kippurcritiquesbadbooks | Chapter nineteen... something witty here.

Chapter Nineteen pt. one

So, what do you do after having a great emotional experience including learning something that will change your life for ever? Have sex! Of course. \~/

It's the answer to everything.

Lousy day at work? Have sex!
Cat vomited all over your brand new $500 skirt? Have sex!
House just robbed and all your things were stolen while the love of you life gets beaten into a pulp? Have sex!
Reading a horrendous Anita Blake novel? Have a bonfire. With marshmallows.

What? Did you think I was going to say have sex?

After Richard's huff out they are all "I'm glad he's gone" now. Anita is a tiny bit sad and says, "They were both right, so why did I feel like I should defend Richard's honor?" Perhaps because you love him, he loves you, and you may have a child together? And just because he left in a huff doesn't mean that he should have bad things said about him? Saying those sort of things is rather childish. \~/

So, they decided to go to bed, Asher taking Jean-Claude with him. She starts to wonder if they're going to go do the ghey. \~/

Asher slipped his arm through Jean-Claude's. "We'll be in my room." I'd seen them arm in arm a hundred times. I'd sent them off to bunk in Asher's room dozens of times. But for the first time, I wondered what they would do once they got there. Would they have sex? Would they do with each other what Jean-Claude and I did with Auggie? Did the thought bother me? I wasn't sure.

Yes, I'm sure they are having the Ghey sex cause they were lovers for hundreds of years before Anita showed up and weren't allowed to fuck each other senseless when she is around. And you shouldn't take that away from them. \~/\~/\~/

But Micah says that Jean-Claude should stay, because Damian doesn't die when he's with Anita. Blake 'verse vampires apparently die during the day. Dead die. Which is actually a very interesting weakness. And a balancing one. Though it makes them ridiculously easy to stake if you find them. But I guess that's why they have their were-guards.

So, since Damian doesn't die, he wants to see if Jean-Claude will or not. It's really just an excuse though to get Jean-Claude in bed with the rest of them. Speaking of bed, Anita calls it "orgy-size". \~/\~/\~/

Nathaniel goes and gets naked and we learn that Jean-Claude doesn't do one night feedings and fucks now. So, basically Anita's turned Jean-Claude monogamous, actually all her guys are monogamous in that they can only have sex with her, but she has issues with Richard wanting her to be monogamous? Look double standard! \~/\~/\~/\~/

Anita gets uncomfortable with the whole naked Nathaniel thing. And she wonders why. My reasoning? Plot Device. If she didn't get all uncomfortable they wouldn't be able to do the rest of the chapter. She is very uncomfortable with this despite the fact that "I'd seen him nude more times than I could count. I'd seen him nude in front of Micah and Jean-Claude more times than I could count. So why was I blushing?"

You are blushing, dear, because LKH wants you to blush. It's required for the angst. Never mind the fact that you've supposedly gotten used to all of this. You are now out of character (what little of it you had) and you realize this. This is a bad thing. A very bad thing. \~/\~/

On our continuing noting of Hamilton's odd turns of phrasing we get the following in regards to Nathaniel. "He was moving from the pretty handsomeness that some young men get, to the more handsome handsomeness that most of them grow into." Does that make sense to anyone? More masculine handsomeness perhaps or mature handsomeness. But handsome handsomeness does make any sense anymore than wet wetness. \~/\~/

>.>

His handsome handsomeness got my down below wetness wet

>.>

Nathaniel tells her to come to bed, saying he knows she wants to. This apparently means that she's being taken for granted. Then Nathaniel says, "Don't let the whole baby thing push you back. You've made a lot of progress in your comfort zones, don't lose ground now." In an interesting turn of events, Nathaniel and perhaps the others, are pushing her into a place she doesn't want to be. She's saying "no" perhaps not literally, but it's obvious that she's uncomfortable and Nathaniel as well as the others should respect that, instead of making her progress with her comfort zones. Especially after such an experience that she's had. \~/ He continues to push Anita even though she still feels uncomfortable.

We may have actually had some character development here, but it gets smashed when she realizes the reason why she's uncomfortable is that Micah has never had sex with Jean-Claude before. I'm not really sure what that has to do with anything. Then it turns out that it's not that but what she did with Augustine. \~/\~/

So they have a very long discussion on how she felt about seeing two guys kiss.

I was waiting for someone to tell me to be ashamed of myself. I'd seen someone I loved kiss another man, and not only hadn't I been horrified, but I'd like it. Was that wrong? I had waited for it to feel wrong, but it hadn't. It felt strangely right, as if I had been waiting my whole life to see it. It had felt right in that way that only the things that truly speak to your heart can feel. I hadn't felt bad when it was happening. I was feeling bad now. Why? Was it guilt? No, I felt uncomfortable, and a little squeamish, but not guilty. So what was it?

Translation: Antia's discovered slash.

I'm going to stop here for now and pick it up next time on... the slash channel!