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julian_griffith

Sometimes Sin's A Pleasure

Jan 15, 2013 01:20

Project: Goth geek chick-lit vampire thing Sometimes Sin's A Pleasure
Market: Your guess is as good as mine
Deadline: I'm calling this a draft
Wordcount: 9501

I really, really wanted to get this up to 10K, because most anthology calls put that as a floor on their short stories.

But even after I went back and elaborated on the Built-In Designated Driver ( Read more... )

Comments 4

kittygamble January 15 2013, 13:38:34 UTC

Love the title! Yay.

And it all sounds awesome, especially the lampshading of the usual vampire tropes. Because vampires and consent IS often really badly handled. Especially when the vampires have the ability for mind control of some kind. *shudders* Yay for non-icky vampire stories!

julian_griffith January 15 2013, 15:21:42 UTC

I lampshade the mind control, too. Because he hasn't got it. There's a physical effect in his bite, like the GOOD painkillers, because prey isn't supposed to struggle, but it goes away as soon as he's NOT feeding, and he specifically disclaims any ability to read minds. He says that anything that LOOKS like it is just a matter of him paying very close attention.

kittygamble January 15 2013, 15:39:13 UTC

*nods* Painkillers make sense, definitely. But anything with mind control just makes everything all complicated, and it's really hard to pull of actual proper consent if that's involved.

julian_griffith January 15 2013, 15:48:05 UTC

I know, right? And I didn't want to make it a full-on paranormal world with monsters and psychics around every corner. Those don't work for me very well, and I also lampshaded the ecological-niche argument against them. So mind control... right out.

I have some splendid fanfic-type ideas involving mind-control and dub-con. The way Rowling described the Imperius Curse sounded SO MUCH like subspace. But, y'know, fanfic, and the world isn't really in need of another Lucius Malfoy / innocent secretary fic.