Triffids. Terrible, terrible triffids.

[strangetomato]

So... I borrowed The Chrysalids and The Day of the Triffids from a friend, and now I'm sort of hooked on reading John Wyndham. These are great books. If you haven't read them, I'd highly recommend checking them out. I'm going to have to seek out more of his stuff, I think.

Hmm. Now why do I have the sudden urge to make S,HWC more post-apocalyptic? ;)

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[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

Do an alternate-universe Strangetown where there's been some kind of horrible cataclysm! So long as you can handle the workload and your muse holds out, there's no downside!

I never actually read Day of the Triffids, but The Chrysalids is a favourite of mine. ^_^

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It could be an interesting one-shot. I actually devised a disaster scenario in my very early days in the fandom (yes, it was on the BBS — heheheh). It involved killing off about half of a neighbourhood randomly and then playing with the survivors.

The workload would be the problem, I think. I actually work a little better and I'm more creative when I'm busy, as opposed to having too much free time (work begets more work), but that might be a little too much. It is sort of appealing, all the same.

I think I prefer The Chrysalids. I would love to see a movie version of it. Of course, I get a huge kick out of the fact that it takes place in Labrador, which is next to "the isle of Newf." Science fiction right on my doorstep!

Also, your icon is killing me! That's so funny. I love the french translation (and so true).

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

I remember reading that! Don't remember how I found it, but I remember reading it.

Drat. That usually is the problem. Oh well.

I like The Chrysalids because it combines two of my favourite things: post-apocalyptic settings and psychic protagonists. And mutants. Can't forget the mutants. (I got a kick out of the Labrador thing too, but that's because I have a thing for climate change as the result of a major disaster in fiction. The only other time I can recall seeing that was Neon Genesis Evangelion's rise in sea levels and Japan getting warmer after Second Impact... although I doubt those are the only times it's been done. Why is my parenthesized section so much longer than the other part of the paragraph? That seems somehow fundamentally wrong.)

:D I love my icons. (I'm very picky about them, since I only have a small number of slots. They more or less have to be perfect crystals of humour and fandom and prettiness in order to be chosen.) It would have been a pretty run-of-the-mill Canadian joke if it weren't for the French bit; I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I first saw it, or it would have ended up either a) decorating my screen or b) the cause of a coughing fit.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I was amused that NL only became inhabitable after a change in climate caused by a nuclear disaster. I mean, why would people live here otherwise? They'd have to be crazy. *raises hand* (And hey, it's a gorgeous sunny day here today, so suck on that, rest of the world!)

I really enjoyed Neon Genesis Evangelion. I guess I'm just a sucker for the post-apocalyptic thing, and I love all the pseudo-religious elements too. Well, I do until they go way too far with it in the movie ending. It was like crosses... blood... crosses exploding into more blood... and the actual impact of the whole thing was just lost after you became numb to the entended variations on the theme. They lost me at the end.

In fact, I think I prefer the original series ending, which leaves you more confused and wondering if that was really all there was. (But, that's a whole other discussion...)

They are good icons. And you're right about it being a superb Canadian joke. The polite thing is just played out, though it is true. (My SO got pulled over for a ticket the other day and he actually thanked the police officer at the end! We laughed.)

(Sorry for all the editing. My spelling is awful today.)