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  • May. 8th, 2010 at 3:11 AM
femmealunettes: (bitch please. : Lafayette)
I'm noticing a disturbing trend in Charlaine Harris's books... namely, the dead queer trend. To the best of my recollection (and I've read all of these novels in the past five months, I believe) every single gay or lesbian character in her books has ended up either dead or grievously injured and only got better because they were vampires.

I really enjoy these books, but this bothers me quite a lot. And I'm glad that True Blood didn't go with the books and kill off Lafayette, because he's awesome and I'm going to be super pissed if they gank him this season.

Anyway, I AM looking forward to the show starting up again. I want to see how they handle Alcide, and I'm wondering which of the books they're going to incorporate, and I really want to see how they resolve the magical disappearing Bill act.

I literally just had this topic shoved into my face and I couldn't not say something about it.

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[identity profile] asimaiyat.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 8th, 2010 07:32 am (UTC)
I was so mad when I found out Lafayette died in the books! (I may or may not have a Lafayette fic in progress in another tab right now...) He's one of my favorites. That it's part of a larger pattern is really fucking annoying. :(
[identity profile] speccygeekgrrl.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 8th, 2010 08:56 pm (UTC)
I was so upset when I read it... not upset enough to stop reading, but it really bothered me. I ♥ Lafayette so much, I hope he'll be okay this season.
[identity profile] weslyn.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 8th, 2010 04:45 pm (UTC)
WHAT? Wait... I've only seen the first season of True Blood. I thought... In the dumpster... Wait. He's not dead?

Lafayette IS AWESOME! WHEEEE!
[identity profile] speccygeekgrrl.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 8th, 2010 08:54 pm (UTC)
Sorry, spoiler alert. xD;; yeah he's a survivor, that's part of his character type!
[identity profile] ladywilde80.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 8th, 2010 08:01 pm (UTC)
Just started the series and finished the first book ... I really like it so far, though now I'm kind of weary to continue.

The dead queer syndrome in books/film/tv pisses me off to no friggin' end.
[identity profile] speccygeekgrrl.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 8th, 2010 08:53 pm (UTC)
It took me until book 9 to twig on to the syndrome in effect, and I really do enjoy the books aside from that... and the show is much better about it than the books.

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