The Zeppo is one of my all-time favorite episodes of Buffy. It's not that I'm a huge fan of Xander; I don't dislike him, but he'd never turn up on my "favorite BTVS characters" list. I love the simple fact that the show is able to step away from the hero's story, at least for the space of an episode, and to allow someone else to play hero for an ( Read more... )

I've been re-reading some of my own fic recently, which is surely one of the most self-indulgent things ever. But in between wincing at the editing mistakes and poor phrasing, I was struck by how mean the Kryceks that I write are. Really. It's amazing that the other characters don't band together to knock him over the head and dump the body in ( Read more... )

There's a meme going around about the stories we keep coming back to--as readers, as viewers, as writers. Mine's pretty obvious, at least when it comes to fanfic.

( He told me to trust him. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope. And then he betrayed me... It's cold. It was never this cold before. )

Spoilers for all the shows I watch. Possibly for all the shows I've ever watched, but in practical terms I think Alias 3x02 and Angel 5x02 are the ones my readers are most likely to care about.Last week I wrote a couple paragraphs on the question of "Sloane: Is He Evil?", a reference the the long-running "Cole: Is He Evil?" subplot on Charmed. ( Read more... )

This is wildly poor etiquette: I'm commenting on the discussion on a list in my livejournal. As I write this I'm not entirely sure whether or not I'll lock it. But this is my journal, in which I talk about fannish things, and this is about me and my relations to fandom. It's not appropriate to discussion on that list, but it's appropriate for ( Read more... )

You'll be pleased to know that I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. fillyjonk is here in New York with me, and we are alternating between packing and indulging in nostalgia. I tried to explain Alias to her and realized that I've got to replot the current section of the hiatusfic I'm working on--I think I've backed myself into a corner, and it's ( Read more... )

Woken far, far too early by a cramp in my leg and the drip, drip, drip of the leaky roof. At least I used the time productively: see my shiny new GIP ( Read more... )

Although I don't think that Fannish Appreciation Day happened, I'll just go ahead and be idiosyncratic. This set of thank-yous is also idiosyncratic and prejudiced toward livejournal people: there are a lot of other fans out there who make the internet a better place in ways that don't affect me directly, or who make it better just by being out ( Read more... )

It occurred to me the other day that I met many of the people on my friends list (and many of my non-LJ internet friends) through feedback: I sent them some or vice versa and we started writing back and forth ( Read more... )

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