There are some commenters who really despise Xander for being true to form for a teenaged boy. Have they never known teenaged boys?
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Connie Neil - Feb 28, 2012 2:50:05 pm PST #8803 of 10458
brillig
Amy - Feb 28, 2012 2:51:18 pm PST #8804 of 10458
Because books.
Rose Madder the Stephen King novel, Plei?
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2012 2:59:01 pm PST #8805 of 10458
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe they do know teenaged boys and that's why they hate them. True to life doesn't ensure likeability.
Strega - Feb 28, 2012 3:22:45 pm PST #8806 of 10458
I like it when authors take risks like that
Did you ever listen to the bit of the audio I emailed? I feel bad because you can't really drop into the middle and follow the story, but in the course of the series you can see (well, hear) him playing with the format. The first couple are pretty traditional, and then the scope expands, and there are experiments with narration, and the last one makes Memento look straightforward.
Polgara - Feb 29, 2012 11:04:06 am PST #8807 of 10458
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Warning, Mark just posted on Graduation Day, and it's another capslock-fest.
sj - Feb 29, 2012 11:14:03 am PST #8808 of 10458
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Warning, Mark just posted on Graduation Day, and it's another capslock-fest.
Usually Mark's love of capslocks doesn't bother me, but that much bold capslock should be illegal.
Polter-Cow - Feb 29, 2012 11:14:41 am PST #8809 of 10458
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Which is why I enjoyed this part:
Can I also just say how nice it is to have Anya be around? I'm really fascinated by her character, so much so that I don't need to all-caps yell anything at you.
Steph L. - Feb 29, 2012 11:20:10 am PST #8810 of 10458
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I hope he enjoyed it, because I seriously can't read Wall Of ASSCAPS. That's why most people don't use all caps. It's ungoddamnreadable.
t edit I'm annoyed because I like Mark, I like reading his stuff. But he deliberately makes his site user-UNfriendly when he does this. Which, obvs., is his right.
Nora Deirdre - Feb 29, 2012 11:21:36 am PST #8811 of 10458
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
He has ALL THE FEELS.
Steph L. - Feb 29, 2012 11:27:29 am PST #8812 of 10458
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Which I kind of dig. Sometimes it seem overwrought, but I really love S3 so much that I'm cool with all his feels. I share them. But if everything is all-caps, then (aside from it being unreadable) NOTHING has any emphasis.
(See what I did there?)
I think I stopped reading A Prayer for Owen Meany because of the ASSCAPS. I just cannot abide.