Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: quixotic
  • Music: Sweet Apple, "Never Came."

Let's go to Australia and poke horrible things with a stick for fun!

It's time for my first Pocket Apocalypse giveaway! Hooray! This giveaway is going to be US addresses only; I'm still mailing T-shirts, and my post office workers are starting to mysteriously go on break when I show up, because of all the international packages. I know it's not fair, but I can't add more customs forms to the pile or they're going to close completely.

I will do open-to-international giveaways before the book is released, and I'm hoping to clear out more of the pending packages in the next week or so.

So, the rules for this one:

1. Leave a comment.
2. Indicate that you have a US address I can ship to. (You don't have to live in the US. You just have to have a US address.)
3. Name your favorite cryptid and why.

I will use the RNG to choose three winners on Tuesday, January 27th. But there's a twist! Only one person can win for each cryptid. So be honest! Name your favorite! Just be aware that the odds are lower for the Aeslin mice than for, say, the swamp bromeliads.

The field guide is here, if you need some help.

Game on!
Tags: giving stuff away, incryptid, pocket apocalypse
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Hugo Alvord

January 24 2015, 08:24:26 UTC 2 years ago

My favorite cryptid is the ogre, because they are so nebulous like.... what are they? Giants? Big ugly bear things? Then again, that weird eyeball had monster from Pan's Labyrinth was supposed to be an ogre, and it is neither extraordinarily large, nor hugely strong. They tend to be human enough to be horrible, but having something fundamentally wrong. In Shrek's case, it was his olive complexion, but it can be anything from being one eyed to having two heads.

I like to imagine them as looking somehow between a bear, a man, and a manatee, with thick fat and skin, and the fatty squashed face of a man who looks like a dewgong (such as gimli, from lord of the rings). The bodily proportions would be like that of a bear, with weird little legs and long arms, but with a larger head than would be proportionate on a man; in fact I imagine they look rather like a fat and healthy bear/baboon cross, with mange.

I feel like ogres, with their particular taste for human flesh, would have been exterminated hundreds of years ago by the Covenant. They were still fascinating (and horrible) creatures in my opinion.