Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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  • Music: Taylor Swift, "Long Live."

BLACKOUT open thread!

To celebrate the release of Blackout, 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. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.)

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, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun!
Tags: blackout, mira grant, zombies
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effervescent

May 26 2012, 16:54:15 UTC 5 years ago

Coming in randomly, but I noticed this thread and got curious...

From chapter sixteen:

"Actually, Governor, I mean what I said." I turned to look him in the eyes, unblinking. One of the few handy side effects of retinal KA is the alck of a need for repeated ocular lubrication - or in layman's terms, I don't blink much.

So it sounds as though she doesn't blink as much, not that she doesn't blink at all. Now, I'm not sure why, since I thought that blinking mostly had to due to dust, etc, but if KA changes the structure/environment of the eye in other ways... Maybe Seanan can elaborate further.

ext_209138

May 26 2012, 17:11:43 UTC 5 years ago

Hmm, that may be the thing I was thinking of...but I think there was something more specific to the light sensitivity that first made me take note. (Did I actually say she never blinked? If so, that isn't what I meant to imply.)

Lubrication is one of the reasons we involuntarily blink. Though, anyone can train themselves to not blink and they'll eventually get over the discomfort that brings. Except maybe for someone with light sensitivity because unless they had absolutely not qualms with washing out their vision and being in lots of pain. So, yeah, not sure if I agree with "not much."