Buffy's hardest, for me. Maybe her language isn't raunchy enough.:)
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
erikaj - Sep 21, 2003 8:46:53 am PDT #6720 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Cindy - Sep 21, 2003 8:50:14 am PDT #6721 of 10001
Nobody
I never use Council of Watchers, because it's pretty clearly "Watchers' Council" in the text.
I found "Council of Watchers" in Checkpoint and Revelations, through Mr. Pointy. Mr. Pointy only came up with 22 scripts with the word "council" at all (although "council" is used multiple times in many of those scripts). I agree "Council of Watchers" is less common, but I like it better. So there. :-P
>Though, 99% of the time, I just use the Council.
Most of the time, the scripts do, too.
Cindy - Sep 21, 2003 8:53:22 am PDT #6722 of 10001
Nobody
Buffy's hardest, for me. Maybe her language isn't raunchy enough.:)
Sometimes, too much swearing from BtVS characters takes me out of the moment. I am not against it, by any means, but it has to be just so, for it to sound right to me. I don't object to it on priciple. This isn't a case of "oh my virgin eyes are so offended," but rather, because we seldom hear them swear, and when they do, the swears are mild enough to air on TV at 8pm, I'm just not used to it.
P.M. Marc - Sep 21, 2003 8:55:34 am PDT #6723 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
I found "Council of Watchers" in Checkpoint and Revelations, through Mr. Pointy. Mr. Pointy only came up with 22 scripts with the word "council" at all (although "council" is used multiple times in many of those scripts. I agree "Council of Watchers" is less common, but I like it better. So there. :-P
See, I've obviously been hitting the Lethe's Bramble...
Cindy - Sep 21, 2003 9:02:25 am PDT #6724 of 10001
Nobody
I didn't mean to imply they don't use Watcher's Council (which I do think ought to be Watchers'). I just meant they also use Council of...
Argh. I'm in over-splainy mode. Shutting up now.
erikaj - Sep 21, 2003 9:04:23 am PDT #6725 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I know what you mean, Cindy. But I have to claim a Faith-exemption.(Heh...I'm like the Church of Dirty Words.)
§ ita § - Sep 21, 2003 9:06:11 am PDT #6726 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Watchers' Council makes sense. It belongs to a whole lot of them. Just one Watcher wouldn't have a Council.
Cindy - Sep 21, 2003 9:07:05 am PDT #6727 of 10001
Nobody
Oh yeah, erika. Faith totally says "Fuck." Totally. I practically hear it on my TV.
She's not against a well placed, screw though, either, even though it's milder.
All of the characters would swear in certain circumstances. I haven't read a lot of fic, but there was one (not by a Buffista--I should have added that, before) I can't even remember, for all the swearing.
erikaj - Sep 21, 2003 9:14:07 am PDT #6728 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I could see how that could be, it's not Ellroy, for fuck's sake.(Although I think he's a nasty misogynist, so thank God. Another place for Kay and her gun...but I digress.)
Anne W. - Sep 21, 2003 12:38:52 pm PDT #6729 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I get the idea that Council of Watchers would be more or less interchangeable with Watcher's Council, sort of along the lines of the Defense Department vs. Department of Defense. The same person might even use both terms in the course of one conversation, depending on which term fit the flow of words better at the time.