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  1. Irritable1
    Sappy beyond belief! I love it! Maybe the guys should go to Arron's to eat their takeout... I have an awful feeling...
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    Quoting from my review... brought it here because otherwise I'd just've gone on yammering forever: Suppose someone in the party/play culture (and I don't know ANYTHING about this really so forgive me if I accidentally say something dumb, please) provided the drugs that did away with Sam. Poppers can kill people, right? And then there was enough left over somehow to disorient Kat? Is that even possible? Edit: Sigh, nope, I got confused. I guess you can die from taking it orally (?) but the heart attack link is about combining the inhalation with other drugs, and anyway we know Sam was given ethylene glycol, because that was revealed in Ch11. But I know something that backs up my theory now!!!
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    It's always pleasing to see a stereotype substantiated What I really liked about the blood bond was the feeling of the new blood finding a home in each partner, and their heartbeats aligning. There's an element of fairy tale about it. I just loved it. Now, if we were getting into the earth-mother stuff again which I swear I'm not trying to force us into, we could discuss 1) the taboo power of menstrual blood (I've heard of present-day Wiccans putting a little on thresholds) 2) the blood connection between a fetus and its mother, and the small internal separate heartbeat. I think that's what I found so attractive about the image: the idea of life shared in the most elemental way.
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    You know, I can totally see the points other people are making here, but I still have to disagree. Chet is Chet. He won K & M's friendship, and Arron's interest, with his unstinting compassion and integrity. Had he been less noble, he probably could've found a way to snap up Kendall into some kind of short-term relationship but he didn't. He held off, in case Kendall's straight best friend came around somehow. For better or for worse, Moondoggie does what he thinks is right, and if that means he's not going to toss his naked, weeping, disoriented ex out the door... I'm just going to have to support him in that. If Arron is a good match for Chet, then he'll find a way to deal. I may be wrong, but I don't think Chet will be punished for his decency by some awful outcome with Arron. Let's see.
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    The first thing I like so much about this is how you have conveyed the difference in scale between an adult and a child--the boots actually sound intimidating--and then you come to the uncle's hands holding "his little mouse"--was it a real mouse, or a pet name?--and the reader realizes the tenderness of the interaction. Then the following stanzas underline how safe and loved the child feels, not only in a physical sense but in other unique interactions also ("for me"/"for me"), and how sad the loss of this precious friendship must've been. It's beautiful, Addy.
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    This is pretty awesome! I had a small content quibble with "make the worries hear of troubled minds" because I couldn't tell if you meant something like "voice our worries" or "clear your mind of worries." The remaining lines are really fantastic... they come across as a real speech, a genuine exhortation in poetic form, and they flow so well. You did such a great job with "fought and wrought," and the repetition of "king and friend" and "turn the wheel of fate" is such a lovely heroic metaphor! I just love this, Dolores.
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    I see a black lab quite often His tail makes an eerie thumping noise where it hits the walls and you can hear his claws go tck-a-tck, tck-a-tck on the floors like a death watch beetle... yeah, no If I saw a red-eyed dog I'd probably wonder if he had conjunctivitis. That's the kind of skeptical mindset that will lead me to a hair-whitening experience on a lonely drive somewhere.... specially since I sometimes catch sight of my own HAIR out of the corner of my eye at night and scream in terror... but even then... a huge black dog? A Newfie? I'd LOVE a Newfie! I just can't get myself in the right mindset. Edit: two thoughts: 1) I wonder if the skeleton is of a biggish wolf? Maybe in the plague years a hybrid got big? 2) I'd love to see a ghost story about a dog that can't stop guarding its house.
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    Sigh. Just cried at Cinderella...
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    Rutabagas

    Irritable1 commented on Drak's blog entry in drak's sekrits

    Well, if it was Piers Anthony he probably liked it.
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    Rutabagas

    Irritable1 commented on Drak's blog entry in drak's sekrits

    So, wait. Look. Look. This isn't fair. It's like you're accusing the author of being insincere and mercenary-minded because he would not say that he either loves or hates rutabaga. But some vegetables just ARE like that for some people. I myself am quite lukewarm about broccoli, even though I loathe zucchini with an obsessional hatred. I can't pretend to hate broccoli the same way I hate zucchini, or with the same intensity with which I love cauliflower. That would be wrong, you know?
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    I was unfair to poor Tim though, because I was carried away by the joke. Tim did you mean that the horror of the scene was worsened to Em because he was a foreigner in a new country? And that it wouldn't have had the same power over him at home?
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    Still? One reason this chapter seemed warmer was that he was actually engaging with Silviu. The moment when he pressed his knee against Silviu's again was so sweet to me, for that reason. It was a beautiful, cleanly written interaction.
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    I can count on my fingers the films that don't make me cry, and that includes children's animation and slapstick comedies. Actual sad movies send me into a funk that can last weeks. It's something about the immediacy of the screen. It's a bit of a social handicap
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    I have known Romanians who would object strongly to your casual characterization of their country as a place where you go out drinking and wake up tied to the floor with two would-be vampires boinking on top of you. I really think that's more of a Western phenomenon. We gave the world Anne Rice and Twilight, after all. But he cried out for Silviu, and Silviu heard him! Or do you mean that was just about the amulet?
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    I've meant to answer this one because I think it's in the same realm as the witchcraft. I don't know if you read the article about some guy who murdered a homeless man and then drank his blood. He believed he was a vampire. It was somewhere on the US West Coast, I'm pretty sure. So... they could be wrong about being vampires in that it's not actually true that they're immortal or need to be killed with a stake through the heart or gain strength from drinking blood. But they could be quite evil and horrible, using the folklore and literary background as a guide. I mean, I do think drugging someone, tying him down, and having sex on top of him, is pretty vile... Is that what you meant, Tim? Edit: Wrong forum, hon! we're Gothic historical fiction in here.
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