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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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.

tibicina

September 23 2013, 21:12:43 UTC 3 years ago

And children. I know a number of people who find it hilarious to refer to children as parasites. And while it's sometimes amusing in context, I think it's something where you really need to know your audience and where vocal tone can make a huge difference in whether it's amusing or horribly offensive.

tylik

September 23 2013, 21:21:54 UTC 3 years ago

Oh. Dear. I mostly haven't run across that.

Of course, in the cases of an awful lot of the families with children I interact with, the children are either my martial arts students or candidates for being sent to me for a summer of martial arts and algorithms.*

But, I'm liking the favorite parasite thing more and more. I'll even promise to avoid the super creepy but relatively well known ones. (I am a biologist, I shouldn't scoop up the low hanging fruit.) Hm. Do you think we need to distinguish between parasites and symbiotic mutualists?

* This started as half a joke. It looks less joke like... and I'm both kind of looking forward to it if it turns out to happen and appalled.

thornsilver

September 23 2013, 23:49:35 UTC 3 years ago

I would have qualified pets as symbiotic myself. After all, we are getting something out of them...

offcntr

September 24 2013, 07:07:42 UTC 3 years ago

Or at worst, commensal... And it really bothers me that nobody except my biologist wife still remembers that category.