Thanks, Tom. I had no idea.

Seriously, I'm over Gus...It hurt me at the time that he made me mourn his ass, but I've cried for fictional characters before and will again, no doubt.(Also my first bf was Gus; I'm over that one, too.) It's fucked up that somebody thought they had to put on the dog to be good enough to talk about the Wire with me...heh, talk about fightin' on that lie.Everyone is totally good enough for me. Motive doesn't matter, people. Mark it down as pseudocide and move on.

I'll sign up. I'm pretty sure you won't try to get me to kill myself so that I can catch a ride on Hale-Bop.

Ugh, no. Telling your cult members to kill themselves means no more group trips to Disneyland.

Also, I'm pretty sure you will give us cupcakes and absinthe.

Yep! Snacks and boozy treats for everyone!

Sean, I will tell Pete you said that. And then he will make the squinchy face.

Sean, I will tell Pete you said that. And then he will make the squinchy face.

And *that* won't be adorable. Nope, not at all.

Dude, I do not know. I suppose I need to get over it, don't I? (And actually, I think Pete is FAR more freaked out by it than I am.)

I got a phone call in the middle of typing that, so I didn't really mean to imply that it wouldn't always be weird for you.

Well crap, msbelle, I'm so sorry.

I don't remember being told not to make more threads, but I do remember comments being made about how many we had. I do remember something about the post limit, but that's all my brain is giving me access to-"Something about post limits."

I think it was Mary Beth said something about us having too many threads. And then we wanted Natter, so Betsy (I think) created in Private Life with no seeming connection to the Buffy threads in TV. It felt very stealth at the time.

Fever-Tree tonic water

JZ, I actually get their "Naturally Light" tonic water and love it. Much more crisp and refreshing (YTWMV). Fever-tree ginger beer is also what I use in my Dark & Stormys. It has become my one true mixer. Thank you, javachik!

Note: Last I checked, Fever-tree was cheaper at Whole Foods than BevMo.

Aw, msbelle, that sucks.

P-C, my personal discomfort with it is just that all the commenters on the io9 article so far are extremely TV Tropes-fannish and loving (which is totally their right, and I don't begrudge them a bit of that; it's not my beautiful cake, but yay them), and so I'm a little wary of possible kerfuffles if their fannishness collides with our bitterness/burnt-outness.

I have no issue with the fabulousness of the Tropes website or even its fans. I just feel itchy because their founders are claiming kinship, nay credit, for buffistas. And that connection is only through a supposed dead guy whom nobody here knows.

And that's BEFORE you get into the fact of two people in a tiny location in Central Wisconsin, Guy Straley and Gus Raley, BOTH posting as Gus on the internet and both being closely connected to TV Tropes.

My hackles are raised and I'm having trouble settling them.

Maybe Raley is Fast Eddie and Straley is Gus. It's all totally plausible. Also, they live(d) together, and monkeys transmit MS.

I got a phone call in the middle of typing that, so I didn't really mean to imply that it wouldn't always be weird for you.

Oh, no worries, Jesse. That's now how I took it. The topic is actually one I've been thinking about since last year, because I AM trying to set myself (well, Gothic Charm School, and by extension, me) up as a Recognizable Brand. Which means there are some kind of 4th wall issues that I need to get over. Or else I need to stop reading the interwebs, and that's just crazy talk.