I think my favorites there are Tonks and Gilderoy Lockhart.
I wish Ginny had half the spunk that drawing has.
Nandi: I ain't her. Mal: Only people in this room is you and me.
'Heart Of Gold'
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."
DavidS - Jul 30, 2011 1:12:29 pm PDT #15818 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Consuela - Jul 30, 2011 1:19:03 pm PDT #15819 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I wish Ginny had half the spunk that drawing has.
Yeah, she actually looks a little evil there.
le nubian - Jul 30, 2011 1:34:03 pm PDT #15820 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
That's actually Stieg Larsson's conception her. He was quoted many times that he wanted to create an updated, adult Pippi.
Interesting. It's a really really dark interpretation then.
megan walker - Jul 30, 2011 2:46:34 pm PDT #15821 of 28293
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
So I was flipping thru an issue of W magazine featuring The girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (American film version). The director said that Lisbeth Salander is the goth Pippi Longstocking. Given that I haven't seen the movie, and have only read the books, and have also never read Pippi Longstocking, I'm still intrigued by this idea.
Well, that goes along with the whole Kalle Blomkvist thing.
Connie Neil - Jul 30, 2011 5:54:36 pm PDT #15822 of 28293
brillig
re: the cartoons--Harry looks like the BBC Sherlock Holmes. And I love Lockhart.
§ ita § - Jul 31, 2011 3:56:58 am PDT #15823 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A properly executed cartilage piercing should hurt less than a nipple piercing. I've had two, and one was easy peasy. Smash the cartilage and it is a bitch. The density of nerves at the nipple, however, set you up for a world of hurt. I certainly learnt a lot about the interaction between pleasure and pain.
Kate P. - Jul 31, 2011 4:29:07 am PDT #15824 of 28293
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I had my ear cartilage pierced in high school and I don't remember it hurting at all.
So the NYT has a review of that Ogi Ogas book that makes it sound even worse than I had imagined.
Ogas and Gaddam argue that romance novels and their Internet-era counterpart, “fan fiction,” dramatize the workings of female desire. Such stories feature the strong, rich, handsome, competent, socially dominant alpha men whom women need to care for their offspring, and to whom they yearn to submit. How exactly a neural structure residing in the conscious parts of the brain can be innate to a single sex is never answered. Later, the authors write that every male has a set of “female software,” and vice versa; they concede that “male fans of sexual submission porn are accessing the female submissive circuitry their brain shares with women,” which raises the question of what makes the software female if both sexes possess it.
It's not a positive review, but I really wish he'd just ripped the book to shreds instead of treating it as a mild curiosity. Sigh.
§ ita § - Jul 31, 2011 4:43:40 am PDT #15825 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Needles, people, needles. Avoids the snapshot roulette of cartilage damage.
Jesse - Jul 31, 2011 5:09:42 am PDT #15826 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I got the cartilage done at the mall, and it hurt like hell and continued to hurt for months after.
Dana - Jul 31, 2011 6:50:19 am PDT #15827 of 28293
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
romance novels and their Internet-era counterpart, “fan fiction,”
Okay, that right there is profoundly wrong, whether it comes from the authors or the journalist.