False controversy, real controversy

False controversy: Three of the stars of Glee do a photoshoot for GQ. The girls are scantily-clad, the man is fully-dressed. Since the magazine is attended for male audiences, I see no problem with this. Would you like it if, on a post about Logan/Kurt man-candy on Scans_Daily, someone randomly shoved in a picture of Rogue in a bikini? Slippage. Nobody likes it. Also, since the actresses (who are twentysomething IRL) play teenagers on Glee, the PTC are accusing the photoshoot of supporting pedophilia. No, anyone who produces a Roman Polanski film is supporting pedophilia. Go after them first.

Real controversy: The photoshoot was done by Terry Richardson, who's such a sleazeball that I have characters say things like (regarding the rapey incarnation of Lust) "He's such a creeper, Terry Richardson is photographed by him." I'd go into more detail, but it'd be triggering. So anything giving him work should automatically get a side-eye. Also, the photoshoot is pretty trashy. I realize that's subjective, but just in my opinion, Dianna Agron and Lea Michaele (not looking up the valid spellings of those, it's your own fault for giving everyone foofy names, LA) are good-looking women and you really don't need to, say, strip them down to their panties, doing a spread-eagle to the camera while sucking on a lollipop to make them look sexy.

A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton

I know it's porn. The title is porn-y, the cover is porn-y, even the cover quote goes "I've never read a writer with a more fertile imagination" (ba-dum tish!). But still, does it have to be such badly-written porn?

Okay, Meredith Grey is secretly Merry Gentry, a fairy princess who, for bloodline-y reasons, has left the Fairy Court to be part of a private detective agency in LA. Because 98% of people in urban fantasy are private detectives, and the other 2% are vampire rape victims. After her secret identity comes out, the evil queen of the Fairy Court calls her back to continue the bloodline. She'll do this by, well, fucking the Queen's Guard until she gets a heir. The Queen's Guard is composed entirely of super-attractive men who've been celibate for hundreds of years, so they're thrilled by this, and the central drama is who Merry will sleep with first. I would probably care more if I could tell any of the super-attractive menfolk apart. They all have silly names like "Rhys" and "Galen" and they're all supremely devoted to Merry, so... I think one of them likes film noir?

Okay, I want LKH to write my cover letter. Because if someone can put that shit into a cover letter and get a book deal out of it, surely my non-orgy-having stuff could get a green light. But yeah, I've seen less self-indulgent premises in fics where Wonder Woman fucks a dog.


You know, because clearly Diana couldn't nab a dude.

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