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I need a Christmas icon.
Or rather - I need to choose one from the many I have stored away in folders. I hate choosing.
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Not long ago my next door neighbour came to borrow a cup of sugar. This fills me with much joy. What next? James Marsters/David Tennant/Noel Fielding knocking on my door because their car has broken down? :)
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tesla321 wrote the most gorgeous S/B/A fic: Rule of Three. Just stunning.
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I've recently been wondering about why I am so very negative towards season 8. I mean, I'm never usually like that - I am the Pollyanna who finds the positive in *everything*. Cut because I doubt anyone cares. And I *really* don't want to start any arguments - this is more about where my head's at.
The thing is - I loved Buffy. All of it. Sometimes is was brilliant, sometimes less so. But I never expected it to be consistent - it just was. OK, so that probably makes no sense, but it's like your family - they have their good sides and their bad sides, and you just take them how they are. At least that's how *I* related to the show.
But when it comes to fic, I hold it up to the show's standard - comparing, measuring, analysing. And if it doesn't measure up (or if the author's interpretation is wildly different from mine) I just walk away. (Going with my analogy, fic is like friends. Some you instantly click with, some become acquaintances, some you can't get on with.)
I always said that I'd look on the comics like extra special fic, and I realise that this is exactly what I do - I do what I always do when I read a story, and see how well it measures up to the show. And it just doesn't (for me). Only this time I am apparently incapable of walking away. Maybe because it is being hailed as *the* best thing out there - the continuation. ETA: That is - this story will appeal across the board, because it'll tap into the thing uniting us all in the first place. But - like fic - it has some people that like it, and some that think it's all wrong, and some that are just indifferent, and some that just never read fic...
And as for me, then I'm just very fussy when it comes to fic - single lines can throw me out of a story (or pull me in). (This isn't saying that my fic is brilliant, or that my taste is somehow better than other's. Definitely not. I love the fact that fandom is so wide and varied.) s8 is quite simply another story, just like all the rest. It's just got a wider audience than your average post-Chosen fic.
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Not long ago my next door neighbour came to borrow a cup of sugar. This fills me with much joy. What next? James Marsters/David Tennant/Noel Fielding knocking on my door because their car has broken down? :)
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 Dear Santa...Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In January I ruled Canada as a kind and benevolent dictator (700 points). In July I bought porn for deborahc (-10 points). Last Tuesday I helped garfpooky across the street (6 points). In March on a flight to Pakistan, I stole the emergency flight information card (-40 points). Last Monday I pulled adoxerella's hair (-5 points). Overall, I've been nice (651 points). For Christmas I deserve a pony! Sincerely, |
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tesla321 wrote the most gorgeous S/B/A fic: Rule of Three. Just stunning.*
I've recently been wondering about why I am so very negative towards season 8. I mean, I'm never usually like that - I am the Pollyanna who finds the positive in *everything*. Cut because I doubt anyone cares. And I *really* don't want to start any arguments - this is more about where my head's at.
The thing is - I loved Buffy. All of it. Sometimes is was brilliant, sometimes less so. But I never expected it to be consistent - it just was. OK, so that probably makes no sense, but it's like your family - they have their good sides and their bad sides, and you just take them how they are. At least that's how *I* related to the show.
But when it comes to fic, I hold it up to the show's standard - comparing, measuring, analysing. And if it doesn't measure up (or if the author's interpretation is wildly different from mine) I just walk away. (Going with my analogy, fic is like friends. Some you instantly click with, some become acquaintances, some you can't get on with.)
I always said that I'd look on the comics like extra special fic, and I realise that this is exactly what I do - I do what I always do when I read a story, and see how well it measures up to the show. And it just doesn't (for me). Only this time I am apparently incapable of walking away. Maybe because it is being hailed as *the* best thing out there - the continuation. ETA: That is - this story will appeal across the board, because it'll tap into the thing uniting us all in the first place. But - like fic - it has some people that like it, and some that think it's all wrong, and some that are just indifferent, and some that just never read fic...
And as for me, then I'm just very fussy when it comes to fic - single lines can throw me out of a story (or pull me in). (This isn't saying that my fic is brilliant, or that my taste is somehow better than other's. Definitely not. I love the fact that fandom is so wide and varied.) s8 is quite simply another story, just like all the rest. It's just got a wider audience than your average post-Chosen fic.
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Hee! Clearly, you are living in a TV show. It won't be David Tennant with a broken down car, but the Doctor with TARDIS problems. ;)
I always think of Buffy as family. It's exactly what you describe - sometimes it delighted me, and sometimes it let me down, but I loved it all.
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Hee! Clearly, you are living in a TV show.
It's fabulous. I'm waiting for all my friends to move really close by and then drop in all the time! ;) And OMG The Doctor in the TARDIS! Of course! (We have plenty of wires & stuff. I'm sure we could help!) And speaking of the Doctor, the CiN special was the loveliest thing I've ever seen! I even wrote meta. *g*
I always think of Buffy as family. It's exactly what you describe - sometimes it delighted me, and sometimes it let me down, but I loved it all.
I probably got that analogy from you then! :)
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I've promised the children from my little choir that I will go and watch a puppet show this afternoon, and then I have to prepare a session for youth club this evening, but once those are done I will come and read your meta and your fic.
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I only put it up this morning, so you're probably the first person to see it. :)
I've promised the children from my little choir that I will go and watch a puppet show this afternoon, and then I have to prepare a session for youth club this evening
Life is busy, huh? We've just come back from the school's Christmas fair, and are now going to decorate. And there's still Christmas plays (Little Miss M will be Mary!) etc. But I know I'm lucky to have such a lovely family. :)
but once those are done I will come and read your meta and your fic.
Aw, thank you. The meta is here and it's very short, and mostly consists of squee. I still don't know how they made 5 minutes so utterly wonderful. Oh and I quoted you! (And I think you'll like the fic - I adored writing it, and there's lots of lovely meta underneath.)
And isn't this icon the loveliest thing? There's a back-ground story to it that I don't have time to go into right now (must go decorate!), but I can supply it later. Oh - and since I'm here - have you read issue 1 of 'After the Fall'?
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