Unless you are romantically entangled with a were-orca that seems like a completely valid lifestyle.
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'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."
aurelia - Sep 09, 2020 9:49:13 am PDT #26109 of 28333
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
-t - Sep 09, 2020 10:07:45 am PDT #26110 of 28333
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 28333
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 28333
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 28333
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 28333
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 28333
"...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 28333
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.
aurelia - Sep 09, 2020 5:02:47 pm PDT #26117 of 28333
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
The oral defense for that thesis is sure to draw a crowd.
Toddson - Sep 10, 2020 11:37:09 am PDT #26118 of 28333
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
If anyone's interested, K.J. Charles' "Magpie Lord" e-books are free today. I really liked them.