Student ,'Touched'
Discussion of episodes currently airing in Un-American locations (anything that's aired in Australia is fair game), as well as anything else the Un-Americans feel like talking about or we feel like asking them. Please use the show discussion threads for any current-season discussion.
Add yourself to the Buffista map while you're here by updating your profile.
I just had what must be an extremely common fanfic experience. The description said Devon/Host pairing. I thought: 'No way that can work.' I read it, and it totally worked.
Maybe because he's kind of a blank screen?
Based on this one story, I'd say this could be part of the reason. The author gave him divorced parents, anger at the world and bisexuality, none of which are textual as far as I can remember.
See, there are so many blank slate characters that don't pull that kind of attention.
Somewhere out there, there should be an essay on Devon in Fanon.
Can someone define Fanon? Is it like canon, only....?
That site seems to treat fanon as things common in fanfic that are contradicted by the show, while I've always thought of it as at least as much things that are never stated one way or the other on a show, but show up in fanfic by a variety of authors. For instance, I'd call it fanon that William the Bloody Awful Poet was heir to a baronetcy, since I've seen it in multiple fanfics. Of course, I don't think he was born anywhere near so high--I'm thinking father made money in trade and had social ambitions for his children, but that's another debate.
Or Spike/Angelus sex is such strong fanon as to approach canon.
Thanks for that link, PMM. I was going to say `thankyou ma'am' but then realised I didn't know whether you were one and didn't want to put my foot in it. It's interesting coming into this board only very recently that some of you seem to know each other really well. Being new, you pick up little clues about others....but sometimes it's hard to remember them, and if the name doesn't obviously say male or female, even that can be a mystery.
But then, you can be anyone on the internet. I could be an 18-month-old pomeranian pup.
I admire the obsessiveness of
Canon: Willow "tastes like strawberries" (Wrecked, Two to Go)
Unclear Canon: If that's just to another magic user or if she tastes like strawberries in general.
But they ought to update
100% Fanon: Willow using an exclamation like "Goddess!" - she doesn't.
She says it in "Dirty Girls."
psst Kassto, you could check out the buffista gallery which you'll find in the buffista links which is listed on the left side of this page
TBQ is aware that the Goddess section needs updating, much as it makes her roll her pretty little eyes.
(Me, of course, it just makes giggle.)
(Also, I'm female. Though, of course, clubbing TBQ over the head, dragging her off to my cave, and marrying her, but that's a discussion going on elsewhere.)