MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2348

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Long post( for me)
	by Jaec Songblade <jaec_songblade-+AT+-yahoo.com>

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Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:35:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jaec Songblade <jaec_songblade-+AT+-yahoo.com>
To: MLML <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: Long post( for me)
Message-ID: <20000710033545.12222.qmail-+AT+-web4802.mail.yahoo.com>

Rainwing writes: (and no your not forgotten)
>>Heyla listsibs.  Well, I'm finally posting.  If
there's one subject than can get me to delurk, it's
sex. :::grin:::
  I have the 'youngest child syndrome'. Anyway, The
intimicy, like with Van and 'Lendle after the fight,
the atmosphere was disgustingly sweet. There was no
sexual tension only lot of love. 
  And sexual tension is not necessarily a bad thing. 
It can prove a compelling and even entertaining
storyline.  It is a factor of life (unless 
you're asexual like Tarma) and it adds a definite
realism to Misty's written relationships, as do the
"disgustingly sweet" parts.  Now, that doesn't 
mean I want the story to revolve around it or to hear
about it in explicit detail.  That's what trashy
romance novels are for.  But it represents one of 
the stages of a growing relationship.  And that's what
complex writing is about...character growth and
development.<<<  
    I know that but I was replying to some who
couldn't remember me,it was in Digest 2344. We were
discussing why her YA's weren't as good as her older
ones. Sexual tension and activities have their place
when tastefully done, see later in post. I use the
term disgustingly sweet because the atmosphere was so
thick you could cut it with knife, and you know it
was, i love that scene. Hopeless romantic, that's me.
 <<Such things are really only fun for the
participants.>>

    I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but
when I read about a character I find myself living the
story right along with them.  I feel joy at their joy,
sorrow at their sorrow, (etc.)  That's why LHM is so
depressing.  If a character has been anticipating a
sexual encounter, then I anticipate it for them too. 
And once it happens I am happy for them.  It is
interesting to see in what direction that new
development will lead.
   I feel that way as well. This is how I judge how
good a book is, if I sympathize(sp?) with characters
is good book, if not never pick book up again. _Of
Mice and Men_ didn't cry, disappointed(really don't
like Steinbeck, AotQ, met Ylsa once or twice, put book
down cried my eyes out.  

<<Ignoring it doesn't do any good for the character
development. Sexis a good thing.>>(didn't you,
Rainwing, already said it was good for character
developement?)
 
    Exactly.  And Misty writes (or used to write) it
very tastefully.  The sex scenes in AFlight and BtS
are neither graphic nor offensive.  I have a 
question.  Do you listsibs think that Misty's new YA
style is just a phase or do you think it will continue
 throughout her future books?  I'd hate to see the new
stories about Skif and Alberich written like that...  

  Dear gods, I hope it's a phase and a very short one,
YA has it's place and it's not in Misty's. 
Obmisty:  I noticed that while Misty writes about many
gay characters, she doesn't seem to write about many
lesbian ones.  Unless I am mistaken, the only lesbian
characters we actually know anything about are Keren,
Sherril,and Ylsa.  None of them main characters and
all of them lifebonded to eachother.  Compared to the
list of very significant gay characters like Van,
'Lendel/Stef, Firesong, Silverfox, and An'desha, they
seem rather scarce and insignificant.  Is there a
reason for this?  Does Misty have a preference to
writing gay rather than lesbian characters?   A story
from a lesbian point of view might be interesting.  
Just a thought...     
  I've had this same conversation with Ambermoon, when
we first read Valdemar, like three or four years ago.
Ambermoon said she might not be able to write a
lesbian relationship, maybe she doesn't have any
lesbian friends but gay friends and uses some of her
friends complaints in her books, I don't know, you
write what you know.
 
   That was a long post especially for me as my
friends will attest, I don't write long things. I'm
hungery, platter-toppling-over-with-good-things-to-eat
carrying sheep to all hungery listsibs. 
   
    Jaec A.K.A. "Princess Oink-Oink" 
     "Nothing's impossible with a group of adolecents"
-me


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