HALF-OFF RAGNAROK open thread!

[seanan_mcguire]

To celebrate the release of Half-Off Ragnarok, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Judging by the comments I'm seeing, some of you've have had time, while others received review copies

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[ironed_orchid]

YAY!

OMG!LINDWORMS!

[ironed_orchid]

Does this mean the field guide has updates? ::checks::

[seanan_mcguire]

I update periodically; I have a few more entries that need to be composed (thanks for the reminder)!

[deire]

Ee hee hee! Frank de Rodriguez makes me happy! I was bouncing in place at a certain Frank at one convention over pathophysiology, which is awesome btw, we learn the most when things go wrong, okay, less awesome because those things go wrong with living creatures, but--! Ee! It's all so intricate and interlaced and BEEAUTIFUL! :bounces: (Also, I am going to learn to intubate/use LMA this year, my life is aaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome! And! :runs in circles with excited puppy who is not sure why I'm excited but really any excuse will do:)

[seanan_mcguire]

He didn't know he'd been written in. I haz a smug. :)

[thedragonweaver]

Anyone else just know that prospective girlfriend wasn't going to be freaked out by cryptids? I mean, little sister got to have a guy who wasn't surprised (even if he was with the bad guys), surely Alex deserved a girl who was going to be calm about it.

It may be that reading about Frances Healy has biased me a bit that way. "Survive first, then get angry, and you won't have time to freak out."

[seanan_mcguire]

Fran is best.

[jenfullmoon]

Well, she works in a zoo with big cats and is from Australia. Hard to freak anyone out who's like that even if she's not a secret cryptozoologist.

[beccastareyes]

I'd say that if one is dating a biologist*, they'd be skeptical (given how many hoaxes they deal with), but if you, say, show them a fricken or a church griffin (or a lindworm or cockatrice or something else who thinks you might be edible or a threat to their territory), they would be OMGTHISISSOCOOL. One needs a certain type of enthusiasm for the natural world to make it through grad school.

The bigger problem would be in keeping them from publishing ALL THE PAPERS. Because this is so cool and we must tell everyone!

* Possibly scientists in general.

[marooux13]

It's GREAT!!!!!!!! Almost finish it. Love Chandi!!!!

[celticdragonfly]

OH I enjoyed that. I admit, I was guessing that Shelby was going to turn out to be a cryptid. I am so not surprised that Australia came into it. The line about the only continent with that difficulty rating made me roar with laughter and got a whole discussion on Australia trying to kill you from a spouse to my daughter. I liked his reaction to Shelby feeling sorry for the poor lindworm. This does not surprise me anymore than Verity's reaction to Domenic - I look at both and think this is the first opposite sex member of "their kind" they've ever met that they weren't closely related to! Poor, poor Sarah.

[elentiriel]

I thought she was going to be a cryptid too! But that would be too obvious so I just settled for anxiously reading to find out when we'd find out what or who she really was.

[jenfullmoon]

Aussies are awesome.

[acelightning]

I've been to Australia a couple of times, and I'm convinced that nearly all their flora and fauna are cryptids.