You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?

Cordelia ,'Chosen'


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."


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 28, 2019 3:27:33 pm PST #25574 of 28195
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Even if she had kept quiet, did they think the rest of the internet would just accept this?

That sounds like the thinking at the NCTE that staff buyouts would be a good way to quietly purge the organization of dissenting voices and avoid scandal. Surely trans activists of color would feel their interests to be best served by not rocking the boat, right?


Tom Scola - Dec 28, 2019 3:28:09 pm PST #25575 of 28195
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Thank you, Amy.


Dana - Dec 28, 2019 3:34:19 pm PST #25576 of 28195
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

New president sounds real shady.


Consuela - Dec 28, 2019 3:40:08 pm PST #25577 of 28195
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Amy, thanks so much-- that is the BEST recap. I couldn't understand what the stuff with Damon Suede was about, and now I get that he was filtering everything, going both directions. (AND lying about claiming to know who Chuck Tingle is! WTF.)


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 28, 2019 3:53:28 pm PST #25578 of 28195
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Wait, so a big chunk of the board of directors quit, and the president-elect that apparently turned the ethics complaint into a kangaroo court immediately becomes president AND gets to name replacement board members?


Dana - Dec 28, 2019 3:58:26 pm PST #25579 of 28195
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

ding ding ding!

I mean, people clearly fucked up the handling of the complaint, but it seems clear that president-elect thought he could turn this whole situation to his advantage.


Amy - Dec 28, 2019 4:06:34 pm PST #25580 of 28195
Because books.

I was just amazed to learn RWA's president elect was named Damon Suede.


Steph L. - Dec 28, 2019 4:22:00 pm PST #25581 of 28195
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I was just amazed to learn RWA's president elect was named Damon Suede.

It HAS to be a pornstar name.


Beverly - Dec 28, 2019 5:08:20 pm PST #25582 of 28195
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

"Nomad Velour."


DavidS - Dec 28, 2019 6:37:54 pm PST #25583 of 28195
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Excellent, clear, concise recap of the whole stinking mess: [link]

Holy shit that's a mess!