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[apocalypsos]

Since yesterday, I've compiled the following list of titles for the TroNoWriMo story --

The Monsters of Minooka
The Walking Dead of Wilkes-Barre (because kinetikatrue suggested it and ... well, really. Any excuse to write zombie attacks. :))
The Trolls of Tamaqua
The Dragons of Duryea
The Ogres of Old Forge
The Kelpies of Keyser Valley
The Jersey Devils of Jermyn
The Sorcerers of Scranton
The Necromancers of Nanticoke
The Vampires of Vandling
The Changelings of Chinchilla
The Wizards of Whites Crossing
The Alchemists of Archbald
The Werewolves of Wallenpaupack
The Goblins of Gouldsboro
The Succubi of Shamokin
The Hellhounds of Honesdale
The Leprechauns of Lackawanna
The Mermaids of Moosic
The Manticores of Manaqua
The Mummies of Mehoopany
The Unicorns of Uniondale
The Fairies of Forest City
The Banshees of Blakely
The Centaurs of Shickshinny (hey, I'm going for the alliterative sounds, not the spelling)
The Gnomes of Nay Aug
The Pixies of Penobscot

-- and had waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much fun coming up with them.

Hmm. I'm going to have to write a great big pile of stories if I want to use all those. And I do ... I really, really do. And get them published and become the next J.K. Rowling, if for no other reason if to drive the entire Northeastern Pennsylvania region insane. *giggles*

EDIT: Here's a nice article about boysex, and why chicks dig it. Well, guess what -- it turns out all of us women are off our nuts, as this man is nice enough to inform us that women don't find boysex hot. Gee, and I could have sworn I thought guys making out was hot, but that must have been my very fertile, healthy, sex-starved imagination.

So, if anyone wants to go here and tell Mr. Alley that he seriously needs to get out more, feel free. :)

CRUDE AND RUDE LETTERWRITER OF EDIT: You know, I probably could have written "Mr. Alley, please keep your assumptions about the behavior of my crotch to yourself, and I'll be kind enough to do the same in regards to yours," but I'm a mature grownup. :)

Erm. I may regret writing that later, but ... eh, fuck it. What the hell?

Comments

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

The Horrors of Honesdale? The Hellhounds of Harrisburg? (Or is that the wrong part of the state?)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Honesdale is, but Harrisburg's in the southern part. I'm seriously contemplating doing a later story that's a road trip through the state, if only for The Incubi of Intercourse.

Hee. We've got such great town names. And also, hee! I can't believe how much inspiration coming up with titles gave me for more stories. :)

[xerne.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Oh, Dwarves of Dunmore.

I'd certainly like to see that series. I always wanted to write a time travel/ghost story set in the Lackawanna Coal Mine but I've never gotten around to it.

(And if you're road-tripping, don't forget central PA... Devils of DuBois, Boggarts of Bellefonte, Stromkarls of State College, Lamias of Lemont, Apparitions of Altoona...)

I love setting stuff in places I know, though. I'm writing a piece at the moment about the final battle between the forces of Heaven and Hell taking place in downtown State College. It adds a certain element of surrealism.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

Female sexuality just doesn't work that way.

The sheer beauty of it!
*memorizes the sentence for later use*

[xturtle.livejournal.com]

I couldn't resist:

"Dear Editor,

I am signing in support of Ms. Dikecoglu's letter. I would like to add that Mr. Alley shows his ignorance and arrogance when he speaks of a "female sexuality." The idea that erotic attraction exists in a binary is an outdated, inaccurate, and frankly (hetero)sexist idea. I would suggest that Mr. Alley visit the Kinsey Institute (or at least its website), read Michel Foucault's "History of Sexuality" and the works that have expanded it, and generally better educate himself on the multiple ways that women and men have of expressing their sexuality, and the multiple other factors, aside from gender, that have determined the social construction of sexual relations.

Yours sincerely,
[my real name]"

Thanks for posting this.
CJ

[wickedripeplum.livejournal.com]

I love when men tell me how my sexuality works. Love it.

My little letter

[wickedripeplum.livejournal.com]

I would like to thank Paul Alley for enlightening me about how my sexuality works. Before I thought Queer as Folk, actual gay porn, and other things featuring as much man-on-man action as I could get, were hot, but now I see that I’m deluded and would be happier watching daytime soaps.

Obviously Mr. Alley and I run in different circles, because while I can think of only one woman I know who watches soaps regularly, nearly all of my female friends watch Queer as Folk. In high school my friends and I viewed my mother’s copy of The Celluloid Closet not as critique on the representation of homosexuality in Hollywood, but as a reference book to find movies with men kissing. Before that we passed around copies of the more salacious Anne Rice novels.

Perhaps the majority of straight women don’t find homoerotic content as titillating as straight find lesbian content to be. But it is just as possible that women are discouraged from watching what they want, because it isn’t what they “should” want.

[canthlian.livejournal.com]

Go sexism!

Now go cook me food, clean my room, and perform a strip-tease, and I'll give you a dollar. And that's more than you deserve! Now, you obviously inferior female!

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Leprechauns!

*hops away*

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

I like The Monsters of Minooka. It's creepy, yet silly.

[ampersand.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting! I went and politely told Mr. Alley he's silly.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

joined in that letter signing. could not even stomach reading the whole garbage of his.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

Also posted. And got his name wrong the first time.

Why do guys keep presuming that they *know* what women find sexy?

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

Phht. Of COURSE we silly female things don't find guy-on-guy action sexy! Everyone knows we don't even LIKE sex. We'd rather just cuddle and then enjoy a session of lengthy meditation, or perhaps a soothing bubble bath. Complete with a rubber ducky and a harlequin.
Dammit, I have a girlfriend and I still think slash is hot as fuck. But, y'know, apparently female sexuality "doesn't work that way", so I guess I can't read it anymore.
Now what am I going to do on the Internet? ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mydecember_/]

On a title-related note, there's a Michigan guy named Johnathan Rand who writes a series of kids books called Michigan Chillers that have titles like Dinosaurs Destroy Detroit and Kreepy Klowns of Kalamazoo. He also writes a series called American Chillers, one of which is Poisonous Pythons Paralyze Pennsylvania (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1893699536/qid=1096520459/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-8805638-6050542?v=glance&s=books).