You turned evil a lot faster than I thought you would.

Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'


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."


Polter-Cow - Mar 16, 2012 11:27:10 am PDT #18209 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Ah, in that case, yes, I skipped all that.


Hil R. - Mar 18, 2012 4:27:54 pm PDT #18210 of 28282
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I just finished Mockingjay. I'm still all flaily.


Hil R. - Mar 18, 2012 5:02:38 pm PDT #18211 of 28282
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Trying to put together Mockingjay thoughts. Wow, that was bleak. Like, nobody comes out of there without serious psychological scars. Well, of the people who actually make it all the way to the end, anyway.

I'm also puzzling over the logistics of how the districts are divided up, and how many people there are and where they all live. The more I try to figure it out, the less sense it makes.


Steph L. - Mar 18, 2012 5:24:51 pm PDT #18212 of 28282
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Wow, that was bleak.

To the power of 10.


DebetEsse - Mar 18, 2012 6:18:58 pm PDT #18213 of 28282
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Wow, that was bleak.

I sometimes wonder if the Jr Hi kids who are reading them really get just how bleak and fucked up they are.


Liese S. - Mar 18, 2012 8:28:55 pm PDT #18214 of 28282
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Probably. It's exactly the kind of bleak I would have loved in Jr. High. I would have read it from beneath a wall of my hair in my eyes, so you could not see into my black black heart. And then I would have gone roller skating.


smonster - Mar 19, 2012 1:52:28 am PDT #18215 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

(hearts Liese, as usual)


lisah - Mar 19, 2012 4:22:00 am PDT #18216 of 28282
Punishingly Intricate

DDebet, did you see the interviews with kids about the Hunger Games books that I posted? Those kids got it.


DebetEsse - Mar 19, 2012 6:06:43 am PDT #18217 of 28282
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Lisa, yeah. With those sorts of things, I always worry about cherry-picking. I spent yesterday morning with a couple of Jr Hi kids, and we briefly talked about Twilight (didn't have time to get into the depth of the problematic nature of the whole thing), so I was sort of primed in the direction of "they'll gloss over things in their own thinking"


Laga - Mar 19, 2012 6:17:57 am PDT #18218 of 28282
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I'm also puzzling over the logistics of how the districts are divided up

I've seen a lot of maps but this one makes the most sense to me.