Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: quixotic
  • Music: Counting Crows, "August and Everything After."

Things I have been called.

People keep trying to define me. This is okay, because it is funny. In the past few months, I have been called...

...the bastard love child of Neil Gaiman and Charles de Lint. (Biologically implausible!)
...Charles Addams crossed with Dorothy Parker. (This would make an awesome alternate-world supernatural romance FROM HELL.)
...a combination of Stephen King, Warren Ellis, and Rainbow Brite. (Angry cartoon horror author attacks city, film at eleven, evacuation at eleven seventeen.)

Have I mentioned recently that I am way too easily amused?
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xjenavivex

July 10 2009, 14:51:39 UTC 7 years ago

lol so very funny

seanan_mcguire

July 10 2009, 18:08:40 UTC 7 years ago

People amuse me constantly.

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oreouk

July 10 2009, 14:54:18 UTC 7 years ago

Yet.

kyburg

7 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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ericcoleman

July 10 2009, 14:58:05 UTC 7 years ago

Charles Addams crossed with Dorothy Parker

Hmmm ... obviously I have to get your stuff now ... I have no choice

And did you know that my elder brother's family was the basis for the original Addams cartoons?

seanan_mcguire

July 10 2009, 18:09:06 UTC 7 years ago

I did not! Dude, that rules!

dornbeast

July 10 2009, 16:20:25 UTC 7 years ago

I'll go with my usual speech on this sort of thing. Modified to suit, of course.

"Seanan McGuire is not Neil Gaiman's bastard love child, the descendant of Charles Addams and Dorothy Parker, a strange genetic hybrid of Stephen King, Warren Ellis, and Rainbow Brite, or even the second coming of Bram Stoker."

"She is quite simply and elegantly Seanan McGuire, and that's a damn good thing to be, even if it looks rather exhausting from the outside."

seanan_mcguire

July 10 2009, 18:09:33 UTC 7 years ago

Awww, thanks, sweetie. But seriously, watching the "if you liked, you'll like" codification cracks me up completely. I am so easy to amuse.

mariadkins

July 10 2009, 16:25:03 UTC 7 years ago

Fantastic! :)

seanan_mcguire

July 10 2009, 18:10:05 UTC 7 years ago

Hee.

snowcoma

July 10 2009, 17:01:27 UTC 7 years ago

When a Neil Gaiman and a Kelley Armstong love each other very much...

seanan_mcguire

July 10 2009, 18:10:51 UTC 7 years ago

You just made me snort DDP. I adore you.

semy_of_pearls

July 10 2009, 17:37:43 UTC 7 years ago

Everything's great in this good old world;
(This is the stuff they can always use.)
God's in his heaven, the hill's dew-pearled;
(This will provide for baby's shoes.)
Hunger and War do not mean a thing;
Everything's rosy where'er we roam;
Hark, how the little birds gaily sing!
(This is what fetches the bacon home.)
-- Dorothy Parker, "The Far Sighted Muse"

seanan_mcguire

July 10 2009, 18:11:05 UTC 7 years ago

I love Dorothy Parker like burning.

semy_of_pearls

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kyril

July 10 2009, 17:48:58 UTC 7 years ago

If you're half Neil Gaiman, have you read Anne Murphy's "Notes on Neil-Handling"? I'm curious as to which 50% apply to you?

I don't think there's any Diet Dr. Pepper in there though.

...but you being half Neil Gaiman would explain a lot, halfway.

seanan_mcguire

July 10 2009, 18:11:41 UTC 7 years ago

I've read it. There's surprisingly little overlap; you could probably write that sort of guide to handling me, but it would involve a lot more "now make her walk" and more frequent watering.

deire

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wcg

July 10 2009, 18:11:31 UTC 7 years ago

I've suspected for some time that you're the result of many generations of interactions between humans and fey-folk. I have no idea how fey you are, but I'd guess it's at least 9/16. I credit your work ethic to your human ancestors. (And yes, that's a good thing.)

seanan_mcguire

July 10 2009, 18:12:00 UTC 7 years ago

Awwww. Thank you!

"Charles Addams crossed with Dorothy Parker. (This would make an awesome alternate-world..."

the_ogre

July 10 2009, 18:53:08 UTC 7 years ago

Y'know, if you write it, I'll damn sure buy a copy.

Just sayin'

Re: "Charles Addams crossed with Dorothy Parker. (This would make an awesome alternate-world..."

seanan_mcguire

July 11 2009, 03:48:40 UTC 7 years ago

I will take that under advisement!

the_s_guy

July 10 2009, 21:29:26 UTC 7 years ago

And yet, somehow, there is not yet art of what these mashups would look like...

seanan_mcguire

July 11 2009, 03:48:55 UTC 7 years ago

It takes time!

the_s_guy

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kyra_neko_rei

July 10 2009, 22:30:57 UTC 7 years ago

I would imagine you're about 74% Diet Dr. Pepper . . . and the solid parts of you are mostly composed of music, words, concentrated awesomeness, shadows of the pre-existence of a hemorrhagic superplague that has yet to evolve, and between 1 and 3 percent cat hair, depending on how much Maine Coons shed.

(In other words, Kyra can't think of any names right now. Evil graphic design assignment is evil and mind-numbing.)

seanan_mcguire

July 11 2009, 17:20:09 UTC 7 years ago

Go with 3% cat hair. The cats shed a lot.

talithakalago

July 12 2009, 00:10:44 UTC 7 years ago

Damn, who did you have to sleep with to get those kinds of compliments? :P

seanan_mcguire

July 12 2009, 02:55:19 UTC 7 years ago

Surprisingly enough? No one.

deire

July 13 2009, 02:18:21 UTC 7 years ago

Huh. I would have thought Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess, myself.

If you want correct gender, Emma Bull and Charles Vess. OOOH. Neil Gaiman and P.C. Hodgell!

"Fantasy and science fiction writers are surprisingly difficult to breed in captivity. One first needs to provide an ample source of caffeine...."

seanan_mcguire

July 13 2009, 12:35:16 UTC 7 years ago

A beautiful sentiment, but I don't draw half well enough!