Mal: Zoe, why do I have a wife? Jayne: You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like its raining. How come you got a wife?

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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."


esse - Apr 08, 2020 7:42:44 pm PDT #25802 of 28176
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Hi friends.


DavidS - Apr 08, 2020 8:19:00 pm PDT #25803 of 28176
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It's like an entire "essay" on who they are now, in mildly cryptic epigrammatic form.


esse - Apr 08, 2020 10:37:59 pm PDT #25804 of 28176
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Or a statement of kinetic energy, as the Latin verb "to be". ;)


Amy - Apr 18, 2020 5:08:15 pm PDT #25805 of 28176
Because books.

Did anyone read Little Fires Everywhere? Anyone watching the series on Hulu? I'm really disappointed in the adaptation.


Jessica - Apr 19, 2020 9:21:39 am PDT #25806 of 28176
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I haven't read it but I'd be curious to hear what you think the adaptation got wrong.


Amy - Apr 19, 2020 10:15:09 am PDT #25807 of 28176
Because books.

They added plot points left and right, and changed the motivation and action of several characters. What's on screen is much more Shocking! Suburban! Soap! Opera! than the novel, which was not as frenetic but said plenty about the nature of parents and children, and specifically motherhood, without all the added histrionics.

I only have the last episode to watch, I think, and it's been pretty much rage-watching since the second episode.


askye - Apr 22, 2020 4:20:36 pm PDT #25808 of 28176
Thrive to spite them

So in Second Life there is a big event for Realy for Life , Fantasy Faire and I'm checking out the event listings and who is the guest of honor for the LitFest? Fran Wilde! Worlds collide... but in a cool way.


-t - Apr 22, 2020 4:24:36 pm PDT #25809 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Very cool!


Atropa - Apr 25, 2020 11:33:37 am PDT #25810 of 28176
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I just signed up for a Virtual Literary Festival (MYVLF) [link] - They're doing a book weekend in May with discussion panels; Neil Gaiman is going to talk about Ray Bradbury. Eeeeee!


esse - Apr 25, 2020 4:49:19 pm PDT #25811 of 28176
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

that looks awesome!