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So, I was re-skimming "The Killing Dance" last night.
Wow... well first, I had forgotten that there was actually a time when all of the other females in Anita-verse weren't major bitches that suffered from Freudian penis envy. (And yes, I use this term in the contemporary metaphorical sense, unlike LKH who just uses it and had no idea what she's talking about.) Ah... Raina, how I miss you.
Anyway, so I got to the part where Richard transforms on top of Anita, covers her in werewolf goo, and then goes and eats Marcus (with Raina, I might add.) So, Anita freaks out and returns to the Circus, thus starting off the first Anita sex scene of the series. But yeah, about that. May I remind you that at this point Anita is still covered in werewolf guck, something that she describes as a mix between blood and glue. She has to peel off her clothes since it's so caked on. Naturally, she gets into the bath and starts scrubbing it off with gardenia smelling soap and herbal shampoo that might have been Herbal Essences complete with orgasm if it hadn't been for the fact that Anita monologued that Jean-Claude didn't buy store brand.
So let's look at our bathtub now. It's got soap, shampoo (which is basically soap for hair), and werewolf goo in it. It probably doesn't look clean, and I'll bet monopoly money that it's going to taste nasty if someone drinks/licks it... which is precisely what Anita does when Jean-Claude falls in a couple pages later. Eww...
Okay. I know LKH has a problem with consistency, but it's only a few fricken pages. The sad part is, I don't think she ever learns. In later books there's still (lots of) sex in dirty bathtubs complete with the whole licking thing; just replace the werewolf goo with sex goo (not to be confused with sex-fu). It's like the bath tub suddenly gets the dirty-water-draining properties of the shower, but retains the bubbles (which don't taste like soap) and that whole completely-immersed-in-water thing. Perhaps this new device's name should be changed to The Bath Tub.
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Oh. And slightly related, since it deals with the bathroom.
"[Jean-Claude's] feet were startlingly pale against the black carpet." Chapter 39, The Killing Dance (I don't know the page number.)
He has carpet... in the bathroom... I'm sorry, but my brain has just died... again. You could put down a rug in the bathroom or maybe a fuzzy mat. But to CARPET THE WHOLE THING?!? Eesh... I bet Jean-Claude gets his designing inspiration from Trading Spaces.
Wow... well first, I had forgotten that there was actually a time when all of the other females in Anita-verse weren't major bitches that suffered from Freudian penis envy. (And yes, I use this term in the contemporary metaphorical sense, unlike LKH who just uses it and had no idea what she's talking about.) Ah... Raina, how I miss you.
Anyway, so I got to the part where Richard transforms on top of Anita, covers her in werewolf goo, and then goes and eats Marcus (with Raina, I might add.) So, Anita freaks out and returns to the Circus, thus starting off the first Anita sex scene of the series. But yeah, about that. May I remind you that at this point Anita is still covered in werewolf guck, something that she describes as a mix between blood and glue. She has to peel off her clothes since it's so caked on. Naturally, she gets into the bath and starts scrubbing it off with gardenia smelling soap and herbal shampoo that might have been Herbal Essences complete with orgasm if it hadn't been for the fact that Anita monologued that Jean-Claude didn't buy store brand.
So let's look at our bathtub now. It's got soap, shampoo (which is basically soap for hair), and werewolf goo in it. It probably doesn't look clean, and I'll bet monopoly money that it's going to taste nasty if someone drinks/licks it... which is precisely what Anita does when Jean-Claude falls in a couple pages later. Eww...
Okay. I know LKH has a problem with consistency, but it's only a few fricken pages. The sad part is, I don't think she ever learns. In later books there's still (lots of) sex in dirty bathtubs complete with the whole licking thing; just replace the werewolf goo with sex goo (not to be confused with sex-fu). It's like the bath tub suddenly gets the dirty-water-draining properties of the shower, but retains the bubbles (which don't taste like soap) and that whole completely-immersed-in-water thing. Perhaps this new device's name should be changed to The Bath Tub.
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Oh. And slightly related, since it deals with the bathroom.
"[Jean-Claude's] feet were startlingly pale against the black carpet." Chapter 39, The Killing Dance (I don't know the page number.)
He has carpet... in the bathroom... I'm sorry, but my brain has just died... again. You could put down a rug in the bathroom or maybe a fuzzy mat. But to CARPET THE WHOLE THING?!? Eesh... I bet Jean-Claude gets his designing inspiration from Trading Spaces.
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Date: 2007-11-30 09:34 pm (UTC)One of my Grandma's bathrooms is fully carpeted, not going to lie it always confused me. I thought it was strange and possibly unsanitary.
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Date: 2007-11-30 09:35 pm (UTC)And that's just gross. I could comment more on werewolf goo in bathtubs, but I don't even want to think about. ickyickyicky.
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Date: 2007-12-01 03:47 am (UTC)*shudder*
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Date: 2007-11-30 10:33 pm (UTC)Carpet in the bathroom is disgusting and I'll one up you. My mom used to have a carpet cover on the toilet seat cover. *shudder*
On the other hand, if I was a vampire who hadn't gone poop or pee in 200 years, I would probably carpet the whole bathroom too.
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Date: 2007-12-01 12:20 am (UTC)Edit: There's no excuse for the tub's magical properties, though.
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Date: 2007-12-01 01:52 am (UTC)Then again, I live in the tropics so mold is second nature to me. It's bad enough with metal, tile, and linoleum... to add carpet to a bathroom. You're just asking for it.
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Date: 2007-12-01 03:26 am (UTC)And really, baths are gross to me. Just sitting there and stewing in your own dirt. Whenever I take a bath (because I've been convinced it will be relaxing) I have to shower after. Sex and goo and who knows what in a bath just isn't sexy. Add in molding carpet and my gag reflex would be kicking in.
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Date: 2007-12-01 04:45 pm (UTC)Argh!
Date: 2007-12-02 12:05 am (UTC)For crying out loud, Jean-Claude was doing the horizontal mambo with Julianna (you know, Asher's human servant?) centuries before Anita was born. That seems to indicate a taste for women. Also, for a guy who was born in Europe centuries ago, wearing lace tells nothing about his sexuality.
Also, the male strip club?
Item one: clubs with female strippers are a dime a dozen. Places with male strippers are much rarer. Supply/demand. Jean-Claude is a business vampire.
Item two: Straight men would not be pleased with Jean-Claude's voice tricks, nor would they be likely to want to suck face with him to help feed the ardeur.
Item three: Female vamps of Belle's line are apparently in high demand among vampire groups, whereas males of Belle's line are barely tolerated by most MotCs. Thus, Jean-Claude could very easily get lots of pretty males for his stage, whereas getting pretty females would be a pain.
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Date: 2007-12-01 02:06 am (UTC)*Is really glad for having a shower*
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Date: 2007-12-01 05:24 am (UTC)And I HATE bathroom carpet. It's just so gross -- I cringe to think what sorts of nasty things might be growing down there.
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Date: 2007-12-01 11:08 am (UTC)The description of the bathtub has made me physically want to retch.
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Date: 2007-12-01 12:28 pm (UTC)Now I feel really sick!
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Date: 2007-12-01 02:06 pm (UTC)I struggle to come to terms with the whole "orgy sized bathtub" concept in the first place, because unless you're a Roman, it's called a swimming pool or possibly hot tub.
But all that said, I spent a few years being traumatised by constant, very bad, AB:VH RPG tubsex. I don't need that shit in the canon now!
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Date: 2007-12-01 04:59 pm (UTC)Hmm, we had carpet in our bathroom when I was growing up, except it was a thick, flat kind of carpeting like what you'd find in an office and a dark blue color. We never had a problem with it.
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Date: 2007-12-02 04:55 pm (UTC)There is a type of seriously thin carpet you can have instead of tiles or lineo, but I don't know what it is called. Doesn't mold quickly and feels better than cold tiles in the middle of winter.
But that scene... eew. I have read TKD and while I do recall the bathroom scene (too bad not the shower scene, if you catch my drift) but I must have had a brain lank, because I don't remember much of it. I just remember him climbing in, lots of talking followed by sex, and wangsty Richard rocking up later.
I might start reading the Amber Butterfly, to see if I can follow the plot again. I doubt it, but I have been advised it is a good once-off read that is detatched from the series. I might respond to it.
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Date: 2007-12-02 09:50 pm (UTC)The bathroom carpet is awful. My parents used to have carpet in the bathroom, but it was there when we moved in and has been removed now. My apartment has bathroom carpeting and I hate it!!!! It gets wet, takes forever to dry, and smells a little off all the time. The weirdest part is that the bathroom is the only carpeted room in the apartment. I have no idea what possessed my landlord to carpet that room and only that room.