No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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."


Toddson - Sep 09, 2020 7:21:38 am PDT #26107 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

That doesn't sound like much fun ... no insult to guppies intended. I did see a cartoon recently and it shows a full moon in the background and a pack of wolves surrounding a baby which is saying something along the lines of "yes, I was bitten by a baby".

Then there's Chuck Tingle ....


Atropa - Sep 09, 2020 9:25:48 am PDT #26108 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

What's the difference between a were-seal and a selkie?

Selkies manifest a seal skin that must be kept somewhere safe when they're in human form. Folklore says that a human can keep a selkie against their will if they steal the skin and refuse to give it back.

So I'd assume that were-seals just transform with the lunar cycle? "It's a full moon, Imma gonna go swim and eat fish"?


aurelia - Sep 09, 2020 9:49:13 am PDT #26109 of 28370
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Unless you are romantically entangled with a were-orca that seems like a completely valid lifestyle.


-t - Sep 09, 2020 10:07:45 am PDT #26110 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

And if you are, it's an intriguing base for a plot


Toddson - Sep 09, 2020 10:23:30 am PDT #26111 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I once, many years ago, read a book about a man who was one manifestation of a Polynesian shark deity ... he'd romance a woman and then either drown or eat her (possibly both). There was NOT a happy ending to that.


Jessica - Sep 09, 2020 11:31:56 am PDT #26112 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If you are bitten by a selkie, do you transform into a creature whose sealskin can only be stolen when the moon is full?


-t - Sep 09, 2020 11:34:26 am PDT #26113 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Make it so


juliana - Sep 09, 2020 12:14:23 pm PDT #26114 of 28370
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

If you are bitten by a selkie, do you transform into a creature whose sealskin can only be stolen when the moon is full?

I think that's the plot of the next Chuck Tingle book...


chrismg - Sep 09, 2020 12:42:55 pm PDT #26115 of 28370
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

"Pounded in the Butt by the Manifestation of Literary Theory Concerning Intersection of Disparate Fairy-tale Tropes"


Atropa - Sep 09, 2020 2:06:52 pm PDT #26116 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

"Pounded in the Butt by the Manifestation of Literary Theory Concerning Intersection of Disparate Fairy-tale Tropes"

I would preorder that so fast.