Comments | greygirlbeast: "Then the angel asked her what her name was. She said, 'I have none.'"

greygirlbeast

"Then the angel asked her what her name was. She said, 'I have none.'"

Apr 25, 2012 13:01

If I ignore the fact that it's 59˚ out there, I can peer through the window and pretend it's actually late April.

Yesterday, I wrote another 1,215 words on "A Mountain Walked." The post brought my comp copy of The Mammoth Book of Steampunk: 30 Extraordinary Tales (Running Press), which reprints "The Steam Dancer (1896)." This marks the third ( Read more... )

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vulpine137 April 25 2012, 17:07:35 UTC

Looking forward to your podcast.

juushika April 25 2012, 17:18:42 UTC

LJ killed the ridiculous new scissor cuts a few days ago! It's back to blessed normal, now.

greygirlbeast April 25 2012, 17:25:12 UTC

Oh, thank fuck.

witchchild April 25 2012, 17:27:28 UTC

podcast! yay! that means I can listen at work and get more good fiction into my life.

greygirlbeast April 25 2012, 17:28:29 UTC

True.

stsisyphus April 25 2012, 17:56:57 UTC

For me, the tension in Cabin in the Woods wasn't whether there was a twist or whether I was figuring it out, but how far the twist would go. Would it untwist? Would it double twist? Would it triple Twist? Would it Shamaylan? Was it deconstruction, reconstruction, meta-struction? Whedon knows our tropes and cliches, and he loves playing with them ("mumble mumble, poignant observat--TEQUILA IS MAH LAY-DEE!").

They are symbols of the demons lurking within us all, always looking for a way out should the bulwarks of our social rituals ever fail.

Or, as I have seen it mentioned, audience/genre-fan outrage whenever something doesn't fit in our neat, rigid, inviolate audience expectations: a light-grostesque/satire of the author-audience "contract".

greygirlbeast April 25 2012, 18:01:59 UTC

Or, as I have seen it mentioned, audience/genre-fan outrage whenever something doesn't fit in our neat, rigid, inviolate audience expectations: a light-grostesque/satire of the author-audience "contract".

Well, I think that goes without saying, and doesn't negate anything said here. We don't have an either/ situation. Certainly, what you're saying is true. The audience's nose is being rubbed in their own comfortable expectations.

fornikate April 25 2012, 18:19:54 UTC

i'd comment more constructively but mmmmmm, amy acker

greygirlbeast April 25 2012, 18:28:36 UTC

Amy Acker is all the world needs.