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Jan. 31st, 2016 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSunday tasks were cancelled because back pain.
It's not that it hurts a whole lot, it's just that once you start the routine, you're in the shop for two hours, and if things went wronger then that's just inconvenient.
I am hoping to wake up all fixed tomorrow. Or the next day.
I re-read 'Over Sea, Under Stone', partly because Yuletide fic and partly because it's a skinny small book so it's easy to hold up.
It struck me as creepy on a different level than it did before, ways the kids wouldn't have noticed. But it's like one long lesson in 'If a child thinks a grown up is creepy, listen'
even if the grown up is (pretending to be) a vicar
even if the grown up makes nice foods
especially if you wake up in the night and the unrelated suspect grown up is in your bedroom, wtf, that was creepiest, ew.
Because every time they meet the bad people, one out of three kids notices. ... actually possibly one out of two, but the oldest doesn't listen? And every time, they get talked out of listening to their own creeped out feelings. Someone reckons they must have been asleep, or there was somehow a reason for the cook to be in their bedroom in the middle of the night, or the vicar must be okay because vicar. And every time that turns out very poorly for everyone, because creepy feelings were in fact very correct.
I read the book in school and it was an adventure story, and I re-read it now and it's like a Stranger Danger class with bonus adventure. But in a good way.
There's a ton of times though that the whole story wouldn't work if you shifted the era. Mobile phones would have solved a great many problems. Also the ability to look up the tide times online would have taken some of the stress out of the climax, though you'd still have a ticking clock, it just wouldn't depend on the observational skills of a small child who might not ever have been to the coast before.
... actually you could time shift it very simples if the parents decided that their holiday at the seaside was going to be a holiday from screen time. Plausible, leaves the kids at a loose end the way they'd have to be. And you still couldn't solve teh treasure hunt with Google Earth or Streetview, not least because the 'street' part, but also because there's a time element.
Neat.
It's not that it hurts a whole lot, it's just that once you start the routine, you're in the shop for two hours, and if things went wronger then that's just inconvenient.
I am hoping to wake up all fixed tomorrow. Or the next day.
I re-read 'Over Sea, Under Stone', partly because Yuletide fic and partly because it's a skinny small book so it's easy to hold up.
It struck me as creepy on a different level than it did before, ways the kids wouldn't have noticed. But it's like one long lesson in 'If a child thinks a grown up is creepy, listen'
even if the grown up is (pretending to be) a vicar
even if the grown up makes nice foods
especially if you wake up in the night and the unrelated suspect grown up is in your bedroom, wtf, that was creepiest, ew.
Because every time they meet the bad people, one out of three kids notices. ... actually possibly one out of two, but the oldest doesn't listen? And every time, they get talked out of listening to their own creeped out feelings. Someone reckons they must have been asleep, or there was somehow a reason for the cook to be in their bedroom in the middle of the night, or the vicar must be okay because vicar. And every time that turns out very poorly for everyone, because creepy feelings were in fact very correct.
I read the book in school and it was an adventure story, and I re-read it now and it's like a Stranger Danger class with bonus adventure. But in a good way.
There's a ton of times though that the whole story wouldn't work if you shifted the era. Mobile phones would have solved a great many problems. Also the ability to look up the tide times online would have taken some of the stress out of the climax, though you'd still have a ticking clock, it just wouldn't depend on the observational skills of a small child who might not ever have been to the coast before.
... actually you could time shift it very simples if the parents decided that their holiday at the seaside was going to be a holiday from screen time. Plausible, leaves the kids at a loose end the way they'd have to be. And you still couldn't solve teh treasure hunt with Google Earth or Streetview, not least because the 'street' part, but also because there's a time element.
Neat.