Aww, I wish Douglas Adams was not dead.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Liese S. - Feb 03, 2008 5:32:42 pm PST #5007 of 28343
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
JZ - Feb 04, 2008 7:56:42 am PST #5008 of 28343
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Hm, whom should I choose? Charles Dickens, maybe? Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie for the "Murder, She Wrote" meta of it all? Get out ahead of the curve and go for the relatively recently deceased Patrick O'Brian?
I vote Mary Shelley!
Gris - Feb 04, 2008 7:59:54 am PST #5009 of 28343
Hey. New board.
I vote Mary Shelley!
I think she would be unbearable as a character. I don't know why. She always struck me as a whiner, for no reason I can name. Maybe it's just projection: Frankenstein is NOT a book that held up to 8 readings in a year for me.
Consuela - Feb 04, 2008 7:12:19 pm PST #5010 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
But at least her proto-feminist attitudes and agency would have historical justification.
And it's not like the Jane Austen of these mystery novels bears any great relationship to the actual Austen.
... I wonder why it is I don't think of those novels as RPF? Huh.
P.M. Marc - Feb 04, 2008 7:42:26 pm PST #5011 of 28343
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Two hundred years of space?
Susan W. - Feb 04, 2008 8:21:31 pm PST #5012 of 28343
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
FWIW, I have several real people as characters in my alternate history, and I've never thought of it as writing RPF, though I do feel a certain need to respect their memory.
Not that that's stopping me from gleefully torturing them whenever the plot warrants. And I'm about to write my first sex scene with a real person. For now I'm discreetly fading to black, but it wouldn't surprise me if by the end I'm writing play-by-plays for him. It's not like there's anyone who can tell me if I got it wrong...
Consuela - Feb 04, 2008 8:25:13 pm PST #5013 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Two hundred years may well be it.
P.M. Marc - Feb 05, 2008 8:28:10 am PST #5014 of 28343
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I mean, it's not like she's around to Google herself and then put quotes from stories found up on her MySpace or the MySpace-like sites of her friends, as has happened in Bandom recently. She's long dead! She'll never know! She'll never break the fourth wall!
amych - Feb 05, 2008 8:29:55 am PST #5015 of 28343
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
it's not like she's around to Google herself and then put quotes from stories found up on her MySpace or the MySpace-like sites of her friends, as has happened in Bandom recently
Huh.
It's just so weird when the objets-du-fandom act even more stupid-fandom-tricks than the fans.
P.M. Marc - Feb 05, 2008 8:33:52 am PST #5016 of 28343
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It's just so weird when the objets-du-fandom act even more stupid-fandom-tricks than the fans.
Twenty-something metrosexual indie boys are apparently occasionally tickled pink to find stories about them licking their close male friends. It means someone is paying attention to the fact that they exist, dontcha know?