ARC winners for the latest giveaway!: seanan

ARC winners for the latest giveaway!

First up, sorry for the delay: I decided that I hadn't spent enough quality time with the exciting stomach bug that's touring around the country and became vilely ill to make up for it. Details are not forthcoming. You're welcome. Technically, I'm still ill, but I can at least sit up and type now, which is more than I could manage yesterday.

Because so many people had great "why I should win a copy of Discount Armageddon" answers, and because I am still sick, I gave up on being arbitrary and leaned on the random number generator instead. Our winners are...

jhyanmar

kalenodonnell

But because I did say I was going to be arbitrary, and because I found a few extra ARCs in my mailbox yesterday, I am also going to send a copy to...

thebluerose

Because New Zealand needs cryptids.

If you're one of our winners, please send me your mailing address via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours. If I don't have your contact info by then, I'll choose a new winner. (

thebluerose, you and I will also need to work out shipping; we can do that after you contact me.)

For everybody else: what kind of giveaway should we do next? LOLcryptids? Poetry? Art? Cookies? The sky's the limit, and I want to know what you think.

And now I'm gonna go lie down.

yellowblackhaze

January 17 2012, 21:24:30 UTC 5 years ago

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I'm not entirely convinced that New Zealand's weta isn't a cryptid that camoflages itself by hiding in plain sight. It's power? Scaring the bejeebers out of anyone unfortunate enough to have it land on them.

seanan_mcguire

January 17 2012, 23:32:56 UTC 5 years ago

I would so buy that.

anna_en_route

January 18 2012, 00:37:21 UTC 5 years ago

Considering I once picked up a pair of jeans (from the bathroom floor no less) and had a weta bite me and then scuttle away hissing...I am forced to agree. Weta...they specialise in the scare (while being completely harmless).

I just wish they were better at scaring my cat so she would stop chasing the poor wee things.

aliciaaudrey

January 18 2012, 01:57:38 UTC 5 years ago

Okay I just googled this creature and then screamed.

*Crosses New Zealand off the places to visit list*

January 18 2012, 02:30:01 UTC 5 years ago

They're actually kind of cute (in a so incredibly ugly they're adoreable sort of way).

It helps to know that they're not poisonous and they can't sting, the worst they can do is bite you and even that doesn't actually hurt.

There's a really cute picture out there of one of the rarer giant weta eating a carrot on a guy's hand.

January 18 2012, 03:02:27 UTC 5 years ago

I have to agree with my neighbour *waves at anna* from across the Tasman. Wetas are harmless, they just look really scary. New Zealand is a beautiful country and doesn't have that many dangerous animals, whereas we here in Australia have any number of poisonous spiders and snakes.

January 18 2012, 04:05:28 UTC 5 years ago

Heh...our fauna looks terrifying and is mostly harmless, some of your fauna looks harmless and can really bring the damage (even platypus is poisonous isn't it?). It's like some weird negative.

The exceptions in New Zealand being the katipo spider (which is rare) and the kea (which is a parrot and not poisonous but is fearfully bright and prone to destroying things to see how they work...things up to and including automobiles,tv aerials and lambs)

January 18 2012, 04:55:35 UTC 5 years ago

Yes, the platypus has a poisonous spur on it's back leg. It really does need some sort of defence, they're smaller than you'd think and very shy, although extraordinarily cute.

January 18 2012, 21:05:41 UTC 5 years ago

I want a weta, but my office mates say that if I get one, I am not allowed to bring it to work. Sillies. (I know I can't actually HAVE a weta; this does not change the wanting.)

January 18 2012, 23:07:51 UTC 5 years ago

I have the same want of a monkey, preferably a squirrel monkey or a marmoset.

January 18 2012, 23:27:44 UTC 5 years ago

Would it help your co-workers to know that they can survive freezing, have changed very little in the last 100000 and that cave wetas can jump two metres?

Cause I mean who wouldn't be impressed by that?

January 18 2012, 23:40:08 UTC 5 years ago

It impresses me, but sadly, I think it would just convince them that weta were designed by Satan for the sole purpose of making everyone else miserable. Forever.

January 19 2012, 02:18:29 UTC 5 years ago

Satan or possibly Peter Jackson...

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