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!
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
'Unleashed'
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."
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
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.
Burrell - May 14, 2012 7:22:32 pm PDT #18693 of 28326
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oo Kat I totally support the having a party for your 40th. I was going to, and then my MiL got diagnosed with cancer, which kinda put the kibosh on my plans. So then I was going to have a 42nd birthday party, and that just fizzled out. Now I have to wait until I'm 50.