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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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.

archangelbeth

September 23 2013, 20:41:46 UTC 3 years ago

Not to mention that if you're using GURPS Psionics for 3rd edition, both Pyrokinesis and Telekinesis are sub-sets of the Psychokinesis power group. Therefore, it would depend on if she had bought the full power-group, or only a restricted set. If the full group, especially with the "Uncontrollable" limitation, then manifesting telekinetic powers could indeed be followed closely by manifesting pyrokinetic ones, too.

The comic store is probably safer if she's on GURPS 4th Edition rules, but she might not have switched over. We Never Know.

vixyish

September 24 2013, 00:46:01 UTC 3 years ago

Or if you happen to be Stephen King's Carrie (which was the reference here), who had telekinetic powers and did indeed start fires.

It's not nice to be pedantic at people who are ill.

seanan_mcguire

October 4 2013, 16:59:20 UTC 3 years ago

I never said I was going to create fire; it was a Carrie reference.