Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.

Mal ,'Serenity'


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."


JZ - Jun 02, 2011 1:27:18 pm PDT #15045 of 28286
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I got 3 out of 10. I think I reverse-reverse psychologied myself out of a few correct answers, where something read as so thoroughly male that I figured the test-makers were trying to make us second-guess ourselves and think we were outsmarting them by choosing "female," only to have it turn out it actually was written by a male-type person. And then it turned out it actually was written by a woman.

Or something. Anyhow, I talked myself out of at least three correct answers based not on the texts but on what I thought the test-writers thought I would think of the texts.


Amy - Jun 02, 2011 1:29:56 pm PDT #15046 of 28286
Because books.

I did that on the last question, JZ.


P.M. Marc - Jun 02, 2011 1:32:24 pm PDT #15047 of 28286
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I also failed. And assumed VS Naipaul's paragraph was written by a woman.


Consuela - Jun 02, 2011 1:33:49 pm PDT #15048 of 28286
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I guessed blindly, didn't even try to think them through, as I recognized none of them. And because I have so frequently had my writing taken for male that I figured there was no point in trying to guess.


sumi - Jun 02, 2011 1:42:21 pm PDT #15049 of 28286
Art Crawl!!!

I got 50% and it told me that I need to read more books by men.


Polter-Cow - Jun 02, 2011 1:47:16 pm PDT #15050 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I got 50% and it told me that I need to read more books by men.

I got 60% and it said the same thing. I think this is just one big scam to get us to read more books by men.


megan walker - Jun 02, 2011 1:52:13 pm PDT #15051 of 28286
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I got 7 out of 10 and it did not tell me I need to read more books by men.


Ginger - Jun 02, 2011 1:53:28 pm PDT #15052 of 28286
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

VS Naipaul, Nicholas Sparks and Salman Rushdie write like women. Neener, neener. Also, their mothers dress them funny.


Amy - Jun 02, 2011 1:54:14 pm PDT #15053 of 28286
Because books.

I looked Naipaul up in Wiki and he seems like a real charmer, too.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 02, 2011 2:32:43 pm PDT #15054 of 28286
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I got 4 out of 10. But 2 of the 4 I had read already, so I knew the author.