Too tired (and too sick) for content; have some links.: seanan

Too tired (and too sick) for content; have some links.

I have been home, dead of sick, for two days. We're talking "deep, rasping chest cough, I sound like a Batman villain, spent eleven hours on the couch yesterday, watched all of The Number 23 because changing the channel seemed too much like work" levels of sick. (PS: Maybe the number-obsessed OCD girl shouldn't watch movies about being driven to increasing levels of paranoia by numbers when she's already sick. Luckily for me, the movie made no damn sense, and just triggered nice little daydreams about prime factors and pi. What? I don't judge what helps you feel better.) So here is some stuff from my link file that I have been unable to find context for.

First off, no matter how bad a cover your book gets, it will never win the bad cover lottery. That prize has already been claimed by this not-safe-for-work edition of The Princess Bride. What is that I don't even. Flesh-snakes are attacking her lady bits with the intent to burrow their way into the promised land. Presumably the promised land has a cover that makes sense. Also, I do not remember Buttercup using a falcon as a cunning hat. Maybe somebody was hitting the cold meds a little too hard when they approved this one? I don't know.

The next time I go to the UK, I am totally visiting Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, which promises me "bespoke and everyday items for the living, dead, and undead," and is the only shop I've ever seen that was polite enough to request that angry mobs douse their torches before entering. Hell, forget visiting; I want to live there.

This is Alton Brown's Fanifesto. It makes me happy, even as I am sad that it needed to exist.

Disney Princesses have their issues, and I am the last person to pretend that they don't, but they have their good sides, too. This is a lovely collection of moments to illustrate that. (And while I'm pointing you at Princesses, why not swing by Amy Mebberson's Tumblr? Her weekly "Pocket Princesses" cartoons are a real treat.)

Finally, for now, cuckoos are in a biological arms race to continue their egg parasitism ways. So maybe there's hope for humanity. If the cuckoos don't figure out a better way...

I'm going back to bed.

vettecat

March 20 2012, 17:23:06 UTC 5 years ago

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Hope you feel better soon! And, um, I hope Goldman hasn't seen that cover...???!!

seanan_mcguire

May 4 2012, 15:57:49 UTC 5 years ago

Sadly, I bet he has...

lauowolf

March 20 2012, 18:04:15 UTC 5 years ago

To revive the ancient meme: What has been seen cannot be unseen.
A pity truly.
Gah!

This germ does eventually die, but man does it hang on first.
I was pleasantly surprised that the cough yielded to ricolas (classic).
Things like that never work for me, so that I even tried them is a sign of my sheer frustration at the madly continuing cough.
Oh, and it likes lots of rest, and hates being cold.
I would recommend a hot toddy, medicinal cats, and to start working through that pile of books you've been saving.
But I suspect you'll just go and work on something....

May 4 2012, 19:36:24 UTC 5 years ago

I did both!

liddle_oldman

March 20 2012, 20:34:30 UTC 5 years ago

Now, that's a cover. I had no idea that H.P. Lovecraft wrote that much tentacle porn!

May 4 2012, 19:36:32 UTC 5 years ago

I know, right?

yellowblackhaze

March 20 2012, 21:34:09 UTC 5 years ago

There's a couple of really fun bad cover threads at some forums I visit that Princess Bride one hasn't made it there yet, but seriously it does belong in the 'what the hell were they thinking?' column.

May 4 2012, 19:36:41 UTC 5 years ago

It's...special.

weasel_of_d00m

March 20 2012, 22:53:19 UTC 5 years ago

Feel better soon!

May 4 2012, 19:36:48 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

peachtales

March 21 2012, 22:30:30 UTC 5 years ago Edited: March 21 2012, 22:31:01 UTC

That was a wonderful collection of stuff that made me smile as well as go "huh?", and it was especially welcome on the day my unemployment claim was denied. Yes, I filed an appeal. Yes, I am still worried beyond worried.
I also hope you feel much better soonest.

May 4 2012, 19:37:05 UTC 5 years ago

I hope everything is working out for you...

May 5 2012, 02:21:45 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you! I hope so too.
Unemployment appeal was denied, I filed a 2nd appeal and am now waiting for the hearing next week. I hope I get approved.
I do have a job offer (pending background and drug screen and all of that), but it's barely enough to pay the rent, electric and keep the cats in kibble. *sigh*

May 5 2012, 16:08:05 UTC 5 years ago

Good luck. :(

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traveller_blues

March 22 2012, 18:15:57 UTC 5 years ago

Aigh. Now I have the Sweet Genius guy narrating that comment. "Ze place is a fantastic bwend of consistent application of design and de-lightful wimsy."

-Traveller

May 4 2012, 19:37:15 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

May 6 2012, 15:38:04 UTC 5 years ago

I am so excited to get to go there in 2014!

March 22 2012, 17:44:26 UTC 5 years ago

....Ministry of Stories. I'm living in the wrong country. Back when I was a kid, we were encouraged to read but not write (outside of book reports and 500 word essays). I had to find my ability to dreamcraft all by myself. To navigate the landmine field of writing more fanfiction than fiction, and today I tell everyone they can do it, because I can. But sometimes it feels like a losing battle, knowing that we never seem to encourage our authors, successful or not, rich or not, famous or not, and ... just... wow. That just made my day, and it's on my List of Places to Visit now too.

-Traveller