Because any show with people who can't die can automatically be crossed over.

[nonsenseprocess]

I feel like this post should be in telegram format, but instead of 'stop' every line would end in 'ow'. (Heroes was neat ow. You should all be watching Journeyman ow. My internal organs hurt ow.)

Mostly because of clarify's strange and unique ability to be both enthusiastic about writing projects and actually finish them, I have set out to actually

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[obsessive24]

I've read most of Atwood's later novels, but haven't gotten around to Cat's Eye. Should check it out sometime.

(Handmaid's Tale is a classic, though I think my personal favourite novel of hers is The Blind Assassin. Although my absolutely favourite writing of hers is contained in Good Bones, a collection of short stories.)

That cuticle shit is fucked up! I never knew that before. My cuticles appear to be well pushed-back anyway, but that's more because I take zero care with my hands and they're all munted. Plus, my hands are about as big as a five year old's anyway, so there's no hope of adult-woman hands for me ever.

[nonsenseprocess]

I've just started Blind Assassin! Which is sad as I've had it lying around for months, but I've been terrible about reading actual printed fiction recently. Everyone I've talked to loves Blind Assassin, and I trust Atwood, but it's one of those novels that starts and runs on for a while before the reader has any idea what's going on, and - I feel like I should read it when I have the concentration for it. But lo, instead I'm poking around with historical fiction and fantasy. Cat's Eye is - it's very good? I enjoyed it a lot, but I never felt particularly compelled to read forward. It's not exactly an edge-of-year-seat book.

I haven't read Good Bones! I have her Bluebeard's Egg collection, which I liked but wasn't terribly impressed with, but I'll have to search out Good Bones. Thank you for the rec.

Aw. My hands seem kind of small to me too, still - like, I really don't think I've grown since I was 15, which might well be true. I'm the same shoe size as when I was 12, as least. (I kept thinking I'd get a few more inches vertically,

[obsessive24]

Mmm, I agree. I love her with all my heart, but her novels are the kind that you seem to be able to pick up and put down at will.

The distinctive stories from Good Bones are the old ones retold, like the little red hen or Gertude from Hamlet. I think it falls down a bit here and there, but when she's on, she's on. I recently read The Tent, which is a newer collection of short stories, but somehow that doesn't seem to have the same edge.

Fuck all that adult woman shit. I always loathe women who spend lots of time and money on irrelevent stuff like manicures. Who are they wanting to impress, anyway? Men don't notice any of that stuff.

Ooooh, yay! I'm so glad you liked the vid and the commentary! Don't feel pressured to give more feedback; it's enough for me that you enjoyed it. :)

[akedhi]

I recognize both Highlander and Early Edition. *cough* Although I'm not familiar enough with Highlander to ever write fanfic about it, I'm even less familiar with Heroes.

Also?

I didn't know that about the cuticle either! Do people really do that? That's weird.

[nonsenseprocess]

You get points for being the only person aside from Sar who isn't watching Heroes! I think if I wrote an Early Edition fic people would be like 'oh hey I know all the canon for that!' (canon = cat, newspaper), but Highlander seems to intimidate people with all the crazy Immortal lore and 90's-ish genre effects.

They DO. I feel vindicated that none of you knew about it either. I'm kind of half-heartedly starting to push them back just out of curiosity, and my hands do look kind of different. (I also got bored and buffed my nails, which is at least better than getting bored and cutting my hair. Having shiny nails is kind of novel, but when they aren't long no one but the owner of the nails is going to notice.)

[fish_lanterns]

. . . well, I certainly learned something new today. Huh. But now that you mentioned it, I heard lots about cuticles as well. I just never fully understood the whole fuss was. THIS IS ENLIGHTENING.

Also, I'm not sure if you received my IM's about it, but the bottom line is: I would very much like to read the rest of your chapters. <3

Happy Turkey Day! Eats lots of it and have a good (second) one!

[nonsenseprocess]

I love that I am not the only one who COMPLETELY MISSED this entire cuticle thing our culture has going. In a few hundred years that's going to be one of those bizarre trivia notes in the Fashion Of Days Past sections of textbooks.

I did! I was going to e-mail you actually because I haven't seen you on AIM since and I wanted to thank you because I really, really appreciated the nice comments. <3 I will send you the next chapter when I have a chance. (I am in a weird Thanksgiving limbo time where we haven't started eating and my brother's picking up his girlfriend, so I have a free minute to check my e-mail but not actually get anything done.)

Thank you, and Happy T-Day to you too! I hope you had a nice one, because I'm guessing yours is done. *grins*

<3!

[plaidseven]

Yay, Atwood! I have read only Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, but I want to read more. But don't give me any recommendations because I have more book than time at the moment. Also, the entire time I was reading Handmaid's Tale I thought of you. I don't know why, it just reminded me a lot of... you.

I'm so with you on the cuticle thing! My aunt pushes her cuticles back all the time, and apparently if she doesn't they hurt her, but I never realized it was a Thing You Do. This is what I mean about apparent common knowledge being completely new to me, it happens all the time. Sometimes I wonder if I don't live under a rock.

[nonsenseprocess]

READ EVERYTHING. And I hope you thought of me with Handmaid's Tale because I was beating everyone over the head with the order to read it, and not because you were like 'Oh Serena Joy that is totally like her!'. Atwood did influence my writing style a lot, though obviously I am not even a tiny little bit as good as she is when she's on. Also I think she drowned out some of the residual Francesca Lia Block I had going in my head. (For a while I was kind of trying to be equal parts Chuck Palahniuk and FLB, which was a mess.)

They hurt her? I. I don't even know how that would work! But hey, I'm with you on the rock-living, apparently. I mean only in recent years have I actually grasped the whole 'oh, moisturizing' thing, and that's pretty much where they start you in Remedial Womanhood Training. (Though admittedly I moisturize because otherwise my face would be really dry, not because I'm hoping that in a few decades I will have less fine lines.)

Happy Thanksgiving!