Unless she's figured away to retcon her way out of that.
I think there's lots of mutual self-loathing involved.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2007 11:35:18 am PST #4400 of 28260
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Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2007 11:36:22 am PST #4401 of 28260
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Anita has to have sex with Richard or die.
How...does that work, exactly?
Dana - Nov 30, 2007 11:36:55 am PST #4402 of 28260
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, you are going to be so sorry you asked.
erikaj - Nov 30, 2007 11:38:14 am PST #4403 of 28260
Always Anti-fascist!
That's so fucked up. Her having no women friends is more so...I can understand if women don't give you the arduer or whatever that bullshit is(although apparently I'm less straight than I thought) but I sense hostility. Am I on crack?
askye - Nov 30, 2007 11:42:43 am PST #4404 of 28260
Thrive to spite them
She did have a woman friend though, who got involved with the Rat King.
I can't remember why Anita has to have sex or die exactly. It's called aurder and it has something to do with getting bitten by the vampire master Jeanwhoever. Maybe Richard got bitten as well, because some how the three of them were tied together, until Other Dude showed up and turned out to be more Anita's soul mate and had some sex power over him. She has to have sex every few hours or sex overwhelms her and she dies.
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2007 11:45:22 am PST #4405 of 28260
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha ha ha ha. Wow. Every few hours? That must put a damper on her crime solving.
erikaj - Nov 30, 2007 11:45:30 am PST #4406 of 28260
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok...it's not like I read a lot of that stuff. Just one or two that Buffistae loaned out. "Very interesting, but stupid."
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2007 11:50:54 am PST #4407 of 28260
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
peruses Wikipedia
I love the phrase "emergency sex."
Also, it appears Anita Blake has every power imaginable while still remaining a regular human.
askye - Nov 30, 2007 11:51:28 am PST #4408 of 28260
Thrive to spite them
It's been a really long time since I've read the books. I think in the more recent ones there hasn't been really crime solving. It's more solving the supernatural mystery, which for awhile meant Anita picked up a new power. And defeated the previously undefeated monster. The sex thing is tied into some kind of power or strength she has sex to help her defeat the bad thing.
I think. I may be making the books sound worse than they are.
askye - Nov 30, 2007 11:56:40 am PST #4409 of 28260
Thrive to spite them
Yes, Anita is the UberMarySue.
Not only is she so beautiful that men can't help but lust after her (this is before she gest the sex powers), but she has a tragic past. Her mother was killed. When her father found out, he fell apart and she had to comfort him as he had emotionally abandoned her.
Her mother was Mexican (I think), and her father was WASP who married an icy blonde, and her step mother was always ashamed of Anita and so Anita barely knew love. And grew up feeling unloved. She got engaged at one point, to a nice WASPy boy, who only let her meet his family once (or maybe not at all), but he freaked out over her necromancer skills (at the time all she had) and her being not WASP and dumped her.
Tragic, tragic past.