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valarltdOh how I hate being sick. And i do hope i don't need to start keeping spare pants in my desk to finish a workday.
Grumpy tummy asserted itself over a sneeze, and Angel is home doing laundry for the day. YUCK!
But I watched Hannibal. Not nearly as hard to take as the book.
Some of it was revolting: the disembowelment, the pigs. Mason Verger was not NEARLY as gruesome as I expected. He looked too much like a muppet to be really gross. Nice tension, and I liked the bit in Union Station. My suspension of disbelief went right out the window, tho' because Krendler's lake house looks the same as the Ryans' place in Patriot Games.
By dropping the Misha and Daddy subplots, the film-makers really gutted the whole characterization of the story.
The good news is "Hunter in the Shadows is a hit. The bad news is, the eds. squicked on a few things. I don't think fiction should be cuddly and fluffy all the time. I think sometimes it needs some teeth to it. And occasionally the squicky parts are what really make the story: pornoviolence I've heard it called.
And I finished a hook-case. Now maybe I can keep track of those stupic crochet hooks. Sheesh, 3 size I and not a single size B.
Grumpy tummy asserted itself over a sneeze, and Angel is home doing laundry for the day. YUCK!
But I watched Hannibal. Not nearly as hard to take as the book.
Some of it was revolting: the disembowelment, the pigs. Mason Verger was not NEARLY as gruesome as I expected. He looked too much like a muppet to be really gross. Nice tension, and I liked the bit in Union Station. My suspension of disbelief went right out the window, tho' because Krendler's lake house looks the same as the Ryans' place in Patriot Games.
By dropping the Misha and Daddy subplots, the film-makers really gutted the whole characterization of the story.
The good news is "Hunter in the Shadows is a hit. The bad news is, the eds. squicked on a few things. I don't think fiction should be cuddly and fluffy all the time. I think sometimes it needs some teeth to it. And occasionally the squicky parts are what really make the story: pornoviolence I've heard it called.
And I finished a hook-case. Now maybe I can keep track of those stupic crochet hooks. Sheesh, 3 size I and not a single size B.
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Thanks
I read "squick" as "traumatizing." It's so much deeper than just an "Ewww" it seems a disservice to use it for that. Listening to the scissors cut an episiotomy squicked me. (I can still hear it almost 11 years later) I didn't feel anything, but the sound penetrated through the pushing and the delivery pain and all.
It's the idea of something that drills a hole in your skull and fucks with your mind. And "squicka-squicka-squicka" is the sound your brains make as they get pushed around by the idea.
A slight homage to the movie Gothic (which is what I suspect triggered both of you) is just a mild "eww." I reread last night and the bit simultaneously creeped me and turned me on.
Casablanca, Gothic, Carmilla, The Hunger I was on the Homage-Train for that story.
Envelope? What envelope? I thought I mailed that thing.
;-)
Re: Thanks
Date: 2002-11-21 07:05 pm (UTC)Consider me properly chastised. *g* I think I used to use the word more strongly -- well, I guess it's still stronger than just an Eww, now that I think about it, but not as strong for me as for some people. Don't know for sure what it means to Alex.