What if it is solar?
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
Spoilers 3: First Mutant Enemy, Now the World
[NAFDA] Spoilers for any and all currently running TV shows. All hardcore spoilage, all the time. No white font.
le nubian - Oct 24, 2004 12:22:23 pm PDT #62 of 3486
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
amych - Oct 24, 2004 3:27:03 pm PDT #63 of 3486
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Am I right in remembering that the whitefont policy for this thread was tbd? Because I'd really strongly prefer no whitefont for spoilers -- I realize that this may just be my issue, but my very strong tendency is to skip over whitefonted anything when I'm reading. It looks just like Natter in here, and one of the reasons I got into spoilers in the first place was to have a place where I didn't have to fret about what I might let slip outside the whitefont. Ptui.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 24, 2004 3:29:08 pm PDT #64 of 3486
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Count me amongst those that would rather have the spoiler thread be all out in the open, with no whitefont at all.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2004 3:35:35 pm PDT #65 of 3486
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The thread is interesting for me, but not if it's going to be all out in the open. I only like being spoiled for some shows.
DCJensen - Oct 24, 2004 3:38:07 pm PDT #66 of 3486
All is well that ends in pizza.
The problem is, that a general spoiler thread must searve severla masters. If we want to be unspoiled for some shows and unspoiled for others, than basically you can't come in at all.
For instance, If I wanted to read Lost spoilers, but not Alias spoilers, I"m SOL if we eliminate whitefont in this thread.
This would not be an issue in a single topic thread, but here? A bit more complicated.
ETA: Xpost with ita... heh
DavidS - Oct 24, 2004 3:41:00 pm PDT #67 of 3486
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There's white font elsewhere. A major feature of previous spoiler boards was No Freakin' Whitefont. I'd rather this was Non-Sluts Beware forewarned zone, rather than a pick and choose whitefont-everywhere zone.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2004 3:51:02 pm PDT #68 of 3486
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's white font elsewhere
Where?
I'm sure there are also unwhitefonted spoilers somewhere too.
DavidS - Oct 24, 2004 3:53:05 pm PDT #69 of 3486
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Where?
Hmmm, I guess I'm just thinking of all the white font splooshed across natter when a new show airs. Which will be mostly mitigated by the Lost thread. Still, I'd rather culturally this thread be like the Buffy or Angel spoiler threads - very slutty. Rather than something like Spoilers Lite, which was all whitefont all the time.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2004 3:55:43 pm PDT #70 of 3486
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, but those aren't spoilers. Telling me I can go a million other places and not learn what happens next in Lost is pretty useless, since I was coming here to find out what happens next in The OC (for instance).
Topic!Cindy - Oct 24, 2004 3:59:35 pm PDT #71 of 3486
What is even happening?
Upstream, Lyra asked:
A question: Is everyone comfortable with whitefonting everything, or could we find a more permissive policy that worked for everyone? My suggestion would be plain-text for everything except maybe truly shocking things (character deaths, resolutions to cliffhangers), with the show title and a few lines of blank space at the top of each post to facilitate scrolling/skimming/skipping. But if the whitefont works, it works.
I'm comfortable with that, but I am also comfortable with trying it how it is, now.