Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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Ten things make a list. This is a list.

10. I'm getting ready for the Parasite tour. In the local parlance, "getting ready" means "busting ass on book two, so I don't feel bad about essentially taking a week off while I jet around being fancy." I'm making a lot of progress, although the book is, as always at this stage in the composition, a hot buttered mess.

9. I am also getting ready to do a few more Parasite giveaways. I'm very conflicted. On the one hand, I like the ease of "comment and RNG" giveaways, but on the other hand, I really appreciate it when people put out a little bit more effort, since I have to do a lot of effort on my end, and then I feel like I get to have fun too. I'm still deliberating.

8. Since a few people have asked recently: the tip jar is currently closed, but will be opening on October 1st, since I figure that once every six months is a good way of doing things. I'll make a post clearly stating the situation and what your tips will do when we get to next Tuesday.

7. No, funding a second "season" of Velveteen vs. is not currently on the table. I may be doing something else about that. We shall see.

6. Ryan and Amy are visiting! Ryan and Amy are incredibly tolerant humans who understand that time and deadlines wait for no house guest, and thus allow me to retreat into my room and actually get stuff done while they amuse themselves. Best Amy and Ryan are best. Also...

5. I remain too sick to die, although I'm breathing a little better, so a lot of "company" thus far has consisted of "I want soup no not that soup different soup oh gods above and below why is air so hard?" and whining piteously. I hate the human body sometimes.

4. I am super excited about Frozen, but am amused by the fact that—thanks to the current trend of "gender neutral, non-evocative, mentioning no characters, single word" titles—it's hard to sort news about the movie from news about a remarkably wide assortment of books. Disney, perhaps it is time to reconsider your titles...

3. ...says the girl who wrote Feed.

2. Jean Grey is currently not dead and my mother refuses to come into the comic book store because she's afraid I'm going to develop telekinetic powers and burn the place to the ground.

1. Zombies are love.
Tags: amy, comic books, disney girl, illness, medical fu, parasite, ryan, where's seanan, writing, zombies
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wendyzski

September 23 2013, 18:57:21 UTC 3 years ago

Re:5 - I wrote a whole series of facebook posts once detailing my whiny plague-ridden attempts to make myself soup from a can, which included the instructions. I can sympathize. Thank you for not dying.

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 16:57:29 UTC 3 years ago

I try to make others cook for me when I'm that sick. It's smarter.

beable

September 23 2013, 18:59:34 UTC 3 years ago


2. Jean Grey is currently not dead and my mother refuses to come into the comic book store because she's afraid I'm going to develop telekinetic powers and burn the place to the ground.

this sentence fills me with love. I mean I'm sorry that Jean Grey is currently not dead, but this sentence still fills me with love.


lurkerwithout

September 24 2013, 01:26:45 UTC 3 years ago

nojh

3 years ago

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shanejayell

September 23 2013, 19:00:56 UTC 3 years ago

Looking forward to Parasite, too.

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 16:58:01 UTC 3 years ago

Yay!

liddle_oldman

September 23 2013, 19:12:04 UTC 3 years ago

You have my earnest sympathy on the illness front. I have been using the word "phlegmapalooza" liberally, in between hacking fits. Illness is not optimal. :(

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 16:58:14 UTC 3 years ago

No, it's really not.

offcntr

September 23 2013, 19:14:26 UTC 3 years ago

Regarding #9 (the giveaway), how 'bout asking for people's favorite parasites? With pictures (or links, for the squeamish?).

Just a thought.

tylik

September 23 2013, 20:36:50 UTC 3 years ago

I was thinking of this. With perhaps the addendum of excluding pets.

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seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 16:58:53 UTC 3 years ago

Love!

I sadly think it was your cold; I'm so under-rested that they tend to hit me hard.

Miss you much.

purpleranger

September 23 2013, 19:45:46 UTC 3 years ago

Re: #2. Your mother should be worried that you're going to develop pyrokinetic powers and burn the comic book store to the ground, not telekinetic powers.

phantom_wolfboy

September 23 2013, 20:10:16 UTC 3 years ago

If she rips out the wiring, there could be a fire.

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FunIsReading

September 23 2013, 20:21:06 UTC 3 years ago

Regarding #10, zombies are love...and death, but zombies and love are complicated like that.

melchar

September 23 2013, 20:37:56 UTC 3 years ago

Heh heh. I just finished re-reading [re to the 5th?] the 'Newsflesh' trio again and 'zombies are love' always makes me thing of a certain incestuous necrophiliac. ^_^ And I love him / them so much!

seanan_mcguire

3 years ago

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billroper

September 23 2013, 20:53:45 UTC 3 years ago

I'm sorry about the breathing problems.

Both Gretchen and I had a monstrous case of bronchitis, hers made worse by a bad allergy season around here that wouldn't let her recover. She now has a steroidal nasal spray that has massively improved the situation.

Good luck!

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 16:59:53 UTC 3 years ago

I'm glad Gretchen's on the mend!

notalwaysweak

September 23 2013, 20:54:38 UTC 3 years ago

Get well soon, darls. I'm still working on the derby shirt, so you are not allowed to die of sick until you have that at least. Also, I am actually skating myself on Friday night and have been peer pressured into trying out for fresh meat in October, all because I posted on Facebook pondering if the derby name 'Mortal Wombat' sounded okay.

Also, tip jar, yay! Last time I was not financially well. This time, well... this time my pay after tax for the last week is over $700, so I'm sure I can squeeze a few pennies out of that for my equal-first-favourite author (you and Mr King and Jacqueline Carey).

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 17:00:24 UTC 3 years ago

SQUEE SKATING!

I cannot wait to see you become MORTAL WOMBAT and crush all in your path.

ladymurmur

September 23 2013, 23:30:06 UTC 3 years ago

I was very fond of the Velveteen giveaway where everyone named a superpower they'd have in that universe. So much fun and creativity!

Being sick sucks, so I hope you feel better very soon. Especially in time to enjoy your book tour!

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 17:00:37 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you!

thornsilver

September 23 2013, 23:48:28 UTC 3 years ago

Really looking forward to "Parasite".

In unrelated aside, may you immune system conquer the cold soon!

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 17:00:53 UTC 3 years ago

I am feeling much better. :)

jammiesest

September 24 2013, 00:47:13 UTC 3 years ago

I am sorry about the hard air and I would offer to make you soup but I'm too far away. Best wishes and zombies from Ohio.

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 17:01:18 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you!

vincentursus

September 24 2013, 01:34:04 UTC 3 years ago

2. Jean Grey is currently not dead and my mother refuses to come into the comic book store because she's afraid I'm going to develop telekinetic powers and burn the place to the ground.

I agree with the previous appreciation of this. I would like to see parody of Carrie featuring your reaction to Jean Grey's resurrection.

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 17:01:28 UTC 3 years ago

Hee hee hee.

wombatoverlord

September 24 2013, 02:05:25 UTC 3 years ago

Well, having spent my weekend feeding on Feed and its sequels, I should note that there will be two vanilla pound cakes emerging from my kitchen this evening. One is promised to my Caffeine Purveyor, but the other needs a home.

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 17:01:39 UTC 3 years ago

And it was delicious.

juliansinger

September 24 2013, 05:54:32 UTC 3 years ago

I take it you're of the Jean Grey Is Dead On The Moon persuasion?

mackknopf

September 24 2013, 13:43:07 UTC 3 years ago

I could be wrong, but I don't think Seanan is a continuity purist about canon. Allow me to channel the telepathic Cuckoo triplets for a moment. Jean Grey is a _canonized_, hypocritical, saintlier-than-thou bitch who does not deserve her reputation for sanctity or her martyrdom. Moreover, she deserves to smacked down by Emma Frost in the next "Battle of the Atom" crossover.

Chances are good this may actually happen. At the very least, I will bring popcorn or other snack foods to the show when I pick up my issue. (I love my local comic book store.)

I haven't read Brian Michael Bendis' script for the next issue or anything, but judging by how bitchy certain redheads are being, I'd say there is a 50/50 chance I will get to see the above mentioned smackdown. If nothing else, we've already gotten to say just how much Jean Grey hates and beats up on herself, while being completely egotistical at the same time.

...Everyone try to avoid specifics and spoilers here if you can. I'm on thin enough ice with that last sentence as it is. :)

For the record, I like what Bendis has done with teenage Jean in "All-New X-Men." I can't say I like the _character_, but wow, she's interestingly messed up. Excuse me while I look for an appropriate Dorothy Parker quote so I can channel Emma's POV, also...

Mack

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mackknopf

September 24 2013, 13:58:37 UTC 3 years ago

Also!

While I appreciate the whole Jean Grey/Phoenix conundrum ("Is she or isn't she?"), I vastly prefer one version of the answer over the other. I like the whole coming back to life shtick -- to paraphrase a quote from George R.R. Martin's superhero anthology, _Wild Cards_ "It's the death and resurrection show." But I'm partial to the theory that Jean is just so screwed up that the Phoenix is a manifestation of her multiple personality/repressed unconsciousness. In short, yeah, she keeps killing herself, then bringing herself back to life. There is no cosmic entity running the show -- just a really #%#! up Jean Grey.

Strangely enough, when I offered this decades as a player character concept in an "Aberrant" (by White Wolf) superhuman game, the Storyteller felt that playing a beyond-Omega-level mutant might be unbalancing to the campaign. Not beyond the scope of the character creation rules (you must have seen the Players Guide to appreciate this), just...game unbalancing. That's sort of how certain writers and readers feel about every time the Phoenix shows up yet again as a deus ex machina (easy way to solve all the plot problems).



:) :) :)

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 17:02:40 UTC 3 years ago

She's a White Phoenix of the Crown.

They need to leave her the fuck alone.

ladymondegreen

September 24 2013, 18:18:11 UTC 3 years ago

*makes you soup according to your instructions*

I suspect this will involve potatoes and leeks, and possibly setting fire to the ceiling.

<3

lots42

September 24 2013, 20:06:08 UTC 3 years ago

"There's a leek in the boat!"

It's funnier if said out loud.

seanan_mcguire

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lots42

September 24 2013, 20:05:43 UTC 3 years ago

Jean Grey?

Oh, no. No. No.

There's a lot of things Marvel has done right (Deadpool) but on the topic of Grey they've burned me too many times.

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 17:03:03 UTC 3 years ago

Agreed.

James B Franks

September 25 2013, 17:47:44 UTC 3 years ago

Speaking of Velveteen can you prod your publisher for the eBook version of vs Multiverse. It's still not available anywhere.

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 17:03:30 UTC 3 years ago

Please contact ISFic with any questions regarding ebooks, as I have neither information nor influence.

sarahtales

September 26 2013, 01:54:20 UTC 3 years ago

Feel better, my sweet. *applies virtual perfect soup*

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 17:03:42 UTC 3 years ago

Best Sarah is best.