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Okay, my sister-in-law gave me a Laurell K. Hamilton book. Kiss of Shadows
I was telling Jenny that it made me feel better about my own novel, because it's really, really not anywhere near as twisted as that. I mean, there is a bit of sex in my novel, but no one has tentacles. And' she's considered Mainstream.
Jenny likes to embarrass me. But it's okay, because, for some reason it feels like being teased by my sister.
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Sounds like this Laurell K. Hamilton is into anime pr0n. Gotta wonder about the Japanese sometimes!
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I do laundry and the dishes. But my wife likes to cut the grass, so I traded. Yet strangely, grass cutting is on my list this weekend. Hmm. Posts: 5422 | Registered: Dec 2001
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I just cut the grass for the 1st time in 2 wks, and mutliated the blade from running over my dog's bone
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Darn it, star-bellied man! I am trying to have me have posted last on all the threads at the top and you are not making it any easier!!!!
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Yeah, I dunno what's up with those Japanese folks and their fixation on ensuring that many-tentacled monsters get to have sex too.
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If I can salivate at the thought of a sleek, sexy piece of computing hardware...
*drools*
Sorry about that. If I can salivate at the thought of a sleek, sexy piece of computing hardware, then others can salivate at the thought of being violated by tentacle monsters, I guess.
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Sooo... if they put some tenticles on some sexy, sleek computer hardware would that be a happy medium of sorts?
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I like the minimalist look when it comes to gadgets and computers. They can be big, but they can't have a bunch of doohickeys everywhere. (Tentacles count as doohickeys.)
A fresh thing? *ponders the implications*
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The thing is, they are like spiders. All kidding aside about my warped attraction to them, it was one of the coolest shows I have ever seen. They act like spiders of the water. They do not spin webs, but they lie in wait and lure their prey. They can fit anywhere, like between rocks, and sometimes they will sneak up on the other side of their prey while looking them in the eye.
I would NOT want one chasing me.
Really!
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Olivet, I'm so sorry. AOL crashed my computer last night when we were chatting. I wonder where those tentacle guys work?
:shifty eyes: They know! Gulp! Don't let them get me!
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Octopus are really interesting creatures. I got to help feed some of the octopus when I worked at the Monterey Bay Aquarium a few years ago. It was really neat. They're very curious and they have a lot of personality.
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I agree. I was amazed, watching this show. I think it was on Discovery. They really are the perfect sea creature, with their capabilities.
Actually, when I was watching it, I thought, hey, there really isn't a sci fi character or species based on an octopus. Sure, there is Squidward from Spongebob, but he is a stain on the family of squid.
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Hamilton didn't start off soft-core horror porn. Her first four Anita Blake are actually quite engaging. Interesting milieu, intriguing characters, bad-ass female hero...they were fun reads.
The sex didn't start until book five, I think, and then it got steadily worse and worse until the last one I read was just whips and chains and people biting each other and jumping into any bed around. I gave up on her, and haven't even read the latest one in the series because I heard it was more of the same.
Shame - the first Anita Blake novels were really fun.
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Okay, I read the one you're talking about Olivia, and Merry didn't have sex with tentacle guy. She thought about it, but coulnd't get past her personal revulsion with the tentacles.
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She was gonna do ... something ... before the hag attacked her, so Sholto's 'last touch of sidhe flesh wouldn't be one of revulsion.'
So, sidhe hump like crazed weasels. Got it.
My problem is that my favorite sister-in-law said the second Merry Gentry book was really good, but that the one she gave me wasn't. So now, do I read number two or not?
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The second one I think has a better plot. But, some of the squickiness is still there. I mean, she's got to conceive a child or she'll be killed. So there is a lot of sex going on.
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My point to Jenny was the former Baptist guilt I was feeling about have written a wee bit o' nookie is now completely absolved.
I no longer have the fear that it would be seen as smut. It's important to the plot and character development, and very tame by most standards, I think.
Of course , as Belle has pointed out, the plot of Merry Gentry's story is basically an excuse for sex, but whatever.
My eyes have been opened as to the nature of smut. Not that there is anything intrinsically wrong with smut, but I am relieved that I no longer worry about my story seeming like smut.
Though I suppose that's all relative.
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quote:The sex didn't start until book five, I think, and then it got steadily worse and worse until the last one I read was just whips and chains and people biting each other and jumping into any bed around. I gave up on her, and haven't even read the latest one in the series because I heard it was more of the same.
I still enjoy the Anita Blake novels, although not as much since the focus has gone more and more to the sexual. It's actually gotten where the only non-kinky character in the series is the assassin and sociopath, Edward.
Book nine, Obsidian Butterfly, took a break from Anita Blake's escapades, but introduced one really sick character that I really really hope doesn't show up again.
Belle, thanks for the heads up on the second Merry Gentry book. I haven't bothered to go read it, since I didn't enjoy the first all that much.
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Actually, Twinky, you will no doubt be disturbed to know that Octopi do in fact use their tentacles for that purpose. One tentacle on the male is the hectocotylus, a modified appendage that is the equivalent of the penis. It is via this appendage that the male transfers sperm to the female.
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You know, every time I see the title of this thread come up, my mind immediately goes to this scene from Better Off Dead:
quote:Monique: He thinks because I do not speak English I am his love goddess, his prostate. No. His prostitute. Lane: Holy shit! You big faker. You speak English! Monique: Of course I speak English. I speak very good English. I will not, however, speak Mrs. Smith's International Language of Love, with her reptilian son. Monique: He uses it as a chance to put his testicles all over me. Lane: His what? Monique: How you say?uh, octopus?testicles. Lane: Tentacles. NT. Big difference. Monique: Tentacles.
When I was in Jr. High, I probably watched that movie three or four hundred times.
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