Me, me, me.

Yesterday was The First Day of Spring, and lo and behold: WARMTH AND SUNSHINE!

It's strange, but not unwelcome, and today has been even lovelier.

~~~

In other news, then I've not been around much. This is mostly due to RL reasons, since I've started an IT course and am spending my days staring at a screen and learning useful things instead of writing fic or meta or messing around with LJ...

(Have things to say about various fannish subjects, but I'll make separate posts. Also Darcy just came home and I need to run!)

ETA: Oh, and I'll keep not being around much for the next few weeks. I had planned a hiatus anyway, in order to get some writing done, so I hope I'll be able to squeeze some in. (Chapter 2 of 'My Immortal 2' was always a problem, although I've more or less got it worked out now.)

Me, me, me.

Yesterday was The First Day of Spring, and lo and behold: WARMTH AND SUNSHINE!

It's strange, but not unwelcome, and today has been even lovelier.

~~~

In other news, then I've not been around much. This is mostly due to RL reasons, since I've started an IT course and am spending my days staring at a screen and learning useful things instead of writing fic or meta or messing around with LJ...

(Have things to say about various fannish subjects, but I'll make separate posts. Also Darcy just came home and I need to run!)

ETA: Oh, and I'll keep not being around much for the next few weeks. I had planned a hiatus anyway, in order to get some writing done, so I hope I'll be able to squeeze some in. (Chapter 2 of 'My Immortal 2' was always a problem, although I've more or less got it worked out now.)

Soulful musings.

It's funny, but the recent storyline in the Spike comics (both moscow_watcher and rahirah have posts on it) has had precisely zero impact on my view of the 'verse. And not just because I don't see the comics as canon. Thing is - I've been there, done that, and written both an essay and a fic on that very topic, and from what I can tell, the comic does not contradict anything I've said. (This is what comes of having been around for ages. I've got nothing new to say...)

Links for this interested:

Essay: Souls and redemption in the Buffy verse. (tl;dr in the extreme. No really. It's the longest essay I've ever written.)

Fic: Lost Soul. (Written for the second summer_of_spike. Spike loses his soul, AtS S5. Some wackiness ensues...)

Either of these will explain my views perfectly (although the fic is shorter). Very briefly, however, then yes, of course a soulless vampire can choose to do good (see S5-6). But... a soulless creature doesn't really understand good and evil. It's like life is one of those 3D pictures, and without a soul you can't see the hidden picture. (Or something. I know exactly what I believe, but I can't explain it succinctly. Hence the lengthy writing.)

Soulful musings.

It's funny, but the recent storyline in the Spike comics (both moscow_watcher and rahirah have posts on it) has had precisely zero impact on my view of the 'verse. And not just because I don't see the comics as canon. Thing is - I've been there, done that, and written both an essay and a fic on that very topic, and from what I can tell, the comic does not contradict anything I've said. (This is what comes of having been around for ages. I've got nothing new to say...)

Links for this interested:

Essay: Souls and redemption in the Buffy verse. (tl;dr in the extreme. No really. It's the longest essay I've ever written.)

Fic: Lost Soul. (Written for the second summer_of_spike. Spike loses his soul, AtS S5. Some wackiness ensues...)

Either of these will explain my views perfectly (although the fic is shorter). Very briefly, however, then yes, of course a soulless vampire can choose to do good (see S5-6). But... a soulless creature doesn't really understand good and evil. It's like life is one of those 3D pictures, and without a soul you can't see the hidden picture. (Or something. I know exactly what I believe, but I can't explain it succinctly. Hence the lengthy writing.)