Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • 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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janetmiles

May 29 2012, 16:56:06 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  May 29 2012, 16:59:50 UTC

Oh, ghods, yes, the crazy trying to protect itself from the encroaching sanity. I've BEEN there, not with hallucinations like Shaun, but with depression, and Seanan had it so perfectly RIGHT.

ETA to correct a spelling error.

hasufin

May 29 2012, 17:14:46 UTC 5 years ago

You know, I wonder about the difference with respect to hallucination.

Depression, in my experience, involves you telling yourself how much you suck. It's not even really a conscious thing, or at least it's not wholly conscious. THere's no other voice telling you how much you suck. It's just *you* - your thoughts, your decisions. Which is damned scary, because there's no way to protect yourself from it. You can't just say "Okay, I'm not going to do what I want me to do." It's on the inside and it changes the very way that you think. It changes your notion of rational, and makes the depressive way of thinking seem perfectly reasonable. And you do check it against your notion of rational - and it passes, because depression controls your idea of rational.

Shaun's crazy wasn't like that. His crazy had a different voice. It coudl talk to him, annoy him, distract him - but from his POV, it wasn't *him*. Is that easier or harder to handle, I wonder?