I've been nominated for the Absence of Light awards! So cool! Now let's see if I can do a link...

Best Dark Het and Best Dark Long for Stay; Best Long Angst and Best Het Angst for The Choice
Still working on the picture.

Another question for the fanfic paper.  Can you come up with a couple examples of places where canon is really stupid, something that you want to correct?  I don't mean like "I wish Angel had stayed in Sunnydale," not the big things, and not just preference, but where it's really dumb or throws things way out of whack. I can't think of many in ( Read more... )

Hi... help! I'm working on an article about how fandom "revived" Buffy when the series ended.  Or kept "her" (Buffy, I mean) alive.  Anyway, I'm looking for some insights into how fandom and especially fan art (fic, vids, icons, etc) expand and explore the story and characters with a completed show like Buffy (and/or Angel... I think of Angel kind ( Read more... )

You know, this meta on why the AR in SR (g) doesn't work really makes me think that good writing depends on avoiding the generic. ME didn't avoid the generic in Seeing Red. Yes, I know Marti was supposedly modeling this on something that she did herself, but that in itself shows that it's not based on SPIKE and Buffy and what has happened in their ( Read more... )

From JM's QandA--

What do you think the biggest all around human fault is?
That we see patterns that are not there.  One of the best things about humans is we recognize patterns, so we get things like science, music, philosophy.   One of the worst things is that we see patterns that are not there so we get things like racism, homophobia and Jerry ( Read more... )

This is called "Touch."  I don't know. What the heck. It's sort of Spaith, and sort of Spuffy, but not like that!  It kind of belongs sort of in the Ransomed universe, as I've just been re-reading that.

After Chosen, long after. After Ransomed.
R-rated, but that's pushing it. All allusion.
A character has died before the story opens. 
Spuffy-ish.

( Read more... )

Boy, I watched this (because I seem to have misplaced the other disks in S2!), and it's amazing.  Sometimes, you know, episodes are just really good and pleasurable-- a glimpse of Spike, funny Xander quips. But then there's Great TV-- those amazing episodes that really affect you not because "Oh! Spike! Cute!" but really terrific storytelling ( Read more... )

"Gellar added that years later, she can hardly recall who won the Emmy on the years Buffy was on the air, but that she keeps seeing Buffy included on lists looking back at TV history. When she told Marsters that the first Buffy/Spike sex scene made the top of TV Guide's recent list of TV's hottest scenes, he replied, "Oh, really? Take that, Angel ( Read more... )

Cordelia is blinded, but in a horror story way-- her pupils disappear.

Buffy saves Cordy's life, but does Cordy feel a debt to her? Not a bit?

Xander's checked out all the witch books. Why? To impress Buffy?

Buffy is still feeling oppressed by the mom thing, but notice that she's the one who felt like Mom wasn't obsessed enough with her.   Typical
teen ( Read more... )

Cordelia is dethroned...  Amber is SO much better than she is, and Cordy knows it.

More fun Whedonism-- Buffy speaks in her near-incomprehensible slang, and Giles translates it into his near-incomprehensible
prose.

Giles: But that's the thrill of living on the Hellmouth! (sits on the
edge of the table) There's a veritable cornucopia of, of fiends ( Read more... )