I always figure someone who still loves the show enough in S8 to get a tattoo is probably always going to love it enough to remember fondly. I didn't like Buffy S7 very much, but I still adore the series and the characters, for example.
I probably would've done it in the show's font, too, but it's also not a tattoo I would get, despite how much I like it on her. She's 22 -- I'm assuming the idea is to look back later and remember this birthday, and everything she'd already accomplished, etc.
I'm not sure what tattoo I would get to honor the show, if any. It does feel, to me, almost bigger than my Buffy love, in terms of changing my life more dramatically.
The show indubitably looms large in my life, but as long as I'm not actually posting on Deanistas.org, Buffy has the edge. But those are both too external for me to tattoo, but clearly external is the point of other people's tats. But it's also in progress, and I've seen so many people revile what they loved because of things outside their control, and that's why I went with ancient Egyptian, because the ankh story has been entirely written.
I was a Buffy fan for a long time by myself. I didn't know there was fandom! By the time I did, the show was almost over.
SPN was when I really started to participate in fandom, I guess. Which makes it, for me, a little more important somehow.
Carver answers questions about Sam and Dean this season, and their arcs, etc. It's not spoilery about specifics, but I guess if you want to know nothing at all, stay away.
My issue with Sam's decision isn't that I wouldn't
hope
he'd act that way (although I wouldn't), it's that it didn't seem to make sense, and he did a poor job explaining it to my satisfaction. Not that Sam needs to do that, but the show does, and I found it weak and unconvincing.
Suppose I don't like Supernatural in 2014? This is just like the tattoo thing...
Creation's not getting any more of my money after pulling that "Surprise! Last minute/last-ever Nashville SPN con!" BS.
I'll just have to make do with whatever Ben Cohen's offering for next year.
Did they get suddenly shady, or have they been dodgy a long time? My current one didn't come direct from then.
I don't know that I'd call them shady, so much as frustrating and peremptory - I don't get how a convention that was well-attended suddenly becomes not worth doing if the show's still a going concern and the talent's willing to show up. Or why the final con was scheduled on such short notice. I've heard lots of grumbling about the mercenary nature of their conventions in general, but I figure they are what they are and I've been content to shell the $ out for the ones I've been really interested in attending.
