And Now For More Of The Same!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Following up loosely on my last entry, I finally came up with a perfect way to describe Urban Chick Lit Fantasy: It's not so much Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as it is Sex & the City & Mothman.*

Yeah, it's another subgenre that irritates the hell out of me, but I really can't take the high road on this one because I am a fan of Tamora Pierce's pioneering genre of Law & Order: Special Pigeons Unit myself. I just can't deny my visceral reaction to pretty much any form of Sassy Chick Lit, and when they start snagging stuff I like, such as magic systems, I get territorial.


*Although unlike the other remixes done purely for gags, I feel that the addition of Mothman would be a serious improvement on that Let's Go Shopping And Be Horny bullshit.**

**Unless it's Mothman Prophecies Mothman. "Richard Gere, is your refrigerator running?" should not be a giant urban legend hellmonster's entire repertoire.

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Re: My 2¢

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and neither version of vampires really interests me. I admit I don't mind the idea of making monsters sympathetic, or at least trying to imagine what it's like inside their heads, but the results always seem to lean toward emo with vampires. I think a lot of authors of vampires don't believe that audiences can identify with bad guys. I wish they'd take a page from the writers who work on serial killers--it's possible to root for Dexter Morgan or Hannibal Lecter even though they're pretty nasty bastards.

I also firmly believe that the whole point of zombies is to be the Final Boss's mindless army of murderous minions--because that way Our Hero can plow through them with wild abandon, secure in the knowledge that it's not wanton murder, but rather a release of lost souls from their unfathomable and unnatural torment.