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.

trialia

June 2 2011, 12:16:32 UTC 6 years ago

Honestly, I don't squick much, but incest is the one that's about nine miles wide for me, whether actual siblings or just raised that way, and this... didn't trigger it too badly. And I kept reading. Which, in itself, is weird for me - and I think it says a lot about the quality of your writing.

I never felt they were actually having sex, though; more just part of an absolute, loving codependence. Does that make sense?

amberfox

June 2 2011, 14:53:38 UTC 6 years ago

This is where I was on their relationship. A lot of people, especially Americans, seem to believe that codependence is a dirty word, but there's something very empowering about knowing that someone's got your back. My sister and I are best friends. A lot of people find that strange. They wouldn't see anything odd about us being friends with girls our age who grew up in our neighborhood, though. Personally, I don't get it.

seanan_mcguire

June 6 2011, 19:18:53 UTC 6 years ago

I don't find it strange at all, and I have other sibling pairs who are codependent without it being sexual in any way.

beccastareyes

June 4 2011, 01:20:13 UTC 6 years ago

I never felt they were actually having sex, though; more just part of an absolute, loving codependence. Does that make sense?

Same here. Honestly, when reading FEED, I read Georgia as asexual who got her emotional needs met by Shaun, and Shaun as het, but not interested in anyone for more than a physical relationship, because he had Georgia*. So it was pretty easy to read them as emotionally involved with one another, because they grew up knowing that the other one had their back in ways that their adoptive parents didn't.

* Even then, it took a bit into Shaun and Becks' interaction to confirm Shaun's interest in Georgia was reciprocated, because I really did ping George as ace. Granted, even if she was asexual, Shaun may well have been a special case, since he's Shaun.

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seanan_mcguire

June 6 2011, 19:17:55 UTC 6 years ago

Hee.

That's awesome.

seanan_mcguire

June 6 2011, 19:18:29 UTC 6 years ago

That's sort of my take. Shaun could move on. She never would have. He was it, for her.

azurelunatic

June 6 2011, 07:23:42 UTC 6 years ago

They never pinged my "this is a romance" button; they did ping my "they are everything to each other, and I would be unsurprised if 'everything' included sex too", and then someone confirmed it for me shortly thereafter.

crewgrrl

June 16 2011, 05:38:25 UTC 6 years ago

This. I never thought that they had taken the relationship past the point of "we are all the other person needs." Possible naked and messy bits need not apply.

I'm totally ok if they did go there, but it wasn't something I was seeing.

seanan_mcguire

June 16 2011, 14:36:26 UTC 6 years ago

They went there.