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* MockingMusic: At one point, Zack turns on the radio to take his mind off [[spoiler:Ruby's death]]. Cue ''[[Music/TheRollingStones Ruby Tuesday]]'' playing.
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* MockingMusic: At one point, Zack turns on the radio to take his mind off [[spoiler:Ruby's death]]. Cue ''[[Music/TheRollingStones ''[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Ruby Tuesday]]'' playing.
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* BonusMaterial: Nine DummiedOut chapters have been made [[http://wetgoddess.net/DOCS/Unpublished.htm available online on the author's website.]]
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* DummiedOut: The book's storyline skips the two weeks of Zack looking for a summer job working with dolphins. The chapters documenting what happened in the meantime were cut from the book due to being unrelated to the main plot, but were later [[BonusMaterial made available]] online for free.
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* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Ruby has a hard time understanding Zack's hesitation to [[BestialityIsDepraved have sex with her.]]
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* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Ruby has a hard time understanding Zack's hesitation to [[BestialityIsDepraved have sex with her.]]]]
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* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Ruby has a hard time understanding Zack's hestitation hesitation to [[BestialityIsDepraved have sex with her.]]
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There are many InterspeciesRomance-themed novels with varying degrees of realism. However, Malcolm J. Brenner's
''Wet Goddess'', first published in 2010, is a whole different story:
''Wet Goddess'', first published in 2010, is a whole different story:
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There are many InterspeciesRomance-themed novels with varying degrees of realism. However, Malcolm J. Brenner's
Brenner's ''Wet Goddess'', first published in 2010, is a whole different story:
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And since interspecies romance is [[{{Squick}} viewed rather differently in real life]], the [[BestialityIsDepraved controversy]] was unavoidable. There's much more to it, though. During his nine months long relationship with Ruby the bottlenose dolphin, college student Zachary Zimmerman[[note]]while based on rather accurately described real events, the entire story is officially a work of fiction[[/note]] has an opportunity to learn a lot about dolphins... and humans.
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And since interspecies romance is [[{{Squick}} viewed rather differently in real life]], the [[BestialityIsDepraved controversy]] was unavoidable. There's much more to it, though. During his nine months long relationship with Ruby the Ruby, a bottlenose dolphin, dolphin kept captive in a local theme park in Florida, college student Zachary Zimmerman[[note]]while based on rather accurately described real events, the entire story is officially a work of fiction[[/note]] has an opportunity to learn a lot about dolphins... and humans.
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You can find out more about the book on the [[http://www.wetgoddess.net official website]].
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You can find out more about the book on the [[http://www.wetgoddess.net official website]].website]], or [[http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/63173 read the first 50 pages for free]].
* BonusMaterial: Nine DummiedOut chapters have been made [[http://wetgoddess.net/DOCS/Unpublished.htm available online on the author's website.]]
* DreamSpying: Zack's nightmare turns out to be a vision sent to him by Ruby.
* DummiedOut: The book's storyline skips the two weeks of Zack looking for a summer job working with dolphins. The chapters documenting what happened in the meantime were cut from the book due to being unrelated to the main plot, but were later [[BonusMaterial made available]] online for free.
* DummiedOut: The book's storyline skips the two weeks of Zack looking for a summer job working with dolphins. The chapters documenting what happened in the meantime were cut from the book due to being unrelated to the main plot, but were later [[BonusMaterial made available]] online for free.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Ruby and Zack develop a serious relationship. Ruby's ability to [[{{Telepathy}} communicate telepathically]] definitely helps.
* IronicEcho: Ruby always appears in Zack's mind when he least expects it. ''Always''.
* IronicEcho: Ruby always appears in Zack's mind when he least expects it. ''Always''.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Ruby and Zack develop a serious relationship. Ruby's ability to [[{{Telepathy}} communicate telepathically]] telepathically definitely helps.
* IronicEcho: Ruby always [[{{Telepathy}} appears in Zack'smind mind]] when he least expects it. ''Always''.
* IronicEcho: Ruby always [[{{Telepathy}} appears in Zack's
* MockingMusic: At one point, Zack turns on the radio to take his mind off [[spoiler:Ruby's death]]. Cue ''[[Music/TheRollingStones Ruby Tuesday]]'' playing.
-->Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
-->Who could hang a name on you?
-->When you changed every new day
-->Still I'm gonna miss you...
-->Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
-->Who could hang a name on you?
-->When you changed every new day
-->Still I'm gonna miss you...
* NightmareSequence:
** After leaving to Evergreen State College, Zack has a nightmare of dolphins being confined in wooden boxes and rotting alive. It later turns out to be a message sent by Ruby.
** Zack conjures one up himself to show Ruby the taboos of human sexuality.
** After leaving to Evergreen State College, Zack has a nightmare of dolphins being confined in wooden boxes and rotting alive. It later turns out to be a message sent by Ruby.
** Zack conjures one up himself to show Ruby the taboos of human sexuality.
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* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Ruby has a hard time understanding Zack's hestitation to [[BestialityIsDepraved have sex with her.]]
* MockingMusic: At one point, Zack turns on the radio to take his mind off [[spoiler:Ruby's death]]. Cue ''[[Music/TheRollingStones Ruby Tuesday]]'' playing.
-->Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
-->Who could hang a name on you?
-->When you changed every new day
-->Still I'm gonna miss you...
* MockingMusic: At one point, Zack turns on the radio to take his mind off [[spoiler:Ruby's death]]. Cue ''[[Music/TheRollingStones Ruby Tuesday]]'' playing.
-->Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
-->Who could hang a name on you?
-->When you changed every new day
-->Still I'm gonna miss you...
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* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Ruby has a hard time understanding Zack's hestitation to [[BestialityIsDepraved have sex with her.]]
* MockingMusic: At one point, Zack turns on the radio to take his mind off [[spoiler:Ruby's death]]. Cue ''[[Music/TheRollingStones Ruby Tuesday]]'' playing.
-->Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
-->Who could hang a name on you?
-->When you changed every new day
-->Still I'm gonna miss you...]]
* MockingMusic: At one point, Zack turns on the radio to take his mind off [[spoiler:Ruby's death]]. Cue ''[[Music/TheRollingStones Ruby Tuesday]]'' playing.
-->Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
-->Who could hang a name on you?
-->When you changed every new day
-->Still I'm gonna miss you...
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* TheMourningAfter:IronicEcho: Ruby always appears in Zack's mind when he least expects it. ''Always''.
-->'''Zack''': Oh, that's fucking great. Now I've got [[spoiler:a ''dead'' dolphin]] swimming around in my head!
* TheMourningAfter: Ruby always remained the first and foremost in Zack's heart.
-->'''Zack''': Oh, that's fucking great. Now I've got [[spoiler:a ''dead'' dolphin]] swimming around in my head!
* TheMourningAfter: Ruby always remained the first and foremost in Zack's heart.
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* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Ruby has a hard time understanding Zack's hestitation to [[BestialityIsDepraved have sex with her.]]
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* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Ruby has a hard time understanding Zack's hestitation to [[BestialityIsDepraved have sex with her.]]]]
* MockingMusic: At one point, Zack turns on the radio to take his mind off [[spoiler:Ruby's death]]. Cue ''[[Music/TheRollingStones Ruby Tuesday]]'' playing.
-->Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
-->Who could hang a name on you?
-->When you changed every new day
-->Still I'm gonna miss you...
* MockingMusic: At one point, Zack turns on the radio to take his mind off [[spoiler:Ruby's death]]. Cue ''[[Music/TheRollingStones Ruby Tuesday]]'' playing.
-->Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
-->Who could hang a name on you?
-->When you changed every new day
-->Still I'm gonna miss you...
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[[caption-width-right:450:"Does this animal look sexually abused? The dolphin, I mean. Those who denounce my conduct might have more credibility if they actually knew something about dolphins, sex or physics. In the water, you do what the dolphin allows you to do, or you get out. End of story."]]
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[[caption-width-right:450:"Does this animal look sexually abused? The dolphin, I mean. Those who denounce my conduct might have more credibility if they actually knew something about dolphins, sex or physics. In the water, you do what the dolphin allows you to do, or you get out. End of story."]]
There are many InterspeciesRomance-themed novels with varying degrees of realism. However, Malcolm J. Brenner's
''Wet Goddess'', first published in 2010, is a whole different story:
->'''Author's Apology:''' I am sure almost anybody could write a better novel than this. Its chief defect, it seems to me, is that most of it happens to be true.
And since interspecies romance is [[{{Squick}} viewed rather differently in real life]], the [[BestialityIsDepraved controversy]] was unavoidable. There's much more to it, though. During his nine months long relationship with Ruby the bottlenose dolphin, college student Zachary Zimmerman[[note]]while based on rather accurately described real events, the entire story is officially a work of fiction[[/note]] has an opportunity to learn a lot about dolphins... and humans.
You can find out more about the book on the [[http://www.wetgoddess.net official website]].
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!!''Wet Goddess'' provides examples of:
* BestialityIsDepraved: An obvious implication of a real-life non-platonic InterspeciesRomance.
* DirtyMindReading: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Zack creeps Ruby out by showing her the full range of [[SexIsEvil humans' sexual taboos and inhibitions]].
* EthicalSlut: Ruby, and dolphins in general.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Ruby usually can only contact humans telepathically when they're stoned, or at least drunk. It's not always a necessity, though.
* InterspeciesRomance: Ruby and Zack develop a serious relationship. Ruby's ability to [[{{Telepathy}} communicate telepathically]] definitely helps.
* TheMourningAfter:
-->'''Zack''' ''[25 years later]'': So here we are again, and not a day has gone by when I haven't thought about you, Ruby.
* SapientCetaceans: Definitely so.
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: The protagonist is a college student in the 70's, after all.
* {{Telepathy}}: Dolphins in general seem to be good at it, but only Ruby tends to make a serious effort to reach out to humans.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: One of, if not the most significant theme in the novel.
-->If Ruby were a human woman for whom I felt the same affection and respect, would I have had a second's worth of second thoughts? Hell no! Given her native intelligence and her obvious passion, should species be any more a repugnant barrier than race? Wasn't the foundation of all racism the abhorrent fallacy that the despised human group was, in fact, a different, inferior sub-species?
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Ruby has a hard time understanding Zack's hestitation to [[BestialityIsDepraved have sex with her.]]
[[caption-width-right:450:"Does this animal look sexually abused? The dolphin, I mean. Those who denounce my conduct might have more credibility if they actually knew something about dolphins, sex or physics. In the water, you do what the dolphin allows you to do, or you get out. End of story."]]
There are many InterspeciesRomance-themed novels with varying degrees of realism. However, Malcolm J. Brenner's
''Wet Goddess'', first published in 2010, is a whole different story:
->'''Author's Apology:''' I am sure almost anybody could write a better novel than this. Its chief defect, it seems to me, is that most of it happens to be true.
And since interspecies romance is [[{{Squick}} viewed rather differently in real life]], the [[BestialityIsDepraved controversy]] was unavoidable. There's much more to it, though. During his nine months long relationship with Ruby the bottlenose dolphin, college student Zachary Zimmerman[[note]]while based on rather accurately described real events, the entire story is officially a work of fiction[[/note]] has an opportunity to learn a lot about dolphins... and humans.
You can find out more about the book on the [[http://www.wetgoddess.net official website]].
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!!''Wet Goddess'' provides examples of:
* BestialityIsDepraved: An obvious implication of a real-life non-platonic InterspeciesRomance.
* DirtyMindReading: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Zack creeps Ruby out by showing her the full range of [[SexIsEvil humans' sexual taboos and inhibitions]].
* EthicalSlut: Ruby, and dolphins in general.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Ruby usually can only contact humans telepathically when they're stoned, or at least drunk. It's not always a necessity, though.
* InterspeciesRomance: Ruby and Zack develop a serious relationship. Ruby's ability to [[{{Telepathy}} communicate telepathically]] definitely helps.
* TheMourningAfter:
-->'''Zack''' ''[25 years later]'': So here we are again, and not a day has gone by when I haven't thought about you, Ruby.
* SapientCetaceans: Definitely so.
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: The protagonist is a college student in the 70's, after all.
* {{Telepathy}}: Dolphins in general seem to be good at it, but only Ruby tends to make a serious effort to reach out to humans.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: One of, if not the most significant theme in the novel.
-->If Ruby were a human woman for whom I felt the same affection and respect, would I have had a second's worth of second thoughts? Hell no! Given her native intelligence and her obvious passion, should species be any more a repugnant barrier than race? Wasn't the foundation of all racism the abhorrent fallacy that the despised human group was, in fact, a different, inferior sub-species?
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Ruby has a hard time understanding Zack's hestitation to [[BestialityIsDepraved have sex with her.]]
