BLACKWOOD FARM, CHAPTER TEN

[a_sporking_rat]

I think this is gonna be my last lengthy update/spork on Blackwood Farm. It's just too boring and lengthy and I don't have the time I used to. Plus, while it is distasteful in many ways, it's just not FUNNY like Anita Blake was. AB crossed the line into absurdity on a very regular basis in ways Rice just doesn't, and it makes for extra slow going.

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[ext_1626743]

How dare a woman want to have desires that are not approved by Anne Rice!

This reminds me of how, in 50 Shades, Ana is continually told that she's far too "strong" to be a sub. And all of LKH's twisted ideas about what being a sub is, especially for women. And far too many people in general who feel the same way. Anti-sex worker, kink-shaming, sex-shaming, just UGH. And I bet we're supposed to think Rebecca is a horrible evil "common" (oh Anne Rice classism) piece of filth for having sex while Quinn... oh, it's fine.

It sounds so badly written too. This weird kid has apparently never even finished a wet dream (what), and then he meets a ghost and immediately shags her. Shouldn't this be SERIOUSLY DAMN DISTURBING for him? He has so little sexual experience that he's never even had a dream orgasm before, but whoo-hoo, ghost lady, he's all over that.

Why did Anne Rice feel it was useful or necessary to make Quinn so staggeringly... pre-pubescent, anyway? Ick. Yeah, everyone infantalizes Quinn, but especially his own writer. Scary

[a_sporking_rat]

Ugh, of course

[ext_1626743]

A book about Patsy or Rebecca would have been so much more enjoyable. Or Patsy AND Rebecca.

So she was probably TRYING to burn the house down.

That alone makes her the most sympathetic character in this book.

Precious innocent Quinn has surely never seen pornography, has he?I'd guess he got some kind of sex ed. This kind of disgusting Southern aristocrat family would have educated their sons in sex (for some form of "educated") while trying to keep their daughters ignorant of it. Of course, that's interfacing with reality and probability, and Quinn's never even had a full wet dream, so

[a_sporking_rat]

Come to think of it, if Quinn were an 18 year old girl being written by an adult man, I'd be massively squicked by her treatment in this regard, and I definitely should therefore be squicked equally by the reverse too (I'm not because social conditioning, but I *should* be) Rice pretty clearly wants him to be as childlike and innocent as possible while still being just legal enough to write about.

Oooh, I've heard about that series! Gonna check out the spork right now!

[ext_3794253]

I'm honestly so curious to know what Lestat's response to this is. He probably wouldn't show it on his face, but I doubt that self-centered guy would give a flying fuck about Quinn's possible sexual awakening or how much he hates his mother. I can just imagine Lestat rolling his eyes when Quinn isn't looking and snorting at the dumb stuff Quinn says.

[ext_3794253]

Also, did she make Quinn have sex with a woman - ghost or not - just to make sure we know he's not completely, totally gay, really, he's not I swear?? The fuck?