Incongruity
Jul. 23rd, 2013 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethAm reading Tanya Huff's 'Smoke' series; just finished 'Smoke and Mirrors'.
It has characters called Tony and Cheese.
Kept being distracted by Avengers thoughts.
... Cheese is an 8 year old girl and Tony is an ex street kid trainee wizard PA on a vampire detective television series (and his ex is a vampire). This was already a sufficiency of weird.
And then my brain recasts them.
*facepalm*
Emotional arc of the three books is Tony trying to build his independent life after breaking up with his awesome yet overwhelming vampire royalty long time boyfriend. Trying to reach a balance where he calls him for help when it's reasonable and yet that doesn't turn into their old relationship is a good trick. And I like stories that are all about After That Guy. A lot of lives have some kind of hugely influential male presence that makes it hard to be After. It was one of the things I liked in the Birds of Prey comic waaaaay back when it started, that these women were, by virtue of how comics were but also just in their personal lives, all redefining themselves out of the shadow of some guy, someone who had been so much of their lives they had to rediscover who they were alone. Or rather as part of a new group.
Tony of the Smoke series? Totally having to put in that work while dealing with shadows and ghosts that make things proper metaphorical and then go spinning off into their own wild excellence. And being totally LOL at the same time.
Also, Lee Nicholas, the co-star of that vampire detective series, is the so dreamy damsel in distress and love interest. And Tony is so totally oblivious. He gets it into his head that the guy is straight and it takes multiple books to entertain other possibilities even after there has been kissing. Though to be fair his friends often end up possessed and there's quite a lot of very confusing kissing.
I just want to smush them together and draw little hearts. And yet when Tony dates someone else I also like that relationship. And if he got back together with his ex Henry that would work too. It's like multiple relationships can be healthy and happy and not work out for adult reasons. Who knew?
It has characters called Tony and Cheese.
Kept being distracted by Avengers thoughts.
... Cheese is an 8 year old girl and Tony is an ex street kid trainee wizard PA on a vampire detective television series (and his ex is a vampire). This was already a sufficiency of weird.
And then my brain recasts them.
*facepalm*
Emotional arc of the three books is Tony trying to build his independent life after breaking up with his awesome yet overwhelming vampire royalty long time boyfriend. Trying to reach a balance where he calls him for help when it's reasonable and yet that doesn't turn into their old relationship is a good trick. And I like stories that are all about After That Guy. A lot of lives have some kind of hugely influential male presence that makes it hard to be After. It was one of the things I liked in the Birds of Prey comic waaaaay back when it started, that these women were, by virtue of how comics were but also just in their personal lives, all redefining themselves out of the shadow of some guy, someone who had been so much of their lives they had to rediscover who they were alone. Or rather as part of a new group.
Tony of the Smoke series? Totally having to put in that work while dealing with shadows and ghosts that make things proper metaphorical and then go spinning off into their own wild excellence. And being totally LOL at the same time.
Also, Lee Nicholas, the co-star of that vampire detective series, is the so dreamy damsel in distress and love interest. And Tony is so totally oblivious. He gets it into his head that the guy is straight and it takes multiple books to entertain other possibilities even after there has been kissing. Though to be fair his friends often end up possessed and there's quite a lot of very confusing kissing.
I just want to smush them together and draw little hearts. And yet when Tony dates someone else I also like that relationship. And if he got back together with his ex Henry that would work too. It's like multiple relationships can be healthy and happy and not work out for adult reasons. Who knew?
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