I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress  

[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.


Gus - May 22, 2005 7:53:25 pm PDT #7148 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

We're well-controlled craxy chaos?

Parsing...

Parsing, again...

Bag it.


§ ita § - May 22, 2005 7:58:16 pm PDT #7149 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I do not understand those abs.


Gus - May 22, 2005 8:06:17 pm PDT #7150 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Sure. A world in which ita does not understand abs is a real world.

It says so here.


Polter-Cow - May 22, 2005 8:26:46 pm PDT #7151 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I totally agree.

Hot. Diggity. Damn.


Kristen - May 22, 2005 8:35:47 pm PDT #7152 of 10001

But, yeah, now, it's hard to look back at it and think all of it was time well-spent.

I feel that way about nearly every fandom-related endeavor I've worked on. It always seems like a good idea at the time. It almost always ends up feeling like a mistake.

That's not where I ended up with it in my head, but it's how I felt for a long time. Foolish.

That's still how I feel. That it was all this giant avoidance tactic I used so I didn't have to deal with scary things in my life. It took me far too long to catch on and face up to it for me to feel anything other than foolish.


P.M. Marc - May 22, 2005 8:38:32 pm PDT #7153 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

That I don't understand, and I don't really want to make fun of it. It seems too sad.

I think, maybe, a serious chapter on some of the extremes of fandom, in the same tone as your last few posts on it here, would work really well in the book. I mean, even Sedaris has serious amid the rest.

And it's a weird sort of area, people with that sort of investment. Weird, sad, and human.

For the slightly less crazy POV, at some point, I came to some grudging understanding of some of the unsouled Spike redemptionists who were *furious* about the souling when I realized through comments that a fair number of them had grown up in strict (usually Southern) religious communities, and became invested in the idea that you don't have to follow the understood paradigm of Good vs. Evil (righteous vs. sinful) to become a good person. The story they thought they were seeing was the story of themselves, and when turned out to not be that story at all, they got mental whiplash.


Consuela - May 22, 2005 8:40:08 pm PDT #7154 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

a fair number of them had grown up in strict (usually Southern) religious communities, and became invested in the idea that you don't have to follow the understood paradigm of Good vs. Evil (righteous vs. sinful) to become a good person. The story they thought they were seeing was the story of themselves, and when turned out to not be that story at all, they got mental whiplash.

Wow, that's really interesting. I have issues with the concept that you Must Be Religious to be a good person, and this sounds like it ties right into that.


§ ita § - May 22, 2005 8:42:10 pm PDT #7155 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The story they thought they were seeing was the story of themselves

Isn't this a lot of the craxxy? That terrible ripping noise when it's not only not you, it's not a happy ending for you. It stops being your story, part of you, and is held up in the light as fiction, and your ties to it mock you.


AnthonyDe - May 22, 2005 8:53:56 pm PDT #7156 of 10001
A One that isn't cold, is scarcely A One at all.

2 promos during AOTC tonight. The second was pretty long and charactercentric set to "Break on Through" by the Doors.


Polter-Cow - May 22, 2005 8:54:47 pm PDT #7157 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

That's the new one that's been showing up since last week.