MIDNIGHT BLUE-LIGHT SPECIAL open thread!

Besides the giggle-a-minute snark and humor provided courtesy of Verity, Istas and the Aeslin, I particularly loved your portrayals of Sarah and Kitty. Sarah, because she is a character living with instinct-vs-morality conflicts (literally a case of nature against nurture) and the poor girl essentially BREAKS herself in trying to walk that razor's edge. Then to see Grandma Angela coping with the aftermath... I could literally hear the poor woman wondering if how she'd raised Sarah was the right thing to do.

I also found it refreshing to see Kitty, who is such a practical, down-to-earth shift away from her uncle. Proving, as I'm sure was your point, that just because two people are part of the same species, or even the same family, does not mean that they are the exact same. (We are all individuals... I'm not!) I love Kitty's no-nonsense approach to the coming purge, and how understandable she is of the notion that, for example, just because Istas, Ryan, and Verity aren't at Freakshow, doesn't mean they aren't serving a useful purpose to the Cryptid population. Having read your Bogeyman sociology post, here on LJ, before delving into the book, seeing Kitty put the "everything has a value" mentality into practice was particularly meaningful for me, proving that "knowing something's price" does not necessarily translate to "greedy and/or cheap."

All in all, I was simply thrilled to come back into a world that is so shiny and fluffy on the surface, but so dark, if one just peers past the cracks... Thank you!