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shadowkat1. Attempting to explain the appeal of m/m to my 73 year old mother over the phone. We're discussing the daytime soap opera that we've watched for the last 20 years.
Mother: You can tell they are going after the gay male audience with the Brad/Lucas relationship, and all the naked chests of the guys in the shower - flirting and lusting after one another.
Me: Eh, actually they are going after the female audience..
Mother: Gay women?
Me: Uh no...heterosexual women.
Mother: .....
ME: There are a lot of heterosexual women who are turned on by male/male romance
Mother: okaaay
Me: It's because they like to see guys in the traditional female role, and none of gender politics, romance without the sexism
Mother: that sort of makes sense...
I tried explaining it to one of my aunts once and ran into a brick wall.
2. Dragon Riders of Pern...is a heck of a lot more sexist than I remember. Also, I used to love the character of F'lar, now I want to throttle him. There's a passage in the book that blew me away and I did not remember being there.
The hero, F'lar, is sleeping with the heroine Lessa. He's upset that she isn't looking at him with the same devotion and affection that she's looking at her dragon. Also she's bathing twice a day, and he can't help but wonder if it's an insult towards him. He regrets that he didn't realize she was a virgin when they first had sex - because it was rather violent, in part because their passions were riled up by the dragons mating. But he's been gentle since then. So it would be nice if she turned to him with affection at least once, considering he shares her bed. As it is, "while he's gentle and loving, it might as well be rape for all the enthusiasm she shows."
Oh dear. Now the book was published in the 1968, the era of the boddice ripper romance novel. And it is set in a medieval setting not unlike Game of Thrones, except with less violence. But it blows my mind that I didn't notice that tid-bit when I was 14.
3. People whine a lot on Good Reads and Amazon about copy-edit errors.(Not my book, other books, every book.) Okay folks? Do you have any idea how much money it costs to pay for a line edit? $1765 for 97,000 words. At approximately five cents a word. As a co-worker pointed out, maybe I should copy-edit instead of write -- far more lucrative. It's not like I'm not already doing it at work - but far harder, I'm copy-editing contractual documents and technical statements of work, as part of my jack-of-all-trades profession. I also do insurance analysis, financial analysis, negotiation,
legal analysis, coordinating site tours, chairing evaluation meetings, obtaining information, etc.
Trust me, when you copy-edit in the 21st Century - you are fighting stupid Microsoft which doesn't save your changes half the time, even though you clicked and saved it twice, and the computer likes to argue with you about what is good grammar or the actual spelling. (Yes, the dumb software developers and programmers are responsible for 98% of the copyedit errors in books. Blame IT. Not the writers or copyeditors. It's the computer geeks fault! I'm sort of joking. There were copy-edit errors prior to computers.)
I think people should be aware of this. Once I figured it out -- I stopped getting pissy over copy-edit errors in books.
4. Television is boring me this summer. I think I may plug in the Amazon Fire Stick this weekend and try either Amazon streaming or Netflix streaming.
Lots of reviews on lj. How's the summer treating you? I've been doing a lot of writing. I write and edit at work, then come home and like a crazy person write five to six pages between 9-10:30pm at night. I have written 65 pages, single spaced so far on my new sci-fi noir mystery novel about a genetically altered human/alien hybrid who hates space travel. [This weird drive to write should come as no surprise to anyone who has been reading this livejournal. After all - this is basically a frustrated writers club.]
Co-worker asked me if I liked Science Fiction?
Yes, (actually favorite genre to be honest).
Did you see Sharknado 3 (or is it 4, I lost track) last night on Syfy?
Sigh.
Mother: You can tell they are going after the gay male audience with the Brad/Lucas relationship, and all the naked chests of the guys in the shower - flirting and lusting after one another.
Me: Eh, actually they are going after the female audience..
Mother: Gay women?
Me: Uh no...heterosexual women.
Mother: .....
ME: There are a lot of heterosexual women who are turned on by male/male romance
Mother: okaaay
Me: It's because they like to see guys in the traditional female role, and none of gender politics, romance without the sexism
Mother: that sort of makes sense...
I tried explaining it to one of my aunts once and ran into a brick wall.
2. Dragon Riders of Pern...is a heck of a lot more sexist than I remember. Also, I used to love the character of F'lar, now I want to throttle him. There's a passage in the book that blew me away and I did not remember being there.
The hero, F'lar, is sleeping with the heroine Lessa. He's upset that she isn't looking at him with the same devotion and affection that she's looking at her dragon. Also she's bathing twice a day, and he can't help but wonder if it's an insult towards him. He regrets that he didn't realize she was a virgin when they first had sex - because it was rather violent, in part because their passions were riled up by the dragons mating. But he's been gentle since then. So it would be nice if she turned to him with affection at least once, considering he shares her bed. As it is, "while he's gentle and loving, it might as well be rape for all the enthusiasm she shows."
Oh dear. Now the book was published in the 1968, the era of the boddice ripper romance novel. And it is set in a medieval setting not unlike Game of Thrones, except with less violence. But it blows my mind that I didn't notice that tid-bit when I was 14.
3. People whine a lot on Good Reads and Amazon about copy-edit errors.(Not my book, other books, every book.) Okay folks? Do you have any idea how much money it costs to pay for a line edit? $1765 for 97,000 words. At approximately five cents a word. As a co-worker pointed out, maybe I should copy-edit instead of write -- far more lucrative. It's not like I'm not already doing it at work - but far harder, I'm copy-editing contractual documents and technical statements of work, as part of my jack-of-all-trades profession. I also do insurance analysis, financial analysis, negotiation,
legal analysis, coordinating site tours, chairing evaluation meetings, obtaining information, etc.
Trust me, when you copy-edit in the 21st Century - you are fighting stupid Microsoft which doesn't save your changes half the time, even though you clicked and saved it twice, and the computer likes to argue with you about what is good grammar or the actual spelling. (Yes, the dumb software developers and programmers are responsible for 98% of the copyedit errors in books. Blame IT. Not the writers or copyeditors. It's the computer geeks fault! I'm sort of joking. There were copy-edit errors prior to computers.)
I think people should be aware of this. Once I figured it out -- I stopped getting pissy over copy-edit errors in books.
4. Television is boring me this summer. I think I may plug in the Amazon Fire Stick this weekend and try either Amazon streaming or Netflix streaming.
Lots of reviews on lj. How's the summer treating you? I've been doing a lot of writing. I write and edit at work, then come home and like a crazy person write five to six pages between 9-10:30pm at night. I have written 65 pages, single spaced so far on my new sci-fi noir mystery novel about a genetically altered human/alien hybrid who hates space travel. [This weird drive to write should come as no surprise to anyone who has been reading this livejournal. After all - this is basically a frustrated writers club.]
Co-worker asked me if I liked Science Fiction?
Yes, (actually favorite genre to be honest).
Did you see Sharknado 3 (or is it 4, I lost track) last night on Syfy?
Sigh.