Ask me a question. Ask me a big question. Like when I posted about the rules governing fae marriage. The ones that require serious thought, and a genuine desire to know.
What can cuckoos really do? What was the straw that broke the camel's back for Alexander and Enid? How do cryptid communities conceal themselves in human cities? Questions too big, and too complicated, to answer in the FAQ. Now, because I apparently wasn't clear enough the first time, I WILL NOT GIVE SPOILERS. Please don't ask me where someone is, or whether someone else is coming back, or whether I'll post a full calendar of Aeslin holidays (because I never, ever will). Ask me about laws and rules and universe, about etiquette and speciation and trends in fashion.
The ten best questions will get full blog posts about them, explaining whatever facet or facets of the InCryptid world they touch on. I get to determine "best," although you're all welcome to weigh in or ask secondary questions.
I have comment amnesty for any questions I do not choose to answer during this particular publication lead-in, because I want my brain to not dribble out of my ears.
Game on!
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February 1 2013, 16:30:07 UTC 4 years ago
Sadly, all the questions I can come up with can be answered either with John Rogers' standby of "whatever interpretation lets you enjoy the story better" or "I haven't gotten there yet" or "spoilers!" So, no need to spend valuable time replying to this comment, I guess!
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(From Wikipedia, the fount of suspicious factoids - The three Gorgon sisters—Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale—were children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys and his sister Ceto, chthonic monsters from an archaic world. Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graeae, as in Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, who places both trinities of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain"...)
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(I rarely wear lolita clothes to work because work, and I don't wear them to clean house in either, but they are my go-to dress up and look pretty/convention/party outfits.)
The biggest bar to doing lolita well isn't finding the community or tolerating human interaction. Unless you're a talented seamstress, the biggest bar to doing lolita well is MONEY. I own at least one $500 dress from Angelic Pretty (collab with manga artist Imai Kira). It is one of the stupidest financial decisions I've ever made given the time at which I bought it, and I don't regret it a bit.
It has bitchy cats gossiping at a Rococo tea party on it. And it's pink.
Most lolita dresses are around half that and you can get them secondhand or on sale if you're lucky, but by and large it's as bad a hobby as BJDs for your pocketbook if you want to buy brand.
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Oooh, second question! The Covenant is named after an English saint. How worldwide are they and how did/when did they spread? (I seem to recall that at least the tanuki bouncer at Dave's Fish and Strips had strong feelings about them that Verity explained as past encounters between tanuki families and the Covenant, which implies that the Covenant operated in Japan at some point.)
* Plus, I seem to recall Sparrow Hill Road takes place in the same continuity, so you have route witches and such.
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Maybe a better question is "Don't they ever eventually retire/co-opt older holidays (as humans did with Saternalia) rather than run out of room on whatever passes for a calendar? (For that matter, do they have their own calendar, with a looser relation to the seasons than the Gregorian?)
Are colonies ever combined? I'd hate to think about holy wars to determine the calendar of a merged group, but it could happen.
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What happens with orphans in the Covenant? I mean, we get some hints of that in Discount Armageddon but I'm really curious how it's handled as a matter of policy, if the reality of the situation changes from policy, and how kids in that group are brought up in general.
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Spoilers!
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(I think some of this might be answered when I re-read DA just before MBLS comes out - but I've been wondering!)
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Y'know. Answers to any ONE of these, or something similar, would be awesome. And I appreciate you taking the time to do this, thank you.
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2. The Price family's history suggests that there might be some sort of "paranormal" ability that helps a person detect cryptids, and that this ability is at least partially genetic. On the other pseudopod, it could all be nothing more than empirical knowledge, handed down from one generation to the next with a bit more intensity than Great-Grandmother's kugelhupf recipe.
3. Are all of the cryptids in your stories actual creatures from world mythologies/folkore (like gorgons, tanuki, chupacabras, etc.), or are some of them your own inventions? Which ones are your inventions? (I'm betting on the mice, for starters...)
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...OMG! The Covenant infiltrated the funding agencies. Bastards!)
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Likewise, what's so not funny about the Easter Bunny?
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Are there other Covenant-scale organizations in the world -- of any species composition -- dedicated to the cryptid/noncryptid relationship? Whether that means an actual bilateral relationship or one-sided hostility, aha.
Is cross-species reproduction as difficult for most species as it is/was for the tanuki (or even harder)? There are cryptid species with different sex schemas (the massive sexual dimorphism thing, e.g.), but are there cryptid societies with absent or markedly different gender schemas?
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In the sense that I've got anything planned with them, no, not yet.
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Also, what are bugbears?
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