Aww, hon, I am verklempt! *blushes* Just - that means a lot, seriously, coming from one of my fandom role models. (It's absolutely true.) I'm curious now as to how many of these links you haven't read - I suspect you're familiar with most if not all.
I loved your Tara post, btw. I should probably add something more worthwhile than that, but I'm all brained out at the moment.
THANK YOU. I've got notes for an entire meta series about her but just doing that very first one took me weeks and about 5 drafts. I had no idea if there was any interest, how "political" should I get blah blah. The tone was really hard. And I don't really do "drafts" per se, like I do with fic, so I can't hand it off to a beta and say "help".
Congrats on the SunnyD nomination! I rec'd "not in the brochure" today, even if I am biased: http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/18670.html I kind of feel like Tracy Ullman when she said she was so proud that the Simpsons spun off her show, so she felt like a grandmother. And then a few years later she sued Matt Groenig...ok, not the best comparison there.
In a season about identity, Riley flunks out - goes from Reliable Cowboy Guy (always putting on an act) to nothing - and Dawn goes from nothing to Real.
Oh hell to the yes! Exactly this. And the parallels really didn't occur to me admittedly until I was looking at screencaps for ITW/BT the other day and noticed the way they both wound themselves in an identical place on their arms .If you're interested in Dawn & Riley lanoyee and I have a pretty interesting conversation about the parallels that will probably be the basis of another meta post. She's really thought about Dawn a lot more than I have, so some of her ideas are brilliant IMO. http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/17490.html (We're also talking about Robin Wood and how problematic LMPTM is; which is something else I've been dying to talk about.)
I'm still really surprised by how much hate Dawn gets vs how much fandom is willing to "overlook" Riley's transgressions, I guess because he's a guy and we shouldn't expect any better? (Or is it the larger dislike of "bitchy women" - Buffy, Dawn, Kennedy, etc?) Dawn's problems are so much bigger than his, that the more I think about him in S5 the more pathetic he becomes to me. And usually I'm all about compassion and reconsidering characters and seeing the layers, but he's the one who just absolutely - dwindles.
Aww, hon, I am verklempt! *blushes* Just - that means a lot, seriously, coming from one of my fandom role models. (It's absolutely true.) I'm curious now as to how many of these links you haven't read - I suspect you're familiar with most if not all.
I loved your Tara post, btw. I should probably add something more worthwhile than that, but I'm all brained out at the moment.
THANK YOU. I've got notes for an entire meta series about her but just doing that very first one took me weeks and about 5 drafts. I had no idea if there was any interest, how "political" should I get blah blah. The tone was really hard. And I don't really do "drafts" per se, like I do with fic, so I can't hand it off to a beta and say "help".
Congrats on the SunnyD nomination! I rec'd "not in the brochure" today, even if I am biased:
http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/18670.html I kind of feel like Tracy Ullman when she said she was so proud that the Simpsons spun off her show, so she felt like a grandmother. And then a few years later she sued Matt Groenig...ok, not the best comparison there.
In a season about identity, Riley flunks out - goes from Reliable Cowboy Guy (always putting on an act) to nothing - and Dawn goes from nothing to Real.
Oh hell to the yes! Exactly this. And the parallels really didn't occur to me admittedly until I was looking at screencaps for ITW/BT the other day and noticed the way they both wound themselves in an identical place on their arms .If you're interested in Dawn & Riley lanoyee and I have a pretty interesting conversation about the parallels that will probably be the basis of another meta post. She's really thought about Dawn a lot more than I have, so some of her ideas are brilliant IMO. http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/17490.html (We're also talking about Robin Wood and how problematic LMPTM is; which is something else I've been dying to talk about.)
I'm still really surprised by how much hate Dawn gets vs how much fandom is willing to "overlook" Riley's transgressions, I guess because he's a guy and we shouldn't expect any better? (Or is it the larger dislike of "bitchy women" - Buffy, Dawn, Kennedy, etc?) Dawn's problems are so much bigger than his, that the more I think about him in S5 the more pathetic he becomes to me. And usually I'm all about compassion and reconsidering characters and seeing the layers, but he's the one who just absolutely - dwindles.
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