These are supposedly from actual books, which I guess they must be (I am envisioning the slush pile) because you couldn't make some of this shit up: [link]
Simon: Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword. Zoe: I think he knows which end to hold.
'Shindig'
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."
flea - Mar 16, 2011 4:04:44 pm PDT #14115 of 28288
information libertarian
Laga - Mar 17, 2011 6:28:45 am PDT #14116 of 28288
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
eep! Stuff like this is why I never end up submitting anything I've written. What if I don't realize how much I suck?
DavidS - Mar 17, 2011 6:48:57 am PDT #14117 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What if I don't realize how much I suck?
You gotta getta beta, baby.
sumi - Mar 17, 2011 10:31:33 am PDT #14118 of 28288
Art Crawl!!!
George RR Martin's publisher shows off the massive manuscrupt of A Dance with Dragons (so far).
erikaj - Mar 18, 2011 9:36:22 am PDT #14119 of 28288
Always Anti-fascist!
I wrote a Kos post that I think belongs here...if you're ever on DK, the new Readers and Book Lovers group might be worth Buffistas' time. [link]
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:36:36 pm PDT #14120 of 28288
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IO9 has an interview with John Norman. I didn't read it, because I can't separate the text from the author and I don't care to, because the text is stinky. But I thought it might interest some here.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2011 6:48:57 pm PDT #14121 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Norman is such a weird flashing of a kinky sensibility in a somewhat mainstream context.
You could go into a B. Dalton books at your local mall and get all the B&D you'd ever want.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:57:16 pm PDT #14122 of 28288
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've got no issue with B&D in instances. As an assertion that that's the way the world works, and there are ingrained gender roles in it? Fuck that noise. Not interested.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2011 6:58:54 pm PDT #14123 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow, that was illuminating about my own biases because I realized while reading his words that I associate a highly latinate vocabulary as highly bullshit. (It is, of course, the core language of law and medicine, but also politics.)
It just screams to me as ungrounded NerdNerdNerd. (Not in the good way.)
DavidS - Mar 22, 2011 7:00:22 pm PDT #14124 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
As an assertion that that's the way the world works, and there are ingrained gender roles in it? Fuck that noise. Not interested.
I come from an opposite school where Wrong Thinking is intriguing. The consensus and the middle space is well mapped, but outliers reveal something.