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sorcyressAs always, I'm amused that I know what the URL for this page is without having to look it up.
Spent much of the day wandering around absolutely all of creation with BDan. Picked up the Vows and Honour duology by Mercedes Lackey (Oathbond and Oathbreakers) because, well, they're damn good books and I haven't read them in *ages*. That and I've had an intense hankering for the feminist fantasy of my middle school years recently --Valdemar is the big one (Election night, I was so wired I couldn't sleep and wound up staying up until four in the morning finishing By The Sword --there was a bookmark about halfway through, no idea when I started) but I've also been extremely interested in finding some of Tamora Pierce's quartets, and rereading those. Aiee!
Butyes. Mercedes Lackey good. I make no claims as to how excellent a writer she actually is (though I quite enjoy her stuff), but she had the good fortune to be one of my first major fantasy authors that I read, and so I tend to be quite devoted to her stuff. Plus, I am *far* more like a Herald than I am willing to admit, and subsequently tend to see echoes of myself in a lot of her heroines.
I think at least part of the nostalgia has been my recent interest with wanting to try and figure out the roots of some of my assorted brainspace things. This is partially inspired by a recent runthrough of tvtropes fetish fuel section --where I stumbled upon a line that pointed out that reading Tamora Pierce's wild mage quartet at a young and impressionable age might have directly lead to my prediliction for older men / general acceptance of May/December romances.
It's very interesting to see the effect that some of these things had on me, not even from a fetishistic viewpoint in most cases, but as a person. Reading about Heralds when I was being formative...oh yes. I would like to be good and pure and noble and completely self-sacrificing and give up my everything in order to make other people happy, sure! And the white horse wouldn't be much of a problem, either. :D
I know my identical double kink (oh come on! If you have a healthy enough ego, you would totally make out with yourself!) started with an issue of xxxenophile I read once, the scene in Da Vinci Code where Silas gets hit rather hard on the leg where his wound is made me take notice of how intrigued I tend to be by the concept of hurting something already hurt, and Kerowyn's desperate, stubborn refusal to use her mindreading abilities if at all possible lines right up with my insistance that telepathy would be a *terrible* skill to have. Also, my fear of rats? May have been around earlier, but I'm pretty sure it peaked with that book where the main character has his head put in a ratcage ohgod, ohgod. (Yes, I know what book, just not saying title to avoid spoilers)
Simelarly, I was discussing this concept with a friend the other day --he pointed out that, when he was young, he read a book where the hero (in a non-sexual way) got tied up, tortured, and thrown out an airlock. He said his thought process to the bondage and torture was something along the lines of "That's interesting. I wonder what it would be like if that happened to me. I wonder what it would be like if it happened to a *girl*"
Soyes! You all read books at a young and foolish and impressionable age, I'm sure! What lessons did you pick up, what kinks did you kick off, what ingrained thought patterns do you have that you know you can trace back to a specific source?
~Sor
MOOP!
(Speaking of fetish kick-offs, however, I'm almost surprised that my deeply ingrained love for Disney's animated Robin Hood hasn't turned me into a furry yet. Some things are just too weird, perhaps?)
Spent much of the day wandering around absolutely all of creation with BDan. Picked up the Vows and Honour duology by Mercedes Lackey (Oathbond and Oathbreakers) because, well, they're damn good books and I haven't read them in *ages*. That and I've had an intense hankering for the feminist fantasy of my middle school years recently --Valdemar is the big one (Election night, I was so wired I couldn't sleep and wound up staying up until four in the morning finishing By The Sword --there was a bookmark about halfway through, no idea when I started) but I've also been extremely interested in finding some of Tamora Pierce's quartets, and rereading those. Aiee!
Butyes. Mercedes Lackey good. I make no claims as to how excellent a writer she actually is (though I quite enjoy her stuff), but she had the good fortune to be one of my first major fantasy authors that I read, and so I tend to be quite devoted to her stuff. Plus, I am *far* more like a Herald than I am willing to admit, and subsequently tend to see echoes of myself in a lot of her heroines.
I think at least part of the nostalgia has been my recent interest with wanting to try and figure out the roots of some of my assorted brainspace things. This is partially inspired by a recent runthrough of tvtropes fetish fuel section --where I stumbled upon a line that pointed out that reading Tamora Pierce's wild mage quartet at a young and impressionable age might have directly lead to my prediliction for older men / general acceptance of May/December romances.
It's very interesting to see the effect that some of these things had on me, not even from a fetishistic viewpoint in most cases, but as a person. Reading about Heralds when I was being formative...oh yes. I would like to be good and pure and noble and completely self-sacrificing and give up my everything in order to make other people happy, sure! And the white horse wouldn't be much of a problem, either. :D
I know my identical double kink (oh come on! If you have a healthy enough ego, you would totally make out with yourself!) started with an issue of xxxenophile I read once, the scene in Da Vinci Code where Silas gets hit rather hard on the leg where his wound is made me take notice of how intrigued I tend to be by the concept of hurting something already hurt, and Kerowyn's desperate, stubborn refusal to use her mindreading abilities if at all possible lines right up with my insistance that telepathy would be a *terrible* skill to have. Also, my fear of rats? May have been around earlier, but I'm pretty sure it peaked with that book where the main character has his head put in a ratcage ohgod, ohgod. (Yes, I know what book, just not saying title to avoid spoilers)
Simelarly, I was discussing this concept with a friend the other day --he pointed out that, when he was young, he read a book where the hero (in a non-sexual way) got tied up, tortured, and thrown out an airlock. He said his thought process to the bondage and torture was something along the lines of "That's interesting. I wonder what it would be like if that happened to me. I wonder what it would be like if it happened to a *girl*"
Soyes! You all read books at a young and foolish and impressionable age, I'm sure! What lessons did you pick up, what kinks did you kick off, what ingrained thought patterns do you have that you know you can trace back to a specific source?
~Sor
MOOP!
(Speaking of fetish kick-offs, however, I'm almost surprised that my deeply ingrained love for Disney's animated Robin Hood hasn't turned me into a furry yet. Some things are just too weird, perhaps?)
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on 2008-11-07 01:38 am (UTC)Unfortunately, I don't actually remember much of my childhood for various reasons, so I can't analyse what made me what I am today as thoroughly as I'd like. I know old movies like Mouse and his Child, Riki Tiki Tavi, and Rhino's Skin, Camel's Hump certainly had a say in how I turned out, however.
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on 2008-11-07 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-11-07 07:42 pm (UTC)Dude, liek my favourite story in all of xxxenophile or something, srsly. Though I seem to recall one about a girl who was working on solving equations, and they were all tied up with --WELL THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT YES.
~Sor
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on 2008-11-07 09:15 pm (UTC)Enough of that? Darned Pandora's Box just won't stay closed.
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on 2008-11-07 07:15 pm (UTC)Tha's a fine thing, if you ask me :P
. o O (Oh but my childhood/early teen persona, "Clamsey", came from going to my older brother's high school production of Calamity Jane at the age of 10 (!!) or so & i was so impressed that i wanted to be Just Like Her... does that count?)
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on 2008-11-20 11:50 pm (UTC)