This is the root of ambivalence to horror - it lures me in with being thought-provoking and well-written but gives me nightmares or otherwise messes with my head. A real attraction-avoidance thing that I keep penduluming away in. And I have to go through the dance with every book/movie/whatever, it's tiring!
...because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard! And I never really liked you anyway. And you have stupid hair!
Spike ,'Selfless'
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."
-t - Oct 04, 2023 5:04:24 pm PDT #27740 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sj - Oct 05, 2023 8:13:37 am PDT #27741 of 28095
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I’m more likely to get nightmares from visual media than written or audio media.
-t - Oct 05, 2023 2:17:00 pm PDT #27742 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like I get them more from written but that is possibly because that is what I am more likely to stay up late to consume...
Toddson - Oct 06, 2023 5:54:33 am PDT #27743 of 28095
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I noped out of T. Kingfisher's sequel to The Twisted Ones and have sworn off horror, although I did read her House with Good Bones, which I found creepy but not terrifying.
sj - Oct 06, 2023 11:40:55 am PDT #27744 of 28095
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There's a sequel to the Twisted Ones?
Toddson - Oct 06, 2023 1:07:02 pm PDT #27745 of 28095
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm not sure if it's an actual sequel, but it's another horror novel from T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places.
sj - Oct 07, 2023 9:41:03 am PDT #27746 of 28095
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Same tone but not connected. I’ve read them both.
dcp - Oct 08, 2023 5:30:29 pm PDT #27747 of 28095
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Copperbadge is releasing a new story in the Shivadhverse. If the 'verse is new to you, I highly recommend it. Fun stuff. [link]
Latest story is: [link]
-t - Oct 12, 2023 10:01:31 am PDT #27748 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Would discussion of Slayers: A Buffyverse Story go here? Audiobook, right?
I tried listening in the car on the the way to work this morning but it was too hard to hear the dialog over the background noise. I'll have to try later with headphones. But I'm excited!
Consuela - Oct 12, 2023 9:14:14 pm PDT #27749 of 28095
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I am most of the way through Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrot, which was written in the late 1920s, and it's SO GOOD y'all. Highly recommended.