I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.

Fuffy ,'Storyteller'


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."


Steph L. - Aug 26, 2025 5:25:05 pm PDT #28408 of 28452
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I have been saying that I need to read the Murderbot series. It would be silly to pass this up.


Dana - Aug 26, 2025 5:32:48 pm PDT #28409 of 28452
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It would. It's a sign.


Steph L. - Aug 26, 2025 5:42:21 pm PDT #28410 of 28452
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

All Systems Red is the only one that's acting wonky. It might be my phone, though.


Steph L. - Aug 26, 2025 5:53:12 pm PDT #28411 of 28452
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Success! Restarted my phone and now all the books are where they should be.


Pix - Aug 26, 2025 7:57:22 pm PDT #28412 of 28452
The status is NOT quo.

Tep, you are going to LOVE those books.


-t - Aug 26, 2025 7:57:43 pm PDT #28413 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Woo! Premium quality entertainment in your storage!


-t - Aug 27, 2025 12:44:52 am PDT #28414 of 28452
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The Incandescent is really good. Magical boarding school, mostly from the pov of a teacher and alumna. I am up past my bedtime from needing to finish it.


Consuela - Sep 01, 2025 12:55:03 pm PDT #28415 of 28452
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The Incandescent is really good.

That's the new Emily Tesh, yes? I really liked her last book I read, although I cannot remember the name of it. The one that won the Hugo.

In other news, we read The Scarlet Pimpernel for book club (I listened to one of the multiple Librivox recordings), and I can just tell my sister will have loathed it. It's very overwritten, melodramatic, and tropey. Kinda dumb but also I think the source of a lot of tropes in modern genre fiction.

I am inspired to dig a little bit into the history of spy fiction because I wonder how this fits in...


dcp - Sep 01, 2025 1:08:15 pm PDT #28416 of 28452
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I've never read the book, but I remember liking the movie adaptation with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour.


Consuela - Sep 01, 2025 2:02:23 pm PDT #28417 of 28452
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I remember liking the movie adaptation with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour.

I bet it cut out the worst of the anti-semitism, and the repetition. I don't think I ever saw it, maybe I'll see if it's on Youtube.