You think you've read bad fantasy writing?
Angel's lame. His hair goes straight up, and he's bloody stupid!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Polter-Cow - Mar 24, 2009 2:07:45 pm PDT #8623 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Strega - Mar 24, 2009 2:33:09 pm PDT #8624 of 28431
Gosh.
What does a gibbous moon smell like? The Lovecraft associations make me think "fishy," which doesn't help at all.
Polter-Cow - Mar 24, 2009 2:41:25 pm PDT #8625 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I like how he keeps alternating between running one metaphor into the ground and listing completely disparate ones. For each new body part. Including her pubes.
Jen - Mar 24, 2009 2:47:21 pm PDT #8626 of 28431
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
What does a gibbous moon smell like?
Gibbons.
Dana - Mar 24, 2009 2:53:08 pm PDT #8627 of 28431
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
What does a gibbous moon smell like?
Squamous.
Kat - Mar 24, 2009 8:34:24 pm PDT #8628 of 28431
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
So, in thinking about genre, have any of you read Chabon's Maps and Legends? Thoughts?
Fay - Mar 24, 2009 9:23:37 pm PDT #8629 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
PC, that is awesome. In a pole-axing way. So long as it isn't the match that sets the fanfic house on fire, I'm good. (And, frankly, since the HP novels are all out now, and HP fanfic didn't make anything go boom in a big way, I'm much less nervous about this than I once was.)
Fay - Mar 24, 2009 9:23:50 pm PDT #8630 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Calli - Mar 25, 2009 1:09:30 am PDT #8631 of 28431
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
And on top of the weird metaphor fest, "Spikenard"? The protagonist's name is "Spikenard"? Really?
Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2009 4:55:12 am PDT #8632 of 28431
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And is it pronounced "Spike-nard"? "Spick-en-ard"? "Spiken-ard"?
Spickeloost, anyone?