Brief and contradictory
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kippurcritiquesbadbooksChapter fifteen.
Previously on Anita Blake: Everyone just found out that Anita might be pregnant. This is a Big Thing.
Obviously Anita slams all her shields "in place, shut, tight, metal, closed." Which doesn't make any sense at all. It sounds good. But once again, it doesn't make any sense which confuses and distracts the reader. \~/
She's very upset about this, of course. \~/
Samuel, however, thinks this is wonderful news. Anita doesn't like this at all and wants to be angry about it. Any sort of character that Samuel has is dumped out with the dishwater when he gets completely confused not getting what is going on. He's over a thousand years old, I think he'd be a bit quicker on the uptake than what he is. Still once he picks up, he's angry because no one seems to think that the baby is good news. \~/\~/
Anita snips at him."Don't tell me how to feel, Samuel, you don't have that right."
Unfortunately, Samuel did no such thing. He just asked, "Why such anger, Anita?"
No where is there anything about how Anita should feel. He just wants to know why she's feeling the way she does. How is that telling her how to feel? \~/
He thinks that it'll be a powerful child and that's wonderful. Because that's the point of having children. The more powerful the better the child. At least that's what it seems to be indicating. \~/
It's then rehashed about how it's not JC's and Micah's, so that leaves Nathaniel and Richard.
But more interesting is the sudden pro-life recant that Anita does.
Nathaniel and Micah were supportive with whatever choice she wanted to make, even though she didn't want to kill the potential baby. Now that Richard is excited about the idea of having a baby, of having a family, it's not a real baby. It's just a bunch of cells.
Earlier, with Ronnie she had this conversation.
Before, Anita disliked the idea of it just being a bunch of cells and says that it's a life. Now it's just a bunch of cells. Why? Because she's just run into Richard. Richard who loves her as a human and wants to have a normal life with her. Which is a horrible and bad thing. Normal life? PFfft. Who needs it? \~/\~/\~/\~/\~/\~/\~/\~/\~/
In this case it's just whatever seems to cause the most angst. She can't seem to make up her mind on what she wants with who she wants.
The point that she may in fact not be pregnant seems to be forgotten. Richard points out to Nathaniel that either of them might be the father. Nathaniel is not submissive about this at all. Because if you're submissive, you're always submissive. This feels like another piece of fan fiction where the pretty boy is the bottom and submissive and is really just a girl with a penis. And they take whatever is given to them by anyone else because they submit sexually. It doesn't help that Nathaniel calls himself the wife. (Next chapter). Just because he takes care of the domestic duties doesn't mean that he's the "wife". Nathaniel really needs to be put into a different situation where he doesn't have to be submissive and I think sex of any sort should be right out of the question. Therapy isn't doing him any good if he's constantly subjected to sex, especially sex from Anita and her Aurder.
Short chapter, about four pages, most of it rehashing. Tomorrow... longer and odder.
Drinks: 16
As an aside, how can eyes get more careful?
Previously on Anita Blake: Everyone just found out that Anita might be pregnant. This is a Big Thing.
Obviously Anita slams all her shields "in place, shut, tight, metal, closed." Which doesn't make any sense at all. It sounds good. But once again, it doesn't make any sense which confuses and distracts the reader. \~/
She's very upset about this, of course. \~/
Samuel, however, thinks this is wonderful news. Anita doesn't like this at all and wants to be angry about it. Any sort of character that Samuel has is dumped out with the dishwater when he gets completely confused not getting what is going on. He's over a thousand years old, I think he'd be a bit quicker on the uptake than what he is. Still once he picks up, he's angry because no one seems to think that the baby is good news. \~/\~/
Anita snips at him."Don't tell me how to feel, Samuel, you don't have that right."
Unfortunately, Samuel did no such thing. He just asked, "Why such anger, Anita?"
No where is there anything about how Anita should feel. He just wants to know why she's feeling the way she does. How is that telling her how to feel? \~/
He thinks that it'll be a powerful child and that's wonderful. Because that's the point of having children. The more powerful the better the child. At least that's what it seems to be indicating. \~/
It's then rehashed about how it's not JC's and Micah's, so that leaves Nathaniel and Richard.
But more interesting is the sudden pro-life recant that Anita does.
"I'm sorry,"[Richard] said, and he looked it around the edges. "Sorry if I'm making this hard, but how could I be completely unhappy if we made a child together?"
He would pick the very worst way to say it. The way most guaranteed to panic me. "It's not a child, yet. It's a bunch of cells smaller than my thumb."
His eyes got more careful. "What are you saying, Anita?"
I hugged myself tight and wouldn't meet anyone's eyes. "I don't know what I'm saying." But I was beginning to have more sympathy with Ronnie's idea about just going away and making the choice without any of the men.
"Would you really kill our baby?" he asked, and I didn't have to see his face to know he looked hurt; I could hear it in his voice.
Nathaniel and Micah were supportive with whatever choice she wanted to make, even though she didn't want to kill the potential baby. Now that Richard is excited about the idea of having a baby, of having a family, it's not a real baby. It's just a bunch of cells.
Earlier, with Ronnie she had this conversation.
"And who?" she said. "Who got you knocked up?"
"Thanks for putting it that way."
"I could ask, who's the father, but that's just creepy. If you are, then it's this little tiny, microscopic lump of cells. It's not a baby. It's not a person, not yet."
I shook my head. "We'll agree to disagree on that one."
Before, Anita disliked the idea of it just being a bunch of cells and says that it's a life. Now it's just a bunch of cells. Why? Because she's just run into Richard. Richard who loves her as a human and wants to have a normal life with her. Which is a horrible and bad thing. Normal life? PFfft. Who needs it? \~/\~/\~/\~/\~/\~/\~/\~/\~/
In this case it's just whatever seems to cause the most angst. She can't seem to make up her mind on what she wants with who she wants.
The point that she may in fact not be pregnant seems to be forgotten. Richard points out to Nathaniel that either of them might be the father. Nathaniel is not submissive about this at all. Because if you're submissive, you're always submissive. This feels like another piece of fan fiction where the pretty boy is the bottom and submissive and is really just a girl with a penis. And they take whatever is given to them by anyone else because they submit sexually. It doesn't help that Nathaniel calls himself the wife. (Next chapter). Just because he takes care of the domestic duties doesn't mean that he's the "wife". Nathaniel really needs to be put into a different situation where he doesn't have to be submissive and I think sex of any sort should be right out of the question. Therapy isn't doing him any good if he's constantly subjected to sex, especially sex from Anita and her Aurder.
Short chapter, about four pages, most of it rehashing. Tomorrow... longer and odder.
Drinks: 16
As an aside, how can eyes get more careful?
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