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Jenny’s Splendiferous Fifty Shades of Grey Recaps Chapter Fourteen

30 Saturday Nov 2013

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It’s taken a lot longer than I wanted to get this chapter done.  First I had a cold, so recording was out.  Then there was a chunk of work to get done in order for the end of this semester to not be really horrible.  I had every intention of posting a chapter on Thanksgiving as a sort of holiday treat.  But then the holidays punched me in the soul instead.

I believe many of you are familiar with my horse, Brego.  I blog about him from time to time.

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He nearly died this past Tuesday night.  Technically he’s not out of the woods yet as infection is still a danger but everyone at the hospital is very optimistic.  After a pretty traumatic surgery he’s perked up a lot, which just speaks to how much pain he was in before they operated.

Brego had a twisted bowel.  If he hadn’t been strong and healthy enough to survive the surgery to fix it, we would have had to put him down to keep him from suffering.  Nothing about this wasn’t killing me but the part that felt additionally painful was that we really couldn’t afford the surgery.  We did it anyway, of course.  Like Mom said, you can’t just put down a healthy horse who has every chance of surviving after the procedure.

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They’re reducing his pain medication and if all goes well he’ll get to go home in a week or so.  The looming, soul-sucking fear that I have is now purely focused on the financial aspect of all this.  Setting aside what his stay at the hospital and treatments have cost, the surgery itself was between $7000 to $9000.

So basically Mom and I are playing for time.  Time for me to maybe, hopefully get a book published and in the meantime scraping together any extra pennies I can find.  We do have some time but just as we were taking a step back onto solid ground this has pushed us right up to the edge again.  One more disastrous puff of air and it’s all over.

If any one of you could either afford to click the flattr button or go to Passing the Hat, I would really appreciate it if you could help me play for time as well.

Ahem.  And now what you all are actually here for!  Be sure to go read along with Jenny’s post or you’ll miss the creepy staring frog.  Or is it a toad?  I’m not sure.

Jenny’s Splendiferous Fifty Shades of Grey Recaps Chapter Thirteen

06 Wednesday Nov 2013

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Before your recording, a rant wherein foul language abounds!

So here’s the thing.  There are many, many reasons to despise Fifty Shades.  Jenny covers practically all of them but I found a new little kernel of hatred ready to spring up and choke the nearest innocent bystander while working on this recent recap.  Or at least new to me personally.

Ana goes off about how her literary heroines didn’t prepare her for Christian Grey by example and says several ignorant/offensive things.  For instance she mentions that Tess would ‘succumb’.  You know, I think it’s pretty shitty to use that language about a rape victim.  Granted I’ve never read Tess of the d’Urbervilles but I have heard from pretty much everyone that Tess is raped in the novel.  Using the word succumbed implies quite a bit more consent than actually existed in that specific scenario.  Although considering this is Ana, it’s not all that surprising that she would interpret the scene that way.  Or that E.L. James would interpret it that way.

But it royally pissed me off when Ana claimed that Jane Eyre would ‘be too frightened’.  Bitch, please.  Jane Eyre could kick your ass with one witty quip that would take weeks to sink into your brain.  Then one day you would just drop to your knees and start crying without knowing why.  Christian Grey is definitely enough of a complete ass to try to talk Jane Eyre into being his submissive but after dealing with Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre would tell him exactly where he could stick his contract in the politest terms possible.  Because that’s how Jane rolls.  She’s a goddamn word ninja.  Let’s also not forget that when Mr. Rochester tried to control her wardrobe and her daily routine, she made him respect her boundaries and like it.  Jane Eyre would literally rather starve out in the cold than be controlled by a man.

So hey, E.L. James, why don’t you shut the fuck up about Jane Eyre from now on, okay?

Now here’s what you’re all really here for.  Follow along with Jenny or miss out on the fabulous pictures.

Download here.

I don’t know if this is some glorious hallucination or even how it’s happened considering I’m out of minutes but….

Update: Okay, now I know how it happened.  The first two recaps are no longer visible on soundcloud.  Jeez.  I’ll just… fix it later.