Blecccch!

[valarltd]

Oh 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.

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[jkb.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you're sick! The Lukesheep will send healing Force-waves in your direction.

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.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that hearing that there were squicky bits was bad news. I think Alex and I both agree with what you just said, and in fact, I don't think our list of suggestions for revision will likely include all the things one or the other of us found squicky. (BTW, I use the term squicky to mean just something like an "Eww!" reaction, not like I'm permanently traumatized by it. *g*) I think we both make a distinction between that which pushes personal buttons and that which drags a story down. (I guess that's something good editors try to do -- I know of others who've knocked themselves out so much to be broad-minded that they've published entire *stories* that squicked them from beginning to end; I don't think Alex and I would carry it quite so far, but we do try to make a distinction.) Anyway, congratulations on a story that pushes the envelope and is definitely gripping and hot. Have I mentioned that I wish I could write anywhere near as fast as you do?

Thanks

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Between the sheep and liberal applications of Romulan Ale from a borrowed Dr/mixologist, I'm doing better.

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.
;-)

EG

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

So, it was just the Garth Brooks quote that squicked you then?
*snerk*

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[jkb.livejournal.com]

I read "squick" as "traumatizing." It's so much deeper than just an "Ewww" it seems a disservice to use it for that. </>
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.