Update?
We're deep in space, corner of No and Where.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Amy - Apr 12, 2013 6:49:38 am PDT #20646 of 28370
Because books.
Polter-Cow - Apr 12, 2013 6:53:05 am PDT #20647 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I got a Kindle Software update for my Touch yesterday. I'm actually not sure how the hell those things work when I don't turn on the wireless, but they do.
Amy - Apr 12, 2013 6:53:54 am PDT #20648 of 28370
Because books.
In email, or one of those notifications up in the upper left corner?
Oh, wait, you said Touch. I have a Fire. Never mind.
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2013 7:43:06 am PDT #20649 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Oh Hugh Howey. I don't want to link it because it doesn't merit clicks. A quick twitter search will do fine: Hugh Howey Worldcon.
Polter-Cow - Apr 12, 2013 7:55:47 am PDT #20650 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I saw Seanan talking about that on Twitter but couldn't find it. Let's see...
Ew. There are less gross ways to tell that story. And here I had been intrigued by the Wool phenomenon and kind of wanted to check it out.
Amy - Apr 12, 2013 7:57:48 am PDT #20651 of 28370
Because books.
Less gross? That's all you've got?
I'm going to blog about it later. Like I said to Sox, if a male YA writer talked about a female YA writer that way online, the wrath that would befall him would be epic.
Nothing proves you're a great writer better than using the two most cliched female slurs in history -- bitch and crazy.
Dana - Apr 12, 2013 8:11:00 am PDT #20652 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Boy, the comments, as always, are the crowning glory.
"Yeah, man! I would have wanted to slap that bitch too!"
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2013 8:12:33 am PDT #20653 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow, that was an unpleasant and uncomfortable read. But really efficient in conveying that I never want to have a conversation with this guy. Even the stuff that he wasn't saying to deliberately be provocative makes me roll my eyes:
those fine Canadians who were just as sweet and hilarious as you expect Canadians to be
Seriously? It's just so incredibly self-congratulatory from beginning to end, and only a couple people on the first page of comments is taking him to task for anything.
I mean, there is so clearly a way (myriad ways!) to tell that story and make stupid lady seem stupid without also painting himself an ass.
Consuela - Apr 12, 2013 8:12:55 am PDT #20654 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Hmm? What's going on?
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2013 8:14:57 am PDT #20655 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Consuela, someone is WRONG on the internets.