Taken by a T-Rex Open Thread

So, these two college girls discovered there was a lucrative subgenre of erotica called "monster erotica," where women are, um, raped by dragons and stuff, and so they started writing that kind of book.

I did some research and found that a subgenre called “monster erotica” was starting to get popular. So I decided to write stories that contained monsters that were staples, or at least what I thought were staples, of the genre: shifters (werewolf), tentacle monsters (it was only later I found out shifters weren’t considered “monsters”). I wrote a lot of dragon-erotica stories, BBW romance, a few other things. But after a few months of writing about dragons having their way with busty maidens, I started getting burned out.

So, you turned to more literary ventures, involving less rape and fewer reptilians?

No. Quite the opposite.

I toyed with the idea of quitting and going back to work. But one day, I was walking and I thought about the movie Jurassic Park. My perverse mind immediately went to my work, and I pictured dinosaurs having their way with women. I died laughing. I was about to dismiss these thoughts as the workings of my freaky mind, but then I had an epiphany. Dinosaur erotica was something new that I’d never tried before.

I sat down the next week and wrote my first dinosaur story. I showed my story to Christie and we worked together to smooth out the prose. She liked it, and since then she and I have been writing dinosaur-erotica stories, among our other fiction. And that is how we became the dynamic duo of monster porn!

Is this real?

Yes. It's all too real.

Great, great interview with Justice Scalia at NY Mag, too. He discusses religion, and his belief in the Devil, on page 4. The whole thing's interesting.

Our Genius President has a brilliant new rhetorical tactic in the shutdown fight: calling Boehner a chicken for not holding a vote on a clean CR.

Even more wonderful: George Lucas talks to JJ Abrams almost every day about the new Star Wars, offering him lots of story and script advice.

I hope this is just attempting to manage an idiot. The Star Trek people had to do the same thing with Gene Roddenberry while they were scripting Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which Roddenberry hated. He insisted, for example, that Star Trek was not a "paramilitary" show, so the Naval theme of the movie had no place in the Star Trek legend. (What?) And that Spock could not die. (Roddenberry even attempted to sabotage that element by leaking it.)

Roddenberry insisted on the one Dumb Plotline he had been pitching for years: that the Enterprise go back in time to save JFK from the assassination in Dallas 1963. Oh yeah, that would be a great (and not at all weird and uncomfortable) movie.

All this dirt is revealed in Shatner's very readable "Star Trek Movie Memories."

Jay Carney is willing to tell you about the number of people who visited the 404Care website but insists that he must observe Official Longstanding Protocol I Just Made Up that numbers about actual enrollees can only be reported on a month-to-month basis.

And now, some strange animal duos. I saw a bit of a show called Unlikely Animal Friends last night. I saw the end bit, in which a panther named Paul was best friends with a rabbit named Lily. And a lynx was best friends with a deer.

This isn't that show, but it's got some similar stories. The first one is just preview best-of for those who don't want to spend a full hour watching Animal Best Fweindsies videos.

Additional parts here (2), here (3), here (4), here (5), and here (6).

posted by Ace at 08:19 PM

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