Bored...

[elisi]

Look what I got kathyh to make for me! (Original idea by drho.) Isn't it brilliant? Anyone? Bueller? *looks around flist* Anyone besides me who loves 'Invader Zim' (and Dr who)? Ah well... *pets icon*



Oh, before I forget: Happy Birthday priscellie! Hope you're having a brilliant day! *lots of hugs*

Am feeling blah and bored and impatient, waiting for my copy of 'Angel: After the Fall' issue 1 to arrive, and seeing the alternative cover for s8 issue 11, I decided not to rant, and instead post two (mock) icon ideas...

Idea 1.
Image of Maggie Walsh
Text: "You might want to be suited up for this."
Image of Buffy (surrounded by Initiative soldiers).
Text: "Oh. You mean the cammo and stuff? I thought about it but, I mean, it's gonna look all 'Private Benjamin.' Don't worry, I've patrolled in this halter many times."
Image of Buffy from the alt. cover of #11
Text: [honestly I'm not sure... maybe just 'WTF?' Or 'This is canon how?' or 'Maggie finally approves'? I'm sure someone could think of something smart.]

Idea 2
Text: Buffy always knew the importance of wearing the proper clothing for Slaying! [or similar]
Images of Buffy from 'Prophecy Girl', 'Becoming II', 'Graduation Day 2', 'Primeval', 'The Gift', 'Two to Go' and 'Chosen', with the number of the season displayed.
Text: Hurrah! Joss is writing S8!
Image of Buffy from the alt. cover.
Text: Oh dear, where did Buffy go? [Or: 'Who's that girl?' or...]

And that's it - these are just loose ideas, if anyone wants to make them, please change/adapt/mess around with them as much as you like. Text esp really isn't my strong suit... Oh and I have screencaps of all the images mentioned here. (Did I mention about the bored part?)

ETA: The picture *itself* is beautifully drawn btw. Not ragging on Jeanty's talent.


See what beer_good_foamy made?

Finally C (my lovely RL fellow Dr Who fan) lent me this John Barrowman article, that I've scanned for y'all to enjoy! It's a bit small, sorry, but I don't have time to mess around trying to make it bigger... maybe you could d/l it and then zoom in?



Must run!

ETA: Last night's Might Boosh was brilliant! (Noel Fielding has the Best Hair Ever. Fact!) Oh and does anyone else look at the 'Shreddies are knitted by nanas' ads and think of 'Nanageddon'? Also watched 'Rm v/a vu' and Cordy turning up on Angel's doorstep is one of the best scenes ever. (And he's so gorgeous, all wet and towel clad... Mmmmm.)

Comments

[elisi]

OMG you are a *genius*!!!!!!!

*snags*

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! :-)

Though as much fun as an idea as that was, I must say I don't entirely agree with you. The battle suits don't bother me as much; it would be way out of character for Buffy in s4 or earlier, but... something did crack in Buffy at the end of s5, and she was never quite the same afterwards. I've always thought that starting somewhere around that fade-to-grey at Joyce's grave in "Forever", and certainly by s6, a little something of Wishverse!Buffy snuck into "our" Buffy too. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and it's not like she was completely transformed (as evidenced by, for instance, her teasing of Riley) but... something shifted, made her a little less of Carefree!Fun!Buffy even after the s6 depression lifted. If it weren't so damn depressing, I'd say she grew up.

[elisi]

Oh I know what you're saying, and I very much agree. Having re-watched S5 fairly recently, I think the shift comes/becomes evident in 'Listening to Fear' - the scene where Joyce asks Buffy to please ask the doctor to let her home... there is a transfer there of who's in charge.

And personally that's something I like - grown-up!Buffy is *my* Buffy far more than the younger ones. But she still wears pretty clothes! If she doesn't wear any armour for battling Glory, Willow or The First, why should she bother for the little bads they encounter in S8? It's not like she thinks she's invincible (see FFL), she just likes to look good, no matter how depressed she is, or how hopeless the battle.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

All true. I'm still hoping all of this guns&ammo stuff is some sort of setup tied in to the mysterious financers - that Buffy is getting corrupted, given infinite resources and fancy gadgets, locked away in a castle far away from everything and essentially groomed to become exactly the sort of evil mastermind lookalike that Voll accuses her of being. (Note that Andrew who's not in Scotland is still toeing the guns=bad party line, while Buffy herself seems perfectly willing to drop it.)

I'm not saying I think it'll go like that - so far, the things in the comics that look like twists have been very "what you see is what you get" - but...

[notarealverb.livejournal.com]

getting corrupted, given infinite resources and fancy gadgets

Is it just me, or does that sound a whole lot like S5 Angel? I wonder how much Buffy's attitude to Angel working for W&H has changed since 'Damage,' because her situation in the comics is starting to look more and more like his.

[elisi]

Is it just me, or does that sound a whole lot like S5 Angel?
*nods*

ANGEL: So it turns out, with this new deal and all, I own a helicopter.
'Conviction'

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or does that sound a whole lot like S5 Angel?

It's definitely not just you. :-)

[elisi]

All true. I'm still hoping all of tis guns&ammo stuff is some sort of setup tied in to the mysterious financer
As I said to woman_of_: 'You can have all this money, but only if you spend it like this!’ Like an eccentric elderly aunt who leaves her mansion to you, only you have to promise to let her 45 cats live with you...

And as notarealverb noted, it does seem very AtS S5 like, although Angel enjoying the nice clothes/furnishings/cars/etc that comes with the CEO title is a lot more in character than Buffy's sudden attachment to kevlar.

I'm not saying I think it'll go like that - so far, the things in the comics that look like twists have been very "what you see is what you get" - but...
I keep hoping that the story will become interesting. I don't even dare cross my fingers anymore.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Like an eccentric elderly aunt who leaves her mansion to you, only you have to promise to let her 45 cats live with you...

LOL!