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Sooooooooooooo I just read volume one of "Lost Girls" by Alan Moore. Y'know, the one where Wendy Darling and Dorothy Gale and Alice (of Wonderland fame) get together and reminesce about sex childhood adventures and have sex?
I ... am not as disturbed by it as I thought I might be (literary figures of my childhood! having graphic sex!) but I am not as UNdisturbed by it as I could be (it's the internet! I have trainwreck syndrome!).
The more I think about it, the weirder it becomes.
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I ... am not as disturbed by it as I thought I might be (literary figures of my childhood! having graphic sex!) but I am not as UNdisturbed by it as I could be (it's the internet! I have trainwreck syndrome!).
The more I think about it, the weirder it becomes.
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THAT SAID PLEASE TELL ME EVERYTHING.
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BUT LOST GIRLS. Um. Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy all end up in a hotel. Alice has implied mirror sex; Dorothy has fetish sex with a guy she hooks up with at the hotel (he's hot and bothered by her silver slippers ogod). Wendy does NOT have sex, though her shadow does. (... it's a long story.)
Alice and Dorothy meet! Alice and Dorothy have trippy opium-high sex that gets interrupted when Alice has a bad flashback. The next morning, they have outdoors sex and get interrupted by Wendy and decide to share their stories, where it turns out that Oz was just Dorothy having her first orgasm (through masturbation) during a tornado, Peter was some street kid from the other side of the tracks who had sex with Wendy and her brothers after following them home, and Alice was molested by a friend of her father's but was so drunk at the time (he kept giving her wine) that she stared at the mirror and was convinced she was having sex with the girl on the other side.
Then they all go to the ballet-opera-thingit and have sex in the audience. OR MAYBE NOT, it was all dreamlike and they're not sure either!
Volume one ends with them finally giving their full names (they've been going by last names the entire volume).
... my tongue was in cheek for this summary, but honestly? NOT THAT MUCH.
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... basically, I read it because one of my roommates had borrowed it and was worried about how badly it would break her brain; I was sort of damage control. The others were going to gauge how "bad" it was by how much I cried afterwards.
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Sort of made me weep a little, too. BUT INTERESTING. XD
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I finished reading it, slammed the book shut, and announced THAT WAS WEIRD.
I don't know how much my roommates believe me yet. 8D
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Mostly because I've heard of this before, know Alan Moore and am not surprised at all. He is one crazy, crazy man. 8D
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Kendra had reserved a copy with the library ages ago and finally got it yesterday and.
What.
I mean.
JUST WHAT.
... also, my coworker is lending me Watchmen, so I'm finally reading that. :B
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...I watched them at that like, age 6! D:;;;;
*brain breaks*
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BUT ALSO V. STRANGE.
Yeah, it was all -- lots of sex, which ultimately was essential to the storyline; it just took a moment of going "soooooooo, Alice! Wendy! Dorothy! OKAY" when reading. (I never read all of Alice's adventures -- I only read parts of the Looking-Glass, see -- but. I DO recall reading them at a very young age and. ... it's a bizarre book. XD;)
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At least, our library had them.
I, I don't know. XD
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SO BIZARRE IT WAS. 8D
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And I'm still not sure if my 'huh, that's a strange concept' vague interest is enough to make me actually seek out scans or whatever.
I think, instead, I'm going to go have breakfast and not think about young Disney girls having sex. Not until after lunch at the very least. ;)
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Dorothy's slippers are silver, at the very least!
It was a pretty fast read, though (except for the part where, in true comic fashion, they decided to use a font that looks vaguely like handwritten script, and I have the hardest time reading something like that), and pretty interesting if you can handle typical Alan Moore strangeness. XD
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There was still just that vague moment of paradigm shifting, where I went "but I read these stories as a KID why are they having SEX?! D:"
... apparently I am secretly still a little prudish and shocked when it comes to my childhood. XD
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Having read (most of)Wicked and, good lord, Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire, I don't think my brain can be broken much more. I might just check this out to see exactly how high the wtf potential is.
Finally got to read the last volume of Sandman this weekend, yay!
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It's an interesting take on things. It's just also sort of buh-whu-why, too. XD
Oo, the last one is my favorite in terms of art, too! It's rather gorgeous♥