I think an Evanescance song would be apppropriately emo here.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

My dear Lashers,

LKH got her hands on some exotic animals.

LKH - emphasis. Me - pain

From here

We got to pet animals I'd never petted before. The charity was a wild animal rescue group, Safari’s Sanctuary, and they brought out their animals to let the guests see them. Reticulated and Burmese python, the first was a yellow albino; Fennec (small desert fox); albino baby raccoon; skunk both albino and regular; ring-tailed lemur (who helped with my audio podcast at Conestoga, you'll know what I mean when you hear it); alligator; and wolves. Yes, I said wolves...

... The reptiles had the least natural odor. I'm always wanting to know what animals smell like, for the writing, and I think writing the wereanimals has made me more aware of that oft neglected sense; smell...

...But, honestly, my favorite was the Fennec. With it's huge ears and delicate triangular face, it looked like some sort of fairy creature. It's fur was the softest of any of the other animals, silky. It also stood on the shoulders of it's handler. I mean I've heard of a shoulder cat, or a shoulder bird, but a shoulder fox was new.

I think we all know what happens now, don't we. Don't we.

Do you think she'll remember she already did a fox? Or are you more concerned with were-snake sex? And don't say Nagas, please. Because I don't want to have nightmares about how an inherited magical condition makes its way into the wereswirl that is her immune system.

One last LKH quote:
Wild animals are best left in the wild.

Then set Richard free woman!

Comments

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Oh, I shouldn't have read that before breakfast. Seriously, beyond thinking, "Get on with it woman!" during her listing of what she saw, I had one other thought.

"Those poor semicolins! Someone give those abused babies a home." Honestly, my eye was twitching as I read it. It was painful! I'm not an English grammer professor, and I'll admit my writing can be horrible, but that just looked wrong. Very, very wrong.

And I agree, let Richard go! Honestly, I don't recall any rule that states that the members of a tri had to have sex with each other. Let Richard go and find happiness, and he can still be part of that silly tri and everyone is happy.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

I think she broke my brain with that horrible misuse of punctuation, especially the semicolon. Does this mean that the semicolon is the new comma for LKH?

And she used the word 'oft'. Was she trying to come off pompous, or did she just come off that way while pretending to be all condescending? I fear the world will never know.

I feel sorry for the Fennec. I get the feeling it's going to be used in a Merry book (since she described it as being a fairy creature and has already used were-foxes).

Also, I know plenty of animals that ride on their handler's shoulders, especially if they're small. I'm not surprised LKH doesn't, given how narrow her view of things is.

Finally I agree with the sentiment of free Richard. Maybe we should start the Free Richard campaign, urging her to remember that wild animals are best left in the wild (in her own words).

[chubling.livejournal.com]

Run little animals! Run!

I'm sure this means that there will be a whole new group of were-animals that Anita doesn't want to have to fuck, will throw a fit about having to fuck them, she'll give in, have a screaming orgasm with and then OMG! Love them.

And she'll describe the animals exactly the way she did here. Because she just likes to cut and past her descriptions of things. She uses the same wording every damned time.

[moonsinger.livejournal.com]

Watch out, with the popularity of Meerkat Junction, she'll have a were-meercat.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

And this is the woman that likes to trot out, "I HAS A BIOLOGY DEGREE! PH34R! RAR!" when she's blathering about animals?

...you would think that she's never been to a zoo before? I know it's one thing to be on one side of a fence to see the animals, and another to actually HOLD and TOUCH them (and for that reason, I will never forget my behind-the-scenes tour of our zoo, and I got to pet an ocelot. An ocelot that later mauled a girl's bag, and we were all standing there going, "omg kitty paw!" while she was like, "OMG MY BAG! "

But sweet fucking Azathoth, those are not. that. exotic. If she were molesting a Black Rhino or a King Cheetah, I'd forgive her because those are endangered beyond belief. Snakes and skunks and an alligator? ISN'T THAT WHAT FLORIDA IS FOR IN YOUR COUNTRY???

And don't get me started on the smelling thing. Not only does it give me hillarious mental images of her trying to snort a 6 foot long python, but it makes me headdesk because HEY LADY, YOU'RE A WRITER. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE SHIT UP WHEN IT COMES TO THE WAY THINGS SMELL. I do it all the freaking time, because I have an incredibly lousy sense of smell (thanks hayfever) and most of the time, I can't smell a goddamned thing. And I'm using this as a kind of proof that I'm at least a few brain cells smarter and more talented than this woman because I can describe a situation I've never been in, along with the smell and tactile sensations, for characters I don't think are real.

My geek-fu will now try to kill her with its brain. Its big, juicy brain.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

I foresee....an Albino were-something with a large.....

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

See below. Albino 'furry' with large dong for 200$, Alex.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be entirely too amused if it's a were-raccoon.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

She'll call him 'Bandit'. Though his real name will be something ordinary like George.

[ravenhaley.livejournal.com]

They couldn't bite her hand?

I am still hoping for a were-Unicorn just like on Robot Chicken:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/52337.html

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Snakes and skunks and an alligator? ISN'T THAT WHAT FLORIDA IS FOR IN YOUR COUNTRY???

I couldn't stop laughing after that. I used to live in FL, and believe me, that's what it felt like in some areas. My uncle took us "Gater spotting" once. Scariest moment of my life after he gave a speech on how they can ram the boat (it was a small boat) or pop up over the side and how little girls were their favorite foods.

I now live far away from Gaters.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Magical unicorn manyonase! Who forsees that there will someday be more mythological creatures (ie, like the Naga) in the books. After Anita has exhausted the normal animal gene pool.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

Magical Unicorn makes me think Merry will end up screwing some pale skinned, white haired, pearlescent eyed, unicorn fey man with a scholong like a horse who then becomes a horse mid---

Or is that more likely to be an Anita book.

[longtail.livejournal.com]

I think it could fit into either series since there isn't a huge amount of difference between them. Go Merita!

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Ick! I'll be sure to skip that book.

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

See, now this is one of those things that wouldn't bother me at all from another writer. One writer I love just recently posted about how her pond was full of tadpoles, and they were turning into frogs, and soon she would have empty-pond syndrome, and from her it was kinda whimsical and charming. Of course, I didn't have to then wonder, unwillingly, about the sexual practices of frogs and frog-human compatibility.

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

All right, SOMEBODY has to squee over your icon. *squees*

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

See, now that's just mean. ^_^

[saucyirishlass.livejournal.com]

First of all:

The reptiles had the least natural odor.

WTF? How is that even possible? Did they smell like, say, plastic?

And, just because it's a blogflog and because I can't figure out how to make a post long enough not to get the modly "short post" chiding ^_^ - did anyone else laugh their ass off at Darla's post wherein she stated that there will be an "Anita Blake Does Comic Con 2007" shirt? Anyone want to guess what the artwork on that's gonna look like?

[easol.livejournal.com]

With its delicate little features and silky fur, a Fennec would be ideal for another femmeman. And I wouldn't be surprised if another SPECIAL werefox comes along for Anita...

BTW, I just googled for pics of them. They're adorable, but their ears are almost TOO big. Like a fox/rabbit cross.

Maybe we should start a website devoted to "Free the Richard!" But she never will, because if she did, it means that both in the real and imaginary world, her ex is free to go on and live his life without her in it.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Your geek-fu resembles David Tennant, and I REALLY love that. I worship the geek Doctor.

Ye gods, she considers skunks and wolves exotic? They're all over the place. Someone force this woman on a tour of the San Diego zoo so she can see some REALLY exotic animals, some of which have dwindled to almost nothing.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Well, she had mermaids in "Danse Macabre," so a unicorn wouldn't exactly shock me. Sometimes,l with the first perspective stuff, I suspect she's forgotten which series is which.

And I'm sure she'll inform us that the bigger the horn, the bigger the.... you know.

[easol.livejournal.com]

"Anita Blake visits the Comic Con, only to have the ardeur rise and spill out into all the long-haired, femme-faced, giant-dingled assembled there. To save their geek-fu..."

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

I'd contribute to buying the domain if someone else could code the site. There's got to be a free site somewhere that'd host it.

Free Richard (it's almost exactly like Free Willy)

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Free Richard (it's almost exactly like Free Willy)

ohhhh, I've got bad images of the icon being Richard jumping over Anita a'la Free Willy.