Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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."

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meara - Nov 18, 2025 9:35:51 pm PST #28463 of 28463

Ooh what did you preorder? I never preorder but I also probably miss books I would otherwise be into (though thankfully catch some of them through heads up here!)

I’m trying to decide if I want to buy the latest from an author I used to like but haven’t much liked her recent books. I feel like she’s leaned too hard into the neurodivergent cozy theme and made everyone just sit and talk about possible feelings and actions and what would happen if they vaguely thought about going on a date rather than…going on a date? In her last few books. I like the world she’s built, and the premise of the new book is good, but…


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