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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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Atropa - Dec 10, 2009 10:27:59 am PST #10594 of 28370

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

How can you be a vampire-writin' author and be "grossed out" by blood?! Any blood?

Because she doesn't like vampires, has never read any vampire books, or seen any vampire movies. And has repeatedly said so in interviews. Thus I cling to my desperate notion that the "vampires" in Twilight are actually really, really confused elves or fairies. Hence the sparkle-tastic-ness. BECAUSE THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT VAMPIRES, DAMMIT.

(Whoops, my issues are showing again. And I'm not even wearing the "cranky" bloomers today.)

Toddson - Dec 10, 2009 10:29:19 am PST #10595 of 28370

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

SMeyer and logic - not to mention consistency - have at best a nodding acquaintance.

Jessica - Dec 10, 2009 10:30:28 am PST #10596 of 28370

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Thus I cling to my desperate notion that the "vampires" in Twilight are actually really, really confused elves or fairies.

I've never read any Twilight, but I would totally read this fanfic.

Calli - Dec 10, 2009 10:35:31 am PST #10597 of 28370

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I've never read any Twilight, but I would totally read this fanfic.

Me, too.

Oberon shook his head sadly. "No, seriously, Edward. We need to talk about a few things. And after you completely fail to comprehend them, I expect I'll need to tie you up in an elven ring for a month so Puck can repeat them at you over and over and over."

Aims - Dec 10, 2009 10:36:51 am PST #10598 of 28370

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Legolas/Jasper! Legolas/Jasper!

bounces up and down clapping hands

Jessica - Dec 10, 2009 10:37:24 am PST #10599 of 28370

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Oberon shook his head sadly. "No, seriously, Edward. We need to talk about a few things. And after you completely fail to comprehend them, I expect I'll need to tie you up in an elven ring for a month so Puck can repeat them at you over and over and over."

Doooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeet.

erikaj - Dec 10, 2009 10:48:48 am PST #10600 of 28370

Always Anti-fascist!

I could see myself answering a similar question with "He likes it on the hoof,okay?" But I'm crude like that. Remind me when Yuletide is over to post a relevant excerpt. Yeah, I would guess that most vamp writers think blood is neat, not gross.

Calli - Dec 10, 2009 10:56:09 am PST #10601 of 28370

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Doooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeet.

That would require rereading A Midsummer Night's Dream (yay!) and at least one of the Twilight series (er, no thanks). But anyone who wants to run with it is welcome. (Releases bunny into the wild.)

sumi - Dec 10, 2009 11:37:59 am PST #10602 of 28370

Art Crawl!!!

Elizabeth Bear story over at tor.com.

Jessica - Dec 11, 2009 6:24:02 am PST #10603 of 28370

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The Kindle is exactly like Hitler.

I am not even exaggerating. This is how the article begins:

When I hear the term Kindle I think not of imaginations fired but of crematoria lit. And when I hear the term "hi-tech" I think not of helpful androids efficiently performing household chores or light-speed rockets gliding seamlessly through space but of the fact that between 1933-45, modern technology was used to perform in ever more efficient ways the mass murder of six million of my people.

Is there an ultra-Godwin we can apply to this? Because my brain hurts trying to understand his arguments.

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