ION, I appear to have contracted the Plague. Does anyone have Plague pills?
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Pix - Dec 19, 2007 1:52:36 pm PST #9167 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
vw bug - Dec 19, 2007 1:53:34 pm PST #9168 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
Does anyone have Plague pills?
No plague pills. New pain pills, though. Although, I'm selfish and won't share...
Amy - Dec 19, 2007 1:53:37 pm PST #9169 of 10002
Because books.
::sits with Susan, Juliana, and Kristin::
I still marvel at how many children's books I *didn't* read in favor of beloved books I reread again and again.
The theology discussion is fascinating, but my brain leaked out while I was baking today. I need to think about it some more.
juliana - Dec 19, 2007 1:54:34 pm PST #9170 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
vw, I know a lot of people who went to Augsburg (incl. my ex-husband), and I was a Gustie (the LEAST religious school in the MIAC).
GC, I forgot to say YAY for GF!!
Fay - Dec 19, 2007 1:55:18 pm PST #9171 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
The version that was being published in America when I first read it circa 1980 was TLTWATW, Prince Caspian, Dawn Treader, Silver Chair, Horse and His Boy, Magician's Nephew, Last Battle. Which I think is publication order.
Interesting choice! I know I read TLTWATW as a stand-alone, but then a while after that I got hold of the whole series, in a different edition (with lovely front cover illustrations! Lovely!) and that had TMN as book 1. I was aware even then (although I don't know how I'd come by the knowledge) that CSL had written TMN after TLTWATW - but I still really enjoyed TMN.
Poor Susan. I always felt bad for her, being punished for reaching puberty and developing an interest in lipstick and boys.
(Oh, God. And I had such the crush on James MacAvoy's Mr Tumnus, in the recent movie. God. Suddenly I was all over the notion of Lucy/Mr Tumnus like a rash. [Not Wee!Lucy, obviously. But, you know - she grows up. Even in that fist book, she grows up.])
JZ - Dec 19, 2007 1:55:59 pm PST #9172 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I have to admit that I haven't finished LOTR -- I got 2/3 of the way through The Two Towers, left my copy at a friend's house, and waited too long to get another copy and jump back in. It feels richer and heavier and slower going to me than Lewis's books: very rewarding, but in a very different way, despite their both being fantasies by two writers who were contemporaries and close friends (in fact, a small part of the genesis of the Narnia books was Lewis feeling a gush of sloppy fanboy love for Tolkien's stately and magnificent worldbuilding -- which resulted in a slapdash everything-but-the-kitchen-sink world that Tolkien found skin-crawlingly amateurish and embarrassing).
Even as a kid, I loved reading the Narnia books in publication order, even though the timeline jumped around, because of the way the girl characters got deeper and stronger and more active as the author got older and wiser and less trapped in his men-only monkish academic world. The Silver Chair was always a little cool and silvery and bleak, but oh how I loved Jill Pole.
Fay - Dec 19, 2007 1:59:20 pm PST #9173 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
also, that way we got live-action Legolas and Aragorn and Borimir and Farimir and Eomer and NOMNOMNOM.
God, yes. Yes. That scene with Aragorn shoving open the doors to Theoden's hall...gah.
thunk
(Also, without the movies there would be no LotRiPS. And I would be very sad to dwell in a world which lacked the smoking hotness of Calico's LotRiPS.)
juliana - Dec 19, 2007 2:01:35 pm PST #9174 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
That scene with Aragorn shoving open the doors to Theoden's hall...gah.
And THEN! Legolas (theyaresomarried) coming over and simply saying, "You're late" and his eyes saying so. much. more.
Ahem.
vw bug - Dec 19, 2007 2:03:19 pm PST #9175 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
and I was a Gustie (the LEAST religious school in the MIAC).
Gotcha! I always felt Augsburg was pretty low on the religion focus, but after being kicked out of a fundamental Baptist college, I was kind of all for that.
Don't shoot me. I just cannot get into Lord of the Rings. At all. I've tried. it's just not my thing--books or movies.
Pix - Dec 19, 2007 2:04:44 pm PST #9176 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
No plague pills. New pain pills, though. Although, I'm selfish and won't share...Glad you have pain pills. I won't ask for any, promise.
This is an annoying Plague because I can't tell if it's coming from (white-fonted for medical TMI) bug or spider bites, allergies, or something else entirely. I just know that I have these red, itchy bumps in two places on my chest/shoulder, and they've been driving me craxy for DAYS. I want to scratch my skin off my body, seriously. I've treated them with Cortizone, which helps a bit, but they are taking forever to heal and go away. I look like a freak! Thus endeth my Plague angst.