Many things can make a post (singly none, singly none)

[animate_mush]

Oooh, haven't done one of these for a while!

Circleville: Tonight we're going to go see the marching bands at the Circleville Pumpkin Show. WHEEEEEEE. Also the pumpkins.

The Hidden Goddess: Been reading The Hidden Goddess by M. K. Hobson. It's the sequel to The Native Star, set in AU 19th century America. It is extremely Deadlandsy. So

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And for those unfamiliar with deciphering the triangle style, what we have is "Amok Time", "Genesis of the Daleks", the destruction of Alderaan in the original Star Wars, and the Buffy Season 2 finale. Buffy is a redhead here because that's actually Lancelot and Guenivere. Anyway.I'm not sure about your interpretation of panel 4. I think that's just Buffy/Guenivere staking a vampire (Though the vampire does bear some resemblance to Lancelot, though it's a little hard to tell with the triangles). When Buffy stabbed Angel in the season 2 finale, it was a sword, not a stake. And he didn't get dusted. And he wasn't going *Rawr!* he was going *??* (Which was sort of the point. That was what made it extra tragic

[animate_mush]

YES! I REMEMBER THAT! It was kind of the best thing ever. Because...yeah, we did need a hug there. So much.

Hmmm...you might be right about the Buffy one. All your points (stake not sword, grr face, "no ashes") are good ones. I think the vamp looks about how he typically triangles Angel, but with a more lanceloty hair than angel typically has, but it also looks like Buffy/Guenivere is grinning, so ...yeah.

Amok Time isn't symbolic of internal moral turmoil? I seem to recall Spock being pretty torn up about it afterwards.

But I just noticed it says "sketch sunday" at the top, so I might be completely off base about all of this. Since I seem to be about Buffy at the very least. But it at least hit me as very evocative when I got there the first time.

I can't tell you how amused I am by Arthur's naked press conference...

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Amok Time isn't symbolic of internal moral turmoil? I seem to recall Spock being pretty torn up about it afterwards.

Oh, inner turmoil's as good a thing for Amok Time to be a symbol of as anything (I'd have said betrayal. Or possibly madness. But that works too.) I was suggesting that you were possibly over extrapolating FROM the image of inner turmoil in panel one to seeing panel four as being Buffy stabbing Angel.

But it at least hit me as very evocative when I got there the first time.

I quite like your interpretation of the page. I just quibble with the Buffy scene being what you thought it was.

P.S. Now I kinda want to re-watch Amok Time...

[animate_mush]

Yeah, I was deliberately trying to tie all of them together. It took me a long time to conclude that the Star Wars one was actually the destruction of Alderaan, and since Buffy doesn't really fit I'm no longer sure of that analysis either.

Yay, Amok Time! Here, it even has a theme song!

...ish