All this time I've been confusing "Mary Sue" with "Pollyanna". Boy was that an eye opening journey to wikipedia.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
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."
Laga - Nov 19, 2008 5:43:42 pm PST #7995 of 28420
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Connie Neil - Nov 19, 2008 6:40:09 pm PST #7996 of 28420
brillig
Yeehah! Philip Gosse's "History of Piracy" on Amazon, used from $0.63! New price $40! I'm getting it for less that 5 bucks, and it's one of the prime sources on historical piracy. And there's a chapter on Grandpa Murat Reis, ne Jan Jansen!
Fay - Nov 19, 2008 11:28:13 pm PST #7997 of 28420
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
He's been approached, more than once, apparently, by young girls who have scratched their necks so the blood is trickling.
stares
Wow. That's...wow. D'you think Boreanaz and Marsters got this kind of thing? I'm thinking that they're rather different fanbases, but that might just be about my personal experience of fandom.
Oh, bless him. I feel really well-disposed to him now. I hope he can act, and that he goes on to build a good solid career for himself - carrying Edward Cullen around the whole time is going to be scarier than being Harry Potter, I suspect. I mean, the mainstream Harry Potter fans aren't all about teh sexual fantasies, at least. Whereas that's ALL Twilight is.
Meanwhile, a dear friend whom I'm hoping to see at Christmas (although she can't fly out to Bangkok after all - but I'm hoping she can fly to the UK from Cairo, as that would be awesome) just sent me an email telling me to read Twilight. "TRUST ME" she said.
Oh, again, dear.
But I can see why it would punch her buttons - she's not a Good Mormon Girl, but she is a Good Muslim Girl, my age, and unwed. A lot of the stuff about gender and sexuality and coyly frustrated desire that made me want to cut someone would fit with where she's at.
I'm trying to be happy for her happy, though. And it's nice that she can watch the movie and enjoy it (I presume), because I'd like to watch it and enjoy it - but I fear I may just want to punch things. We'll see.
Kat - Nov 20, 2008 2:07:57 am PST #7998 of 28420
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
If you don't like vampires, why make Edward the Mary Sue of all vampire heroes ever? Why not make them (all of them) the villains?
Hmmm... yes and no.
Edward is less Mary Sue and more the repressed overly anal scrapbooking soccer mom.
Connie Neil - Nov 20, 2008 5:05:56 am PST #7999 of 28420
brillig
I'm enjoying the inappropriate giddy joy of the tweeners. There are so few opportunities to be insanely giddy, and 12-14 is such a perfect age for it, especially if you have a cohort to be insanely giddy with.
Toddson - Nov 20, 2008 5:21:48 am PST #8000 of 28420
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
From what I'm reading here about Twilight, it sounds like Stephanie Meyer is to vampire literature as Sandra Lee is to cooking?
Amy - Nov 20, 2008 5:24:43 am PST #8001 of 28420
Because books.
From what I'm reading here about Twilight, it sounds like Stephanie Meyer is to vampire literature as Sandra Lee is to cooking?
And there's another reason I love Todd! Exactly!
Toddson - Nov 20, 2008 5:38:39 am PST #8002 of 28420
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
(snuggles Amy)
Aims - Nov 20, 2008 7:04:47 am PST #8003 of 28420
Shit's all sorts of different now.
He's probably calling Dan Radcliffe and saying, "I think my crazies have your crazies beat, mate."
"Got one named Aimee who is convinced she's an Empress? No? Shut it, git."
Toddson - Nov 20, 2008 7:21:42 am PST #8004 of 28420
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Aims, however, um, avid a fan you may be, lusting after his sweet young body is one thing. Presenting yourself, bleeding, as an appetizer is another.