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.)
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."
And on top of the weird metaphor fest, "Spikenard"? The protagonist's name is "Spikenard"? Really?
And is it pronounced "Spike-nard"? "Spick-en-ard"? "Spiken-ard"?
Spickeloost, anyone?
I don't think anyone here is feeling much in the way of "oost".
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I like the idea that the other characters might be called Angelnard, and Drusillanard, and Buffynard. It could be a whole new cunning form of C&D-proof fanfic. Really, really, REALLY bad C&D-proof fanfic.
Spikenard is an herb. Well, a plant; I'm pretty sure it's a herb, although I do not know what properties I has. I think it's just smelley; it's not like an interesting poison or anything.
Now that my internet is (knock wood) working better, I gotta read that thing.
Oh. Oh, I read it. It's the worst "Song of Solomon" on mushrooms mated with the sad, raped memory of Walt Whitman ever. Gah.
And I gotta wonder what kind of breasts this guy saw to use cheese as a metaphoric descriptor. Arrrrrooo?
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