Astonishing Stories update: newcomer Jason Roberts, "7C," good stuff. I did not think you could write a horror short story about quasars, but guess what.
I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.
Spike ,'Chosen'
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."
Nutty - Jul 13, 2005 11:15:03 am PDT #8204 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Jessica - Jul 13, 2005 11:17:12 am PDT #8205 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
From Metafilter -- recently found interview with Frank and Beverly Herbert on Dune from 1969.
Calli - Jul 13, 2005 11:26:22 am PDT #8206 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
points to Calli
She's brilliant.
Marry me.
Yay, my first buffista proposal!
I do seem to remember that Rowling had nearly every ill in the Potter-verse treatable by chocolate, but I could just be projecting my own inner drama on the text.
Kathy A - Jul 13, 2005 11:27:56 am PDT #8207 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Just Dementor exposure, right?
Calli - Jul 13, 2005 11:31:31 am PDT #8208 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Just Dementor exposure, right?
Could be. I thought that Harry got chocolate most of the time that he ended up in the infirmary. But it's been over a year since I last cracked a HP book, so I can't swear to it.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2005 11:36:59 am PDT #8209 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not to mention EXPECTO PATRONUS!!!
If this a) works IRL and b) has anything to to with tequila, I may convert to Wicca.
Jessica - Jul 13, 2005 11:37:14 am PDT #8210 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Pretty sure chocolate's canonically good for everything. It's like an aspirin/valium.
[eta: Er, HPverse chocolate. But RealWorld!chocolate's pretty good too.]
Mr. Broom - Jul 13, 2005 11:37:14 am PDT #8211 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Oh, I agree, the books are a fantastically accurate portrayal of Wicca. Wicca spells are all in bastard Latin, after all. Anyone who's attended a baby-sacrifice naked black mass in a desecrated graveyard knows that.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2005 11:52:00 am PDT #8212 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And I'd REALLY like a Wizard Chess set!
Emmett has one. Though it's not all giant sized.
Dude, if it actually works like the Wizard Chess in the books, I'ma steal it.
Also, all you Buffista Wiccans, I really need a Remembrall.
Aims - Jul 13, 2005 11:52:30 am PDT #8213 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I want the Sneak-o-scope for Evil Co-Workers.