Simon: The decision saved your life. Zoe: Won't happen again, sir. Mal: Good. And thanks. I'm grateful. Zoe: It was my pleasure, sir.

'Out Of Gas'


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."


Laura - Mar 06, 2019 3:00:27 pm PST #25355 of 28197
Our wings are not tired.

Nah, being unhappy at meanieheads doesn't have a time limit.


beth b - Mar 10, 2019 10:00:56 am PDT #25356 of 28197
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I just came to ask if anyone had read Slayer ( I started it last night )


-t - Mar 14, 2019 6:57:55 pm PDT #25357 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, man. I'm reading this near future mystery that's set in 2019 but was published in 2013 and they are three years into the first term of a Democratic woman president, there's a third party populist candidate whose rhetoric is hate speech adjacent and he is denounced by the Republican candidate.


Jessica - Mar 15, 2019 5:28:22 am PDT #25358 of 28197
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

three years into the first term of a Democratic woman president, there's a third party populist candidate whose rhetoric is hate speech adjacent and he is denounced by the Republican candidate

Ooh, I love fantasy.


-t - Mar 15, 2019 5:45:12 am PDT #25359 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Right? It's kinda making me sad, though.


EpicTangent - Mar 15, 2019 6:33:46 am PDT #25360 of 28197
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Seriously. The "If only..." in that description kinda stings a little.


Toddson - Apr 04, 2019 6:39:06 am PDT #25361 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I recently read a little book called "Camp Austen" - a young-ish man goes to what's billed as a Jane Austen Summer Camp. It's amusing BUT one thing I noticed - he begins with discussing how, when he was a child, his family moved to England and he was reading her Juvenilia ... which, from his description, sounds like Jane Austen was writing basically fanfic. A lot of it was either based on or parodying 18th century gothics and sensational novels. I do love this idea.

Also, I'm currently reading Joanne M. Harris's Testament of Loki ... only about halfway through, but it's interesting (what happens after Asgard falls).


Connie Neil - Apr 04, 2019 8:03:46 am PDT #25362 of 28197
brillig

The Bronte sisters also had a Gothic world they played in before going "mainstream".


DavidS - Apr 04, 2019 5:41:05 pm PDT #25363 of 28197
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The Bronte sisters also had a Gothic world they played in before going "mainstream".

And it was basically Lord Nelson fanfic.

Also, Caterina Valente wrote a book about it: [link]


javachik - Apr 09, 2019 1:35:27 pm PDT #25364 of 28197
Our wings are not tired.

HAPPY PUB DAY YOU KNOW WHO