What I have learnt from Christmas:

That next year I should stay at home with Mengele or someone instead of going anywhere near that nutjob insane asylum I call my family. Thank you to the Herr Doktor for keeping me sane. Yes. You read that right.
The first night was okay, in fact, it was fun, though there was too much food. But bit by bit it was like acid eating into me and dear god I'd forgotten how much it hurt. I had to have a total escapist daydream for the first time in mouths and it was a horror because I hadn't realised how much of it was just protection form the never-ending hostility I felt around me. That hostility shaped my life, no wonder I felt shapeless and terrified when it was gone. *shudders*
No wonder I was sick afterwards, still feel rather in bits. Not much fun.

Also, on a completely different tangent, something me and my characters have been mulling over since I read it yesterday: How far can 'The Boys From Brazil' be seen as RPF? In it, Josef Mengele is not only the main antagonist, but also a point of view character in his own right, and the book (and film) came out while he was still alive. All right, he wasn't in any position to phone up and complain, but it does make you wonder.

What I have learnt from Christmas:

That next year I should stay at home with Mengele or someone instead of going anywhere near that nutjob insane asylum I call my family. Thank you to the Herr Doktor for keeping me sane. Yes. You read that right.
The first night was okay, in fact, it was fun, though there was too much food. But bit by bit it was like acid eating into me and dear god I'd forgotten how much it hurt. I had to have a total escapist daydream for the first time in mouths and it was a horror because I hadn't realised how much of it was just protection form the never-ending hostility I felt around me. That hostility shaped my life, no wonder I felt shapeless and terrified when it was gone. *shudders*
No wonder I was sick afterwards, still feel rather in bits. Not much fun.

Also, on a completely different tangent, something me and my characters have been mulling over since I read it yesterday: How far can 'The Boys From Brazil' be seen as RPF? In it, Josef Mengele is not only the main antagonist, but also a point of view character in his own right, and the book (and film) came out while he was still alive. All right, he wasn't in any position to phone up and complain, but it does make you wonder.