Emily, in Boxed Set

Heck, it's how I got interested in all my most recent fandoms. I think I'd seen an episode of Smallville before I started reading the fanfic, but due South and Sentinel I hadn't, and Stargate I actively disliked (mostly because in my head it was like the snotty kid who moves in from a big city and thinks she's going to be all popular just because she shops at stores that have last names attached to them (as opposed to, say, "Hank's") so until she settles down she keeps trying to upstage the kid who actually is cool because she's just spiffy and funny and really smart and nice, but for a while you're afraid people are going to buy into City Girl's guff and start trying to act all snotty like her and meanwhile there'll be smaller and smaller attendance at the Grand Pirate Adventure Princess Veterinarian Superspy outing every weekend until it's just you and the girl who used to be cool and she can't help but be a little diminished in your eyes, but then twenty years later you come back and they're all living desperate-to-impress Big City Lives and she's got some wicked cool life in the outback either painting or rescuing wallabies and she sweeps you off your feet and you have a passionate affair after which you live happily ever after and just end up feeling sorry for all the other girls because they too could have grown up smart and cool and had a wild passionate affair and a happy ever after, so there's a sort of bittersweet tinge to your contentment) until the fanfic got me to take a second look.

And slightly later

(Also, the wallaby-rescuing wicked cool lesbian lover above was played by Farscape)

Madrigal in Movies:

Warren Zevon, Leni Riefenstahl - I suppose this now means an actor with an unusual name with a cult following is next to die

Trudy Booth ripostes:

Somebody hide Pia Zadora.

In Firefly:

Susan W: On the weirdness of any fandom, I recently read a Dean blog kerfluffle that could've been transplanted wholesale to Buffy fandom on LiveJournal if you'd just gone through and replaced "Dean" and "Kerry" with "Buffy" and "Spike."

Wolfram: Try doing that with the infamous balcony scene...there's a mind scrubber.

Diet conscious Hec in Bitches:

I don't know why you two are trying to kill Sean. He just confessed to having black chunks in his tube of nacho rice last night. He'd be better off eating Bachelor Chow out of a dog dish.

Cindy gives us insight into the workings of her mind in a discussion on whether the Scobbies knew in Dead Man's Party that Buffy had to send the re-ensouled Angel to hell:

Given what DMP did and did not reveal, it's hard to know whether they didn't know, or just didn't want to know. Remember in Becoming part 2, that Willow was taken over during the Restoration spell. She, Oz, and Cordelia at least (because Oz & Cordy were with Willow) had reason to suspect that Buffy somehow killed Angel and not Angelus. Again, I'm not faulting DMP for this. It makes for a nice little game of brain ping-pong.

The Buffy-Empathetic Brain Cells (BEBC) are saying: They should have at least suspected!

The Scooby-Empathetic Brain Cells (SEBC) are saying: How could they have known? Once they figured out she killed him, they must have figured the spell fell flat!

BEBC: Well, then why didn't they accuse her of running off with a newly resouled Angel then? They mentioned that was a possibility at the end of Becoming.

SEBC: Look, Willow was still pretty green where magic was concerned at this point. Even though she felt the spell's effects, and Oz and Cordy saw them, none of them had much experience with regard to magic. How could they have known it might have worked?

BEBC: Over the summer, they must have told Giles what happened to Willow when she performed the spell, over the summer. Wait! No! They told Giles about the orb glowing and something going through Willow at the end of Becoming part 2.

SEBC: But...back then, Giles didn't know much about magic, either.

BEBC: Bollocks! Lie to Me retconned that point of canon. He knew a lot. He just pretended he didn't. And if he didn't suspect something was fishy about Angel's death, then later on in Faith, Hope, and Trick, why did he trick Buffy that he was doing a binding spell to ensure Acathla remained dormant?

SEBC: Just to make her get it all out, we guess.

BEBC: But...but...why...and how did they know she killed him at all? Nobody was left at the mansion by the time Buffy killed Angel.

SEBC: Good point... What are we fighting about again?

BEBC: I dunno. Where's the pie?

SEBC.: What pie?

BEBC.: You bastards! You ate all the bloody pie, didn't you?

SEBC: *brushes crumbs from corner of little brain celly mouths*

BEBC: *plunges sword through the SEBC and into Acathla*

SEBC: *get sucked into hell*

BEBC: *move to L.A. and start waitressing*

Edited to give better context.

DebetEsse in Literary:

Giving Tree strikes me as deeply Midwestern, in that we (at least in my experience) are trained from an early age to be helpful (and later to be bitter about being helpful). As a friends of mine and I have decided, we need 3 good reasons and a half an hour to practice before we can say "no" to requests for help. It's the price we pay for not being in therapy from the age of 13.

In Natter 15:

Madrigal: Woohoo, able to sneak into the ides, apparently just in time to catch the big stab fest - I mean, that is how one has to end an ides. It's traditionical.

Anne W: <hides knife behind back>

Here, Caesar, Caesar, Caesar....

flea: A big truck just dumped what is probably a literal ton of gravel in front of my house. It's so fun living in a sewer replacement zone! (Note: this is said seriously.)

Shawn: They should stop calling that stuff TCBY, while they're at it.

Madrigal Costello: Or at least specify which country the C in TCBY stands for.

high plains grifter:

No bees were intentionally hurt harvesting our honey, but they DID get all hopped up on second-hand smoke, and would often stay up late humming songs around the tiny bee piano, afterwards.