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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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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.

meara - Jul 31, 2011 7:47:46 am PDT #15828 of 28293

Yeah, Ive had five cartilage piercings, and while they take longer to heal, I'd say they hurt less than the umptybillion times I've had my lobes pierced--there's more nerves in the earlobes. Havent had anything non-ear done though

Last night st Pride we variously picked up a 20 year old, made dun of straight people, stood in line in the rain for an hour, and made friends with people from Calgary because they had umbrellas.

Steph L. - Jul 31, 2011 8:07:23 am PDT #15829 of 28293

I look more rad than Lutheranism

made dun of straight people

Ouch.

Connie Neil - Jul 31, 2011 8:37:56 am PDT #15830 of 28293

brillig

But I don't want to be dun!

Laga - Jul 31, 2011 9:01:23 am PDT #15831 of 28293

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I think having a dorsal stripe would be fun.

Polter-Cow - Aug 01, 2011 6:34:13 am PDT #15832 of 28293

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Countdown, the little Feed vignettes Mira Grant was posting before Deadline came out, is now available as an ebook. Please buy it so that one day you can read The Rising 2014: The Last Stand and Final Fall of the California Browncoats, the story of the Rising at Comic-Con.

Strix - Aug 01, 2011 9:34:34 am PDT #15833 of 28293

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Woo, P-C! You beat me to that post!

Also, I'm doing National Blog Posting Month on BlogHer.com (yeah, yeah, I know, but the theme is Fiction.)

I'm waiting for approval for today's post on BlogHer, but my post on My Favorite Book, the prompt for August 1, is already up at my blog. [link]

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