HOLY FUCK!
You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.
Willow ,'Sleeper'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Aims - Nov 11, 2004 12:19:37 pm PST #6300 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
brenda m - Nov 11, 2004 12:31:48 pm PST #6301 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Wow. That was a stunning book. I'm really sorry to hear about that.
Fred Pete - Nov 11, 2004 12:54:55 pm PST #6302 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Wow. That was a stunning book. I'm really sorry to hear about that.
'Cause I feel the same way.
Volans - Nov 12, 2004 2:42:38 am PST #6303 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Oh man...(goes off to find news articles on Iris Chang's death in sea of articles on Arafat's).
Nobody remembers the purple states.
Oddly, I just received a graphic of the purple states.
Allyson - Nov 12, 2004 9:29:13 am PST #6304 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Hey all, if you wouldn't mind distributing this to your lists...
This is the book signing/book release party for Suz Brockmann Maya and I have been planning.
Betsy HP - Nov 12, 2004 10:24:47 am PST #6305 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I realized in the elevator that I've been in three book-oriented fandoms. That is to say, I joined dedicated mailing lists to discuss these books; I never wrote (or considered writing) fanfic. (Okay, there was that one Patrick O'Brian zombie piece, but that was for Consuela.)
So. I was on a Dorothy Dunnett mailing list, a Patrick O'Brian mailing list, and right now I'm on the Jennifer Crusie mailing list. The first two wrote long twisty insanely complicated series, and it helped to have other fans explain to you what exactly catharpings were and how a hackbut differed from a sackbut. The Jennifer Crusie thing I fell into; I found the books, joined the list, discovered that JC herself posted there, and was hooked. (She's a very kind woman. I'm pretty much inactive there because it's become so high-volume.)
What about y'all? What did you become so obsessive about that you needed help obsessing?
billytea - Nov 12, 2004 10:40:13 am PST #6306 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What about y'all? What did you become so obsessive about that you needed help obsessing?
You mean, aside from Buffy?
Hmm.
Doctor Who. Board games. Freak-Ass Christianity. Calligraphy. Astrology. Dungeons & Dragons. Evolution. Animals generally. Religion generally. Origami. Dungeons & Dragons, v3.5. Ancient history. Card games. Public speaking. Public housing. Wittgenstein. Dungeons & Dragons miniatures. Rugby league. Diplomacy. Debating. Photography.
Wait. When you say help obsessing, do you mean like enabling, or "Dude, you need help"?
Kate P. - Nov 12, 2004 10:45:32 am PST #6307 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Hmm. My various participatory fandoms have included The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The X-Files, Ani Difranco, The Nields, Dar Williams, the Jossverse(s), and then the whole fandom morass that I've been sucked into over the past few years, of which the highlights are probably LOTR (book and movies), Smallville slash, and now Lost. I think I was briefly part of a couple more folk-fan lists, but I can't even remember which ones they might have been.
ETA: Only one book on the list, and even then, the emphasis (in my little corner of fandom) was on the movies.
Calli - Nov 12, 2004 2:03:48 pm PST #6308 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I was on a Lois McMaster Bujold mailing list for a long time. LMB posts on it occasionally, and we even got sample pages from a couple of books before they were released. It was fun.
I was on the Sith Academy mailing list, and I'm still on the "daughter list" that came about after the SA webmistress decided to stop doing SA stuff so she could concentrate on her original fic writing.
I was on a West Wing mailing list for a while.
Betsy HP - Nov 12, 2004 2:04:25 pm PST #6309 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I was on a Lois McMaster Bujold mailing list for a long time.
Oops, I forgot. So was I. I'm even in the FAQ.