Buffistas

Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.

'Ariel'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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."

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Polter-Cow - Sep 16, 2014 6:13:30 pm PDT #22674 of 28343

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I am intrigued now....but would probably default male given a male author. (And vice-versa if it were a female author)

Yeah, I think that's a common bias. But another bias could be that the reader defaults to their own gender. I read a cool story by A.C. Wise called "The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution," which is a neat use of second-person because the gender of the main character is never specified. (And even there I did default to female-by-author (and/or thinking of sexbots as female per male heteronormativity), I think, but the fact that the character is "you" seems to invite the reader to project their own gender.)

Also happy belated birthday!

Thanks!

And thanks to everyone for congratulations! It's wild.

Consuela - Sep 16, 2014 6:33:32 pm PDT #22675 of 28343

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Bravo, P-C! That sounds like great fun!

meara - Sep 17, 2014 4:23:20 am PDT #22676 of 28343

Thanks for the link, PC! Interesting--I couldn't say whether I was thinking of the narrator as male or female, because I knew going in, so it felt more gender-neutral in my head.

tommyrot - Sep 17, 2014 4:42:47 am PDT #22677 of 28343

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

...but would probably default male given a male author. (And vice-versa if it were a female author)

When I was reading it, the character felt like a female character as written by a male author.

Brains are weird.

erin_obscure - Sep 18, 2014 2:44:38 am PDT #22678 of 28343

Occasionally I’m callous and strange

Congrats p c! Use those powers for good!

Tom Scola - Sep 19, 2014 2:08:21 pm PDT #22679 of 28343

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Hemingway or a children's book? [link]

Steph L. - Sep 19, 2014 2:32:15 pm PDT #22680 of 28343

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Man, I failed that one hard. 8/15. (And, to be totally honest, the ones I got right were ones I actually recognized from children's books.)

-t - Sep 19, 2014 2:42:37 pm PDT #22681 of 28343

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Also 8/15, which the test assures me is a swell score. I got one right because I thought "That sounds like Virginia Woolf, it can't be Hemingway". It was not Virginia Woolf, but it was also not Hemingway, so go me.

Tom Scola - Sep 19, 2014 2:45:37 pm PDT #22682 of 28343

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I got a worse score the second time I took the quiz.

Dana - Sep 19, 2014 4:02:26 pm PDT #22683 of 28343

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

12 out of 15! I have no idea what I just succeeded at, but hey.

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