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seanan_mcguire

INDEXING: REFLECTIONS episode #8: "Holly Tree."

Nov 17, 2015 13:32

The eighth episode of Indexing: Reflections is available today! This is your talkpost and discussion zone. There will be spoilers in the comments here. As always on talkposts, I have partial comment amnesty, and will not be responding to everything ( Read more... )

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ext_3388633 November 17 2015, 21:59:49 UTC

Is it very wrong of me to love your powerful, grouchy, and threatening violence female characters so much?

Squeee! Excited! Opening Kindle Reader right nowwwwww.

jenfullmoon November 18 2015, 00:43:56 UTC

If loving cranky violent people who threaten carnage is wrong, then I don't wanna be right.

jenfullmoon November 18 2015, 00:47:36 UTC

Let's face it, I wish I could be someone like that, but (a) I'm about as fierce looking as your average cute wittle mousie, and sound similarly, and (b) boring-ass shitty regular life is not cool with women acting like that.

marziek November 22 2015, 07:55:14 UTC

I'm just so sad for Sloane. I've read it twice and I'm still so sad for Sloane. She has to be so incredibly lonely. And losing Henry... Oy. Losing someone who understood you... And Sloane was so much older than I realized. To have lived with this for centuries. It's hard to wrap one's head around it.

I have grave concerns about what ATI has done in forcing round pegs into square holes with their story type assignments. It seems likely to expand opportunities for stories to take on a life of their own rather than keep them under control.

And Jen, boring ass shitty life is sadly often not cool with women in so many ways, big and small. I think the reason we love The Ludaeg and Sloane is that they get to be powerful, self-reliant and fearless women when our real world would say such women have something very wrong with them and punish them for it.

Thread 5

Chapter is live ebartley November 17 2015, 22:02:43 UTC

Subject says it all

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jenfullmoon November 18 2015, 00:45:45 UTC

OOOOH BREAKER OF CINDERELLA STORIES OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

marziek November 22 2015, 07:56:10 UTC

*snorts* Breaker of Cinderella stories! You made me spit coffee on my iPad, dear.

jenfullmoon November 23 2015, 01:44:52 UTC

Thread 8

something in you Larry like biting on tinfoil resolute November 17 2015, 22:45:33 UTC

Bear with me, here ( ... )

RE: something in you Larry like biting on tinfoil seanan_mcguire November 22 2015, 18:18:57 UTC

You are so very welcome.

groblek November 18 2015, 00:00:45 UTC

Oh my. I've loved Sloane since meeting her, but you made my heart ache for her in this one. And for Henry, with the bargains she's making to get back to her team, and the repercussions those may have.

This is the first installment in a while that hasn't made me exclaim "Ahh! Seanan!" At the end of it, but wow. I'm going to have to sit and process this one for a bit. I'm eagerly awaiting the rest of the story.

ext_3009759 November 18 2015, 16:29:59 UTC

"This is the first installment in a while that hasn't made me exclaim "Ahh! Seanan!" At the end of it, but wow. I'm going to have to sit and process this one for a bit."

Same, but this one I went "Awwww, Seanan!" It got me right in the feels.

geekhyena November 20 2015, 16:57:28 UTC

Yeah, I had to sit a bit after it, too, and cuddle one of the cats. I feel so bad for Sloane. She's been dealt a rough hand and she tried so hard to fight it.