That was long before Firefly. Right? Seems to fit the OB perfectly. Thanks for the laugh.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[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, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
"If You Criticize My Writing, I'll Kill Myself and It'll Be Your Fault!"
I think I could live with myself if they should choose to put their sleeping pills where their mouths are.
Of course, when an outraged drama queen pulled the equivalent "You'll all be sorry when I'm gone!" act on a hockey board I used to frequent, I responded by writing "Remember: vertical cuts."
t hearts Matt
KristinT, that's fab.
That was long before Firefly. Right? Seems to fit the OB perfectly. Thanks for the laugh.
Right back to the beginning. Not the Bang, not the Word. The true beginning.
Not the Bang, not the Word. The true beginning.
The true beginning that started, oh, say, 10 years ago?
Fan Entitlement. It has been and will always be with us.
(I'm sure there was crap like this in the 70s with 'zines and apas, but it just took longer to get a kerfuffle going)
(Actually, I did mean the 'zines and cons, and all the ur-fandom stuff, but I wanted to use a Buffy quote, because of the day.)
I had an apa-kerfuffle one time back in the late '70s with Nancy Collins - oh, excuse me, Nancy A Collins - who wrote for Swamp Thing, back before she had anything published. She was a nasty bitch to me for no reason whatsoever and never apologized. I was about 16 and she's 4 years older, so, you know, neither of us were real mature at the time. (About five year later I dated her ex and didn't even know it until we all crossed paths at a con.)
totally wrong thread