Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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MIDNIGHT BLUE-LIGHT SPECIAL open thread!

To celebrate the release of Midnight Blue-Light Special, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Judging by the comments I'm seeing, you've had time.

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.) I will be DELETING all comments containing spoilers which have been left on other posts. No one gets to spoil people here without a label.

You can also start a 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, and try not to bleed on the carpet.
Tags: incryptid, midnight bluelight special, open thread
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tylik

March 5 2013, 19:47:38 UTC 4 years ago

I must start this off with the obvious (and will likely chime in with other comments later) -

Aaaagh! Sarah! Aaaaagh!

(I mean, okay, prognosis is at least okay. But. Agh.)

(And maybe this will inspir Artie into... something. Which would probably be an improvement.)

seanan_mcguire

March 5 2013, 19:55:00 UTC 4 years ago

Writing from her POV was super-fun, however. Like, super-fun, and SUPER HARD. I can't reference facial expressions unless they're Muppet-level exaggerations, and it made for a lot of backing up and revising.

Artie is...not happy, no.

tylik

March 5 2013, 20:23:11 UTC 4 years ago Edited:  March 5 2013, 21:12:06 UTC

That was an aspect I enjoyed particularly. Especially her visual processing issues, especially has I've had some on again off again prosopagnosia myself. (It's gotten much better as I've become more visually oriented, but it made watching movies extremely tedious when I was younger, as a number of the things I do key off of work a lot less well when not in person. And every once in a while it will still kicks in.)

I also really liked her telepathy as it developed - useful, limited, completely with vulnerabilities... and avoiding pretty much every OMG, so sensitive! Woe is me! cliche in the book even while addressing some of the same issues. (And I am very much looking forward to seeing more of her interactions with Artie. The comment about his pheromones, combined with her social difficulties set them up to be an amazingly adorable pair of fucked up geeky anti-romantic heroes.)

[Probably shouldn't try to type when this out of it, but then if I wasn't, I wouldn't be playing so much on the internets.]

hasufin

March 7 2013, 05:14:33 UTC 4 years ago

That had to have been a great challenge!