Insent, msbelle
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."
-t - Jul 09, 2019 3:30:25 pm PDT #25414 of 28595
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
msbelle - Jul 09, 2019 4:19:22 pm PDT #25415 of 28595
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
thank you!
Vonnie K - Jul 10, 2019 9:49:06 am PDT #25416 of 28595
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Apparently Shonda Rhimes is adapting several Bridgerton novels (a well-known romance novel series by Julia Quinn) for Netflix with a multiracial cast: [link]
I've read maybe 3 of the books? I remember really liking the one with Colin and Penelope in particular. Anyway, color me psyched!
Amy - Jul 10, 2019 10:06:57 am PDT #25417 of 28595
Because books.
I've seen Quinn posting about this, and between this and the Leigh Bardugo universe coming to Netflix, I am over the moon.
meara - Jul 10, 2019 12:49:47 pm PDT #25418 of 28595
That sounds awesome!
Calli - Jul 11, 2019 4:08:36 am PDT #25419 of 28595
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think I recall Courtney Milan posting about this, saying that Quinn was one of her favorite authors and that she's totally there for the multiracial casting. And Milan's casting shade on people who are willing to believe in dozens of single, ripped Dukes willing to marry penniless wallflowers, but who can't suspend disbelief for multiracial aristos. Which existed in reality, probably more so than dukes who looked like one of Marvel's Chrises marrying women like, say, me.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 11, 2019 6:51:44 am PDT #25420 of 28595
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
Don't Monaco and Sweden pretty much have the market cornered on hot European royals? If someone's making up new highly attractive nobility, they might as well be the product of interracial marriages with outsiders, 'cause I don't see many models resulting from Windsor or Habsburg cousins marrying.
Amy - Jul 11, 2019 7:13:42 am PDT #25421 of 28595
Because books.
Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series was set in Regency England.
Toddson - Jul 11, 2019 8:12:40 am PDT #25422 of 28595
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, the Brits have Harry ....
Kate P. - Jul 30, 2019 6:09:01 pm PDT #25423 of 28595
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Hit up a massive local used bookstore today and scored a late Joan Aiken, a Moomintroll book, and Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren, one I loved as a kid. This place is a goldmine for picking up all kinds of children's fantasy classics. My last trip there in June netted me Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown. Slowly but surely, I'm building up the library that 10-year-old me would have killed for (and that hopefully my kids will love, or at least appreciate, one day too).