tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post6413629188766116659..comments2024-03-25T20:48:20.863-05:00Comments on Uncanny Valley: Sharp things frighten meUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-86426772850950728622011-12-17T15:03:28.049-06:002011-12-17T15:03:28.049-06:00Every time a recipe calls for the food processor, ...Every time a recipe calls for the food processor, I picture putting the relevant ingredients into the bowl according to the proper steps, then I picture my fingers extending down into the bowl as the blades start running. I think I'm pretty desensitized to getting cut--I love crafts and cooking and all sorts of pursuits requiring sharp objects, and I get careless--but the thought of anything actually getting cut *off* or rendered unusable figures pretty heavily in my imagination. Hmm, feels Freudian...gross.Tracy Rae Bowlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00503467625042599574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-64174825925298413972011-12-17T11:50:33.282-06:002011-12-17T11:50:33.282-06:00Trina here:
http://youtu.be/Gq8QALxVhSU
Zip to 2...Trina here:<br /><br />http://youtu.be/Gq8QALxVhSU<br /><br />Zip to 25:00 if you're in a hurry.Gabriel Blackwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10810434661231289700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-86957965025813414982011-12-17T11:35:27.187-06:002011-12-17T11:35:27.187-06:00Knives are terrifying. Guns are scary insofar as a...Knives are terrifying. Guns are scary insofar as all weapons can be scary, but knives have that little something extra.<br /><br />I once sliced my pinky open with some scissors. I remember finding it really fascinating, in an abstract way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-82995191547564409822011-12-17T11:28:10.293-06:002011-12-17T11:28:10.293-06:00Yeah, that carrot scenario sounds awful.
Once I s...Yeah, that carrot scenario sounds awful.<br /><br />Once I sat on some scissors, it was terrible, I was maybe six and afterward the continual imagining of what had happened was worse than that the wound (a shallow gash). I also have a close friend who experienced the cliched "quit jumping on that bed with those scissors"/"no!""oh god I just sliced my very young face" thing. Now he has a weird scar.<br /><br />Knives seem good for fiction because it's flatly believable than anyone would have one, could use one accidentally or purposefully in a terrible way, could even forget about carrying one. One of my pet plot points in a novel was keeping a steak knife in a character's jacket pocket so long he forgot about it until being arrested for a variety of other offenses.Tim Dickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17108326838218032812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-34540387246859767052011-12-17T11:08:58.384-06:002011-12-17T11:08:58.384-06:00What you said about chopping carrots reminded me o...What you said about chopping carrots reminded me of a scene in Toxic Avenger 2 when a sushi chef is watching a fight and absentmindedly cuts his own fingers off.<br /><br />Knives are way scarier to me than guns, that's why they often end up in my fiction.Ethanhttps://twitter.com/#!/WordNerdnoreply@blogger.com