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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Re: About the Masons...

elorie

June 4 2011, 23:31:58 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, because PTSD from shooting the person closest to you wouldn't make someone act like that.

Come to think of it, if the Masons do behave that way, that would be why. I refuse to see this as a "crime" on their part. I'm also morally opposed to blaming parents for the way that a grown man behaves. Either he, as an adult, is responsible for his actions, and they, as adults, are responsible, or none of them are because they are all kind of broken, but you can't hold them totally responsible and him not.

Re: About the Masons...

azurelunatic

June 6 2011, 06:53:59 UTC 6 years ago

My reaction has been "Wow, Shaun has problems ..." and then, when my brain goes on the "...and we would fix this by: ..." it catches up with "Wow, their world is SO FUCKED, and he's coping fairly well all told."

In my head-canon, there is a rising cottage industry in psych-and-guns shops. Someone close to you dies, and if you're feeling like having contact with another human being, you go down to the ammo store in person (omg), and the person there who is trained in all the latest methods of psych listens to whatever form your grieving takes, and makes sure that you're properly armed.