The plod moves every on.

[kippurbird]

Chapter Ten

We left off with everyone done having sex. And everyone connected with Anita and JC having an absolute happy power glow while all of Auggie's folks have been sucked dry and severely traumatized. Auggie is AOkay Partner with this as is Haven, but Octavius, Auggie's human servant and Pierce are not. It's tough shit for them.

Meanwhile JC and Anita take a bath. Anita is all snuggled up to JC. And we get ourselves a bit of an infodump chapter. \~/. JC wants to know what's on Anita's mind and she's all if you hadn't shut down your marks you wouldn't need to ask. The funny thing is, I remember from the earlier books, that Anita absolutely, positively didn't want to have the marks. Any of them. And she was down right pissed when JC gave them to her. Now, obviously I've missed quite a bit between those books and so I don't know how this changed, but I would have liked it not to have changed. It would have added excellent tension to the book.

Which, I might add, is seriously lacking here. I don't feel any time ticking down. Any sort of pressure. They're just laudididahing around taking baths and chatting about things. The tension filled things, that would be between Auggie, his people and JC has been conveniently skipped over for the bathtub scene which is kinda... boring and filled with talking heads. Or at least JC's talking head.

So there's the bit about the marks and then Anita looks up at him and...

I stared up at him; his hair wet and slicked back from his face, so that nothing to away from it. Those eyes a blue as dark as blue could be and hold no touch of black. His lashes thick and black- it had taken me months in his bed to see his upper lashes by candlelight and realize that he had a double row of upper lashes. Him and Elizabeth Taylor. You only saw it if the light was just right, and his head turned just right. Until then, they were just this unbelievable lace around his eyes. I traced the lines and curves of his face, down to the grace of his lips. I let him see in my eyes what I saw, what I felt, gazing at him.

Do we really need to know that JC has a double row of eyelashes? Is it pertinent to the plot in any particular way? Will there be some sort of contest where the person with the most eyelashes becomes ruler of the world? Will this information ever come up again besides the next time when Anita starts waxing poetic about his eyelashes? Is this once again more proof that LKH has some sort of eyelash fetish? \~/\~/\~/

After this um useless paragraph (where is her editor?) Anita wanted to know why Requiem look like he got his face smashed into a wall. Apparently Meng Die smashed his face into a wall. It turns out this fight was about Anita. GASP!! Who's surprised at that?! I'm not. \~/

See, Meng Die is upset because she thinks that Anita has stolen Requiem from her. She fed off of him once and he has offered to feed her more completely but she won't because "I was under the impression that I'm having sex with enough men."

JC finds this funny especially since people would trade anything for a night in bed with Requiem. And that Requiem stopped sleeping with Meng Die because Anita won't share her bed with guys who sleep with other women. Also Anita apparently always turns down a guy first. Anyway. Blah, blah, Requiem needs a good reason not to be her blood apple, blah.\~/\~/

Strange phrase, "He gave that wonderful Gallic shrug that meant everything and nothing". What makes a shrug a Gallic shrug? How is it different than say a French shrug? Or a German shrug? What about a Hebrew shrug? Or Yiddish! I bet a Yiddish shrug would be very expressive and at the same time using very little movement.

Gallic shrugs. Huh. *Yiddish shrugs* \~/

Anyone want to make a guess as to what sort of drugs she's taking?

Anyway, Meng Die is in a cross wrapped coffin and JC will either have to let her out or kill her the next day. But that's immaterial because Anita has to figure out what sort of excuse to give Requiem. \~/

"I'm dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That's seven men. I'm like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty." Is Anita's response. A surprisingly fairly reasonable (within the circumstances) response.

Is she allowed to have this response? No, of course not. If she does, how can she have massive amounts of sex with guys. \~/ As JC says. "But it is not ma petite. Emotionally it may be too many, but metaphysically, and for the sake of our power base, seven is not enough. You must add a lover who is not metaphysically connected to you and you must pick a new pomme de sang now that Nathaniel is your animal to call".

Two for metaphysical \~/\~/ and one for ma petite \~/.

See, her aruder is actively seeking out mates. No, but your power is seeking a new pomme de sang. Don' you undertand what is happening, ma petite? The ardeur is seeking for you.

That's right. The magic sex thing is looking for TWO new partners. And apparently it's attracted to Elvira's line of vampires who have also been fucked by the Aurdur. \~/\~/

It seems like Auggie may have become attached to the two of them by the power of the Aurder. It's just that addictive that he's going to follow them around like a puppy begging for sex. \~/

Finally, if people find out that JC's aurder is so strong that people might try to kill them or something. I don't really care.

So, what have we learned here? The tension is now that Anita needs to find two someones who'll help feed her sex needs or else she'll starve to death. However it doesn't feel very pressing. Instead it just felt like they were talking about the up coming party and how worried they were about if it would go off well or not.

No Tension. No nothing about this problem.

But, it does end on a typical cliffhanger of sorts when Richard walks in as mad as hell.

Drinks total: 16

Comments

[mranon-y-mous.livejournal.com]

When I'm older, I am going to write a erotic-horror series. It will take evry modern vampire cliche and put it into a blender. My vampire's will have infinite sesx drives, and they don't live off blood. They are energy vampires and feed off sex intercrous. If they don't feed, they rape people, but it won't be rape, because the victim will enjoy it since it's apart of the vampire's powers. There will be were-rabbits, were-dogs, were-cats, and were-sharks. The lead character will be me, a bi-racial woman of Asian, European, and Latin deceant by the name of Ginger. She is part banshee and part succubus, and she has the ablity to make any man (gay, straight, or otherwise) or otherwise want to bone her, even though she's a lesbian. It will have no plot to speak of, instead it will just have all sex. Every single chapter will have a sex scene. Oh, and there will be a sexy Frenchman in it. His name is Renee, and he has long honey blode, and stormy gray eyes, and he gets a bone every time he thinks of Ginger.

I will make millions. LKH, you are my hero. You really are.

[mranon-y-mous.livejournal.com]

I r spel gud. It's 6am, I'm tired, and I just got home from work.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Isn't that a bit unbelievable? I mean Ginger? Really. I think you should try for something more... exotic.

[mranon-y-mous.livejournal.com]

Okay then. She's Arisha now. =)

[reverie-shadow.livejournal.com]

Think I'll wait for the movie to come out.

[mranon-y-mous.livejournal.com]

But they'll cut out all the sex! You have to read the book to get all the details about the vampires, and their sexing up ablities.

[notadoor.livejournal.com]

http://www.kaila.pl/rpg/vampire.htm

[mranon-y-mous.livejournal.com]

I'll take those to heart, but there aren't any spunky teenaged vampire slayers in my world, so most of those things don't aply.

[authoressarktos.livejournal.com]

Why is there so much random French? Honestly, I barely passed that course for a reason.

[notadoor.livejournal.com]

In-world, I'd assume it's because Jean-Claude is originally French. Out-world, I'd assume it's because Anne Rice had a very French base to her vampire world.

(Also, Kippur, a Gallic shrug IS a French shrug -- Gallic is an adjectival derivation of "Gaul", which was the Roman name for that area. Still doesn't explain why Gallic instead of Yiddish, though.)

[authoressarktos.livejournal.com]

I know, but the audience doesn't necessarily know what it means...what's the purpose of using it if it just confuses the audience? If she wants his character to practically scream 'I'M FRENCH!' she should stick to something French the audience is familiar with.

Ack, this book was not planned very well at all. I guess all therandom sex is supposed to compensate for all that...

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. See, I totally misread that as "Gaelic". I blame the dyslexia and it being two in the morning. That makes MUCH more sense.

But yes. Why not Yiddish?

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

But... what the hell IS a Gallic shrug? How do you shrug like a French person? What makes it different from, like, any other shrug in the world?

[sarah-k-o-m.livejournal.com]

More fancy bread and berets in it? A little stylish flounce at the end?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Jean Claude is French and there for, even though it doesn't sound like he's been France for hundreds of years he still has to speak French.

[mranon-y-mous.livejournal.com]

How much to you bet he sounds just like Fluer?

"Anita, eet 'as been too long! 'Ow many men 'ave you zleep wit' today, huh? You 'ave been feeding ze arduer, no?"

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

Seriously...does anyone care about Anita? It's chapter 10 and nothing of importance has happened to her. I mean, if she finds a new mate...okay....that's serving ketchup as a main course. Why not...make it a side plot and have Anita do something else? Anything else? Raise the dead? Fight a demon? Help Buffy out in Sunnydale.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I think you've got it backwards. Well... actually, I can't find a subplot except maybe all those Master of the City vampires showing up. Or her maybe being pregnant.

[kunenk.livejournal.com]

…I can't even try and get a plotbunny from this stuff.

Also, why is there someone whose initials are J.C.? Because I never wanted to read Jesus as a vampire- well, not one of these, anyway.

As JC says. "But it is not ma petite. Emotionally it may be too many, but metaphysically, and for the sake of our power base, seven is not enough. You must add a lover who is not metaphysically connected to you and you must pick a new pomme de sang now that Nathaniel is your animal to call".
1. …so she permanently needs new men, or what?
2. …not everyone studies French these days. I'll take it from Christie, but not from Blake.
3. …Seven men isn't enough?! But, but, but… how? Is it just a continual orgy, or… what?
4. *peers at first quoted line* "But it is not my small"?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

J.C. =Jean Claude. And I never even noticed the whole J.C. = Jesus thing. Silly Jew.

1. …so she permanently needs new men, or what?

Probably.

2. …not everyone studies French these days. I'll take it from Christie, but not from Blake.

Jean Claude is French, there for he must speak with French idioms. How else are we to know that he is French?

3. …Seven men isn't enough?! But, but, but… how? Is it just a continual orgy, or… what?

Don't think about it. Just. Don't.

4. *peers at first quoted line* "But it is not my small"?

My Small = Anita.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Jesus was never a vampire. He has been, however, a vampire slayer. Really! There is not only a movie called Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter, but also a comic (not based on the movie).


However.....a vampire with a Jesus complex would be funny.

[sarah-k-o-m.livejournal.com]

The Vampiric version of Bono!

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Yep! Now, the hard question. If a vampire believes he is the Son of God, would crosses hurt him?

[sarah-k-o-m.livejournal.com]

Only if you whacked him over the head with them.

This rubbish makes me fear for my Vampires. I have two kinds, and either type could tear these buggers to shreds.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

There could very well be. Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

[pearkiwi.livejournal.com]

Kippur, should you survive this book, (mwahahahaha) are you going to move onto the next one? (Hahahaha.)

This is the plot plod everyone. Nothing else happens. Seriously.

[mranon-y-mous.livejournal.com]

I been figured that out. Now you can all read the first book of my "Deadly Desires" series, Caught by the Neck. You'll love it.

[rotynd.livejournal.com]

Sorry, your friend eddiesteddy4711 told me you were MSTing and I... showed up without introducing myself. But I love you for this! You're hilarious. And one does so need hilarity to help this poison go down. Which, I continue to seek it out, so... self-destructive. But with lols like "Two for metaphysical \~/\~/ and one for ma petite \~/" and "Gallic shrugs. Huh. *Yiddish shrugs* \~/", I may just live to see another day.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Hi. Welcome! No need to introduce you. Just hop into the madness.

[rotynd.livejournal.com]

In and over my head! I thank you, kind madame.

[sarah-k-o-m.livejournal.com]

Hey, hi! Can I just say that you're my new Internet Hero? Honest.

Brillaint sporky thingy.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Awww.... Thank you!

[dryaunda.livejournal.com]

Maybe the earlier books were better, back when she was actually doing stuff and not just doing people.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

They were. I still haven't seen any plod.