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chococomilk.livejournal.com

For those who have bravely read "Bullet" - is it true that JC and Asher have finally been allowed to sleep with each other, and that Micah and Nathaniel have suddenly become lovers out of the blue? I came across these rather astonishing claims on the Amazon forums. It seems bizarre that LKH has done a complete 180 on Anita's refusal to allow "her" men to sleep with other people and got characters getting together all of a sudden who never even had interest in each other previously. In one of the earlier books, maybe Harlequin, it was suggested that Asher had interest in Nathaniel, but Micah? I know he does whatever Anita wants, but what?

medicineseller9.livejournal.com

I love this community; it’s such an outlet for frustration with yaabis and hypocrisy. We’re all aware that homosexuality is clearly an uncomfortable subject for LKH, and for Anita, her proxy. This is evidenced throughout the text of many different books. What I’m not sure has been properly explored, however, besides the unpleasant themes of sexual exploitation, rape, and other forms of sexual violence, is the hypocrisy of sexual expression in Anita’s own worldview. There is a jarring contrast between what she says she believes in, or what she’s uncomfortable with, and what she actually does.

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missingvolume.livejournal.com

http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/400000640/post/260033826.html?nid=4381

It is down at the end of the article

Queer male characters are starting to pop up in other areas of mainstream paranormal romance; queer female characters, not so much. A Laurell K. Hamilton fan mentioned to me recently that the steamy scenes in her books include pretty much every possible sexual configuration except for women willingly having sex with other women. Is this because queer female characters might put off the straight female majority of Hamilton's readers? Is it to deliberately eschew those porn stereotypes of women who perform same-sex acts for the enjoyment of men (stereotypes so often played out in portrayals of female vampires, who inevitably end up looking like Renaissance Faire rejects or caricatured dominatrices)? Or is it that in the end, paranormal romance still harkens back very strongly to the romance novel tradition? Is there room for queer women in mainstream paranormal romance, or is the market just not ready for it?

frabjously.livejournal.com

This is not so much a rant, but an observation. For some reason the bit in The Laughing Corpse when Anita and JC go to Tenderloin never sat right with me. I figured out why today:

A young man who couldn't have been anymore than fifteen stopped me. He was wearing a vest with no shirt and a pair of torn jeans. "You interested?"

...

"We don't get many women down here," he said. -- Laughing Corpse, Chap 23

Well no, you wouldn't get many women there. You would however get many men. I was always under the impression that male prostitutes usually (although not always) cater to other men and not women. The above exchange implies that the guy only catered to women which I think is very telling of LKH's discomfort with homosexuality. It's not directly homophobic, but she sacrifices "real" elements of the world to push her own world-view. I don't think she did it intentionally - she's just narrow-minded. But I do think that this type of ignorance is a lot more dangerous because it's so flippant.

karmyn75.livejournal.com

As we all know, LKH has a strange way with words and misusing them in amusing ways. There's the infamous lose/loose, the new air/err, and my new favorite, the overuse and abuse of 'homophobe'.
I'm the first to admit I have no sort of gaydar at all. I mean, even after I saw a photo of a friend in a newspaper story about the university glbt club I still wasn't sure he was gay. Now he's in the middle of a sex change.
Anyway, it seems to me that LKH is misusing the word homophobe. When Richard is uncomfortable at seeing JC naked, Anita says he's homophobic. Maybe he just doesn't like seeing other men naked all the time. Nothing homophobic about that. The use of the word homophobe heavily implies that JC is totally and completely gay. Of course the readers know he and the other men are, but LKH has been denying this all along. Now she outs him.

Current Mood: contemplative

lydaiya.livejournal.com

O.K., I work in a library and DM came in today. It was very, very slow (the computers were down) so I perused it at the desk. Somewhere in the midst of chapter 19, my head impacted with said desk. Only after I had done it did I realize that I had just had a literal "headdesk" moment. ( Here there be spoilers. And monsters. But mostly spoilers. )

I give up. Seriously. Words fail. It just... [wails] It makes no sense!

I also hope this works because I am woefully new to this lj stuff.

Current Mood: indescribable

dwg.livejournal.com

URL: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/07/richmond-va.html
Title: Richmond, VA
Date: Monday 10 July 2006

LKH in italicised blockquote, me...not so much.
( We, the readers, are educated on why Anita doesn't dig chicks. And how LKH writes about personality in her sex. )

I think reading this blog entry hurt my brain.

Current Mood: bitchy

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