Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.

'Conviction (1)'


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P.M. Marc - Apr 01, 2003 10:48:56 pm PST #4579 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

(And I don't think it's completely irrational of me to have gotten very slightly offended at your replying-to-me "it's even funnier if you know more" line. Um.)

I think it's slightly irrational. I know you know a fair amount about code. I also know that some of the people who I know think it was funny don't, and that my reply wasn't totally directed at you. Perhaps I should have added an "isn't it?" to the end, but as I was on a quicky break, I didn't really have the bandwidth to do so.

And I do know more about code than most people, because that's what I do for a freaking living. I am about it (with quirks and exceptions, of course) the way some people are about arcane bits of writing lore. It's what I live and breathe. It's who I am, and what I am. So things are funny to me on a regular basis that are not funny to most people (see: me and the designers in meetings, throwing code jokes around while the writers stare at us in horror), so that someone would structure their whole fannish April Fool's joke around things that I normally only get blank looks for laughing at is, to me, hilarious.

I think she should have used the freaking style filters. That would have been icing/cake.


§ ita § - Apr 01, 2003 11:08:36 pm PST #4580 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

RL, as someone who knows about code and clichéd fan sites, I see nothing offensive about the idea that if I knew more about this woman's Visibility etc. rantings. I can't even imagine how PMM pointing out the idea that the joke may be more in than I may appreciate is rude.


Deena - Apr 02, 2003 7:13:04 am PST #4581 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

sigh

and, since I knew nothing about the woman, and know nothing about code, I didn't get the joke at all. I just assumed she wouldn't normally GUSH that much or about what she was gushing.


askye - Apr 02, 2003 8:44:09 am PST #4582 of 10000
Thrive to spite them

I didn't get all the coding jokes and didn't think about checking out the source, so all I thought of Ple's response was "I wish I knew more about coding so I could get all the jokes" I saw it as a general response.

However, I do have a hatred for Bad fansites with those stupid tiny frames and stupid itty bitty font, which Buffy sites seem to have a lot of so I got some of what she was making fun of. When ever I see a site that looks like that I just leave, I don't care how good the content might be on the site, I'm not wasting my eye sight trying to read the itty bitty font in those stupid ass tiny scrolling boxes.


P.M. Marc - Apr 02, 2003 8:50:36 am PST #4583 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

(Can't believe I'm asking....)

I need some good Dana het stuff. (Sports Night.)

Just... not with Dan, Casey, or Isaac.


Dana - Apr 02, 2003 8:51:45 am PST #4584 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Isaac? Ooookay....

There were rumors of some Dana/Sam stuff on a yahoogroup, but I haven't gone looking for it yet.


P.M. Marc - Apr 02, 2003 8:53:33 am PST #4585 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Isaac? Ooookay....

Well, just in case.

Jeremy, Sam, etc. are all fair game. Hmm. Time to seek out SNH.

I've never read SNH.


Micole - Apr 02, 2003 12:15:14 pm PST #4586 of 10000
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

Dana het stuff ...? I don't suppose Dana/f would do?

I'm not sure I've even read Dana/m.


Dana - Apr 02, 2003 1:08:39 pm PST #4587 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Yeah, the other SN yahoo gropu was a big bust.

Plei, write me some Dana/Sam? Please?


P.M. Marc - Apr 02, 2003 1:55:51 pm PST #4588 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Plei, write me some Dana/Sam? Please?

Think I'm gonna have to.

My Sam-Oost has renewed vigor. (Just watched the last Sam episode last night.)