Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.

'Lineage'


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 - Mar 19, 2012 9:59:46 am PDT #18225 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I'm reading Seanan McGuire's Discount Armageddon and enjoying it a lot. Our very own Polter-Cow makes an appearance - under his real name - in it.


Polter-Cow - Mar 19, 2012 10:02:04 am PDT #18226 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Here I am!


Hil R. - Mar 19, 2012 4:19:48 pm PDT #18227 of 28370
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

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

That one seems fairly reasonable, except that I think District 2 needs to be much bigger and cover a significant part of the Rockies. District 9 also needs to be bigger, if that's where all the grain is grown. I'd probably push District 8 further north, since that one is textiles and doesn't really depend on having a particular type of land or climate, and give District 9 most of that space.

Also, Panem sure seems to build a lot of stuff for a country that doesn't have any place that produces steel.


hippocampus - Mar 20, 2012 4:21:32 am PDT #18228 of 28370
not your mom's socks.

Elizabeth Bear's new book Range of Ghosts is coming out in a week - first in the new series. She let me pester her about food and worldbuilding a bit last week. Interview is up over here: [link]


megan walker - Mar 20, 2012 5:44:10 am PDT #18229 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Hunger Games question for books 2&3: Isn't Seneca the gamemaker for book 2 and part of the rebellion?


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 7:20:55 am PDT #18230 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yes to the first, not really to the second. Why?


le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 7:22:25 am PDT #18231 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I can see why you'd have that question given how he was deposed and all.


P.M. Marc - Mar 20, 2012 7:32:37 am PDT #18232 of 28370
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

No to both. You have him confused with Plutarch Heavensbee.


le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 7:38:55 am PDT #18233 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

dammit.


Polter-Cow - Mar 20, 2012 7:41:06 am PDT #18234 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

That's what I thought.