ext_247862 ([identity profile] cactus-wren.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] lkh_lashouts2007-06-01 09:52 am

Gah!

One of the things that drives me insane about LKH is her inability to keep facts straight. Is is really that damn hard? I don't write, so I don't know, but it seems to me that if you had this big universe going, and it was hard to keep track of all your characters, you would have an encyclopedia of the facts to refer to.
From chapter 26 of The Whoreliquin:


Jason: I am your wolf in case your beast decides to rise.

Anita: I thought Sylvie..........

Sylvie: With the ardeur raised in the room, I'm not staying. Nothing personal, Anita, I mean you're cute but I don't do women.

(Big sidebar: IIRC, I could have sworn that Jason said in an earlier book that Sylvie liked girls. And when Padma's son raped her, it was even more evil because Sylvie was suppose to be gay. Am I crazy or am I thinking about someone else?)

Sylvie: With you this weak, Anita and JC out of it, I don't want to take the chance of the ardeur spreading throughout the room. The wolves will do everything they can to get you all through this.

Dammit, Sylvie is gay! This is one of the few facts we do know about Sylvie. Since she's written so little about this character, is it that difficult to remember this one thing? I'm so tired of her YABBI's and her sorry excuses 'oh, sorry, it's so hard to keep track of the details of so many characters - oops!' *smacks her*

From here, chapter26, at the boards.

[identity profile] hellfire82.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe the ardeur (you know, it took me several tries to spell that, and I'm still not sure it's right), that has oh so magically given Anita what she wants in every other instance, has made Sylvie not-gay because it was so bothersome to Anita's world view.

[identity profile] jdemorae.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Because otherwise, forcing a lesbian to have sex with a straight woman who found lesbianism offensive might reveal the ardeur for the mystical date-rape drug it is. And we can't *ever* have Anita be at the same level of the sleaze who drops a little Rophy in someone's drink.

*ahem* Sorry. Just a little bitter.