LNH: Burst Beetle Tweseveny #3: "1997: Scattered Plots and the Time Traveler's Ex-Girlfriend!"

[Drew Perron]

On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:38:37 AM UTC-4, Tom Russell wrote:
> Deeeeep cuts.
> 
> This is like running into people who know me - who I used to be friends with
> fifteen or twenty years ago - but who I don't remember. Then as I talk to
> them, it starts to dawn on me, and I remember not only who they were, but who
> I was back then - and of course I'm more than a little embarrassed.

That makes sense. X3 But...

> Not really a comment on the story - which was the right kind of anarchy I
> think, and very, very human - but more just a personal note. I don't know how
> many people actually read the stuff I wrote way back when - it's really rough
> - but it's kind of strange to me that folks like you and Jeanne can get so
> much out of it, and find so much that resonates -- like squeezing blood from a
> stone.

...honestly, a major goal of mine with this series is to go back to the early LNH's furious ideaful chaos, and Teenfactor is an *enormous* well of that. Yeah, a lot of the execution was weird, flawed, and confusing. But you've always had good instincts, and there's always been something meaningful buried under the hormones and sugar buzz and struggling-to-exist-in-a-world-you-never-made. (Heck, sometimes that *is* the meaningful thing.)

Drew "TBH I did skim a fair amount of it tho" Perron