BlogFlog: Mother's Day

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

LKH: Emphasis
Me: Regular

We did our celebrating last weekend because Trinity is with her father this weekend.

I am probably getting the rarest gift of all for Mother's day. Time to myself.

I can't think of any custody arrangement wherein the child doesn't get to be with the mother on Mother's Day. I've heard of half-day arrangements. I've heard of combined Mother/Step-Mother celebrations. But not being there at all?

All I can think is that this is what she asked for - because ''the rarest gift of all for Mother's day. Time to myself'.

Considering she has dual custody of her child and thus doesn't have her child fulltime in the first place - what the heck is she talking about?

Also her child isn't a toddler who'll follow her into the bathroom and go 'Mommy can you get me a glass of milk?' Or a kindergartener who gets into mischief if left alone.

So what?



I bring this up not for the sole opportunity to bash LKH, but because this kind of selfishness and self-involvement seems to me to be part of what translates into her books and is why they suck and she can't take direction/advice/suggestion.

It also makes me think of Anita Blake (specifically) and the character's utter selfishness and how the world is seen through Anita's eyes.

I really wish it were possible if someone was messing up a franchise that someone else could write it better and get all the credit and kudos and money. Somehow it's just not enough to run circles around LKH in fanfiction. I'd love to see her truly threatened by someone else not locked into a selfish self-wanking point of view in exploring the universe.

It makes me wonder just how close could you get to mocking her in an original work? How close could you get to exploring a similar world? Would it have to be a strict parody? Or could you mention the brain-damanged Vampire Executioner who wonders the streets dirty and out of touch with reality and occasionally turning tricks on people with no scruples?

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2007/05/happy-mothers-day.html

Comments

[avierra.livejournal.com]

I am not conversant with LKH's living arrangements, but she did say she had celebrated with her daughter the week before. I am a mom, and I can understand her desire to have some time to herself, regardless of it's being Mother's Day or not. My own hubby took my daughter to the park for several hours yesterday, and it was great. I read a book, and watched TV and did other stuff I never get to do by myself otherwise.

It does bug me that she seems to have chosen her husband's company over that of her daughter.

But, I guess I am reluctant to ascribe selfishness to her for this incident in particular, much less read it into her characters' motivations.

Having said that, I intensely dislike the way her characters have been behaving in the last few books, and think their characterization has been raped.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2007/05/relaxation.html

This shows what she was doing last Sunday. It doesn't sound much like a mother's day celebration to me 'Each of us doing our own thing'. But maybe I too am disturbed that she seems to have chosen her husband's company over her daughter.