Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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Ask me a question! InCryptid knowledge party.

With Midnight Blue-Light Special approaching fast (and Half-Off Ragnarok just put to bed), I am naturally spending a lot of time thinking about InCryptid, and blogging about InCryptid, since I want everyone to be as excited as I am. So here is your invitation:

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!
Tags: comic books, incryptid, midnight bluelight special
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acelightning

February 1 2013, 17:25:39 UTC 4 years ago

1. Where did the mice come from? (Or is that a spoiler?)

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...)

tylik

February 1 2013, 17:37:00 UTC 4 years ago

I really like the cryptid detecting ability thing... mostly because I am a biologist, and apparently in the Incryptid world my profession is kind of falling down on the job. (I mean, clearly there are enough natural species to be overwhelmed with...

...OMG! The Covenant infiltrated the funding agencies. Bastards!)

acelightning

February 1 2013, 19:44:22 UTC 4 years ago

Hmm. The Covenant seems to resemble some of the more esoteric Catholic orders, although they don't seem to be quite as insistent on celibacy. Maybe all the hooraw in this world against things like stem-cell research and various forms of reproductive self-determination are distractions engineered by the Covenant to keep real scientists like you from pursuing the biology of cryptids?

hasufin

February 20 2013, 16:40:10 UTC 4 years ago

Let's be fair. It's hard to find non-sentient creatures that are just generally shy rather than actively hiding from humans.

What chance does traditional biology have with respect to cryptids? They're intelligent beings who actively and specifically are trying to avoid notice and recognition. You've no chance.

acelightning

February 3 2013, 19:42:45 UTC 4 years ago

I think I just found a madhura...

seanan_mcguire

February 27 2013, 16:10:15 UTC 4 years ago

1. No more mouse questions.

2. Answered!

3. This is not a world/cosmology question.