latenight rambling
Sep. 24th, 2014 01:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdTomorrow will be a day of some small exertion.
So of course I sit up late, finish a book I've read often enough that I can quote long passages of it, and count it on Goodreads.
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I was watching Supernatural today, when it hit me:
It's the little things that damage suspension of disbelief.
I'll swallow a camel and strain at a gnat.
I will buy killer scarecrows, women in white, ghost trucks and demons. But don't tell me US 6 is in Cape Girardeau MO. The closest US 6 gets to Cape is Council Bluffs, Iowa, 540 miles away.
I will buy flying teens, heat vision, x-ray vision and Native American cave paintings about aliens. But do not show me a native Kansas girl getting back into her wrecked truck in the face of tornadoes. Heading for the ditch should be automatic.
There are ways the universe works. If your fictional world is exactly the same as ours, barring the paranormal element, I expect it to work like ours. US highways indicate how much of the US is north or east of them. Interstates indicate how much of the US is south or west of them. Odd numbered highways run north-south and even numbered run east-west.
To quote Jean Kerr:
"It is perfectly all right with me when a character in a post-modern play points at a realistic iron bed and says, 'this is a piano.' It's all right when he sits and plays the Blue Danube Waltz on the springs. But I expect that thereafter, no one will lie down on the piano."
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Autumn party mix
Spoon sized shredded wheat
teddy grahams
pretzels
autumn mix
peanut butter M&Ms
caramel corn
toss and cover with melted almond bark
So of course I sit up late, finish a book I've read often enough that I can quote long passages of it, and count it on Goodreads.
~~~~
I was watching Supernatural today, when it hit me:
It's the little things that damage suspension of disbelief.
I'll swallow a camel and strain at a gnat.
I will buy killer scarecrows, women in white, ghost trucks and demons. But don't tell me US 6 is in Cape Girardeau MO. The closest US 6 gets to Cape is Council Bluffs, Iowa, 540 miles away.
I will buy flying teens, heat vision, x-ray vision and Native American cave paintings about aliens. But do not show me a native Kansas girl getting back into her wrecked truck in the face of tornadoes. Heading for the ditch should be automatic.
There are ways the universe works. If your fictional world is exactly the same as ours, barring the paranormal element, I expect it to work like ours. US highways indicate how much of the US is north or east of them. Interstates indicate how much of the US is south or west of them. Odd numbered highways run north-south and even numbered run east-west.
To quote Jean Kerr:
"It is perfectly all right with me when a character in a post-modern play points at a realistic iron bed and says, 'this is a piano.' It's all right when he sits and plays the Blue Danube Waltz on the springs. But I expect that thereafter, no one will lie down on the piano."
~~~~
Autumn party mix
Spoon sized shredded wheat
teddy grahams
pretzels
autumn mix
peanut butter M&Ms
caramel corn
toss and cover with melted almond bark
