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aussiepeach made for mariole ("the Ripper")'s birthday (visit her LJ to check it out - bwahahaha!), I decided to make the "Pulp Fiction Frodo" manip I'd been planning to do for weeks. I'd been saving it for a rainy day. (O.K. so it's not raining, it's snowing.)
I work at a library, right here in "Minnesota-nice" Duluth. Imagine my surprise when, unloading a bin of returned items, I saw this book. Enchanted by the cover art, I checked it out and asked my husband to scan it at work. What a treasure! (I just love campy book jackets.)
Actually, I had had no idea our library stocked this sort of thing, or that Harelquin published anything higher-rated than PG. Am I behind the times! Flipping [unerringly] to the sex scene, I would call Too Hot to Handle solidly "R." That it was should have come as no surprise, considering the naughtiness of the cover (just love the way his hand is situated).
If you are wondering, the blurb on the back says the story relates the late-night visits to the heroine's home by the handsome local police officer. Apparently, in this woman's town the police are not terribly busy.
ETA: Links to the cover of the original:
Front cover
Back cover
So....
Happy Birthday, Mariole:
Ripper Extraordinaire!
You made me do it....
~ Frodo Baggins feels the mercury (or something) rising in the Ripper's steamy new best-seller, Too Hot to Sleep....
ETA #2: I decided to add this manip to the Frodo Art Travesties album, even though the book cover from which this was made does not rank as Art.
~ Mechtild
Inspired by the wonderfully trashy book cover
aussiepeach made for mariole ("the Ripper")'s birthday (visit her LJ to check it out - bwahahaha!), I decided to make the "Pulp Fiction Frodo" manip I'd been planning to do for weeks. I'd been saving it for a rainy day. (O.K. so it's not raining, it's snowing.)I work at a library, right here in "Minnesota-nice" Duluth. Imagine my surprise when, unloading a bin of returned items, I saw this book. Enchanted by the cover art, I checked it out and asked my husband to scan it at work. What a treasure! (I just love campy book jackets.)
Actually, I had had no idea our library stocked this sort of thing, or that Harelquin published anything higher-rated than PG. Am I behind the times! Flipping [unerringly] to the sex scene, I would call Too Hot to Handle solidly "R." That it was should have come as no surprise, considering the naughtiness of the cover (just love the way his hand is situated).
If you are wondering, the blurb on the back says the story relates the late-night visits to the heroine's home by the handsome local police officer. Apparently, in this woman's town the police are not terribly busy.
ETA: Links to the cover of the original:
Front cover
Back cover
So....
Happy Birthday, Mariole:
Ripper Extraordinaire!
You made me do it....
~ Frodo Baggins feels the mercury (or something) rising in the Ripper's steamy new best-seller, Too Hot to Sleep....
ETA #2: I decided to add this manip to the Frodo Art Travesties album, even though the book cover from which this was made does not rank as Art.
~ Mechtild
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I love it! Nipples! Draperies! BLAZING HOT ACTION!!!
Ah, Mechtild. I swoon over this. Thank you, thank you so very much!
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Yeah, the action does look rather blazing hot. I still can't believe it's on our library's "Romance novel" spinner. Here's a link to the real book, if you are interested.
Front: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v382/mechtild/pics%20for%20posts/Harlequin1.jpg
Back: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v382/mechtild/pics%20for%20posts/Harlequin2.jpg
Cheers, birthday woman!
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I LOVE romance novel covers. I have been known to buy them just for the covers and never read them. This is extremely entertaining Mechtild. It's mariole's birthday and we ALL get a prezzie. How hobbitish!
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Thank YOU for the incredible hotness of Pulp Fiction Frolijah. That is one of your best manips ever!
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Even the male model for this cover was too built-up for Frodo (in my opinion), but I thought he would do in a pinch. Perhaps it's supposed to depict Frodo after he's got all toned from going through the rigours of the Quest, but, also, after Mistress Rose began feeding him up, so that he was no longer thin. (I'll think of anything to try and make a scenario plausible *grin*).
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*stares*
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Officer Baggins can drop by and interrogate me any time.
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And to be that woman, with him resting between my legs ....
Drooling and sighing .................
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(I love the hand, too. *smirk* Looking at it, even with the average looking man's head on it in the original, quite unnerved when checking it in at the library.)
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I agree about the original too - you don't really expect to see that sort of thing in the public library, do you?? :) :D ;)
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:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Too much.
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
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:D :D :D
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Goes off, dreaming about Frolijah and Jack all at once...
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That's total hormone overload, that is!!!!
*faints*
You know what it is about Fro? Even when he's scorchingly, sizzlingly hot, he STILL has this air of unsullied innocence.
I just love it.
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Pearl, can you believe that cover was on a library book here in Duluth? I showed it to husband (I always show off my work, since he bought me the new program for Christmas with which I have been making new-and-improved manips). He said, pointing to Frodo's hand so plainly placed over his Person, "Did the cover actually have that, or did you add that part?"
"Nope, that part's right on the library book cover," I smirked.
P.S. Did I say we re-watched Donnie Darko this weekend? Boy, do I love that film.
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As to hormonal overload... It's spring, after all... ;)
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The only type of men I swoon for is the type of Jack and Frolijah (and Dr. Carter form ER) ;)
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:D
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Actually, I think this cover is a stand-out (ha! - "stand-up, should I say?), even for its genre, in so strongly featuring the man. The woman's body is practically covered up by his. And his body is not even in profile, but facing the viewer, plainly revealing not only his physical contours (which is usual even in the profiles), but his response to being with her (the attitude of the hand). His face is by far the more prominent, too. Her face is nearly in complete shadow. It is the man's face, even in the original, that is being featured for the cover art's "reaction shot."
Although hot covers usually show the man's chest and arms, to show off his musculature,it's her face that is shown responding, usually looking rapturous. (Or they show them in profile, equally rapturous.)
Anyway, I am really pleased with the way this turned out. Again, thanks so much, Peachy, for posting your "Strumpette" cover (*choke*) for Mariole. If you hadn't I would not have been moved to open the necessary programs and go ahead and make this.
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*drops dead*
Thank you for killing me twice in one day :D
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You know what it is about Fro? Even when he's scorchingly, sizzlingly hot, he STILL has this air of unsullied innocence.
I just love it.
*cherishes hot and sweet Frodo*
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Imagine if it was the woman's hand in that position!
As I said - yes, well...! I think I'll go now!
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Hmmmm. That is a pleasant thing to imagine. But not her hand, mine. *guffaw*
Actually, in terms of hotness, I think it's more inspiring to see his own hand there. He's not quite fondling himself, since his fingers are not actually formed around his Person (no doubt, even for the Blaze series, that would be *too* much for a Harlequin cover). The sense I also get from the hand position - combined with his squinch-eyebrowed I'm-definitely-feeling-something look - is that Pulp Fiction Frodo actually is trying to subdue his response, as if he were is acknowledging his rising excitement. The hand placement seems to hint at pressing it, as if trying to keep it contained. That secondary implication adds to the overall effect for me quite a lot. Frodo excited is always thrilling, but Frodo excited while trying to resist it is even more thrilling. (In my opinion.)