DEADLINE open thread. Have a party.

Oh! 499 comments in before me, if you read this I admire you even more than I did before. (and that was tremendously)

So I might have mentioned last year when I was reading FEED that I was at home in Wyoming and having truly bad startle responses when the horses on the neighboring ranches would run for the fence when the wind came up. Yep, I was home in Wyoming when I started reading DEADLINE, though this time it was the deer in the alfalfa fields that were freaking me out. Be proud of yourself, my dear. (no pun intended, sorry!)

Your writing of the George/Shaun pairing was deliciously subliminal in FEED because I assumed that they were an item if only because they only trusted one another as much as one would need to trust a long-term sexual/romantic partner, and also, nobody else on the planet knows them as well as they know each other. That is a sort of trust that I think few people in the Post-Rising world get to have. I was not surprised at the post-coital with Becks moment, but felt so very bad for Shaun at outing himself so accidentally. I am disturbed at the Kelly as Zombie idea, because it made me wonder after reading the end if she had ever been Kelly at all, if in fact the real Kelly was locked in a facility somewhere and that had been a clone!Kelly all along. And it makes my brain hurt. And my heart because I really hated her and then really liked her and then really cried for her, as I did for Dave. And Alaric's family, and I don't even know them, not really. I worry for his sister. Does she make it out of Florida? Does the almighty GarciaPharmFamily finally get on board with what is going down and put some weight behind our intrepid blogger!journalists? I want them to, I want them to be good and want them to want to save the world. I am an idealist at heart, I know this. *hangs head*

In unrelated events; thank you for providing a reason to use my Zombie icon, which I acquired when writing a character in an LJ roleplay game long ago. The character I was writing as was the product of one night of grief!sex between a woman who was searching for her brother and found instead what she thought was his double in another Shadow of Earth, one in which she could give in to the attraction he felt for her and she felt in return, once she determined much to her sadness that he was not in fact her brother. He was just randy for a hot babe. I will not reveal what was really going on, in case the story ever gets finished. But much is my amusement at the whole are they/aren't they related, because I wonder if the squick applies if they are images of siblings rather than actual. Would a Shadow version of you have your exact genetic structure? Would it matter? No need to answer, irrelevant. As I said, unrelated to the conversation.

I also want to vote for the Taunted Octopus shirt, black with orange writing on it please and thank you. Mostly because glow in teh dark inks fade faster than regular silkscreen ink, at least they used to anyway. Also, Taunted Octopus would be an awesome band name.

I am going to go back to watching for signal fires blown up labs and shambling hordes now, in my Metroplex and elsewhere.

Thank you for a fanfrellingtastic read, and the chills have not gone away yet!

S3
Denver, Colorado