Odds and ends, assurances that I am living, etc.
Truly, I should have given the internet more credit: there is certainly something out there representing the interests of every person alive. (And, ha, thinking on it, that can be both awesome and terrible.)
It's no secret that I'm food-obsessed. I pack my lunch most of the time, in a thermos flask-slash-bento box; and I'm big into adorable food, and variety, because it makes it so much easier to resist the temptations of the restaurant district two blocks from where I work. (The italics there should indicate how delightfully fat I have gotten off of hand-sliced pork sandwiches and overstuffed ravioli while I wasn't paying attention. Yay and whoops.) So to find this http://lunchinabox.net/ and http://justbento.com/ this last week was super fun, and I have been happily trying some of the recipes.
OMG SERIOUSLY PEOPLE DOCTOR WHO IN LIKE TWO DAYS MY INSIDES ARE SCREAMING. The spoilers are making me chew my hair, and that's not pretty. Please, RTD, think of my hair.
Work has been busy, as we gear up for an annual banquet; and personal life has been busy, as I've officially been accepted into the graduate program I've had my eye on for half a year now. WIN. So in the fall I'll be pursuing an MA in art history, at last, truly my dream. It feels surreal and I'm nervous I'll fudge something up, but for now I'm not worrying. I worked hard and I'm not going to stop now.
SO COULD BUFFY: SEASON EIGHT STOP MAKING ME BIRTH KITTENS ON A REGULAR BASIS ? Okay, okay, I'm done, I'm good. But... it's not the Satsu thing. It's truly not. SPOILERS: It's a lot of things.
Okay, so if you're reading the comic, you know that Buffy revealed her knowledge of Satsu's crush on her in the last issue. She essentially said thanks but no thanks, I'm flattered but not into girls. Okay. So in the most recent issue, they sleep together. I was surprised, but not totally thrown- Joss isn't into inflexible rules on gender and sexuality, and is actually into the fluidity of natural human sexuality, where people do what they want when they want. Okay, cool. BUT THEN THE CARNIVAL. I shit you not: almost the rest of the entire issue was people stumbling into Buffy's room, getting a glimpse of the naked slayers, and making OH NO YOU DIN'T faces. It was a farce, with slamming doors and a giant Dawn peeping in the windows. It was not particularly funny: it was bizarre. Buffy's been vulnerable and lonely, and she found something in Satsu that comforted and warmed her, and TRA LA LA OH BUFFY DO YOU KISS GIRLS ? HOW HILARIOUS !
Putting aside the antics, I do understand that Buffy's slept with vampires, so how hard could girls be ? Hee. It was still kind of a fast turnaround. Pacing, Joss. You can change her mind all you want, but I'd like to see how and why. I don't like to feel as if it's all been played for surprise.
On to my beef with the villains: WHAT VILLAINS ? Seriously. The main baddie in these pages has been a mysterious fellow named "Twilight." He's a masked figure, in a costume, with super powers. He can fly. He claims the onrush of slayers has done un-balanced the world, but no examples of that have ever been given/shown. He's working with some branch of the military (which one, and why ? We don't know.) He's working with demons (which ones, and why ? We don't know.) Their plan involves symbols carved in a guy's chest- symbols of Twilight. What's that ? We don't know. He doesn't like Buffy, and you guessed it: we don't know why. The beef seems personal, but we have no fucking clue who he is or where he came from or the extent of his powers or how he got his allies or what he plans to do.
I could write a book on what Joss hasn't told us.
To start with, the costumed figure with super-powers thing chafes my hide. That's not how things have worked in the Buffyverse, up to this point- I get that it's a new medium, but bwuh ? He's an extremely "comic book" villain in a way no Buffy villain ever was- one of the things I loved about BtVS was that we were shown the machinations of the enemy: their foibles and plans, what was closest to them and motivated them, what drew them to Buffy or repelled them from her side. You wanted her to kick their skanky asses, but you knew why- you knew what they were after, how they worked, what was at stake. Joss didn't hide the cards from you. I'm not sure we will ever see cards in this process.
Then, okay, at the very end we get a vampire gang. A Japanese vampire gang. A goth Japanese vampire gang in tailcoats and side-cocked top-hats and fishnets. It was- odd. And then they vanished in puffs of smoke or turned into animals and flew away.
As Buffy would say: "Oooo...kay."
Seriously, it's become unusually awkward fanfiction. I'm not sure if, or when, the crazy train will stop a-rolling.
It's no secret that I'm food-obsessed. I pack my lunch most of the time, in a thermos flask-slash-bento box; and I'm big into adorable food, and variety, because it makes it so much easier to resist the temptations of the restaurant district two blocks from where I work. (The italics there should indicate how delightfully fat I have gotten off of hand-sliced pork sandwiches and overstuffed ravioli while I wasn't paying attention. Yay and whoops.) So to find this http://lunchinabox.net/ and http://justbento.com/ this last week was super fun, and I have been happily trying some of the recipes.
OMG SERIOUSLY PEOPLE DOCTOR WHO IN LIKE TWO DAYS MY INSIDES ARE SCREAMING. The spoilers are making me chew my hair, and that's not pretty. Please, RTD, think of my hair.
Work has been busy, as we gear up for an annual banquet; and personal life has been busy, as I've officially been accepted into the graduate program I've had my eye on for half a year now. WIN. So in the fall I'll be pursuing an MA in art history, at last, truly my dream. It feels surreal and I'm nervous I'll fudge something up, but for now I'm not worrying. I worked hard and I'm not going to stop now.
SO COULD BUFFY: SEASON EIGHT STOP MAKING ME BIRTH KITTENS ON A REGULAR BASIS ? Okay, okay, I'm done, I'm good. But... it's not the Satsu thing. It's truly not. SPOILERS: It's a lot of things.
Okay, so if you're reading the comic, you know that Buffy revealed her knowledge of Satsu's crush on her in the last issue. She essentially said thanks but no thanks, I'm flattered but not into girls. Okay. So in the most recent issue, they sleep together. I was surprised, but not totally thrown- Joss isn't into inflexible rules on gender and sexuality, and is actually into the fluidity of natural human sexuality, where people do what they want when they want. Okay, cool. BUT THEN THE CARNIVAL. I shit you not: almost the rest of the entire issue was people stumbling into Buffy's room, getting a glimpse of the naked slayers, and making OH NO YOU DIN'T faces. It was a farce, with slamming doors and a giant Dawn peeping in the windows. It was not particularly funny: it was bizarre. Buffy's been vulnerable and lonely, and she found something in Satsu that comforted and warmed her, and TRA LA LA OH BUFFY DO YOU KISS GIRLS ? HOW HILARIOUS !
Putting aside the antics, I do understand that Buffy's slept with vampires, so how hard could girls be ? Hee. It was still kind of a fast turnaround. Pacing, Joss. You can change her mind all you want, but I'd like to see how and why. I don't like to feel as if it's all been played for surprise.
On to my beef with the villains: WHAT VILLAINS ? Seriously. The main baddie in these pages has been a mysterious fellow named "Twilight." He's a masked figure, in a costume, with super powers. He can fly. He claims the onrush of slayers has done un-balanced the world, but no examples of that have ever been given/shown. He's working with some branch of the military (which one, and why ? We don't know.) He's working with demons (which ones, and why ? We don't know.) Their plan involves symbols carved in a guy's chest- symbols of Twilight. What's that ? We don't know. He doesn't like Buffy, and you guessed it: we don't know why. The beef seems personal, but we have no fucking clue who he is or where he came from or the extent of his powers or how he got his allies or what he plans to do.
I could write a book on what Joss hasn't told us.
To start with, the costumed figure with super-powers thing chafes my hide. That's not how things have worked in the Buffyverse, up to this point- I get that it's a new medium, but bwuh ? He's an extremely "comic book" villain in a way no Buffy villain ever was- one of the things I loved about BtVS was that we were shown the machinations of the enemy: their foibles and plans, what was closest to them and motivated them, what drew them to Buffy or repelled them from her side. You wanted her to kick their skanky asses, but you knew why- you knew what they were after, how they worked, what was at stake. Joss didn't hide the cards from you. I'm not sure we will ever see cards in this process.
Then, okay, at the very end we get a vampire gang. A Japanese vampire gang. A goth Japanese vampire gang in tailcoats and side-cocked top-hats and fishnets. It was- odd. And then they vanished in puffs of smoke or turned into animals and flew away.
As Buffy would say: "Oooo...kay."
Seriously, it's become unusually awkward fanfiction. I'm not sure if, or when, the crazy train will stop a-rolling.