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RANT POST!
So, RL has been monopolizing all of my haterade for the last week or so (working with a raging narcissit is really, really, really not fun, FYI). RL ranting however, is not nearly as fun as Hollows ranting because I'm faced with the irritation every day. This means that I am really, really in need of fun ranting, and thankfully CB has posted some more answers to fan questions providing the perfect opportunity for such an event! Yay!
21 Apr 2009
Hey Kim, I was wondering if I missed something in the last two books concerning the kiss that Ivy gave Rachel and the questions that it made Rachel ask herself concerning how she feels about Ivy? Unless I missed something in the last books they dealt with the blood balance issue but never mentioned the kiss. Also I never saw Rachel answer any of the question she had about herself such as was it Ivy that made her feel so good or just the blood etc. Has these issues been resolved or are they going to reappear in the future?
4/21/09 -- The resolution between Ivy and Rachel won't happen until the end of the series, which is why they are both exploring other options right now. There is no way I can carry on that sexual tension for a dozen books and not have everyone yawning ho, hum, but we will return to it in the last book to settle the issue, one way or the other. --Kim.
'If U Seek Amy' gently with a chainsaw! I mean, really ... DAAAAAAMN, gurl! Jesus H. Christ, woman! I'd say ...
But I can't even front and pretend that I am surprised by this. Actually, I fully expected that she wouldn't conclusively address "Ravy" until the last book. That was fine, when the series was supposed to be six books long. That's not cool now if we're only halfway through the series. I'm sorry, but the issues between Rachel and Ivy are really big effing issues! You cannot ignore the sexual tension (and declarations of love) between them for like five more books! It's insane. People do not stop having feelings for each other because they got series extensions. Seeing other people hasn't stopped the issues between them for seven books, so why would it suddenly be a non-issue between them? You cannot ignore it because it is inconvenient. It has to go somewhere!
Ugh! GROW A PAIR! IT'S TIME TO HOPE OF THE FUCKING FENCE! Seriously, Shit or get off the pot, my friend.
The subtext between them IS NOT going to stop. Cock Block is incapable of not writing Rachel subconsciously being attracted to Ivy, so the sexual tension is going to remain no matter who the two of them are dating. So deal with it. Find a way to make it work. Ignoring it is not making it work.
Have Ivy and Rachel go for it. Get them together. Ivy's still got issues, and Rachel is still an immature jackass so it doesn't have to work out perfectly . Just because they admit their attraction and sleep together it doesn't been that angels will sing and that's the end of everything. Cock Block, listen to me, you're good at cock-blocking ... so use you're powers for good this time!
I know Cock Block could think of some way to temporary break them up after having them get together. She can spend a book getting them together, a book cock-blocking after they get together, a book of angst that deals with the break-up, and then two more books having them slowly work their way back together.
What about the het fans you may say, I've got a solution for that as well.
In the angst section when they are broken up, Cock Block can have them try with other people. She can see what the characters tell her to do. From there, she could decide to:
1) Keep them broken up. But hey, at least they got a shot together. At least seven books of sexual tension wasn't completely fucking wasted. From there, maybe Ivy gets together with a chick that will actually appreciate her, and Rachel ends up with some boring idiot.
2) They get back together eventually. Their new love interests don't work out, just like none of their love interests did. It's an angsty battle but eventually Ravy find their way back to each other and live happily ever after (as it should be).
The point is, this allows for movement forward, but it still gives Cock Block room to cock-block while acknowledging what has been building for seven books without painting Cock Block into a corner for the end of series!
And I'm done.
Discuss ...
21 Apr 2009
Hey Kim, I was wondering if I missed something in the last two books concerning the kiss that Ivy gave Rachel and the questions that it made Rachel ask herself concerning how she feels about Ivy? Unless I missed something in the last books they dealt with the blood balance issue but never mentioned the kiss. Also I never saw Rachel answer any of the question she had about herself such as was it Ivy that made her feel so good or just the blood etc. Has these issues been resolved or are they going to reappear in the future?
4/21/09 -- The resolution between Ivy and Rachel won't happen until the end of the series, which is why they are both exploring other options right now. There is no way I can carry on that sexual tension for a dozen books and not have everyone yawning ho, hum, but we will return to it in the last book to settle the issue, one way or the other. --Kim.
'If U Seek Amy' gently with a chainsaw! I mean, really ... DAAAAAAMN, gurl! Jesus H. Christ, woman! I'd say ...
But I can't even front and pretend that I am surprised by this. Actually, I fully expected that she wouldn't conclusively address "Ravy" until the last book. That was fine, when the series was supposed to be six books long. That's not cool now if we're only halfway through the series. I'm sorry, but the issues between Rachel and Ivy are really big effing issues! You cannot ignore the sexual tension (and declarations of love) between them for like five more books! It's insane. People do not stop having feelings for each other because they got series extensions. Seeing other people hasn't stopped the issues between them for seven books, so why would it suddenly be a non-issue between them? You cannot ignore it because it is inconvenient. It has to go somewhere!
Ugh! GROW A PAIR! IT'S TIME TO HOPE OF THE FUCKING FENCE! Seriously, Shit or get off the pot, my friend.
The subtext between them IS NOT going to stop. Cock Block is incapable of not writing Rachel subconsciously being attracted to Ivy, so the sexual tension is going to remain no matter who the two of them are dating. So deal with it. Find a way to make it work. Ignoring it is not making it work.
Have Ivy and Rachel go for it. Get them together. Ivy's still got issues, and Rachel is still an immature jackass so it doesn't have to work out perfectly . Just because they admit their attraction and sleep together it doesn't been that angels will sing and that's the end of everything. Cock Block, listen to me, you're good at cock-blocking ... so use you're powers for good this time!
I know Cock Block could think of some way to temporary break them up after having them get together. She can spend a book getting them together, a book cock-blocking after they get together, a book of angst that deals with the break-up, and then two more books having them slowly work their way back together.
What about the het fans you may say, I've got a solution for that as well.
In the angst section when they are broken up, Cock Block can have them try with other people. She can see what the characters tell her to do. From there, she could decide to:
1) Keep them broken up. But hey, at least they got a shot together. At least seven books of sexual tension wasn't completely fucking wasted. From there, maybe Ivy gets together with a chick that will actually appreciate her, and Rachel ends up with some boring idiot.
2) They get back together eventually. Their new love interests don't work out, just like none of their love interests did. It's an angsty battle but eventually Ravy find their way back to each other and live happily ever after (as it should be).
The point is, this allows for movement forward, but it still gives Cock Block room to cock-block while acknowledging what has been building for seven books without painting Cock Block into a corner for the end of series!
And I'm done.
Discuss ...
Re: No hope for this series now
4/22/09 -- There is always hope, but I don't see them ending up together. Rachel is to flaky to be a good match for Ivy. It would never last. But no fear, I will have happy endings for both of them. --Kim
You know what, despite Zac Efron expressing my rage for me, I have to thank you for this. This has finally done it. I will not buy another one of these books, and I will not read another one of these books. I may not even bother to find out what happens in the rest of these books. And I will be bitter for some time that I even bothered reading any of these books in the first.
Rachel is to flaky to be a good match for Ivy.
I've often thought this actually. You know what would have been good? RESOLVING THIS FUCKING THING THREE FUCKING BOOKS IN!!!! Stringing people along when you have no intention of going somewhere with something is a BITCH ASS MOVE! If they're going to end up as friends, just have them fucking be friends and let the femslashers write from the bread crumbs as usual, instead of making all of this UST text and then going nowhere with it.
STOP LYING AND BEING A FENCE-SITTING MONEY GRUBBING A-HOLE and just admit that it's all about Rachel being a precious little snow-flake and getting it on with pretty menfolk. Just be goddamn honest, and let the people who like that stuff enjoy it, and let the bi/lesbian audience decide that it's not for them and move onto something else that isn't going to falcon punch us in the end.
I honestly have no more respect for her. She brought Ivy Tamwood into my life and for that, I will be grateful. But I just have no respect for her at all any more. It's like: Dear Kim,
No Love,
Janine
Re: No hope for this series now
Ugh. I feel like an addict trying to resist the needle, but I've managed not to purchase another of those blasted books after the fifth one. I'd decided after reading it to just survive on fic, and maybe wiki or summary articles about the other books. I was never wildly impressed with CB's writing. There's no way I'm shelling out for 14 of her books.
If you're looking for something very gay where the girl actually gets the girl, there's a fantasy series (elemental magic in old school fantasy world kind of thing) that I like by Laurie J. Marks. It's very gay, actually. There's only one straight couple in the book. That's really it's only major fault, IMO. It suffers from the Everyone-Is-Gay theme. The writing is good, the characters are great, and the plot is passable. It's called the Elemental Logic series. The first book is Fire Logic. Three are out. I'm not sure if there will be another, but it would make sense to do one for each of the elements.