sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2012-09-25 02:40 pm

I see the mountain and that is all I see

1. My poem "Spirit Photography" is now online at Through the Gate. It is their inaugural issue; the table of contents is full of poets whose work I love and a few I look forward to learning more about. The inspiration is exactly what it says down at the bottom of the page.

2. My poems "Graffiti" and "Taking the Auspices" have been nominated for the 2012 Dwarf Stars Award. It's [livejournal.com profile] rose_lemberg and [livejournal.com profile] mitchell_hart's fault for publishing them in the first place.

3. I spent most of last night with a weird half-migraine, but earlier in the afternoon [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel met me after my dentist's appointment and we went to the Ether Dome and the Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation, although we did not go up to the roof garden; we stopped with the portraits of people we'd never heard of, as the guard at the door glossed them to us. We walked to Pho Pasteur afterward for dinner. There was, later, a glass of rum for the pirate cat.

4. J.K. Rowling has said something terrible on the internet: "The thing about fantasy—there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky."

I have no doubt the internet is already filling with unicorn-proximate porn, but if anyone on this friendlist wishes to add to the literature, I can only approve.

(She says also, "The person who is leading the quest—it seems that they have to have this weird purity about them," with which I passionately disagree. I've spent most of my reading life being bored with Galahads. More questing fuck-ups, please.)

5. I still have too much of this weird half-migraine, but I slept until two o'clock and I am seeing [livejournal.com profile] rushthatspeaks and Apocalypse Now (1979) before candlelighting.

Come back out of the dark and be written well.

[identity profile] greenlily.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
SQUEE. Can't say as I'm surprised, actually; dystopian "All The Electricity Failed" fiction seems to be doing a good business just now.

*side-eyes the row of S.M. Stirling novels in my bookshelf*

[identity profile] mitchell-hart.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
I shall endeavor to give you more things to be blamed for!

Please do!

[identity profile] houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
"I find it hard to credit that she truly knows so very little of contemporary fantasy that she hasn't at least heard of the explicit urban fantasy and fantasy erotic romance that the shelves are groaning with for the past few years [....]"

But do these urban/erotic fantasies have unicorns?

[identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
Fortunately, I have weird-writing friends.

That is a great good fortune.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Must go read Through the Gate! I'm loving the contributors it has attracted.

unicorn-proximate porn was my go-to phrase all yesterday. First I entertained the ninja girl with it, then [livejournal.com profile] wakanomori

The ninja girl is willing to bet you that someone has now supplied sex *on* a unicorn, in response to this challenge.

With you on no more Galahads. Someone says "purity" and I run screaming in the opposite direction.

[identity profile] ashlyme.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's good to share another TOC with you. Hell, with most of my f-list.

I am going to write about sex near ironclad unicorns. So stitch this, Rowling.

(Typing that last sentence is also strangely pleasing.)

[identity profile] three-magpies.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on 1 and 2. Glad to be sharing a ToC with you!

I'm blaming the half-migraine on J.K. and the near-unicorn sex. This is certainly the culprit.

Though, seriously, feel better fast! My doctor recommended butterbur when I went to have my migraine checked out.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I would, but I'm not sure she's that kind of imaginative!

You're probably right about Rowling, as much as I like the idea of her being sneaky that way.

Dude: if you've got werewolves, I don't see why not unicorns.

True, but it would be hard to hide unicorns in something roughly equivalent to New York state. Unless, I suppose, they were human-to-unicorn shapeshifters,* but that's getting into some really disturbing territory. Introduce those and, before you know it, you'll have Otherkin and people who sell Amway products and naturist Smurfs who are members of obscure sects derived from Scientology.

Werewolves are able to be physicists and farmers and archaeologists for most of the month, so it's easier for them to avoid detection--in that particular 'verse, they eat a big meal before moonrise so they'll not be tempted to take livestock, and spend most of their time in wolf form running about and singing in parts.

*Wereunicorns sounds so very wrong that I can't even use it as a joke.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
But do these urban/erotic fantasies have unicorns?

I suppose it's true that the ones I've read (not so many, I have to confess) haven't had unicorns, but I was taking the unicorns in Rowling's remark as more a sort of synecdoche, the unicorn standing in for the entire apparatus of the genre. (Or should I say metonymy?)

Any road, I sincerely hope for a flood of unicorn-proximate pron in response to this.
Edited 2012-09-26 18:53 (UTC)

[identity profile] ashlyme.livejournal.com 2012-09-26 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Thinking of ironclad unicorns makes me want to do a sword and sorcery Warhorses of Letters. I think I'll send Selkie a message!

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2012-09-27 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

You're welcome. I do have a few limits.

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