Part of me actually wants to ask people who see the Catalina/Dick thing on the rooftop as "hot" or "kinky" to explain their position in greater detail, because Catalina herself clearly doesn't think she's doing anything wrong, and they're the closest I'm likely to get to a peek inside her mind and motivations.
Well, you know where *I'm* coming from. It doesn't read as any more fucked up than, say, what I did with Bruce and Tim in "The air, you breathe" -- which I know fucked with your head -- or, say, "Echoes hanging in the air," or, hell, "Teeth."
Hot, twisted non-con -- or non-con-ish -- stories, all of them. At least, that's the general consensus. They're all meant to get the reader off, and they're all meant to make the reader at least a little sick, too. They're fucked up.
Really, I tend to think a lot of us are way harder on female characters than we are on male ones -- and we've had THAT conversation, too. Catalina is no less reprehensible for what she does to Dick in 93 than Bruce is any *number* of my stories -- but she's no *more* reprehensible, either, imo.
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Re: NW comments
Date: 2004-05-17 10:24 pm (UTC)Well, you know where *I'm* coming from. It doesn't read as any more fucked up than, say, what I did with Bruce and Tim in "The air, you breathe" -- which I know fucked with your head -- or, say, "Echoes hanging in the air," or, hell, "Teeth."
Hot, twisted non-con -- or non-con-ish -- stories, all of them. At least, that's the general consensus. They're all meant to get the reader off, and they're all meant to make the reader at least a little sick, too. They're fucked up.
Really, I tend to think a lot of us are way harder on female characters than we are on male ones -- and we've had THAT conversation, too. Catalina is no less reprehensible for what she does to Dick in 93 than Bruce is any *number* of my stories -- but she's no *more* reprehensible, either, imo.