The mythology around iron varies wildly, so you have considerable room for making shit up.
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
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."
Ginger - Dec 04, 2011 12:25:46 pm PST #16987 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
megan walker - Dec 04, 2011 12:38:13 pm PST #16988 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hmm, how creepy? Violent, scary creepy or just really disturbing? Basically can I read it?
Well, I wouldn't recommend reading it when you are about to discover a bat in your basement, but I'd say it's more creepy than really disturbing.
It goes off the rails in the last part, but up until then I really enjoyed it.
Atropa - Dec 04, 2011 12:40:11 pm PST #16989 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Well, I wouldn't recommend reading it when you are about to discover a bat in your basement, but I'd say it's more creepy than really disturbing.
Bwahahahahaha! Oh, nice.
(Of course, if I discovered a bat in our basement, I would be busy trying to catch it to keep as a pet, much to Pete's dismay.)
Burrell - Dec 04, 2011 3:56:55 pm PST #16990 of 28282
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oo, I need to read The Historian. How come I haven't heard of it before? I clearly need to spend more time in this thread so I can get more leisure reading suggestions.
Bought a book for Franny on Friday after the librarian at Isaac's school said it's making its way through the 4th and 5th grades, both boys and girls: Rapunzel's Revenge. Franny's almost half way through it already.
sj - Dec 04, 2011 4:54:58 pm PST #16991 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I really enjoyed the Historian.
Typo Boy - Dec 04, 2011 6:53:24 pm PST #16992 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Dream last night. Vetinari was dying of old age, and had to laid a plot to make sure the best person for the job succeeded him as Patrician - Vimes. That Vimes and the heads of all guilds and the entire aristocracy would hate it was just a bonus to give him something to gloat over as he passed away.
Waking up: it makes a scary amount of sense. There is nobody else remotely like Ventinari, so his successor needs to have strong qualifications that don't remotely resemble those of the current Patrician. Vimes would be miserable in the job, and do it well.
Consuela - Dec 05, 2011 4:50:10 am PST #16993 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Vimes would be miserable in the job, and do it well.
Problem is, based on Night Watch, Vimes is about the same age as Vetinari, so it's not much good for long-term planning.
I think Holli had the best idea I've seen yet: Vetinari is grooming Moist von Lipwig as his successor.
Liese S. - Dec 05, 2011 5:42:22 am PST #16994 of 28282
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, Holli's characterizations made me go, oh yeah, of course.
Connie Neil - Dec 05, 2011 5:46:00 am PST #16995 of 28282
brillig
Ooo, Moist would be a great successor.
Consuela - Dec 05, 2011 8:36:57 am PST #16996 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It's my canon until Pterry says otherwise.