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[yendi]

So I started reading Charlaine Harris's Dead Until Dark on the bus today. It had been sitting on my to-read pile for a while, but after seeing enough Anita Blake comparisons, and being too tired to start a Jeff Noon book (my brain can't handle it), I decided to give it a shot.

It's nifty so far, but there's one thing that really irked me. On page one -- page fucking one -- the short female narrator with mystical powers who soon starts dating a vampire announces that she's wearing, yes, black Nikes!

Argh!

Someday, I'm going to write a vampire novel about a short chick who dates vampires, and she's going to wear fucking New Balance!

Comments

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

heels! What are these short chicks doing in sneakers? Oh, what about stilettos, where the heel can double as a vampire killing device if necessary!

[yendi]

Um, the short chick I'm living with doesn't wear heels.

Besides, I intend for my characters to have to do lots of running through the woods and similar stuff. I don't think she'd want to wear heels. And the stiletto as a weapon thing would just get people to say I was ripping off Single White Female.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's just cause she's too short for heels!

Oh! You could do easy spirit heels, cause they always do commercials of people playing basketball in them, so they should be able to run through forest and stab bad guys. and then plus you get the mystical/ghost reference there too.

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

What about Converse? I'm a short chick, and if I was going to run from vampires (rather than turning into a werewolf and kicking ass) I would be wearing purple converse hightops.

but you should write that story...