Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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DEADLINE open thread. Have a party.

To celebrate the release of Deadline [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy], here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned.

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence. I will probably answer a great many comments. I may not answer all of them.

Have fun!
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seanan_mcguire

June 1 2011, 17:01:09 UTC 6 years ago

That's a complicated question, and part of why I sort of winced every time someone commented on how nice it was that Shaun and Georgia didn't need romantic interests. It's not that they didn't need them; it's that George was a very private person, and that wasn't the sort of thing she would share in a first-person narrative.

The short answer is "because they told me it was there." I actually tried to argue them out of it, and just kept getting contradicted by the fictional people. "It's icky." "We're not related." "It's inappropriate." "This isn't YA." "It's unnecessary." "No, it's not. Here are eight reasons why." "You were raised as brother and sister." "We were raised as props for photo opportunities."

So basically...it was there because it was there. I'm sorry it made you uncomfortable.

jennygriffee

June 1 2011, 19:52:11 UTC 6 years ago

I liked it myself that there weren't romantic interests in the picture, although the eventual reveal (which was not a total surprise; there had been hints) didn't bother me, either; it just fleshed a few things out. On balance, what's still refreshing about it is that that part of their relationship wasn't what drove everything. They were crazy close in every possible way, and understandably so, but their work was the story, and the rest was private business that didn't have to be ours. I am fine with that. It's nice seeing people as real partners and not having it be all about Hot! Raging! Hormones! every time, even if that is part of the picture somewhere or other.

(And sure, I have an incest squick nine miles wide, but when they're not actually related, that's a moot point -- it's emotionally tangled up as all hell, but that just makes it interesting.... ;)

seanan_mcguire

June 1 2011, 21:02:17 UTC 6 years ago

I'm with you on both the squick, and on why this didn't trigger it for me while writing the books.

kyburg

June 3 2011, 17:54:45 UTC 6 years ago

I'll be blunt - the fact the APs didn't pick up on this squicks me more. I mean, there's self-absorbed and self-serving, and then there's willingly oblivious - or worse. Considering their opinions of who and what they were inside the family unit - yeah. Squick.

vixyish

June 3 2011, 22:27:15 UTC 6 years ago

If by APs you mean adoptive parents... I read it as a sign of how little they actually cared about (i.e. paid attention to the lives or feelings of) Shaun & Georgia beyond the ratings they attracted.

Which is kind of its own variety of squick. :(

(Oooohhhh... come to think of it... there's a line that makes me wonder... oohh. *ponders*)

paradisacorbasi

June 4 2011, 02:29:29 UTC 6 years ago

According to Shaun, Georgia never showed any physical affection to him at all when they were around.

That plus the fact that Stacy and Michael Mason saw those kids as ratings points, and not so much as "our son and our daughter", so they really didn't care much.