I see the mountain and that is all I see

[sovay]

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 rose_lemberg and 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 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 rushthatspeaks and Apocalypse Now (1979) before candlelighting.

Come back out of the dark and be written well.

Comments

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

"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?

[sovay]

But do these urban/erotic fantasies have unicorns?

There must be one. The only story I ever had published in Realms of Fantasy before its weird untimely demise involved a sexually persuasive unicorn. That was in 2004. We've got were-leopards now and vampires that sparkle. Somebody must have thought of the pornier version since then.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

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.