'That love of maidens for monsters, that does not fade with time'

[dolorosa_12]

Someday I will have the mental energy for a proper Dreamwidth post, but that day is not today. Instead, this is something of a drive-by post to alert anyone that's interested to a live event that Katherine Arden is doing via Instagram tonight.

She's going to talk via Instagram Live (so it's a free event, although I would assume you need an Instagram account to watch) about mortal/immortal romance in fiction. Given that mortal/immortal romance is basically my favourite kind of fictional romance, and the specific mortal/immortal romance in Arden's Winternight trilogy is one of my very favourite examples, I am delighted.

Unfortunately, at 7pm EST this event is a bit too late for me (in the UK) on a weeknight, so I'm hoping it will be recorded, but for those who are interested, and in a better timezone, check it out! Arden's Instagram account is arden_katherine.

Comments

[lirazel]

What I really want to see (but for which I can't think of any examples off the top of my head) are stories about human beings falling in love with the deities that they worship, and the weirdness that would ensue, particularly regarding their own attitudes about religion.

Dude, yes! I would eat that up!

I've also been fortunate enough to have a lot of people write fic for me about many of these pairings over the years!

That's wonderful!

Have you read Hambly's James Asher vampire series? The romance between the main vampire character and James and his wife Lydia (I very OT3 them) is not explicit, but I feel like it's so aware of the differences between them because of Simon's immortality. It never forgets that vampires would be deeply weird and other. (So many vampires these days are just regular people who happen to drink blood.)

[dolorosa_12]

Weirdly, I have not read Hambly’s vampire series, although based on your comment, and the summary I read of the first book, I really need to remedy that immediately. I LOVE vampires (mostly), and those novels sound really like my thing.

So many vampires these days are just regular people who happen to drink blood.

So true, and so frustrating!

[lirazel]

If you already like vampires, I think you'll really like Hambly's take. I myself am not super into vampires--obviously, I love some vampire-related media like Buffy and Robin McKinley's Sunshine, but that's despite being about vampires instead of because of it. But I really, really like how Hambly interprets them. There's a scene in the first book that is my favorite vampire-related thing I've ever seen.