Hey, Bernard-mun

[no-prisoner.livejournal.com]

Would it be possible to millitime a short addition onto last night's happy hour thread? Maybe slowtimed? I really wanted/needed Eddie to talk to Bernard but then connection woes struck which is entirely not your fault but made me sad.

In short, Eddie's wife Susannah is in the bar and in a wheelchair. All the customer rooms in 'ways seem to be up a flight of stairs. Susannah, being proud and also used to worse both in her hometime of 1964 and in her wanderings through a bleak post-apocalyptic fantasy-scifi-horror alternate universe, would probably not complain, but Eddie, being a nice guy and deeply in love with her, probably would--not complain, but make a friendly request to see if anything could be done.

Under most circumstances I would just play him out looking for someone to talk to about it and hunting for Bernard like a lot of folks do, but my freetime is in shreds and tatters 'cos my thesis is due in a week. But letting him ignore her dragging herself up and down the stairs is so way OOC.

So... would that be possible?

--John

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[tropes.livejournal.com]

It surely would. I'm offline all afternoon, but we could work on it tonight, I think. Finish it tomorrow. How's that?

[no-prisoner.livejournal.com]

I'm at work myself this afternoon. That sounds great, thanks.

[plague-journal.livejournal.com]

Myself, being in a wheelchair, groks Susannah's sitch in the fullness and seconds the request for assistance. Though I've found a certain social value in trusting ppl to carry me up and down stairs in non-accessable areas and residences, nevertheless, it has come to be a defining factor in where I decide to hang longterm.

[no-prisoner.livejournal.com]

Have you read the Dark Tower series, btw? Not, to be sure, the only series with a wheelchair-bound heroine, but almost certainly the only fantasy series with a black, female, wheelchair-bound action heroine.

--John

[theravenboy]

Really? That's wonderful.

Clearly, I need to read the rest of the books. (I've only read The Gunslinger so far.)

[no-prisoner.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I always tell people who want to give the series a try to read as far as The Drawing of Three, because Gunslinger, while quite good, isn't really characteristic of the series, which is very much concerned with the group dynamic of Roland's posse. Gunslinger is Roland alone and turned in on himself.

Susannah appears in Drawing of Three, although only towards the end... and that's a bit of a sneaky way of putting it but I won't spoil it for you.

[plague-journal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've read up to WaG, and am hooked. I've also read much else of SKs work, including The Talisman, which really beats hell out of most modern fant as far as I'm concerned. Susannah is a quantum leap in expansion of the hero archetype, that's no lie, and I'm looking forward to finishing the series. Incidently, I'm not much of an activist when it comes to promotion of we who are 'differently able'; to me, it's mostly just a more complicated way to live.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Reminds me a little of one of Jack Chalker's series, where the more focal of the two protagonists was a zaftig Afro-American female detective who wore glasses so thick she was only thiiiis far from legally blind.

It's been ages, so I can't really remember what happened to her; but Chalker's series were all about transformation and rebuilding oneself from nadirs.

[maid-of-astolat.livejournal.com]

*is so tempted to bring in Bob the Builder for any bar modifications...*

*restrains self*