Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Newly minted PhD, professor, pop culture junkie, voracious reader, and author of the Raised By Wolves series, Every Other Day, Nobody, and More

Anonymous asked: STEFERINE OR KALIJAH. STELENA OR ELEJAH. OT4? What are your thoughts???

I tend not to be a person who gets super invested in couples. I get invested in CHARACTERS. On Vampire Diaries, my favorite has long been Caroline.  I pretty much ship Caroline/Anyone-Who-Realizes-How-Awesome-Caroline-Is. (I still have not forgiven Matt for his “I don’t want to love you, because you’re so needy and obnoxious and unlikable, but I’m such a great guy that I will be with you anyway” attitude from season 1).  So I loved Caroline with Tyler in season 2-3! And I love how smitten Klaus is with her now.  And I would totally watch the Caroline/Stefan Vampire Buddy Comedy.

I also really love Rebekah.  And I think Elijah is totally hunky. In fact, my Elijah thoughts are best summed up by this tweet from Vampire Diaries show runner Julie Plec:

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I would happily ship Elijah with anyone!  I am very excited for THE ORIGINALS spin-off, where there will hopefully be someone to love my poor Bex, and where Elijah will doubtlessly sizzle with constant chemistry. Plus, there are few things I love more than sibling stories!

As for Katherine, I love her! I always thought she had more chemistry with Stefan than with Damon, while I always thought Damon had more chemistry with Elena (which is mainly just a testament to how good an actress Nina Dobrev is, since she plays both characters).  But at the end of the day, I do not care too much who the characters end up with… I care about who the characters become!

Anonymous asked: Is there any chance you will bring Golden to ebook format? I'd love to be able to read it on my Kindle :D

Yes! I am working on getting both GOLDEN (about a teenage girl who sees auras) and its sequel, PLATINUM, up as e-books. The main thing I need at this point is cover design! Unfortunately, between book writing and selling two TV pilots and being a first year college professor… I am pretty much a crazy person right now. Any extra time is devoted to SLEEP.  So the e-books will probably not go up until summer.

Skylar quote! (SEMI-SPOILERY BEYOND THIS POINT, FOR TAKEN BY STORM AND EVERY OTHER DAY) In my mind, Skylar and Chase (from the Raised By Wolves series) are hanging out somewhere, and she has adopted him as yet another older brother to torment.

Skylar quote!

(SEMI-SPOILERY BEYOND THIS POINT, FOR TAKEN BY STORM AND EVERY OTHER DAY)

In my mind, Skylar and Chase (from the Raised By Wolves series) are hanging out somewhere, and she has adopted him as yet another older brother to torment.

(Source: lost-and-wandering)

The Intuitive Cosmology of Fictional Worlds

This week, in my cognitive science of fiction class, we’re discussing this paper, in which (among other things), young children are asked whether Batman thinks SpongeBob is real. Awesome article also includes: discussion of whether James Bond is one character or many; a proposal about what makes two fictional worlds prime candidates for a crossover; the age-old question of why exactly it is that our intuitions say that the story of Cinderella probably exists in Batman’s world, but the story of Batman probably does not exist in Cinderella’s.

Click link to read along!

Anonymous asked: If you could only eat one food for the rest of your existence what would it be?

Two foods: guacamole and cotton candy (but not at the same time).

Anonymous asked: Did you see Lake as Chloe Moretz, Devon as Luke Benward and Bryn as Isabelle Fuhman or is that just me having crazy major crushes on them?

I love fan casts, and this is a fun one!  What say you, readers? Who are your picks for Bryn, Devon, and Lake?  Or, for that matter, Nix and Claire, or the Every Other Day crew?

brookieb94 asked: Hi there, first off, HUGE fan! :D You are an AMAZING author. I just have one question; I know you've said you won't be returning to this arc of Bryn's story. Does that mean if you DO return, it'll be to an older, changed Bryn, with years -possibly even decades- in between the Raised by Wolves trilogy and the new arc?

It does not mean that I would for sure jump ahead in time, but I have definitely entertained the possibility. I think it would be interesting to return to Bryn’s life a decade or so after the end of Taken By Storm. What is she like as an adult, after experiencing all of this when she was a teen? And then, too, if ten years had passed, some of the younger kids (like Lily) would be teenagers…

Parasocial Break-Ups (SCIENCE!)

For those of you who would like to play along with my “Cognitive Science of Fiction” class (at the University of Oklahoma), next week, we’re discussing the psychology of our relationships with fictional characters.  The study linked above (Eval and Cohen, 2006) looked at the psychological effects of saying goodbye to your favorite characters when a show goes off air and highlights the similarities and differences between real-world and “parasocial” break-ups.

bethrevis:

Basically, my house is made of books. 

It’s awesome.

Yup.  This is my house, too.  

Also: I now feel an over-powering need to rematch Gilmore Girls, season 1.

(Source: lucillesbluth)