So what it is with fic writers constantly making Spike independently wealthy, with secret Swiss bank accounts and real estate investments and stuff? There's some support for the idea that Angel's got a source of money somewhere: he lives in a nice apartment, and has nice art and nice clothes, and hasn't been killing people for awhile, so he had to ( Read more... )

It occurred to me the other day that although I've written a lot of meta in my day, I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the times I've actually changed someone's mind about something via that route. Usually with meta, you're preaching to the choir. That's something I've known for a long time, to the point that on contentious subjects ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot of the responses to Buffy Season 10 Issue 16. On the whole, Spuffy shippers seemed to like the issue, even if there have been some complaints reported about there being too much focus on Spike's insecurity.* I don't know if they're from Spuffy shippers who are annoyed that the relationship isn't moving more quickly, or ( Read more... )

The funny thing is, a lot of the complaints the Bangels have with S10's story are ones I agree with. Yes, absolutely, it's long past time to stop dicking around with Buffy dithering between Spike and Angel, and have her either pick one, or dump them both definitively and move on. Or hell, go for that threesome. (Of course, the Bangel take is ( Read more... )

This is not all my S6 Spuffy thoughts by any means, but this is what I could cobble together in a hurry. A lot of this stuff I've said before, so feel free to skip. I don't expect to convince anyone of anything with this; it's just the interpretation which makes the most sense to me.

( Blast from the Past )

(This is all canon-compliant headcanon, by the way, though I have used some of it in my fic, notably the stuff about Spike's childhood and Willow, Tara and Buffy's different approaches to cooking. If you want to play, the original post is here.From evil_little-dog - Faith, 14: cooking/food headcanon ( Read more... )

Kathy came home from Vegas with some sort of creeping grot, and has been more or less out for the count all week. I seem to have come down with a milder version, just enough to make me tired and snuffly, not enough to justify taking time off. Not that I can afford to do that right now; there are too many things due yesterday ( Read more... )

Diebirchen - How about Xander's hypocrisy regarding Spike's attempted rape of Buffy, when hyena Xander tried exactly the same thing, made no attempt at apology, and lied about not remembering. It's always pissed me off ( Read more... )

I've been a fan of Doctor Who since the 1970s, when my local PBS station was airing Jon Pertwee's episodes on late Sunday nights. I was idly flipping channels and caught a scene where Three was trying and failing to repair the TARDIS, and raging about being trapped on Earth by the Time Lords. I'd never seen anything like it. And I was hooked ( Read more... )

I was thinking about the whole characterization question, and it seems to me that one reason people disagree is that there are different ways to approach characterization. My way is this: I form an initial impression of a character from the first few books/episodes/comics/whatever they're in. As the series goes on, and the character does more ( Read more... )