You've got sexin' where there shouldn't have been sexin'" made up for it.)

( These Boots Are Made For Concrit )

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[raging-muse.livejournal.com]

Back in the Dark Ages of the Anita books - did anybody start reading the books and keep going because of the shapeshifters? I am aware of the theme going in posts so thought I'd add my own ideas here. I am and have always been a huge shapeshifter fan, in particular werewolves so i once read the books for her weres. In particular her wererats were unique, I don't know about anybody else here but I hadn't seen and still haven't seen to this day an author do wererats. Rafael was my fave character and how his pack operated. Did anybody else enjoy the wererats? But like so many of Laurell's good ideas it went down the toilet! :(

Another thing i liked was the characters of Raina and Marcus the original pack alphas (Lunatic Cafe was the best book to me). They were assholes sure and they were nasty but their pack functioned and was semi-healthy. To me werewolves are not meant to be fluffy bunnies so their violence and nastiness was cool to me (although the sex I could have done without - should have been a warning of what was coming!). The pack we now have under Richard is totally useless and redundant. To borrow a quote from Remember the Titans: Attitude reflects leadership. Would anybody else agree to this since the old alphas were scrapped and they got a useless alpha in Richard? I mean has anybody heard of another werewolf besides Jason and Richard lately?

Another thing as I'm in the process of writing my first novel - about werewolves by chance - I am taking note of what other authors do with their shapeshifters. What to you makes a good shapeshifter? What do you think makes a shoddy shapeshifter?  What is irritating about the current take on shapeshifters? One thing I find that urban fantasy has done (and i hope to change with my book) is taken the werewolf and other shifters far away from their roots. I miss having bad guy nasties! Does anybody know of good werewolf novels were the werewolf is still nasty and a bad buy and still wins the day?