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seananmcguire:

sunspotery:

Weird Art Complete!

So this project started as a weird midnight thought about making a pattern that would make Seanan smile, cause people were being rude about the gtes of the Birthday being closed. Then a realisation that it was suddenly 2am and I should probably sleep, then I was viciously egged on by @jennayra.

Several months, and a reminder that shiny thread is The Worst it is now an actual thing that exists.

It exists because of the weird and wonderful gift that is the Birthday Unending, that never fails to make me laugh and often cry. I know that making something like The Birthday must be super draining and Seanan if you see this I just want you to know that ever bit of the love and effort you put into it is seen and appreciated.

This is amazing.

A varied diet

Trying to balance the grim textbookiness of Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth with Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire, The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman, season six of Castle, and Avengers Academy 2.0 and I think I’m getting whiplash. I mean, we need more feminism and magic and less patriarchy and captialism and variety is the spice of life, and The Beauty Myth is too hardcore to read without breaks, but going from that to magical doors and back again is kinda wild.

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

ourladyofwaysandmeans:

booyahkendell:

INCREDIBLE.

[Caption: Four tweets in a thread by @seananmcguire:

Tweet 1:

Mom: What’s slash?

Me: You know Dt. Carisi on LAW & ORDER?

Mom: Yeah?

Me: Well, I like to read stories where he’s banging the ADA.

Tweet 2: 

Mom: …you mean he’s not?

Me: The showrunners don’t seem to think so.

Mom: Aren’t you the one who says the author can be wrong.

Tweet 3:

…Mom is now full death of the author-ing the showrunners of LAW & ORDER: SVU on the topic of Carisi/Barba and how they’re obvs. banging.

Tweet 4:

She is SO MAD, she really thought they were this adorable queer couple on network TV, and now she’s going WHAT and muttering.]

@seananmcguire your mom is a delight.

So I’m on chapter 8 of Into the Drowning Deep, and I have a question: did you mean to code Olivia as autistic? I’m autistic and I see so many of my own little ticks and quirks in her it’s astounding.

seananmcguire:

acanofwyrmz:

seananmcguire:

I didn’t mean to code Olivia as autistic, no: Olivia is autistic, full stop.  She says as much a little later in the book, when she’s talking about her relationship with her parents (mostly her father) and some assumptions they made about her future before she was old enough to shut that shit down.

This was so important to me reading this book. As someone with Asperger’s, it happens so often that a character is speculated within a book/show/movie to be on the spectrum but the character denies it/other characters deny it/or later the writers/actors deny it. And it hurts. Like when people speculated Cumberbatch’s Sherlock was on the spectrum and Benedict said no, because he’s met people with autism and they can’t hope to be that advanced. Or how Will Graham literally says on the NBC show Hannibal that he is on the spectrum but actors/writers later say he isn’t and other characters say he isn’t because he has empathy, playing into the myth that people on the spectrum lack empathy. It hurts to think you have representation and then have that jerked violently out of your hands with the erroneous claim ‘people on the spectrum can’t do this/be like this.’

having a character explicitly and uncontestedly being on the spectrum was so important to me.

That is honestly why I try not to code people unless they’re at a place where diagnosis is not available to them, and then to be upfront about their neurological state when asked.  (Example: Jack Wolcott, from the Wayward Children series, has the same kind of OCD I do.  But she’s never been diagnosed.  She was too young when she left for the Moors, and when she got back, she had better things to worry about.  So she’s technically coded OCD rather than explicitly OCD, but I talk a lot about translating my own experiences onto her.)

Olivia is autistic.  Everything about her was written with that in mind, including the fact that she’s a very successful media personality who dresses as Emma Frost for conventions, and these are absolutely 100% things that autistic people can do, because I have met real, live, non-fictional autistic people who do them.

THEY ARRIVED TODAY!!!

Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Wayward Children #1 and #2. (Beneath the Sugar Sky is on pre-order.)

Here you see them in their covered, ready-to-shelve state. (Yes, I cover my hardbacks, so sue me.)

I know the best way to support authors is to buy new, but that often isn’t an option for me, because of various reasons. However, this Christmas, I will be contributing to feeding your cats, as we made the decision to buy Wayward Children 1 & 2 and pre-order 3! Also, I am going to poke my library to get 3 as well – they had 1, and bought 2 on my suggestion. It’s only fair they have 3 too. :)

seananmcguire:

Oh, absolutely.

When an author–myself included–is saying “please buy my book,” please imagine a tiny asterisk after which is written “unless you are fiscally unable to do so right now, in which case we still love you, and we totally understand, because holy cheese, sometimes the power bill has to come first.”  Other great ways to support authors:

* Libraries
* Leaving reviews
* Telling your friends about the book
* Telling your enemies about the book
* Destroying your enemies with the book
* Using the book as kindling to burn the bodies of your enemies
* Buying another copy from the used bookstore, thus keeping them in business while you find a new enemy

I am so thrilled that you’re able to buy new this holiday season, and my cats thank you as well.  🙂

lyosh-a:

“When I danced with the Lord of the Dead for the first time, he said it was beautiful, and he ran his fingers through it. All the hair turned white around them, out of jealousy. That’s why I only have five black streaks left. Those are the parts he touched.”

   –   Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

just a sketch. i really enjoyed the premise of this book, and thought this image was particularly striking.