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

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

She mocked it, but she still wore it. :-) (And she also asked if Riley had a jetpack for her, which may foreshadow 'Seeing Red'). And in 'No Future For You' she's still got quite a light-hearted attitude to all the fancy military hardware, with jokes about sonar and man-frogs in the moat.

'My' Buffy wears the military gear on missions to set a good example to the younger Slayers, because she knows it might save their lives and she doesn't want them to get careless. If she ever managed to slip off alone to wander through a graveyard for old times' sake, I suspect she might wear something more like her old outfits.

[elisi]

in 'No Future For You' she's still got quite a light-hearted attitude to all the fancy military hardware
It still doesn't explain why the stuff is there in the first place...

'My' Buffy wears the military gear on missions to set a good example to the younger Slayers
Oh I get that. It's v. nice and all, but it still seems bizarre, and just un-Buffy-esque. There was always a medieval feel to the Slayer-myth, like the way her weapons are old fashioned (except for the bazooka of course!), and there's also the fact that conviction=power. She never in 7 years worried about armour, not even for the final battle in 'Chosen'. I often thought that maybe she should have, but she's clearly not that sort of girl. Basically it's something very much OOC for me, and I need an actual explanation for why.

She mocked it, but she still wore it. :-)
But now we're getting into deep meta-ness. She *never* wore the stuff back when they were dating, but now she folds as easily as can be. The whole point about AYW, about how her life sucks and she's feeling useless, is beautifully summed up in Buffy putting on the kevlar, trying to be the perfect little Black Ops girl that she thinks Riley wants (is she getting a second chance?), but of course Riley already has an army wife. Kevlar='Buffy at her lowest' (pretty much), and actually reminds me of what she says in IWMTLY:

BUFFY: It's just ... I just wanna know that there's gonna be another good one. One that I won't chase away.
XANDER: There will be. Promise. He's out there, he could come along any minute.
BUFFY: Yeah, and the minute after that I can terrify him with my alarming strength and remarkable self-involvement.
XANDER: What? I don't think you're like that.
BUFFY: Maybe I could change. You know, I could, I could work harder. I could spend less time slaying, I could laugh at his jokes, I mean, men like that, right, the, the joke-laughing-at?

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

She doesn't worry about armour over-much even in season 8, actually. :-) I know I've already pointed it out, but in the big opening spread of 8.01, Leah, Satsu and Rowena are all wearing the full body armour, but Buffy has compromised, and is only wearing a t-shirt instead of a flak jacket.

She does wear the full kit in 8.04 when she's going to rescue Willow - but that speaks for itself. She's going to rescue Willow, of course she's going to prepare as thoroughly as possible. Especially fighting humans with guns, when a bulletproof vest might actually be useful rather than just an encumbrance - I think that's an important practical consideration. She doesn't usually wear combat gear around the castle, as shown in 8.03 or 8.08 or the preview covers for the next issues; she's as fashionably dressed as you'd like there.

Plus, quite simply, as BGF says - Buffy has grown up. More importantly, she has personal responsibility for other people now. She only really tasted that in season 7 before: but now she seems to have grown into it, become comfortable with it. She might still have the occasional moments of doubt at the person she's grown up into, but only when she's alone.

[elisi]

What I said to aycheb. :)

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

What I wrote as a response to the entire discussion. :-)

[elisi]

I saw that, but haven't had time to read it yet... stupid RL and family... ;)