Stupid Blue Brain

[liralen]

Brain's groggy from lack of sleep and half dreaming as I write slides about resource metrics and about process basics for developers, and the backbrain dreams of the oddity of curling next to a warmish (not quite warm enough) body without pulse or breath... of muscles sleek with effort and work and stitched with sacrifice... of the feelings of a cybergirl parting the curtain of air with her long nails as she dances by the too-slow steps of other people's time. Statues to her. Invincibility bought by a quick mortality, the singularity beyond her reach, passing her by as it passes by the poor, the weak, the murderously unenlightened... of the flood of a hormonal mind grasping the crisp silicon fields of data deciding without even looking at all the billions of bits of intricately crystalized exactitude... the shivering warmth of an indrawn breath... gold buddhas alongside Catholic dispensations alongside Coyote and the thousands of gods of Hinduism with Shiva cleaning up behind...

ahem. It's just kicking at all the calm logical bits going "LET ME OUT, DAMNIT."

I think I need to play more.

And, yes, backbrain is still chewing on both Queen of the Damned and the detailed feelings and thought processes in McKinely's Sunshine.

Comments

[incandescens]

Sunshine is full of interesting background. I doubt she's going to write more in that series/world, but oh, I would like to be proven wrong.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Me, too. I heard that there might be a sequel, given how many things she left hanging at the end of that book, I'd hope so.

Still, if not... more room for us, I guess.

Or, heck, fanfic might be a way to just play in the playground I really want to play in.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Your brain zmeebles beautifully.

I think I need to play more.

Yes! And mm, a Sunshine sequel would be delicious.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And, yes, it would be tasty, though, as my sister noted, it's not like Sunshine is a "real" foody, just a baker who likes her work...

[incandescens]

Don't expect me to try to talk you out of fanfic! :)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Just finished Sunshine this morning.

Love the way she wrote Rae as being very much human, and the very subtle and sneaky way she lets you know that, no, this is NOT just some woman working in a coffeeshop down the street from you in your small neighborhood.

And then that it's not your small neighborhood. Or your safe familiar earth.

I half-wish that she would write, not a sequel, but the continuation of the story, because I want to know what happens next. Too many unanswered questions, like, how much of what they were before is kept when someone gets turned, and what's the recipe for Sunshine's Eschatology.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Exactly. :-) Those are all those unanswere questions and unfinshed lines I'd love for her to follow through with. And the whole "the bad guys are winning", taking care of one of them can't turn the tide itself, can it? What about the rest of the dark tide?

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

We all need to play more.

If you move back in the future, I'll let you whack me on the side of the head anytime you want.

Come on... I know you like it...

I loved that paragraph, btw. Mmmmm, liralen writing goodness it was.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

poke, poke, poke

I do! :-)

Mmmm... glad you liked it!