"Spirit Photography" deserves such a lovely home--I'm looking forward to reading the company.
I'm sorry for the half-migrane, but glad it wasn't all a bad day.
That Rowling thing is bizarre. 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, even if she's not read any herself. I'm starting to wonder if she doesn't deliberately say untrue things to interviewers that she knows they'll eat up. There was another interview, years ago, where she was quoted as saying something to the effect that she knew nothing of fantasy, even Tolkien or Lewis, which contradicted other interviews of hers.
I can't help but think of that one short story from a few years back, the faux-mediaeval-setting story about the unicorn hunter and his virginal companion who went from a passive bit of pre-teenaged bait the hunter bought from her father for a few shillings to an equal partner in the hunt, the one that ended with the two of them rutting next to the carcass of their final kill. Maybe Rowling's read it, and was deliberately making a reference that would fly over the interviewer's head? Sort of a red herring for the media, and a shout-out to all of us geeks and weirds? I'd like to think so, but maybe it's only wishful thinking. Or the collective unconsciousness having a laugh.
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.
Hmm... I'll try what I can do. It might have to be fanfic--I think unicorns are only mythological in that one 'verse with the people with the Irish names and the hemi-semi-quasi-Frankish national history, and I certainly don't think there are any unicorns in the modern day one with the academics who've been dancing round each other for years who get snowed in with the cuddly bi werewolf girl.
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I hope the half-migrane will soon change to a zero-migrane. I hope ye enjoy the film.
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"Spirit Photography" deserves such a lovely home--I'm looking forward to reading the company.
I'm sorry for the half-migrane, but glad it wasn't all a bad day.
That Rowling thing is bizarre. 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, even if she's not read any herself. I'm starting to wonder if she doesn't deliberately say untrue things to interviewers that she knows they'll eat up. There was another interview, years ago, where she was quoted as saying something to the effect that she knew nothing of fantasy, even Tolkien or Lewis, which contradicted other interviews of hers.
I can't help but think of that one short story from a few years back, the faux-mediaeval-setting story about the unicorn hunter and his virginal companion who went from a passive bit of pre-teenaged bait the hunter bought from her father for a few shillings to an equal partner in the hunt, the one that ended with the two of them rutting next to the carcass of their final kill. Maybe Rowling's read it, and was deliberately making a reference that would fly over the interviewer's head? Sort of a red herring for the media, and a shout-out to all of us geeks and weirds? I'd like to think so, but maybe it's only wishful thinking. Or the collective unconsciousness having a laugh.
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.
Hmm... I'll try what I can do. It might have to be fanfic--I think unicorns are only mythological in that one 'verse with the people with the Irish names and the hemi-semi-quasi-Frankish national history, and I certainly don't think there are any unicorns in the modern day one with the academics who've been dancing round each other for years who get snowed in with the cuddly bi werewolf girl.
5.
I hope the half-migrane will soon change to a zero-migrane. I hope ye enjoy the film.
Come back out of the dark and be written well.
May it be so.