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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amberfox

June 2 2011, 05:57:29 UTC 6 years ago

I managed to miss that implication; I didn't read that as incest at all, just as him being used to sleeping next to George, which we had previously been told they did when traveling. Also if they slept in connecting rooms with the door open, saying Goodnight would be common enough. I shared a room with my sister for 1.5 years and still share a house, and we grab each other first to share anything we want to squee about or need an opinion on, but we've never had sex. Some people are just really close. Codependency would be a survival skill after the Rising.

Of course, if Seanan says they're fucking like bunnies, well, she'd know, right? =)

admnaismith

June 11 2011, 20:12:43 UTC 6 years ago


You're not alone in that....I mean, George has been having conversations with Shaun in his head for over a year now, they probably talk a lot just as he's drifting off to sleep.

As opposed to Shaun drifting off to sleep next to someone else, which for all I can tell was happening for the very first time in his life.

Awful faux pas, but it didn't indicate sex-with-George to me at all.

Sometimes I think I may be one of the few people left who actually thinks of a deep kind of intimacy-based platonic love for others that isn't based on sex. I get startled when people talk about how famous same-sex friends in fiction (Holmes and Watson, Robin Hood and Little John, Spencer and Hawk) were probably friggling like bunnies. That stuff never occurs to me. Not with opposite sex friends either unless sexual tension is written into the story.

seanan_mcguire

June 13 2011, 15:32:42 UTC 6 years ago

I think deep intimacy-based platonic love totally exists. It even exists in some of my stories. Just...not here.