Hair

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I had a thought when I noticed this gob of hair in the shower drain. Micah was made to keep his hair long by Chimera as punishment. Doesn't it make sense that he would cut it now that Chimera is gone? And wouldn't someone as nasty as Chimera be able to think up something worse (especially for people who could heal like crazy) than not letting a dude get a hair cut? I understand how making them wear their hair long could be a symbolic sort of humiliation (control over what they can do with their own bodies, enforcing a stereotypically "feminine" trait on them, etc.) but it just somehow doesn't seem like it'd be ALL he'd do.

And then I remembered that LKH just wants pretty delicate curvy young men with long hair (but big wangs, so they're clearly not lesbian-denial fantasies, oh no sirreee nope!)and she's not about to let, y'know, EARTH LOGIC get in her way. It just seems to me that it would have made more sense to just let Micah have long hair 'cause he WANTS to, rather than a punishment from a very bad man...'cause, like I said, then you'd think he'd be more inclined to cut it. Did she ever give a reason why he DIDN'T cut it, like wanting to remember what he'd been through or something like that, or is it just one of her "forgets an issue entirely" moments? I'm betting on the latter.

Anything But That

[ephemeralthings.livejournal.com]

I...I found something terrible today. This community has been discussing the way that LKH tries to ride on Gaiman's coattails of awesomeness for months, and even I've gotten a little bored with it. (It's induced eye-rolling and the comment, "That's nice, Laurel." *pat, pat* "Now go off and play with your friends.") But before today, I kind of thought the connection was all in LKH's head. After all, it seems that's the place where many things live. (Oh, owww. Mental squick. I just thought about what goes on in her head. Bad idea. Very Bad Idea.)

But no.

On Amazon, the page for Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book" quotes LKH in the editorial review section.

I feel the strange urge to cry now, and I'm not even a huge Gaiman fan.

"After finishing The Graveyard Book, I had only one thought -- I hope there’s more. I want to see more of the adventures of Nobody Owens, and there is no higher praise for a book." -- Laurell K. Hamilton, author of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels
-Amazon

www.amazon.com/Graveyard-Book-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0060530928/ref=pd_ys_shvl_title