LNH20: NHOP # 1

[Andrew Perron]

On 11/8/2014 2:53 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
> On Saturday, November 8, 2014 12:47:43 PM UTC-5, Andrew Perron wrote:
>> On 11/8/2014 7:06 AM, Tom Russell wrote:
<snop>
>>> Why they were friends, she had no idea.
>>> Maggie was a big fat ugly nothing with no personality and no friends,
>>> except for Tyler. Tyler, on the other hand, was charming, extroverted,
>>> and "normal", apart from his penchant for pedantry and semicolons and
>>> stupid hats and suspenders and Velcro shoes and pince-nez glasses and
>>> Deanna Durbin and eight-hour board games about trains and pronouncing
>>> robot so it rhymes with butt and, well, okay, she can see why he
>>> didn't have many friends.
>>
>> I dunno, you both sound pretty cute.
>
> The author agrees, even if the character doesn't. :-)

Good, good. <3

>> No judgment (I definitely want to see where this is going), just an
>> observation: This probably should've been tagged Acraphobe.
>
 > .... Hmm, you're probably right. I tend to think of the ACRA label as
 > applying to particularly explicit sexual or violent content, or language--
 > but I guess this does constitute violence of a sort, doesn't it? Sorry
 > about that.

Quite all right! It just definitely feels like "disturbing themes for mature 
readers". (Which makes me wonder if it's Lunaverse, but probably not.)

>>>      But that was when he was alive. After she had killed him, his
>>> family didn't want anything to do with Tyler's friend Maggie.
>>
>> Hmmmmmmm...
>
 > If I'm reading the "Hmmmmmmm" correctly... This is a pretty normal thing
 > for families to do when grieving, especially when the friend in question is
 > partially, if accidentally, responsible for the death.

I'm just not sure quite how to interpret "didn't want anything to do with".

>>> Maggie would describe
>>> her as a stick with breasts, but she's not so sure about the latter.
>>> Really, Lily's built like a boy: flat hips, flat chest, sharp angles,
>>> zero curves.
>>
>> Hmmmmmmmm.
>
 > If I'm reading the "Hmmmmmmm" correctly... actually, I'm having a little
 > trouble parsing the "Hmmmmmmm" here. Could you elucidate, sir?

I don't think I'll comment on my other "hmmmmm"s quite yet. <3 We shall see 
how things turn out.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, hmmtastic!