{"id":1221,"date":"2011-05-13T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:34:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:34:05","slug":"getting-my-geek-on-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Getting My Geek On (Reprise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CURSE Blogger!Lost my original SCHEDULED post. Grr.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UZgdzFVjPCk\/TcwvmqMCWHI\/AAAAAAAACEk\/iTQ5Pv3xQW8\/s1600\/WeCanDoIt-Alliance.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Leia for the Alliance\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/WeCanDoIt-Alliance.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>These posters are SO COOL. 40&#8217;s style and color palette makes them look perfectly legitimate as 40&#8217;s WPA posters, but the faces &#8211; the helmets &#8211; and the like just make me laugh. Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbh2.com\/astounding\/incredible-star-wars-propaganda-posters\/\" target=\"_blank\">out the rest of them<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/things-we-saw-today-jedi-style\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mary Sue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Soo, when was the last time you were Hermione Granger? I was Dumbledore just last week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>According to a study out of the University of Buffalo, you are what you read&#8230; in fantasy, anyway. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2011-05\/uab-wa050911.php\" target=\"_blank\"><i>&#8220;Becoming a Vampire Without Being Bitten: <\/i><\/a><i>The Narrative Collective Assimilation Hypothesis,&#8221; published in the current issue journal Psychological Science, presents research supporting the authors&#8217; hypothesis that by absorbing narratives, we can psychologically become a member of the group of characters described therein, a process that makes us feel connected to those characters and their social world. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thus says the article, anyway; the heads-up courtesy of Tasha over at <a href=\"http:\/\/wakingbraincells.com\/2011\/05\/12\/readers-become-vampires-and-wizards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Waking Brain Cells<\/a>. The jury is still out as to whether or not I&#8217;ve ever been Edward &#8212; but I&#8217;m pretty sure the answer there is NO.<\/p>\n<p>OH, my word. <i>Subterranean Press<\/i> put out a summer YA edition of their magazine. You probably knew that. Gwenda Bond did an awesome editing job, and wrote a witty introduction. You knew that, too. But did you read the freebies online? And that story by Sarah Rees Brennan? IT IS STILL HAUNTING ME. I dreamed about it. My heart got twinges. If you haven&#8217;t taken a moment to read it, <a href=\"http:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/index.php\/magazine\/summer-2011\/fiction-queen-of-atlantis-by-sarah-rees-brennan\/\" target=\"_blank\">GO.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;re needing a little hit of Nick and Jamie and the gang, Ms. Brennan put up a short story in the Demon&#8217;s Lexicon\/Covenant world&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahtales.livejournal.com\/185853.html\" target=\"_blank\">starting here<\/a>, and going on to the next day. Peek:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPardon me,\u201d Jamie said. \u201cSomething happens to make my life miserable and I automatically think of you. It\u2019s like Pavlov\u2019s dog and the bell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry, I don\u2019t know Pavlov,\u201d Tim said. \u201cIs he in, like, the year above?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think so,\u201d said Erica. \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019d know him then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bwa-hahahahah! Yes, go read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CURSE Blogger!Lost my original SCHEDULED post. Grr. 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