Not surprised about GGM, but still sad.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'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."
Kat - Apr 17, 2014 9:23:50 pm PDT #22265 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Liese S. - Apr 18, 2014 8:00:38 am PDT #22266 of 28344
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I am definitely sad about this one.
hippocampus - Apr 18, 2014 11:07:06 am PDT #22267 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
I will just leave this here: [link]
Ginny Potter, nee Weasley, covering this year's Quidditch World Cup on Pottermore
Polter-Cow - Apr 19, 2014 11:47:41 am PDT #22268 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hugo Award nominations! It's a verrrrrry interesting ballot this year for several reasons. Lots of first-timers. Fan Writer category has no straight white men. The entire Wheel of Time series is up for Best Novel. A blog post nominated for Best Related Work. The "Time" xkcd nominated for Best Graphic Story.
Aaaaand then there's Larry Correia and Vox Day, but. Still. Change is in the air.
Polter-Cow - Apr 20, 2014 9:38:47 am PDT #22269 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Still loving Night Circus. Oh my God this chapter about Night Circus fandom. Oh my God.
DebetEsse - Apr 20, 2014 9:45:19 am PDT #22270 of 28344
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I loved that chapter. That was a good chapter.
Consuela - Apr 20, 2014 7:22:58 pm PDT #22271 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm so pleased Ancillary Justice got nominated. It's such a weird, smart, surprising book. I liked the plot, and the themes, and found the characters both sympathetic and occasionally alienating. And I loved the way the pronoun use challenged my cultural expectations of gender.
I'm also super-pleased Liz Bourke, Kameron Hurley, Foz Meadows, and Abigail Nussbaum got nominated for fan Hugos. They're all brilliant writers, although I think pound-for-pound, Abigail's probably the best of them as a critic: her reviews are really sharp and insightful.
In other news, I finished my reread of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell yesterday. Such an unusual book, so amazingly-written. And it's rather sly, really, because while the book is officially about the two white English gentlemen magicians, it's the people with less official social power who actually bring about the change in the world--the black footman, the unmarried girl of good family, the homeless vagrant covered with tattoos, the lank-haired and disturbingly-knowledgeable servant.
Plus, the footnotes are awesome.
hippocampus - Apr 21, 2014 2:32:56 am PDT #22272 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
Agreed on all points, Consuela. So much on that ballot to be happy about.
Jessica - Apr 21, 2014 10:37:31 am PDT #22273 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm so pleased Ancillary Justice got nominated. It's such a weird, smart, surprising book. I liked the plot, and the themes, and found the characters both sympathetic and occasionally alienating. And I loved the way the pronoun use challenged my cultural expectations of gender.
Oh, I loved this book too! The plot could have been stronger at the end, but only because the rest of the book was so good, I was expecting a payoff to match.
Kate P. - Apr 21, 2014 11:42:52 am PDT #22274 of 28344
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Has anyone here read Jo Walton's Farthing? I'm about 2/3 through and enjoying it, though I don't think it's as strong or as absorbing as Among Others. But I'm starting to wonder, is absolutely *everyone* in this book gay or bisexual? David, Hugh, Mark Normanby, Tibs, probably Inspector Carmichael, and now Lady Eversley and Sukey? I mean, it's starting to strain credulity just the tiniest bit.