And, in my experience, it's something that is brought up maybe once a year. It's not something I think about any other time. But, yes, I experience unhappiness when reminded of being manipulated and lied to whether it's this or anything else in the world. I'm not petting that pain like it is precious, but it's there when people bring up the Tropes thing. Just is. The day it's mentioned and I have no reaction at all? That'll be just fine with me.
Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Cass - Jun 01, 2011 8:18:19 pm PDT #15028 of 28287
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Toddson - Jun 02, 2011 4:55:37 am PDT #15029 of 28287
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In re Feed/Deadline - have you heard about the two E. coli strains that seem to be hitting Europe ... anyone getting a bad feeling about this?
hippocampus - Jun 02, 2011 5:22:50 am PDT #15030 of 28287
not your mom's socks.
I've got Feed, but can't read it yet - it's on a shiny screen and the sinus hell is making shiny screens bad news for my eyes. This? Is TORTURE.
And yeah, Toddson, I saw that yesterday.
Toddson - Jun 02, 2011 6:53:32 am PDT #15031 of 28287
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
heh ... Nora Roberts is funding a program to offer a minor in romance.
Consuela - Jun 02, 2011 12:10:24 pm PDT #15032 of 28287
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So VS Naipaul thinks he's a better writer than any woman writer ever (including Jane Austen). And he's sure that he can tell if something's written by a woman within a paragraph.
So the Guardian came up with an online test: [link]
I failed it: it told me quite snarkily that I clearly need to read more books by men. *grins*
Strix - Jun 02, 2011 12:12:08 pm PDT #15033 of 28287
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read that earlier, and my eyes spun around faster than a teenage boy at a topless beach.
WTFEVER.
Consuela - Jun 02, 2011 12:13:16 pm PDT #15034 of 28287
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I wish to god someone would give him one of James Tiptree's stories. And not something obvious like "The Women Men Don't See". "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" might do.
Kathy A - Jun 02, 2011 12:21:50 pm PDT #15035 of 28287
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I thought it was pretty obvious a woman had written "Houston, Houston," it's so rabidly anti-male.
Kathy A - Jun 02, 2011 12:22:31 pm PDT #15036 of 28287
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Maybe "Shambleau" by CL Moore would be a good alternative.
Strix - Jun 02, 2011 12:23:39 pm PDT #15037 of 28287
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
One day, I will find a collected works of Moore. Shambleau is the only one of her shorts I've read and she's so interesting.