It is done.

[fembuck]

I have been interviewed, and now it is time to get wine-d (oh, quiet language police, you know what I mean!) and turn on the fan because it has been hotter than Hades in Toronto for like a week now, and my hypocritical ass is wanting the mild weather back after complaining endlessly about how cool it was during the entirety of July *is chagrined*

It was great to see some familiar screen names logged on the chat.

And, Allaine, if you happen to spy this, thank you again for inviting me to be on your show.

For those of you that listened (or are going to at a later date) I hope that you enjoyed it, and that I wasn't speaking too quickly. I tend to do that when I'm nervous/excited. I turn into a sugared up five year old when that happens, it is ridiculous but occasionally funny for others to witness ;)

And now ... it's random thoughts time!

1.

is totally what was like as a teenager.  And Ty Lee and Mai are Cissy and Andromeda.  I was trying to figure out why I liked Azula's Evil Girl Harem so much, and it's because it is Blackcest without the 'cest.

2.  New Alice Cullen still


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a.  First, EGADS that outfit is an eye sore.  Ashley Greene is lucky she's like a Face Goddess and can therefore still be hot wearing any old thing.  It's like the costumer placed patches of velcro on her and then randomly threw shit onto her and then just rolled with what stuck.

b.  Second, this picture forces to me contemplate who would win in a fight, Alice Cullen or Terminator!Cameron?  Based on the fact that Alice is wearing those hand/lower arm warmers, I'm guessing that Alice Cullen would win.

Comments

[ic1pher.livejournal.com]

"Money, money, money" "Sing it"
LOL

I thought you put it really well what is so fascinating in the Ivy/Rachel relationship. Wouldn't have minded even a bit more in-depth discussion about that whole thing. :)

It's been years and I'm still hooked. That's simply the force of the original premise and how it was written.

Sometimes I want to think that the books after the fourth don't exist. But then I read those little things that when put together, as a whole, form a coherent direction which can have only one endpoint, them together.

Kim simply can't write stuff like that just from the top of her head. It has to come from the heart. Or maybe I'm fooling myself.

It's as if she's not really that interested in the story anymore. I see Rachel's relationships with men coming increasingly void of any emotion. The books would work so much better if she could be more obvious about writing the Ivy/Rachel relationship.

Perhaps I'm wrong about this but I think the marketing forces twist her story in a direction where it becomes less. She can't write completely what she wants.

The heart of the books is Ivy/Rachel, anything else is a simple reflection against that surface. Demons, witches, and all that hooblah: inconsignificant. It's all about the relationships and the one relationship that is light-years ahead of everything else is Ravy. The urban fantastic aspect of the background might give it a creative edge and interesting conflicts that might not exist in human/human relationships, but it's just that: background.

I think Kim is an expert in projecting her own feelings on paper. How we experience the books is how she experiences the books. So the books are a reflection of her own state. The fact that she can't write unadulterated Ravy makes her uncomfortable thus it makes us uncomfortable.

All in all, most likely I'm completely deluded.
Sing with me: "We all live in a yellow submarine..."

I will need a support group for this crap, if the shit ever hits the fan.

[ic1pher.livejournal.com]

As I read what I wrote I see that it's mostly a rehash of all the stuff that's been said before, but oh well. Perhaps there one original thread of an idea amongs all the ranting. :)

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

I thought you put it really well what is so fascinating in the Ivy/Rachel relationship. Wouldn't have minded even a bit more in-depth discussion about that whole thing. :)

I know, there's just so much to talk about with those two. I knew time was running out those, so I was trying to condense my answer (though it was still plenty rambly).

Sometimes I want to think that the books after the fourth don't exist. But then I read those little things that when put together, as a whole, form a coherent direction which can have only one endpoint, them together.


Totally. It's like it's so frustrating to me that they're not together yet, and all of the cock-blocking and stuff, but at the same time, their relationship has steadily progressed, and they know each other and are closer together now than they were in Book 4, so there is something emotionally satisfying about what's been happening, even though I wish they would hook up already!

Kim simply can't write stuff like that just from the top of her head. It has to come from the heart. Or maybe I'm fooling myself.

If you're fooling yourself than so am I. The way the series has been coming together, I just can't fathom Rachel/Ivy NOT being her end game, and the careful attention and development of their relationship can't be by accident.

I think she knows exactly how it's going to end, but she just can't say. She's got to keep readers interested, and keep the publishers happy by not make the series explicity a lesbian love story (at least until the last book).

I think Kim is an expert in projecting her own feelings on paper. How we experience the books is how she experiences the books. So the books are a reflection of her own state. The fact that she can't write unadulterated Ravy makes her uncomfortable thus it makes us uncomfortable.

That's a really interesting idea I hadn't thought about before. I mean, the Rachel/Ivy relationship is the central relationship in the series, and with the attention she's given to developing their relationship its clearly something that she is deeply involved with, and having to constantly cock-block might also be really frustrating for her, which is why there's this constant push-pull in the series. It's like Kim has to give the publishers the het-romance that they want, but then she's also trying to develop and expand on Ravy at the same time.

I will need a support group for this crap, if the shit ever hits the fan.

Honestly, if there is no Ravy at the end of this series, I think we really will need to form a support group, because I could see many people completely losing their shit! Myself included!