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skygiantsSo speaking of His Girl Friday, I've been meaning to write up Lia Silver's shifter-parody-screwball-rom-com novella Mated to the Meerkat, because:
a. were-meerkat. WERE-MEERKAT. If there was ever a romantic shapeshifting novel that was guaranteed to make me clap my hands like a seal and fall over laughing, this is it
b. what a fantastic homage to His Girl Friday!
Though everyone is less terrible than in His Girl Friday -- I mean, our heroes are paparazzi, so it goes without saying they are at least kind of terrible because paparazzi is a pretty terrible profession, but they do not actively cause anybody to jump out a window to their doom, so compared to the protagonists of His Girl Friday they are doing pretty okay! Also, Meerkat Boyfriend is a MUCH BETTER BOYFRIEND than Cary Grant, aka The Worst Smooth-Talking Ex-Husband Ex-Boss In the Universe. Also, there is no racist subplot. Instead there is a subplot about fancy molecular gastronomy. A VAST IMPROVEMENT.
I mean Mated to the Meerkat, while paying its affectionate due to His Girl Friday, is in fact a fun screwball romp, rather than a viciously satirical critique of the press disguised as a fun screwball romp. You might be getting a satirical parody of shifter tropes disguised as a screwall romp, but that's an entirely different proposition, and anyway I don't read enough shifter stuff to know or care where is the line between parody and loving over-the-top embrace! All I know is that it's ace reporters and hilarious meerkat love interests all the way down.
(WERE. MEERKAT.)
a. were-meerkat. WERE-MEERKAT. If there was ever a romantic shapeshifting novel that was guaranteed to make me clap my hands like a seal and fall over laughing, this is it
b. what a fantastic homage to His Girl Friday!
Though everyone is less terrible than in His Girl Friday -- I mean, our heroes are paparazzi, so it goes without saying they are at least kind of terrible because paparazzi is a pretty terrible profession, but they do not actively cause anybody to jump out a window to their doom, so compared to the protagonists of His Girl Friday they are doing pretty okay! Also, Meerkat Boyfriend is a MUCH BETTER BOYFRIEND than Cary Grant, aka The Worst Smooth-Talking Ex-Husband Ex-Boss In the Universe. Also, there is no racist subplot. Instead there is a subplot about fancy molecular gastronomy. A VAST IMPROVEMENT.
I mean Mated to the Meerkat, while paying its affectionate due to His Girl Friday, is in fact a fun screwball romp, rather than a viciously satirical critique of the press disguised as a fun screwball romp. You might be getting a satirical parody of shifter tropes disguised as a screwall romp, but that's an entirely different proposition, and anyway I don't read enough shifter stuff to know or care where is the line between parody and loving over-the-top embrace! All I know is that it's ace reporters and hilarious meerkat love interests all the way down.
(WERE. MEERKAT.)
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Date: 2015-09-01 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-09-01 04:06 am (UTC)YES. FANFIC WILL PROVIDE. In this case, it has provided 40,000+ words of delightful were-velociraptor slash fic (http://archiveofourown.org/series/22641) in the Sherlock fandom.
The tags on this series include: Velociraptors in high society, Laundry, Velociawesome, and Abuse of Latin.
This has been a public service announcement.
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Date: 2015-09-01 05:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-01 05:45 am (UTC). . . Can you lend this book to me?
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Date: 2015-09-02 01:35 am (UTC)I did not realize there was no physical book! This is technology I have not used before. Will let you know.
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