Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


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."


Amy - Sep 05, 2011 9:12:12 am PDT #16222 of 28497
Because books.

Anyone want to help with a guest blog post I have to do? They want to know my ten favorite literary couples, and I'm coming up short. I have seven so far:

1) Jane/Rochester
2) Kit/Nat (Witch of Blackbird Pond)
3) Jo/Professor Bhaer
4) Clare/Henry (The Time Traveler's Wife)
5) Hermione/Ron
6) Aislinn/Seth (YA, Wicked Lovely)
7) Claire/Jamie (Outlander)

Who am I missing? Or who are some of yours?


Connie Neil - Sep 05, 2011 9:15:20 am PDT #16223 of 28497
brillig

Cordelia/Aral Vorkosigan


Atropa - Sep 05, 2011 9:18:25 am PDT #16224 of 28497
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Raven/Alexander (YA, Vampire Kisses)

... I suppose Morticia/Gomez doesn't count, since there aren't really any Addams Family books. ('tho good G-D, I would kill to work on books for that.)


Amy - Sep 05, 2011 9:21:59 am PDT #16225 of 28497
Because books.

Oh, man, that would be fun, Jilli. It could be a YA! Their early days!


Ginger - Sep 05, 2011 9:22:04 am PDT #16226 of 28497
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Harriet Vane/Lord Peter Wimsey

Nick & Nora Charles

Meg/Calvin (Wrinkle in Time et al)

Anne/Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables)

Ishmael/Queequeg

Also, what Connie said.


Atropa - Sep 05, 2011 9:26:55 am PDT #16227 of 28497
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Oh, man, that would be fun, Jilli. It could be a YA! Their early days!

I keep meaning to talk to my agent about it to see what she thinks, but then I keep telling myself, no, finish the fiction project first.

Other couples:

Snape/Lily (I can't help it. Sev, you poor bastard.)

Richard/Alec (Swordspoint)


DebetEsse - Sep 05, 2011 9:27:57 am PDT #16228 of 28497
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Amy, do you Discworld?


dcp - Sep 05, 2011 9:29:17 am PDT #16229 of 28497
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

How literally do they mean "couple"?

What about:

  • Holmes & Watson
  • Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane
  • Wooster & Jeeves
  • Robin & Marian


Atropa - Sep 05, 2011 9:29:53 am PDT #16230 of 28497
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Discworld! Of course!

Sam/Sybil

Carrot/Angua

Magrat/Verence

Tiffany/Preston


Amy - Sep 05, 2011 9:38:38 am PDT #16231 of 28497
Because books.

Yeah, I'm not a big sci-fi/fantasy reader, so I have no idea who half those people are.

And the list is for a blog for teen readers. I'd put a same-sex couple on there, but not one that's not canon, like Holmes/Watson. They can figure out slash on their own.

I'm adding Abelard/Heloise, because it's my list and I can, and probably Emma/Knightley, and possibly Katniss/Peeta, even if that's open to discussion.