If you love Spike, watch this vid!

I was skimming through my flist yesterday, and noticed yourlibrarian had a vid rec (she has excellent taste - if you're looking for vids, check out her posts!). Will just copy and paste what she wrote since she sums things up pretty perfectly:

"Since I enjoy vids and I've been in the Whedonverse fandom for a while, I've happened to see rather a lot of Spike and Buffy/Spike vids at this point. And there've been a lot of terrific ones made, but I confess to a bit of fatigue with them. However as proof positive that there's never a point where everything's been said I want to point to charmax's new vid Still Breathing, which I think puts a pretty good spin on Spike's story."

It truly is a very, very, very good vid - great choice of clips and wonderful intercutting, linking together themes I hadn't previously considered and throwing new light on Spike (I love vids that are full of meta).

yourlibrarian had some excellent comments in her post, but I recommend watching the vid first!

More than anything, I love stuff that makes me think - and as a consequence makes me want to write. *runs back to WIP full of enthusiasm*

(Oh and I'll post some s8/s6 comic-book thoughts in a moment, presuming the sleeping children don't wake up...)

If you love Spike, watch this vid!

I was skimming through my flist yesterday, and noticed yourlibrarian had a vid rec (she has excellent taste - if you're looking for vids, check out her posts!). Will just copy and paste what she wrote since she sums things up pretty perfectly:

"Since I enjoy vids and I've been in the Whedonverse fandom for a while, I've happened to see rather a lot of Spike and Buffy/Spike vids at this point. And there've been a lot of terrific ones made, but I confess to a bit of fatigue with them. However as proof positive that there's never a point where everything's been said I want to point to charmax's new vid Still Breathing, which I think puts a pretty good spin on Spike's story."

It truly is a very, very, very good vid - great choice of clips and wonderful intercutting, linking together themes I hadn't previously considered and throwing new light on Spike (I love vids that are full of meta).

yourlibrarian had some excellent comments in her post, but I recommend watching the vid first!

More than anything, I love stuff that makes me think - and as a consequence makes me want to write. *runs back to WIP full of enthusiasm*

(Oh and I'll post some s8/s6 comic-book thoughts in a moment, presuming the sleeping children don't wake up...)

Why I’m looking forward to S6.

Now this isn’t really about the fact that S8 appears to be crack!fic, what with the ridiculous ret-cons, or that it’ll be Bryan Lynch (yay!) penning S6. OK, so it’s a bit of that, I admit I am shallow. (I’m also currently praying that Franco Urro will do the artwork. Because I really, really like his style!)

But - I’ve been thinking about endings. I’ll never accept the comics as canon, but pre-comics I think that if I could have chosen the ending to mess with, I’d have gone with ‘Chosen’. Because NFA is just so utterly, utterly perfect. But having to face Joss messing with *both*, I’ve been forced to re-examine my feelings, and I’m more upset about S8 - and more excited about S6. There are several reasons for this:

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Why I’m looking forward to S6.

Now this isn’t really about the fact that S8 appears to be crack!fic, what with the ridiculous ret-cons, or that it’ll be Bryan Lynch (yay!) penning S6. OK, so it’s a bit of that, I admit I am shallow. (I’m also currently praying that Franco Urro will do the artwork. Because I really, really like his style!)

But - I’ve been thinking about endings. I’ll never accept the comics as canon, but pre-comics I think that if I could have chosen the ending to mess with, I’d have gone with ‘Chosen’. Because NFA is just so utterly, utterly perfect. But having to face Joss messing with *both*, I’ve been forced to re-examine my feelings, and I’m more upset about S8 - and more excited about S6. There are several reasons for this:

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