Thank goodness I finished mine!

[rispacooper]

So I'm behind the times but I just found out that fantasy author Robert Jordan died in September, which is sad because he never finished his epic series, and that series, "The Wheel of Time" had a lot of influence on me and what I wrote (oh like 10 years ago). I don't read fantasy now, and he's mostly why.

Because of course, he also extended his series into a monster for no real reason to the point where I stopped reading. And all his female characters were the same...and annoying. And he ripped off every fantasy series he could--seriously--and then came down hard on fanfiction writers, accusing them of making money off his work (which was just fucking insane) and then got seriously aggro about teh gay fanfiction, though hot girl-on-girl action was apparently okay.

But he did create Matrim Cauthon, a cross between Ray Kowalski and Jack Sparrow, and sex on a stick I might add, so I will give him props for that. And I will say, the first 6 books or so were serious entertainment. Someday I must write a gay epic just like it. I think I will dedicate it to him.

AND...I gotta say. A long time ago, for Kittie, I wrote Rand/Mat slash that I never posted for fear of him coming down like "the hammer of God" as he always threatened.

Anyone want to read it now?

Comments

[paraxdisepink.livejournal.com]

Mat was cool until about book 11, then he turned into a serious misogynistic punk. It's not the uptight women that ended up bothering me the most though - it's the way he treated the guys who could use the Power, like he really thought they were all monsters.

I see what happened to his books though. The first five were adventure books and I liked them, the rest he tried to get all political, like he suddenly started wondering what would happen politically if this type of person existed and it ended up shifting the focus of the story. The story never quite recovered from Moiraine dying either, the balance wasn't the same after that.

Still, I love the fantasy genre above all other things, and there's stuff to be learned from his work good and bad. I admire his ability to name stuff, and the whole tainted male half of the true source thing was interesting.

Now George R. R. Martin please don't die on me too.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

Moiraine and Mat....they are not OTP...but that is some twisted hot right there.

Moiraine watching Rand and Mat? Even better.