Pulp Fiction Frodo: Too Hot to Sleep

[mechtild]

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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

Comments

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Goldenberry, your "OMG" icon is a SCREAM. Thanks for stopping in to comment.

[golden-berry.livejournal.com]

If only I could remember where it came from, I'd link to the website.

Thank YOU for the incredible hotness of Pulp Fiction Frolijah. That is one of your best manips ever!

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Really? I'll have to add it to the "Frodo Art Travesty" album, then. I wasn't going to since it isn't really made from a work of art, but, what the heck? :D

[golden-berry.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's time for a second album: Pulp Fiction travesties. Although, pulp fiction art generally IS a travesty. One that is vastly improved by substituting Frolijah's face. That guy who poses for romance novel covers--Fabio or something like that?--better watch out. He's got some hot competition. :D

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Ah, Goldenberry, you are so funny! Actually, I so liked this manip I thought it would be fun to do a series. The problem is, most trashy covers do feature someone like Fabio. He (and they) as far, far too traditionally herky, like muscle-men, to serve as the bodies for any Frodo I would bother to make into a manip.

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*).