That itch. That annoying, crawling, horrible itch.

[elfs]

It's terribly, horribly unfair. I shouldn't be bothered by this. I really shouldn't. It normally doesn't bother me to read other people's stuff: normally, I can either say it's trash or it's treasure with little room in between.

But I'm halfway through Charlie Stross's Wednesday Addams vs. The Nazis From Planet X (aka The Iron Sunrise) and I'm having this weird, "Hastur, if he can get away with this kind of heavy-handed silliness..."

Of course, he'll probably pull something marvelous out at the end and I'll be left all bleak again.