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5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'A Hat Full... · 0 replies · +4 points

Also: gravitarse, "arse" being the British spelling of "ass", which means that "gravit-arse" sounds suspiciously like "heavy bottom". No wonder Granny is a bit cautious!

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Wee Fr... · 0 replies · +2 points

My hairs are standing on end, somehow, even though the images are so simple. Thank you for this.

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Scienc... · 0 replies · +3 points

Ooh, sleep paralysis story time! My one experience of sleep paralysis was when I was trying to decide if I believed in God. (It's a long story, but basically I fell in love with a guy who loved me back but felt he couldn't be in a relationship with an atheist. Very painful for both of us). I had this dream about standing by and not doing anything while people were being eaten by a machine/monster.

I woke, and couldn't move, and I just sort of *knew* that I wasn't going to be allowed to move until I had figured out what the dream meant. So I tried out several things that weren't quite right, and I knew they weren't right because I still couldn't move, and finally I realised that the thing that was eating people was religion, and that if I let myself be persuaded into believing for bad reasons I'd be complicit in it, and that would be wrong. And then I could move.

It's a funny story, because I know for a fact that if the dream -- if my subconscious -- had told me to go the other way, and believe? Well, then I'd probably be one of the most fervent believers out there, with a bona fide religious experience to prove it and everything. And I'd be, uh, completely wrong about that...

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Scienc... · 0 replies · +5 points

There's usually a tuatara in a New Zealand zoo! I've seen quite a few, as a result. The local aquarium even has one, despite the fact that they are definitely in no way aquatic. Go figure.

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Scienc... · 1 reply · +4 points

But if you know the velocity, don't you also know the momentum? After all, momentum is calculated based on velocity and mass (and yes, mass can be variable depending on relativistic effects, but those are a deterministic function of the velocity anyway, and shouldn't cause issues...)

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - I am proud to announce... · 0 replies · +2 points

Good for you! Also, I read the excerpt, and your characters seem hella cute :)

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Scienc... · 0 replies · +10 points

Watching Mark read and react to science is a whole new experience! Just as Mark's reactions to a book I've already read make me appreciate it more, so also Mark's reactions to science are making me appreciate the world more. It's nice.

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thief of T... · 0 replies · +12 points

Yeah, the whole "women are in less personal danger" thing is completely contradicted by all those times it was gently explained to me that I couldn't go walking by myself down a deserted country road...

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thief of T... · 0 replies · +2 points

oooh, book recommendation! :D

Will seek these out.

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Truth'... · 0 replies · +28 points

I took it as a commentary on the society Sacharissa lives in. Sacharissa is a respectable woman, you see. Carney has a lot of power in the guild that her family is associated with. Accusing him of groping her would quite possibly damage her reputation more than his. So she says nothing, but distrusts him wholeheartedly from then on. And if she does mention it, she mentions it calmly to someone from outside the guild who she trusts, because, best not to make a fuss...

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