Women portrayed wrong: So What?

I friend of mine brought up last week how women are rarely portrayed well or correctly in geek-type media. Sci-fi movies, comics, games; women tend to fit sterotypes. The amazon, the sexpot, the damsel, the cutie. And, I agreed with her. This does tend to be true.

Then I thought about it...men aren't displayed real either. Even Peter Parker is still always witty, married a model, and is one of the most brilliant people in the world.

what it comes down to is that fiction often pleys to sterotypes. People like to read about exraordinary people. These extremes of both skill, power, and personality are what make them interesting. Average folks are...well...US. I live that life already.

So, yes, women in these genres are not typical. because I want to read about some hot woman who can kick butt. But I am pretty sure that most of the men in Sex and the City aren't middle class, slightly overweight couch potatoes either.

Should I do more with this?

I had an idea for a new storyline. But didn't want to get farther into it if no one cared.


Everyone knows the guys who started it all. Humble beginnings back in New York City. I read about how things were before the first big coming. No one believed them. Called them crack pots. To those of us who came later, we call them the big three followed by the fourth.

When we started our group, I actually met them. They always come out to the newbies. I remember not believing that Venkman was the kind of guy to stand up to someone like Gozer. Seemed more like a class clown than the kind of guy to fight the supernatural. Spengler and Stanz were nice enough, mostly talked over my head though. I liked Winston. Just a regular Joe who had found himself as the protector of New York against the hordes of the paranormal.

He told me stories of their adventures. At the time, I looked forward to having my own slime punctuated exploits. Now of course I know that New York is lucky. I'd kill to only get stuck taking down some C5FRV's (Class 5 Full Roaming Vapors for the uninitiated). But my turf doesn't seem to attract that kind of spook.

Which is why, at the moment, I am running for my life through the Boston sewer. My pack is over heated. My backup is still minutes away, and somewhere in these dark sewers a C12 is stalking me in hopes of spending the next 20 years slowly digesting my corpse.

Porn KING

I write porn. Amongst other things, yes. But I do. It started as kind of an experiment and has somewhat snowballed. I checked last night, and all of my chapters combined (10 so far) have 350,000+ reads with an average rating of ~4.5 out of 5 stars.

It's weird. I know it's just porn, but as a writer I am kinda proud. Especially since I have recieved feedback where people actually like the characters and how the story developes, outside of the sex.

Continuing the experiment I have branched into other kinds of erotica, crossing some pretty strange lines. And I continue to get largely positive feedback. The only negative feedback I have gotten has been about how my portrayals have been unreal. And those stopped when I put a disclaimer at the top warning that the acts contained within are purposely over the top.

I am filing this whole thing under one of the many things I never thought I would do.

It's SHOWTIME

Man, this is awesome!

I'm gonna get my Spore ALL over you. Take it!!!

So, I am addicted to Spore. The game isn't even out and I love it. I decided to post all of my creatures thus far. Here they be. It's odd how I come up with these. Some I actually think out ahead of time (what they eat, how they hunt, etc) others are more about trying a weird thing with the engine (but I usually retroactively come up with history for them later). For the names, hover over the image.