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.

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

This. Mothman is one of the creepiest and coolest supernatural things in the US, and I thought the Movie sounded really cool until I heard, y'know, anything about it past the title. It's another one of those "wait, HOW did you manage to fuck that up?" instances.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mothman is pretty awesome. I really was looking forward to a good creepfest movie, and all I got was menacing telephone calls. Mothman doesn't talk! Mothman doesn't have to talk! All he has to do is loom and flap!