Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'Underneath'


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 - Mar 12, 2018 5:58:17 pm PDT #24972 of 28343
Because books.

Found a Hamilton shoutout in a Tessa Dare romance. Delightful!


Dana - Mar 15, 2018 10:29:40 am PDT #24973 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

For anyone who likes Ellis Peters, the books in her George Felse series are on sale for $1.99 to $2.99 at Amazon. At least, I assume that's a sale price. Regardless, they're well worth it.

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-t - Mar 15, 2018 12:54:06 pm PDT #24974 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Thanks! I think I finally read all of the Cadfael books, did not know about these.


-t - Mar 17, 2018 5:38:09 am PDT #24975 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Secret message to Jesse:

My beard had been permanently depilated before I left Ollul

The Left Hand of Darkness pg 55


Jesse - Mar 17, 2018 5:45:05 am PDT #24976 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

THANK YOU!

Relatedly, Slate had a podcast recently about that book, and I was thrilled that the first thing Charlie Jane Anders said was how much the main character sucks.


-t - Mar 17, 2018 6:16:32 am PDT #24977 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

He's a 23 year old bundle of toxic masculinity trying really hard to convince himself he's objective. He has that one moment towards the end (which I cannot find now to quote exactly or to see who he was talking about) where he says something like "I didn't see a man, I didn't see a woman, I saw a person" and the only thing I can think is "Finally! Was that so hard?"


Jesse - Mar 17, 2018 7:30:14 am PDT #24978 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, he says that about the main friend he's off in the tundra or whatever with.


Amy - Mar 17, 2018 7:34:34 am PDT #24979 of 28343
Because books.

Finally reading Cat Sebastien, and I LOVE HER.


hippocampus - Mar 21, 2018 6:29:18 am PDT #24980 of 28343
not your mom's socks.

Oh my gosh, Blood, Water, Paint by Joy McCullough. (Trigger warnings all over the place) please let me write something this amazing at some point in my life.


meara - Mar 26, 2018 9:48:07 am PDT #24981 of 28343

Ahhhhhh why must alllll my library holds come in at once? I had like three books expire before I finished them and have a few more to go and just got emails that like four more things had come in!