Seven Pieces of Meta on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Stormwreath
Hi,
(edited om Saturday afternoon) as has been kindly been pointed out one of these is in fact by another author. See if you can find it :-) Big clue (mostly to self), it's under a different name...)
well you know how some of us are fanboys over actors (James Marsters; David Boreanz; Christian Kane; Gerard Depardieu; Toshiro Mifune...); actresses; (Louise Brooks; Greta Garbo; Amber Benson; Honor Blackman; Judi Dench...), etc... etc... etc...
Well, I have a fanboyish attraction to the meta written by stormwreath I find his meta fascinating, whatever opinions I may hold (we certainly don't agree about everything), but he holds your attention; gives you thoroughly entertaining; interesting, and well-thought out arguments.
These are seven, in honour of the seven seasons of the show, pieces of meta on the show that brought me full speed into online fandom (it was another woman, Kerry Weaver - from ER - that got me online in the first place).
Hope you will take the time to read.
29th September 2006
http://stormwreath.livejournal.com/1007.html
Why Kennedy was possibly the best thing ever to happen to Willow
2nd January 2007
http://stormwreath.livejournal.com/5779.html
Buffy season 4: a question of identity
9th August 2007
http://stormwreath.livejournal.com/21701.html
Identity, choice and heroism (with a digression on Existentialism)
24th September 2008
http://stormwreath.livejournal.com/57723.html
"Risk the pain. It is your nature." - Buffy's character development over the series
29th November 2008
http://stormwreath.livejournal.com/63666.html
Magic as a metaphor for gay sex
28th January 2009
http://stormwreath.livejournal.com/67976.html
My Season 7 Manifesto
Feb. 8th, 2009
http://shadowkat67.livejournal.com/402647.html
Buffy Season 8 - Kitchen Sink Meta on leadership, robberies, gender politics...
Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.