Dragaera

Let's Get It On (Was: : Re: Dragaeran memory ) (Spoilers for Issola, whichI hope everyone has now read that it's in paperback)

Joshua Kronengold mneme at io.com
Thu Feb 13 09:50:56 PST 2003

S Lumley / s piotto writes:
>She never specified top or bottom dude. Look before you leap.

Eh -- "bondage babe" pretty much tends to imply bottom.

Textually...this would be because of the word choice -- "bondage babe"
implies that the babe comes -with- bondage, while one would use a
different term to imply that said babe likes to -apply- bondage.  

It's so important to use language properly, after all.

And to throw something on-topic into here: why isn't the Dragaeran
empire more decadent?  Near as I can tell, they've got very few moral
boundaries...but open sex seems to be largely the halmark of the
Jhereg (and even that seems to be pretty tame), likewise for drugs.

Is there are Tsyolanu-like class of decadent people (left over from
the last Phoenix reign, maybe)?  Or is this just Not Done?



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