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And Daphne posts on her own LJ...Very non-descript...less info than showed up in response to Anne's LJ but that's understandable. You know, I keep thinking about how Chaz is in Johns Hopkins, and how that's just a few minutes away from where I live, and ... THUNK! Oh right, fourth wall. How could I forget?  My fandom faceplants on the fourth wall. quote - I'm in for the t-shirt! |
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« Reply #781 on: June 03, 2008, 05:47:38 pm » |
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« Reply #782 on: June 03, 2008, 08:32:56 pm » |
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I'm nowhere near there, or I'd be doing the same! And I keep debating asking if funds are an issue. Though I probably would be debating the same thing if it was any other internet friend in the hospital. So confusing!
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« Reply #783 on: June 03, 2008, 08:44:12 pm » |
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Only *two* of the four?
In the past three weeks I've read Companion to Wolves, and re-read Territory and Nevernever...
I think you underestimate.
Could be. All the stuff I've read by Bull or Shetterley so far has had their characters go through rough times, but survive to a reasonably happy ending. (Maybe Dogland is an exception.) (Well, and you're right about NeverNever, but it's softened because we never get Tink as a viewpoint character.) But I do think even those two are getting darker... |
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« Reply #784 on: June 03, 2008, 08:57:49 pm » |
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And Daphne posts on her own LJ...Very non-descript...less info than showed up in response to Anne's LJ but that's understandable. You know, I keep thinking about how Chaz is in Johns Hopkins, and how that's just a few minutes away from where I live, and ... THUNK! Oh right, fourth wall. How could I forget? If I didn't live all the way across the country, I would /so/ be doing the same thing. Although today I caught myself thinking about mailing a card to a living-in-Baltimore relative and asking them to deliver flowers for me... - THUNK! Just like you, head first into the fourth wall. Glad to see I'm not even close to being the only one. |
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« Reply #785 on: June 03, 2008, 09:01:48 pm » |
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And I keep thinking of finding a bakery to send cookies or something over.
And last week, I was really, really glad not to live in Texas. That would have made me nuts.
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« Reply #786 on: June 03, 2008, 09:09:07 pm » |
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And last week, I was really, really glad not to live in Texas. That would have made me nuts.
It was excruciating, let me tell you. Except for the part where Todd was thinking about the predawn chill. The lows in that part of the world at this time of year rarely go below 70 and are usually more like 73 or so. |
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« Reply #787 on: June 03, 2008, 09:12:20 pm » |
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*g* It's 70 here right now, and compared to what it was this afternoon, that's chill. (I lived in Vegas, remember, and Emma lives in Tucson. Chill is relative. 85 can feel pretty cool after a hundred fifteen degree day.)
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« Reply #788 on: June 03, 2008, 09:21:28 pm » |
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Only *two* of the four?
In the past three weeks I've read Companion to Wolves, and re-read Territory and Nevernever...
I think you underestimate.
Could be. All the stuff I've read by Bull or Shetterley so far has had their characters go through rough times, but survive to a reasonably happy ending. (Maybe Dogland is an exception.) (Well, and you're right about NeverNever, but it's softened because we never get Tink as a viewpoint character.) But I do think even those two are getting darker... Er, when I say Nevernever, are we thinking fo the same book? As far as I know, there's no 'Tink' in the book... Regardless, though, the Borderlands Trilogy leaves its main protagonists alive, but there's a fair amount of death and certainly of suffering for other characters. And Emma's Bone Dance is certainly not short on suffering, either... |
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« Reply #789 on: June 03, 2008, 09:26:02 pm » |
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Mid-upper 80s, low 90s, high humidity. I call it dank, but if my glasses fog up when I go outside, I don't call it chilly.
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« Reply #790 on: June 03, 2008, 09:26:15 pm » |
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Could be. All the stuff I've read by Bull or Shetterley so far has had their characters go through rough times, but survive to a reasonably happy ending. (Maybe Dogland is an exception.) (Well, and you're right about NeverNever, but it's softened because we never get Tink as a viewpoint character.) But I do think even those two are getting darker...
Don't anybody spoiler Dichroic, okay? (Trust me. I get letters.  I expect Bear gets some of the same sort.) |
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« Reply #791 on: June 03, 2008, 09:32:00 pm » |
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Except for the part where Todd was thinking about the predawn chill. The lows in that part of the world at this time of year rarely go below 70 and are usually more like 73 or so.
Yeah, we decided not to arrange for a fire in Tyler County, either. So for that one week, there was clearly a little universe-slippage. Otherwise, definitely same universe as the rest of us. Definitely. Though Bear's right about the comparative-temps thing. 70 F for me is sweater weather. I'm such a lizard. |
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« Reply #792 on: June 03, 2008, 09:32:19 pm » |
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Mid-upper 80s, low 90s, high humidity. I call it dank, but if my glasses fog up when I go outside, I don't call it chilly.
*g* Weather in Fred over Memorial Day weekend was low seventies at night, mid nineties during the day in our reality. Alas, we can't correlate weather on the SU planet exactly with our own, because most of East Texas didn't burn down that weekend in our world.... |
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« Reply #793 on: June 03, 2008, 09:42:49 pm » |
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Mid-upper 80s, low 90s, high humidity. I call it dank, but if my glasses fog up when I go outside, I don't call it chilly.
*g* Weather in Fred over Memorial Day weekend was low seventies at night, mid nineties during the day in our reality. Alas, we can't correlate weather on the SU planet exactly with our own, because most of East Texas didn't burn down that weekend in our world.... What? You don't control the weather? I'm deeply crushed. Surely this'll be worked out by next season, right? . |
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« Reply #794 on: June 03, 2008, 09:50:26 pm » |
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is underfunded. We figure if we slip 'em a little under the table, it won't change the weather, but we could tip the reporting of it in our favor.
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