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I know lockdown is tough for many people but, as someone who’s been housebound for 15 years, suddenly life is quite a bit more accessible.

I can attend writing workshops, order afternoon tea and tonight I watched musicals on IPlayer and I cried with happiness.

— Sally Doherty writes 👩‍💻 (@Sally_writes) February 14, 2021

Hope you left your egg and Jif lemon out for Father Pancake last night 🤞 pic.twitter.com/XNQfGOnxAe

— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) March 5, 2019

( Probably my last Joss-related update )

Final thought: It's the 'casually cruel' description that gets me.

ETA (I forget what number): Also, I like this thread:

I think it's kind of amazing that the actors who played the Trio made a collective statement in support of the allegations against Whedon. That's just, like, so incredibly meta

— Dr. Ellie Lockhart is the protagonist (@BootlegGirl) February 16, 2021

So, I'm rushed off my feet. But I figured fandom might need this. ♥

( Read more... )

ETA: Or just go watch Bachelorette.

ETA2: Oh what the hell. For old times sake:

GOODMORNING LJ - I bring you fic! s8 fic, to be specific, which just goes to show that you should never say 'I will NEVER talk about this subject again' because then you will remember that you signed up for a pretty awesome ficathon and then have to eat your words. Not going to re-upload any of my s8 icons though, but I think this one works rather well. :) (And now I'm wishing that I'd written Twangel as a fish from space, because that would have been AWESOME! Someone do it, pretty please? *tosses plot bunny out there*) Anyway, did I mention I have issues with s8? Well here I address a few...

Many thank yous to kathyh for the beta and to ubi4soft and beloved4always for their help! :)

Title: Don’t You Want To Be Happy?
Summary: Buffy manages to keep hold of her faculties for a while longer.
Setting: AU from near the end of #33.
Characters: comic!Buffy, Twangel.
Rating: Teen.
Genre: s8. (So crack, mostly.)
Word count: 900 approx.
Notes: Written for Barb’s Nertz To You Joss Whedon ficathon, and should be pretty digestible for all and sundry. :)


( Don’t You Want To Be Happy? )

Fandom is Captain Jack Harkness. (Note the stripes.)

Joss is Captain John Hart. (Note the sarcasm.)

From Jack's blog:

Captain John Hart came through the Rift, still as sociopathic as ever. And tried to kill us all. But come on, check out those cheekbones.


Personally, then I lost the last, tiny little shred of belief or interest in comic!Buffy three years ago, with the bank robbing reveal. Srsly, I am nodding along to every word I wrote back then. Which makes me sad, because there was so much more down to come... So yeah, I'm immune to the cheekbones. To those of you who think the cheekbones are worth it - and damn, they are alluring, I've been there - I sincerely hope that he won't stab you in the back (again).

ETA: Finally read #40. Faith's great. Kennedy is AWESOME! Buffy... ( Cut so as not to upset people )

So, the final issue. I think this warrants something a bit more than the usual, don’t you? After having thought about it, I decided to do a ‘reaction post’ to all the major arcs/revelation in s8, using gifs. Well, my reactions. Can’t speak for other people. And to start us off, here’s my reaction to the fact that we’ve finally come to the end…



I don’t really want to do any kind of meta, so I shall quote shadowkat67, who summed things up rather beautifully: The whole thing reads like fanfic - Alternate Universe fanfic. It does not feel like a true continuation of the story nor does it organically appear to flow from it. What it feels like is a big What-if Scenario that intrigued Whedon for it's thematic questions/implications, which Whedon appears to still be interested in.

I think that’s pretty spot-on. s8 is nothing more than Meltzer’s fanfic that Joss decided to OK. Personally I think this was a monumentally stupid idea that’s a done a lot more harm than good, but hey-ho, that’s life. But waffling is boring – let the gif party commence!

(Notes: I’ve not read #40 yet, so there are no spoilers. Although if you want to talk about it, please do.)

( Same procedure as every month! Except this time it's lethal for dial-up... )

This came to me this morning and made me laugh, so here you go!



ETA: Don't think I ever pimped beer_good_foamy's review of #36, so I shall remedy that now, since it sums up all of my problems with s8 very eloquently. The Jar-Jar Binks comparison is especially brilliant.

In case you missed previous mentions, I was asked to write an essay about Season 8 for Whedonistas. Unfortunately it was in the end decided that my essay would not be included, since it didn’t match the overall tone of the book. Which is fair enough - it is a book celebrating Joss’ work, and an essay that says ‘There are good points to this, but overall it looks like he kinda dropped the ball on this one’ is obviously going to be problematic.

A few of notes:

- This essay was written during the summer, after #35 was published. I managed to read the Riley one-shot before my final edit, but that’s all. I have not altered the essay in any way since then, so it is untouched by any opinions I may have on #36-39.

- This is me at my most positive and diplomatic. I would ask any commenters to bear this in mind and be considerate of other people’s opinions.

- Many, many thanks to shapinglight for lending me her comics so I could read them properly. And to my incredible editors who did magic things to my writing.


( BtVS Season 8: Please Mind the Gaps )

Wishing a Very Happy Birthday to the wonderful gillo (whom I lured onto LJ!) - hope you had a fabulous day and that you were spoiled rotten.

Now I wouldn't say that the following is a *present*, because it's just a very silly thing I thought of, but I figured it'd make you smile... ( Snark under here )

avrelia wins for best comment on s8:

( If you love the comics you should probably not click... )