I know plenty of people who've been hurt by Bear, but there also seem to be stories about people who've been hurt by Rowland too. I don't know anything about Lynch.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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."
Dana - Jun 27, 2020 8:47:03 am PDT #25975 of 28176
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Amy - Jun 27, 2020 8:47:31 am PDT #25976 of 28176
Because books.
Yeah, giant mess seems to be on the nose.
-t - Jun 27, 2020 9:26:30 am PDT #25977 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks for that, Dana, I'll bear that in mind.
Consuela - Jun 27, 2020 10:13:00 am PDT #25978 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I haven't read any of Rowland, but I find the podcast she cohosts, Be The Serpent, entirely charming. Sigh.
-t - Jun 27, 2020 10:33:37 am PDT #25979 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I really like A Conspiracy of Truths and A Choir of Lies
-t - Jun 27, 2020 10:41:00 am PDT #25980 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And having spent another a Saturday mostly lazing around reading, finished The Angel of the Crows and it's very good. Addison says in her Author's Note that it started as Sherlock wingfic abd I'm glad she said so because I was certainly picturing Cumberbatch the whole time.
Atropa - Jun 27, 2020 11:24:24 am PDT #25981 of 28176
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Or as someone on another forum put it: poly drama with an overlay of power & manipulation.
I have to admit, it read like every poly drama I have witnessed, down to the manipulation. The only extra thing was the power differential because they're all in the same industry .
Jessica - Jun 28, 2020 5:51:40 am PDT #25982 of 28176
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And it is interesting how much public attention is on Bear instead of Lynch...
This is where I'm at - I'm a fan of Lynch's work (or, well, probably past tense now) but watching this play out in public it's been really uncomfortable watching everyone take sides for or against each woman involved while he gets to stand on the sidelines being performatively apologetic while not admitting to actually having done anything wrong.
Consuela - Jun 28, 2020 9:46:20 am PDT #25983 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
yup.
hippocampus - Jun 29, 2020 5:56:14 am PDT #25984 of 28176
not your mom's socks.
I've been weighing whether I should say something in this thread or not (I'm aware I have big mid-sized stompy feet and friends involved) - but I posted some general threads today too about abuse. A lot of the things happening feel really uncomfortably similar to a previous iteration that took place here / in the literary world, and I'm dealing with a lot of feelings about that as well. Plus I'm watching the Myke Cole/Sam Sykes and others discussion get absolutely forked because of what feels like someone getting (and I am certain this is true) very hurt and then putting up a lot of messy relationship laundry in the middle of the other discussion. Which was and is a conversation that needs to continue. (I don't know where I'm going with this. Just frustrated on a universal and cellular level.)
ETA (the third or fourth now) - what Atropa said, and Jess also. And Dana.