Every now and then I have thoughts about things. Sometimes I post them. This is one of those times.

While I'm on the subject of thoughts: azdak has written an interesting post about morality in the Buffyverse. faith_delivers, check it out! (And join mutant_allies! *g*)

Credits and disclaimers: This post is a version of the Buffy paper I gave recently. It is thus considerably ( Read more... )

I've been mulling over the "what's your story?" question for some time now. melymbrosia put it this way: "What's the story to which you keep returning, as a reader or a writer?"

I thought of one right away and then thought no, it's too big; but upon further consideration I think it works for me so well precisely because it applies broadly and sustains ( Read more... )

I haven't posted anything about BtVS for a while, largely because I tend to think about its weekly installments less as self-contained episodes and more in terms of how they fit into the big picture of the show. And I haven't wanted to do that lately because, getting so near the end, I wanted to just wait for the end to start collecting my thoughts ( Read more... )

While watching it, I thought this ep was great: creepsome, funny, flirty (Faith! Faith!), heartbreaking... and all with continuity! Hey, I'm watching BtVS! See Vonnie's review, whose enthusiasm covers pretty much everything I had to say on that front ( Read more... )

My earlier post on quality was (among other things) a plea for differentiation between "quality" and "personal preference," since although both are valid grounds for assessment, the two are emphatically not the same. That post was largely from a vid-watching rather than vid-creating point of view; it addressed reactions to and ways to talk about ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about quality, by which I mean not just a given thing's degree of excellence but the whole notion that the thing can be said objectively to be good or bad, and that its goodness/badness can be accurately assessed ( Read more... )

So I have a new theory about why those of us who do feedbackable things don't get more feedback. It's because an entire large group of people who watch our vids or read our fic don't believe that we really exist.

( I'm serious. )

I should preface this post by saying that I largely missed out on the recent kerfluffle about sending and responding to feedback, mostly because by the time I got around to checking out the relevant posts they appeared to have devolved into ad hominem attacks on an assortment of people I don't even know. Such attacks irritate and/or sadden me at ( Read more... )

Picking up on truepenny's thoughts on narrative, and particularly on blognovels ( Read more... )

I've just sent the latest vid out for second beta (to renenet, of course, and also tamarabass), and thus have a moment at last to post about "Conversations With Dead People."

( here we go )