Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...

'The Message'


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."


Liese S. - May 14, 2012 4:52:53 pm PDT #18683 of 28326
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, I actually am reading 1Q84 next, but I wanted to immediately reread.

I like how it set up that there couldn't be a satisfying resolution: I was about to be really pissed at a suicidal self-sacrifice for love, but then there was! But not without a cost, you know. Satisfying didn't come free.


Kat - May 14, 2012 5:19:42 pm PDT #18684 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Well, it was pretty sacrificial just not completely suicidal. It was a beautiful and elegant solution to a fucked up problem.

I so wish I could go and see the tents! And, I love the fact that the circus had its own fandom!


Kat - May 14, 2012 5:34:55 pm PDT #18685 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Also, have you seen this: [link]

I so want to have a Night Circus themed 40th birthday party. But I'd have to plan it myself which seems uber stressful.


Liese S. - May 14, 2012 5:45:13 pm PDT #18686 of 28326
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I know! I loved that extra layer of it. Just made it feel so much more real!

Ooh!

I kinda want to send email to the address in the book more or less constantly, kinda like Allyson talking into the wind to Tim's address, only, you know, probably to a marketing panel.


Kat - May 14, 2012 5:49:38 pm PDT #18687 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

And Herr Theissen! I loved him.


§ ita § - May 14, 2012 5:52:24 pm PDT #18688 of 28326
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kat, but I keep forgetting you're my sister's age. For two responsible adults you're wildly divergent in lives.

She's doing a thing for her 40th, and I keep thinking "Am I 40? 45? Wait, this is about her...I'm so confused."


Kat - May 14, 2012 5:58:50 pm PDT #18689 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

She has a life and I'm... well... boring.


§ ita § - May 14, 2012 6:13:34 pm PDT #18690 of 28326
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, that whole significant other and two kids is no big deal. Not a societal ideal, or anything. Nothing a parent wouldn't basically beg her children to achieve.


Kat - May 14, 2012 6:16:01 pm PDT #18691 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

But fuck. It's so much more exhausting and less interesting than a doctorate, a good job and the ability to take vacation without being trailed by 5 year olds. One of whom refuses to stop being on himself.


§ ita § - May 14, 2012 6:40:16 pm PDT #18692 of 28326
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm not going to get into a battle about what's more exhausting living for two people who aren't me, but that's drawing glittery hearts around my sister's life right now that really aren't there.