Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.

Mal ,'Ariel'


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."


Calli - Jun 22, 2018 4:20:46 am PDT #25084 of 28452
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Octavia Butler is today's Google doodle.


Kat - Jun 22, 2018 7:36:26 pm PDT #25085 of 28452
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Noah asked me who Butler was, but I didn't know the context.


Fred Pete - Jun 28, 2018 11:06:37 am PDT #25086 of 28452
Ann, that's a ferret.

RIP Harlan Ellison.


-t - Jun 28, 2018 11:25:51 am PDT #25087 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh? Sad.


Atropa - Jun 28, 2018 1:33:10 pm PDT #25088 of 28452
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Goodbye, grumpy uncle of SF.


Tom Scola - Jun 28, 2018 1:46:50 pm PDT #25089 of 28452
hwæt

He's going to sue his way into heaven.


-t - Jun 28, 2018 2:22:40 pm PDT #25090 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That is kind of a pleasant thought.


Jessica - Jun 29, 2018 10:39:49 am PDT #25091 of 28452
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think you guys would enjoy my friend's Twitter poll.


Beverly - Jun 29, 2018 10:49:08 am PDT #25092 of 28452
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Which is why, although I know better, I still say "muncipal" in my head when I read municipal. You know, muncipal, like principal.


-t - Jun 29, 2018 11:14:12 am PDT #25093 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ha! I have not read Jane Eyre, though. Mostly I think - how is that a first name?