“This is like an AA meeting for book depressives, anxiety cases, ADHD, I consider myself the triple threat,” Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures, Icons) joked at the first panel I attended at the first ever YallWest book festival. “In honor of my ADHD AA…
So this one time, I was at Sears buying a dishwasher, and this slimy sexist salesman comes up to me and starts trying to sell me this super-expensive dishwasher, and then at the end of his pitch he says, “And don’t worry, little lady, because it’s easy to use, too. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out!”
And my mom and I start laughing, and finally my mom says to him, “She has a degree in aerospace engineering.”
Wow what I never realized the colors were inverted
You’d think I would have noticed that
That’s the point. The world Coraline lives in is supposed to be boring and gray, but the people are what give it life and purpose. In the Other Mother’s world the people are plastic puppets where she pulls the strings because it presumably changes for every child she takes, but the world around them is bright and colorful for the purpose of enticing the children to stay… before they notice the inhabitants are nothing but dust.
