I think True Blood is something I'm going to have to space out and save for my very good days when I'm not in a bad head space. I found it triggery in some places, and Sookie as Anna plays her is leaching into my characterisation of Miri (main character in my novel Amaryllis, which I cast Anna Paquin as), and I can't have that, case Miri and Sookie are totally freakin' different. Miri = Australian, intellectual novelist wanna-be, discovering a new homonoid culture by accident and getting involved in an uncomfortable love tangle.
One thing that I'm kind of tired of in modern romance is the "Virtuous girl seduced by darkness" trope. Not that True Blood follows this to the letter, but it's part of the make-up. A lot of modern fantasies involve women being lured by the Wrong Kind of Man. What worries me is that in real life? That never ends well.
The other thing is usually that trope is an expression of women who are not comfortable with their own sexuality. There has to be a passiveness about their part in the romance or they feel as though they're "naughty" or "bad". Sometimes that naughtiness and badness is a feature of the genre, as some people love to feel it.
But I really want to write a story where the women in it are in charge of their sexuality, are not ashamed of it, and enjoy it entirely. And it involves a man that isn't dangerous (physically).
I get the feeling nobody would want to read that story, cause it's not dramatic enough. :T
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