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Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a television show on The WB (and later UPN), created by Joss Whedon, which offered a gritty, hard-hitting look at the problems facing modern teenagers and twentysomethings: namely, vampires, demons, and extradimensional monsters. It was reportedly inspired by true-life events in the town of Sunnydale, California. It notably launched the acting career of James Marsters and his cheekbones.
Much beloved by its increasingly terrifying fans, Buffy provided audiences with five years of witty dialogue, unexpected plotting, and appealing characters throughout its seven-year run.
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Angel was a television series on The WB, created by Joss Whedon, about a centuries-old vampire with a soul, an immense forehead, and truly excellent hair. The title character, former age-inappropriate boyfriend of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was frequently unhappy, probably because a curse prevented him from having sex. Honestly, wouldn't you be pretty upset about a thing like that?
Angel reached the height of its creative powers in its fifth season, drawing excellent ratings and well-deserved praise from critics and viewers alike for its biting wit and compelling storyline. In a peerless masterstroke of programming brilliance, The WB promptly cancelled it.
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Joss Whedon is a writer, director, and executive producer for movies and television shows, best-known as the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His series' shared gift for hilarious dialogue, intricate and believable characterization, and surprising plot twists is matched only by their ability to attract large, rapidly formed groups of insane fans, known to some as Whedonites.
Besides Buffy, Whedon's series include Angel for The WB and Firefly for Fox. Having apparently grown tired of the venal, short-sighted world of network television, he has now embraced the venal, short-sighted world of Hollywood filmmaking. As part of this change in direction, he has pioneered the innovative approach of taking an unsuccessful television series and turning it into an unsuccessful movie.
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Whedonites are the alarming, often fanatical devotees of writer/director Joss Whedon.
Whedonism is a faith devoted entirely to the interpretation and worship of Whedon's various televised works and their assorted merchandising spinoffs. Whedonites are fierce and terrible in their belief, and have been known to profoundly annoy and harangue any critic, writer, or network executive who fails to lavish what they deem a sufficient level of praise and adoration upon their demigod's undertakings. They will buy just about anything with a sufficiently strong connection to their lord and master, a fact that savvy marketers have exploited in shameful fashion, and to great success.
The faith has undergone a schism in recent years. The traditional Buffistas interpret Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its quasi-canonical spinoff Angel as the only true gospels of Whedonism, while the more heretical Browncoat faction draws the majority of its teachings from Whedon's space Western Firefly. Unconfirmed reports suggest the existence of another, ultra-orthodox branch of Whedonism, whose adherents believe that there is no truth beyond the pages of Whedon's screenplays for Speed, Toy Story, and Alien: Resurrection.
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James Marsters is a popular TV boyfriend and the object of a great many fangirls' lurid desires.
Best known for his role as punk vampire and frequent slash fiction subject Spike on the WB series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Marsters is a platinum-blonde Englishman hailed for his unusually convincing American accent. He gained his current bad-boy reputation after he killed an off-duty stuntman with his cheekbones in a Reno bar brawl; police later deemed Marsters "too pretty" to stand trial.
Marsters is currently appearing in the WB series Smallville and the vaguely disturbing erotic fantasies of a great many Whedonites. (Of both genders.)
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Fangirl. The distaff counterpart to fanboy.
Fangirls are known for identifying with female television characters whom they feel reflect them most accurately. These characters are usually brainy, misunderstood, beautiful and yearned-after by the dreamy male lead.
Past objects of fangirl devotion include Dana Scully, Aeryn Sun, Willow Rosenberg and Sara Sidle.
Fangirls are most comfortable with UST, because it forestalls the possibility that the dreamy male lead will actually take up with a character who does not reflect the beautiful, brainy type. Also, it means that the fangirl and Dana Scully can continue to have something in common in their spinsterhood.
In addition to emotional transference, fangirls are also known for their pedantry, their penchant for over-analyzing every aspect of every episode of the show, and for their evangelical fervor in attempted conversion of the masses. Fangirls are also capable of hysterical hate campaigns when their wrath is provoked, but these are typically restricted to incoherent rants in their online journals, ineffective e-mail petition, attempted fundraising efforts which result either in in-fighting or inexplicable trade press ads, and generally behaving in a way that is the exact opposite of the character with whom they identify.
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Slash fiction is a form of fan-written fiction often circulated on the Internet. Presumably originated by gay men, it was quickly co-opted by heterosexual fangirls. In slash fiction, male characters in a television series or film are romantically or sexually coupled together, sometimes in blatant defiance of any existing characterization or story logic, primarily because it's just totally hot.
Slash fiction is believed to have originated with a series of stories posted on Usenet in the late 1980s, detailing an allegedly fictional coupling between Guns 'n' Roses frontman Axl Rose and his guitarist, Slash.
Popular examples of slash fiction include Kirk/Spock, Picard/Riker, Mulder/Krycek, Angel/Spike, Xander/Spike, Anyone with a Y chromosome/Spike, Spike/Spike (time travel is involved), Andy/Barney, Fred/Barney, Bo/Luke, Bert/Ernie, Joey/Marcel, Michael/K.I.T.T., and nearly every episode of the television series Smallville.
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Veronica Mars is a television series on UPN, created by Rob Thomas, starring Kristen Bell as a tiny, adorable blonde detective who is smarter than everyone else on the planet, but not nearly as smart as she thinks she is. It is perhaps best known as the only television series known to make Joss Whedon and Bruce Tinsley squeal like a sixteen-year-old girls at a Beatles concert.
Scientists have classified Veronica Mars fans as the second most-annoying TV fans on the planet, after the Whedonites. Certain members of the TeeVeePedia staff vehemently protest this; then again, they also secretly long to be Mr. Kristen Bell.
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frenchani for the link. :)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a television show on The WB (and later UPN), created by Joss Whedon, which offered a gritty, hard-hitting look at the problems facing modern teenagers and twentysomethings: namely, vampires, demons, and extradimensional monsters. It was reportedly inspired by true-life events in the town of Sunnydale, California. It notably launched the acting career of James Marsters and his cheekbones.
Much beloved by its increasingly terrifying fans, Buffy provided audiences with five years of witty dialogue, unexpected plotting, and appealing characters throughout its seven-year run.
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Angel was a television series on The WB, created by Joss Whedon, about a centuries-old vampire with a soul, an immense forehead, and truly excellent hair. The title character, former age-inappropriate boyfriend of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was frequently unhappy, probably because a curse prevented him from having sex. Honestly, wouldn't you be pretty upset about a thing like that?
Angel reached the height of its creative powers in its fifth season, drawing excellent ratings and well-deserved praise from critics and viewers alike for its biting wit and compelling storyline. In a peerless masterstroke of programming brilliance, The WB promptly cancelled it.
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Joss Whedon is a writer, director, and executive producer for movies and television shows, best-known as the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His series' shared gift for hilarious dialogue, intricate and believable characterization, and surprising plot twists is matched only by their ability to attract large, rapidly formed groups of insane fans, known to some as Whedonites.
Besides Buffy, Whedon's series include Angel for The WB and Firefly for Fox. Having apparently grown tired of the venal, short-sighted world of network television, he has now embraced the venal, short-sighted world of Hollywood filmmaking. As part of this change in direction, he has pioneered the innovative approach of taking an unsuccessful television series and turning it into an unsuccessful movie.
~~~~
Whedonites are the alarming, often fanatical devotees of writer/director Joss Whedon.
Whedonism is a faith devoted entirely to the interpretation and worship of Whedon's various televised works and their assorted merchandising spinoffs. Whedonites are fierce and terrible in their belief, and have been known to profoundly annoy and harangue any critic, writer, or network executive who fails to lavish what they deem a sufficient level of praise and adoration upon their demigod's undertakings. They will buy just about anything with a sufficiently strong connection to their lord and master, a fact that savvy marketers have exploited in shameful fashion, and to great success.
The faith has undergone a schism in recent years. The traditional Buffistas interpret Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its quasi-canonical spinoff Angel as the only true gospels of Whedonism, while the more heretical Browncoat faction draws the majority of its teachings from Whedon's space Western Firefly. Unconfirmed reports suggest the existence of another, ultra-orthodox branch of Whedonism, whose adherents believe that there is no truth beyond the pages of Whedon's screenplays for Speed, Toy Story, and Alien: Resurrection.
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James Marsters is a popular TV boyfriend and the object of a great many fangirls' lurid desires.
Best known for his role as punk vampire and frequent slash fiction subject Spike on the WB series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Marsters is a platinum-blonde Englishman hailed for his unusually convincing American accent. He gained his current bad-boy reputation after he killed an off-duty stuntman with his cheekbones in a Reno bar brawl; police later deemed Marsters "too pretty" to stand trial.
Marsters is currently appearing in the WB series Smallville and the vaguely disturbing erotic fantasies of a great many Whedonites. (Of both genders.)
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Fangirl. The distaff counterpart to fanboy.
Fangirls are known for identifying with female television characters whom they feel reflect them most accurately. These characters are usually brainy, misunderstood, beautiful and yearned-after by the dreamy male lead.
Past objects of fangirl devotion include Dana Scully, Aeryn Sun, Willow Rosenberg and Sara Sidle.
Fangirls are most comfortable with UST, because it forestalls the possibility that the dreamy male lead will actually take up with a character who does not reflect the beautiful, brainy type. Also, it means that the fangirl and Dana Scully can continue to have something in common in their spinsterhood.
In addition to emotional transference, fangirls are also known for their pedantry, their penchant for over-analyzing every aspect of every episode of the show, and for their evangelical fervor in attempted conversion of the masses. Fangirls are also capable of hysterical hate campaigns when their wrath is provoked, but these are typically restricted to incoherent rants in their online journals, ineffective e-mail petition, attempted fundraising efforts which result either in in-fighting or inexplicable trade press ads, and generally behaving in a way that is the exact opposite of the character with whom they identify.
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Slash fiction is a form of fan-written fiction often circulated on the Internet. Presumably originated by gay men, it was quickly co-opted by heterosexual fangirls. In slash fiction, male characters in a television series or film are romantically or sexually coupled together, sometimes in blatant defiance of any existing characterization or story logic, primarily because it's just totally hot.
Slash fiction is believed to have originated with a series of stories posted on Usenet in the late 1980s, detailing an allegedly fictional coupling between Guns 'n' Roses frontman Axl Rose and his guitarist, Slash.
Popular examples of slash fiction include Kirk/Spock, Picard/Riker, Mulder/Krycek, Angel/Spike, Xander/Spike, Anyone with a Y chromosome/Spike, Spike/Spike (time travel is involved), Andy/Barney, Fred/Barney, Bo/Luke, Bert/Ernie, Joey/Marcel, Michael/K.I.T.T., and nearly every episode of the television series Smallville.
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Veronica Mars is a television series on UPN, created by Rob Thomas, starring Kristen Bell as a tiny, adorable blonde detective who is smarter than everyone else on the planet, but not nearly as smart as she thinks she is. It is perhaps best known as the only television series known to make Joss Whedon and Bruce Tinsley squeal like a sixteen-year-old girls at a Beatles concert.
Scientists have classified Veronica Mars fans as the second most-annoying TV fans on the planet, after the Whedonites. Certain members of the TeeVeePedia staff vehemently protest this; then again, they also secretly long to be Mr. Kristen Bell.
Thank you to
frenchani for the link. :)
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Oh and your icon is *wonderful*! :)
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Why, thank you, I did it all myself. *g* Dr Mac is my current TV eye candy, with no Spike or JM around.
I've Green Winged my whole LJ just for a bit of a change - that wasted most of the morning.
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Thank you. :)
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BWAH!
::dies laughing::
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Chani *in Marking Hell*
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Oh so true. Funny but true!
Thank you for this!
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(You have read Ships that pass into type, right?)
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From what I've seen, actual English people seem to be fairly evenly divided as to whether or not his accent is believable/accurate. I haven't done a scientific analysis or anything, but I find it fascinating. ;)
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Hmmm, I think I thought he was, but wanted to make sure. (When I saw 'School Hard' for the first time a few months later I remember being shocked a how bad he was!)
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Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha! :D
Why do I get the feeling that this person doesn't ship B/A? Or in fact anything/A? Poor Angel and the no sex rule ::runs away to ponder fixing that::
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so true! It also goes the same with Xander. How many Xander/Xander fics I've seen? Not to mention him being paired with anyone even Gunn and Lorne... Spike and Xander are two characters so popular in slash fiction.
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*g*
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Not sure that he falls for women he can't have (except in the case of Willow) - he falls for Buffy first time he sees her pretty much, when she's just 'the new girl' and keeps trying for a good while. The Faith sex was obviously... odd, but considering how much fun he went on to have with Anya I can't see that he was put off sex with women! ;)