"Quell the rage that deeply seethes, the extremes of these devotions."

[greygirlbeast]

1. No idea why I'm using the cute Bjork icon the morning. I just couldn't seem to help myself.

2. Still happy about The Red Tree, A is for Alien, and "Galápagos" having all three landed on Locus Magazine's 2009 Recommended Reading List. It's always nice to know someone has noticed

Comments

[elmocho]

In your trope-warping paranormal romance, you could have the character with a tramp stamp who then has to have it skinned from her body due to it corroding her soul: and by corroding her soul, I mean turning her into human velveeta. By their standards, actual character development probably counts as soul-corrosion.

If you could pull it off, you could draw the average consumer of such in for the first few chapters and then slowly, subtly force them to question everything they've ever known about their like for the genre, as well as a few new things they inexplicably find themselves drawn to after reading the book.

[greygirlbeast]

In your trope-warping paranormal romance, you could have the character with a tramp stamp who then has to have it skinned from her body due to it corroding her soul

Hmmmm....

If you could pull it off, you could draw the average consumer of such in for the first few chapters and then slowly, subtly force them to question everything they've ever known about their like for the genre, as well as a few new things they inexplicably find themselves drawn to after reading the book.

I think you're far more optimistic than am I.

[elmocho]

Thinking back on it, the process would be something like "Derma Sutra" except the reader might not catch on until it's too late.

They'll go on reading vampire/werewolf slash-lite, but sometimes at night, they'll wake up in confusion, brains and bodies echoing with fading images of desires they'd not heretofore considered. They'd go through the day a little unsatisfied, not quite knowing why, until they think back to that book they read...

[greygirlbeast]

They'll go on reading vampire/werewolf slash-lite, but sometimes at night, they'll wake up in confusion, brains and bodies echoing with fading images of desires they'd not heretofore considered. They'd go through the day a little unsatisfied, not quite knowing why, until they think back to that book they read...

Again...more optimistic than me.

[sovay]

Still happy about The Red Tree, A is for Alien, and "Galápagos" having all three landed on Locus Magazine's 2009 Recommended Reading List.

I think that's reasonable!

[greygirlbeast]

I'm not used to having something to smile about in the morning.

[fusijui]

So -- did you break your record for not leaving the house??

[greygirlbeast]

So -- did you break your record for not leaving the house??

I set it today (11). If I can make it one more day, I'll break it.

[fusijui]

Well, all the best and congratulations, for whatever you decide to do with it tomorrow! :)

[martianmooncrab]

yes, even though the eye is blue

its a contact, wait until Hal gets the slitty animal eye one.

[thimbleofrain]

...and I need to see 12 Monkeys again.