so ... my chances of sex with Jesse just disappeared? oh well ....
Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness.
Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.
'Never Leave Me'
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."
Toddson - Feb 17, 2012 2:11:03 pm PST #17864 of 28261
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Jesse - Feb 17, 2012 2:23:56 pm PST #17865 of 28261
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
(I don't actually care what kind of visible media someone has if I'm going to their house to have sex with them....)
meara - Feb 17, 2012 2:24:33 pm PST #17866 of 28261
Yeah, i can just see that "Ooh, baby, let's go to your place!" ...walk in... "Oh, sorry, I can't do this"
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 17, 2012 2:29:54 pm PST #17867 of 28261
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't think I've ever been dissuaded from having sex with someone by having a look around their home, but in at least a couple cases what I saw determined whether or not there would be a repeat performance.
Liese S. - Feb 17, 2012 2:37:03 pm PST #17868 of 28261
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
We live in a digital world, people. If you look at my cd cases, you can get a pretty good idea of what music I was listening to...in the 90's!
Books are moderately more current, but won't be for long.
Jesse - Feb 17, 2012 2:38:25 pm PST #17869 of 28261
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If you look at my cd cases, you can get a pretty good idea of what music I was listening to...in the 90's!
Totally.
Volans - Feb 17, 2012 3:03:11 pm PST #17870 of 28261
move out and draw fire
I finally read Hunger Games last night. Started around 9:30, finished around 12:30.
I'd been putting off reading it as my DH read it like a year ago or longer, and didn't like it. Quoth he, "Way too much time describing what people are wearing."
So I wrote him last night to tell him I'd read it and liked it, and he responded, "That's funny, as I just stayed up way too late reading Catching Fire. "
Now we're fighting about whether or not Hunger Games is cut from the same cloth as Twilight.
Amy - Feb 17, 2012 3:10:42 pm PST #17871 of 28261
Because books.
Now we're fighting about whether or not Hunger Games is cut from the same cloth as Twilight.
Really?
Consuela - Feb 17, 2012 3:16:27 pm PST #17872 of 28261
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Now we're fighting about whether or not Hunger Games is cut from the same cloth as Twilight
Who's arguing the "pro" position? Because I'm not seeing it, except in a very general sense that it's an SF/F story with a young female protagonist, that has captured the imagination and attention of a lot of people. Oh, and written in the first person.
Collins' prose isn't fantastic, but it's competent enough, and she's killer at narrative momentum, none of which I've heard about Twilight. Katniss operates out of desperation, and not out of any romantic longing--while I find the series a bit too heteronormative, one can't say that Katniss wastes a lot of time pondering her romantic choices. She's got shit to do.
Volans - Feb 17, 2012 3:27:08 pm PST #17873 of 28261
move out and draw fire
So, keeping in mind that neither the DH nor I have read any of the Twilight books, and are therefore talking out of our asses, allow me to paste his position from email:
It gets positively creepy how she starts writing about all the sleeping together and the warm-tummy feelings (but no sex, of course) and I am sure that you have figured out that Peeta is Edward and the ... other one is.... uhm, the wolfy one.
I guess I just find it disturbing that YA is now all about these erotically charged, but sexless, relationships where the main character's cluelessness is what preserves the purity of the relationship. I find this neither realistic, interesting, or healthy. I would just as soon that my YA be devoid of any references to eroticism than have it flirt with sex but suggest that ignorance is the best defense against anything untoward.
ETA: my response was to tell him to read Cold Kiss before painting all YA with the Twilight brush.