See! By the time we got to that one I knew better.
She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.
Wash ,'War Stories'
ita's thread
A place where we can talk about ita, miss ita, and share information about memorials. The hugging started over here in Natter.
aurelia - Jan 14, 2015 6:43:41 pm PST #458 of 3157
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
msbelle - Jan 14, 2015 6:44:42 pm PST #459 of 3157
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
oh Dana, this was you
"A Mary Sue is a thinly-veiled substitue for the author. She's often related to a character. Everyone falls in love with her, she's a genius at everything she puts her hand to, and she's been known to die tragically, leaving behind a trail of broken hearts."
then ita
"I am so in love with the Mary Sue concept. I don't write, but if I did, I'd commit myself to Mary-Suing everything. All genres, everything."
then Dana again
"Buffy stared at the mysterious new arrival.
"Who are you?" she asked.
The stunningly exotically beautiful woman executed a flawless backflip and staked a newly-risen vampire with a twist of her perfectly manicured hand.
"I'm ita, the vampire slayer."
Buffy felt like she should be upset. After all, Sunnydale was her town, and the last vampire slayer she'd known had tried to kill her. But as ita spun around and kicked another vampire in the head, Buffy decided that she needed lessons from this new slayer. Her technique was amazing. Plus, her leather coat was really cool.
"Hey," she said as ita polished off the last vampire with a perfectly thrown stake. "You wanna come meet my Watcher? Giles is really cool, even though he's British."
"Giles?" ita asked. "Rupert Giles?"
"Yeah," said Buffy. "Have you heard of him?"
"Oh, I've heard of him." ita's mysteriously dark eyes smoldered. "He's my father.""
msbelle - Jan 14, 2015 6:50:11 pm PST #460 of 3157
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
the questions from fater
" ita, are you eye-ta or ee-ta?
ee-ta."
Polgara - Jan 14, 2015 6:53:36 pm PST #461 of 3157
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
That's the best Mary Sue I've ever read.
msbelle - Jan 14, 2015 6:53:47 pm PST #462 of 3157
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
to continue the Mary Sue discussion
"I was wondering why I'd never heard of this Mary Sue stuff before. After all, I'm fairly fannish, and I've been using the internet to get my fix for well over a decade now. Then I remembered 12 years ago my thing was comics, and my other thing was drawing, and certain flashes of pictures of Wolverine having his ass kicked by a familiar looking teenager flitted through my head. Save the "everybody loves me" part, I was guilty as charged."
msbelle - Jan 14, 2015 7:02:14 pm PST #463 of 3157
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
she was a giver
"I'm willing to date 19 year olds and convert them to Buffy, if that helps our case."
-t - Jan 14, 2015 7:06:38 pm PST #464 of 3157
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I encourage you all to start at the beginning of the thread and just read through to the end because we're fun.
I think I will. I'm 100 posts in and don't remember any of this so that is probably one of threadsucks I have squirreled away somewhere around here...
msbelle - Jan 14, 2015 7:18:01 pm PST #465 of 3157
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
"Toasters. We'll need to give out toasters for successful conversions."
msbelle - Jan 14, 2015 7:33:53 pm PST #466 of 3157
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
on Cordelia on Angel
"God, she teared me up writhing with the visions. I'd forgotten how much that had affected me."
meara - Jan 14, 2015 7:37:14 pm PST #467 of 3157
Hi jimi. So sorry to see you back for such a reason.
Loving all the quotes and links here.