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My Top 5 Meta for 2012

Jan 08, 2013 14:55

For my very first post to this community I wanted to list some of my favorite Buffyverse meta essays of the year. Fiction seems to be the overwhelming fan vehicle of choice, at least here on LJ/DW, but it was meta essays that pulled me into this fandom. These are by no means "the best" of the year (my full list would be closer to 10 or 11 essays ( Read more... )

char: willow, form: essay, fandom: btvs, cat: btvs s1, cat: btvs s6, char: faith, pairing: buffy/spike, char: buffybot, char: spike, char: warren, cat: episode-specific, cat: btvs s5

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kikimay January 8 2013, 20:01:11 UTC

Wonderful choices!

yourlibrarian January 8 2013, 20:10:47 UTC

Great to see a meta list!

rebcake January 8 2013, 20:15:53 UTC

Great list! I had several of these on my list, and now I can just kick back and read the one or two I missed. Thanks!

red_satin_doll January 8 2013, 20:54:47 UTC

Thanks, y'all! I've been dying to see more recognition for meta works, so I figured I might as well. It killed me because to do "five" I had to leave off at least three others. I'll probably post them on my own site. I hope other folks add meta link posts because I'm always up for more buffyverse analysis.

I notice that this community has a DW site as well. As I have a DW account should I copy-paste to there, or should I have posted there and let it cross post to LJ?

Also, I noticed i couldn't add tags when I posted but they are there now, so I assume that the mods/admins do that after reviewing the post? If so, thanks muchly.

baphrosia January 8 2013, 23:15:18 UTC

Maybe you could list some of the others you wanted to include in the comments?

Nice category!

red_satin_doll January 11 2013, 00:30:23 UTC

And much needed - everything I find with this fandom in terms of fan works (in this corner of it anyway) is fiction-oriented - well, duh, that's the majority of output. And on the other hand, some of the academic (Whedon studies) sites are way over my head and then I get into a self-loathing insecure mode so....the meta around here is more my speed. And it needs love and support.

I'd love to see more people do the sort of thing that you did with your Spike canon vs fanon one, with other aspects of the series. gabrielleabelle would sometimes do ones like that to make a point about what percentage of the show any given character took up (screen time, etc) and I'm not one to do charts but I appreciate when other people do.

Maybe you could list some of the others you wanted to include in the comments? I was about to do that but for a couple of days I couldn't reply to this or any comments on this LJ - but ONLY this one, for some reason; my keyboard seemed like it was broken. Everything seems ok now - and it gave me time to collect a few more ( ... )

snogged January 8 2013, 23:57:27 UTC

Thanks for the Willow link!
I adore Willow as a character and look forward to reading the meta.

red_satin_doll January 11 2013, 00:48:35 UTC

You'll love local_max's writings, then. He really makes me think about Willow and Tara's dynamic (and Willow and Buffy's) in ways I hadn't before. Have you read 2maggie2's episode reviews? I meant to add in my post that he's a co-contributor to those.

And at the risk of a bit of self-pimpage, he contributed some really interesting analysis in the convo thread of my Dopplegangers meta. the meta was about Xander but he contributed some fantastic analysis of Willow/Tara's relationship that really is a meta in it's own right.