Still more hiatus!

[Elizabeth Bear]

There are also topical creams and gels made to inhibit scarring; your pharmacist can tell you about them, and which ones are likely to work best for you.

One that a friend of mine who had a nasty scar across her lip has used quite successfully is called "Mederma," or something that sounds like that.

Chaz, being a melanistic sort, also has problems with keloiding. Which, you know. Just sucks. And probably ensures that he'll never get anything pierced. *g*

[csh]

Thank you both very much! I'll take those names to my next doctor's appointment and see if they approve. And I had no idea that keloid formation correlated with melanin levels; since my natural coloration has been described as "pale blue", perhaps I'm a bit protected. 

[sleary]

Mederma is indeed good stuff. Smells like (and is made from) onions, which can be annoying when you need to use it on your face. If it doesn't annoy you, it will annoy your bed partner! And it tends to get a little itchy as it dries.

[MadGastronomer]

Mederma helped quite a bit with one of my scars.  I wouldn't have minded the appearance (cooks are supposed to have scars, although this one was from a cat), but it was dry, flaky and itchy, which was pretty irritating.  Now it doesn't itch, and is a lot less visible.

[Emma Bull]

Mederma is indeed good stuff. Smells like (and is made from) onions, which can be annoying when you need to use it on your face.

Somewhere on his LiveJournal, Chaz mentions the onionness. And suggests he's not being healed, he's being basted. *g*

[Elizabeth Bear]

Om nom nom

[kayjayoh]

And once again, back to food.

[Bunny M]

You learn the most interesting things reading the SU boards. >.>

Thank you both very much! I'll take those names to my next doctor's appointment and see if they approve. And I had no idea that keloid formation correlated with melanin levels; since my natural coloration has been described as "pale blue", perhaps I'm a bit protected. 

I tend to veer back and forth between pallid and lobster-red, given the unfortunate concurrence of my celtic/redhead genes/complection and the rather warm/SUNNY! clime I live in. I suspect if I lived somewhere more temperate I'd be closer to the blue end of the spectrum, though. =)

I hope that one of the suggestions upthread do work out, too. Scarring not so fun.

All of this just reinforces my belief that if you need/want some obscure info, ask a fiction writer. 

[Elizabeth Bear]

All of this just reinforces my belief that if you need/want some obscure info, ask a fiction writer. 

This is Only The Truth.

When Clive Barker was on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," (It's a National Public Radio news quiz show, for those not in the know) he cracked me up horrible. Because afetr every question he would say, "Well, I don't know much about that subject, but I would guess--"

...and two times out of three, get it right.

Yeah. Writers. We're also murderous at Trivial Pursuit. Though we tend to correct the answers on the fly.

[MadGastronomer]

I have not only corrected answers on the fly, but had other people call me up to have me arbitrate disputes about answers on the cards.
My father once had a dispute about an answer on a card during a game of TP he was playing, him against his entire soccer team.  They actually wrote in to TP to prove him wrong, and TP wrote back and said my dad was right.  (It was a geography question about what body of water something opened into, and the general answer was the Persian Gulf, but there was a more specific answer, which my father gave.)
We may not be fiction writers, but my family are irritatingly good at that sort of thing.

[VCorvidae]

Mederma is indeed good stuff. Smells like (and is made from) onions, which can be annoying when you need to use it on your face.

Somewhere on his LiveJournal, Chaz mentions the onionness. And suggests he's not being healed, he's being basted. *g*

I remember that comment. And I remember refusing to go there...

[ebony14]

All of this just reinforces my belief that if you need/want some obscure info, ask a fiction writer. 

This is Only The Truth.

When Clive Barker was on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," (It's a National Public Radio news quiz show, for those not in the know) he cracked me up horrible. Because afetr every question he would say, "Well, I don't know much about that subject, but I would guess--"

...and two times out of three, get it right.

Yeah. Writers. We're also murderous at Trivial Pursuit. Though we tend to correct the answers on the fly.

Bob Asprin noted, in his "How We Did It..." essay about Thieves' World, that, even if he didn't know the finer points of Ancient Roman sewer systems (his example, if I recall correctly), he was working with a dozen or so other authors, and it was a good chance that one of them DID.

So, it goes to show you, it's not what you know, and it's not who you know, it's how many writers you know....

[AndrewJ]

All of this just reinforces my belief that if you need/want some obscure info, ask a fiction writer. 

This is Only The Truth.

When Clive Barker was on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," (It's a National Public Radio news quiz show, for those not in the know) he cracked me up horrible. Because afetr every question he would say, "Well, I don't know much about that subject, but I would guess--"

...and two times out of three, get it right.

Yeah. Writers. We're also murderous at Trivial Pursuit. Though we tend to correct the answers on the fly.

Bob Asprin noted, in his "How We Did It..." essay about Thieves' World, that, even if he didn't know the finer points of Ancient Roman sewer systems (his example, if I recall correctly), he was working with a dozen or so other authors, and it was a good chance that one of them DID.

So, it goes to show you, it's not what you know, and it's not who you know, it's how many writers you know....

Heh. I'm not even a professional writer by any means, but because of the PBEM game I play, I've accumulated reference texts on all sorts of things, from the development of the European crossbow to the works of Cornelius Agrippa and Eliphas Levi. Dover Books is your friend when it comes to otherwise obscure reference texts: their prices are reasonable, and the books are very good quality, especially for paperbacks.

[boddhi_d]

Anyway, this got me thinking: I could do a rewrite. And we could post the two versions side by side for you to look at, to see just how fiddly we can get. Would you guys be interested in that?

Um, YES!      That one was easy.


If you don't want to doublepost the entire ep, you could embed the changes within the most recent version, accessable via hyperlink. It could be (da da da DAH!) another sort of Easter egg. If you wanted it to a little more visible, you could even add some sort of marker symbolizing "earlier/alternate version of text available." Rather like the "alternate angle" feature that occasionally pops up on DVDs.*

'night,
Dawn

*which, may I just say, is one of the most sadly under-utilized features on DVDs. It could be so brilliant. Filming the same scene from a different angle has so much interesting potential for creating a non-linear narrative. Not to mention linking to special features. *sigh*

[Emma Bull]

Your new DVD extra is ready to air. Enjoy!