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Well, I didn't get hired at Abercrombie & Fitch. That's ok, I didn't really want to work there anyway. And I actuially mean that, you know.
Where I wanted to work: Hot Topic. And guess what! I have an inteview tomorrow morning! This is much of the good. I love that store-- punk music, skater clothes, gothic jewelry, and freak apparell. I thought I might not be scary enough to work there-- we'll see. I'll have to consider my wardrobe carefully.
The bad is it's a group interview. The same kind of group interview I apparently didn't pass with A&F. Oh well, I'll wow them. After all, someone has to give a freakin' job.
Fanfic
several things really, really annoy me in fanfic. As I previously mentioned, Giles having a split personality is one major peeve. Here's some more:
1. post-Grave fics in which Dawn take's Spike's side (in those conversations when he's not there to protest)and makes Buffy feel guilty for her bad in the relationship. Even if she likes him (which she did), Dawn would never side with Spike after he tried to rape her sister. She might forgive him, but she'd support Buffy. I think it'a awful because it excuses attempted rape, and softens or confuses a serious issue. This is so unrealistic it's not funny--and yet I'm always seeing it.
2. The fixation on Spike's tv-habits, and the constant need to have Passions references in EVERYFUCKINGTHING. It was only mentioned twice in the whole freakin' show, and not even in the last two years. We know he likes daytime tv, already. I don't need it shoved down my throat everytime I read fic. For all we know he could have stopped watching the damn show when Joyce died. The humor in reading it has long lost its appeal. Referecences like that, if made, should be subtle. And Spike must've watched hella tv-- try something besides soap operas next time.
3. Hot chocolate & marshmellows. see above for same reasoning. So. Fucking. Tired. of this in fics. Subtlety people! SUBTLETY!
4. Xander being called "Whelp". Ugly, ugly fanfic trend. Has no basis in canon, and furhtermore jsut sounds bad after the first three times. Spike calls Xander by his last name, by some reference to his job, or by the fact that he's Bufyf's hang-er-on "boy" or sidekick. He never freaking calls him whelp.
5. Willow being called "Red" by Spike. Yes, he's said it in the show... but it's been less times than I can count on one hand. He also calls her witch, and by her acutal name. Go for variety people.
That's all I can think of for now.... but the list is ever growing in the back of my mind. What about everyone else? Do these things bug you guys, or do you have different pet peeves?
Well, I didn't get hired at Abercrombie & Fitch. That's ok, I didn't really want to work there anyway. And I actuially mean that, you know.
Where I wanted to work: Hot Topic. And guess what! I have an inteview tomorrow morning! This is much of the good. I love that store-- punk music, skater clothes, gothic jewelry, and freak apparell. I thought I might not be scary enough to work there-- we'll see. I'll have to consider my wardrobe carefully.
The bad is it's a group interview. The same kind of group interview I apparently didn't pass with A&F. Oh well, I'll wow them. After all, someone has to give a freakin' job.
Fanfic
several things really, really annoy me in fanfic. As I previously mentioned, Giles having a split personality is one major peeve. Here's some more:
1. post-Grave fics in which Dawn take's Spike's side (in those conversations when he's not there to protest)and makes Buffy feel guilty for her bad in the relationship. Even if she likes him (which she did), Dawn would never side with Spike after he tried to rape her sister. She might forgive him, but she'd support Buffy. I think it'a awful because it excuses attempted rape, and softens or confuses a serious issue. This is so unrealistic it's not funny--and yet I'm always seeing it.
2. The fixation on Spike's tv-habits, and the constant need to have Passions references in EVERYFUCKINGTHING. It was only mentioned twice in the whole freakin' show, and not even in the last two years. We know he likes daytime tv, already. I don't need it shoved down my throat everytime I read fic. For all we know he could have stopped watching the damn show when Joyce died. The humor in reading it has long lost its appeal. Referecences like that, if made, should be subtle. And Spike must've watched hella tv-- try something besides soap operas next time.
3. Hot chocolate & marshmellows. see above for same reasoning. So. Fucking. Tired. of this in fics. Subtlety people! SUBTLETY!
4. Xander being called "Whelp". Ugly, ugly fanfic trend. Has no basis in canon, and furhtermore jsut sounds bad after the first three times. Spike calls Xander by his last name, by some reference to his job, or by the fact that he's Bufyf's hang-er-on "boy" or sidekick. He never freaking calls him whelp.
5. Willow being called "Red" by Spike. Yes, he's said it in the show... but it's been less times than I can count on one hand. He also calls her witch, and by her acutal name. Go for variety people.
That's all I can think of for now.... but the list is ever growing in the back of my mind. What about everyone else? Do these things bug you guys, or do you have different pet peeves?
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Date: 2003-01-31 05:18 pm (UTC)Well, see, I don't mean Dawn not believing Xander, I mean the fics where Dawn confronts Buffy about B/S, and she hears about the ADR, from Buffy, and she still defends Spike and says Buffy needs to "apologize" for using him last year. Buffy does of course, but so often these fics make it like Buffy's abuse of Spike is far worse than him tryign to rape her. I for one think the constant mental & physical abuse (and when she beat him and left him immobile) is on the same level as the AR, but not worse. And these scenes always make it like Buffy is the one who has to do all the apologizing. But it's not the debate over whose guilty that matters, its the fact that they often have Dawn siding with Spike over Buffy, even reprimanding Buffy. And I just don't see how Dawn would side against her *sister* in something like this-- no way. Buffy will always have Dawn's loyalty before Spike; that's what family is.
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Date: 2003-01-31 05:48 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-01-31 06:29 pm (UTC)I'm with you there. I thought Dawn's reactions in BY were perfect for her character and situation, especially since we all know that Closed!Mouth!Buffy probably didn't divulge to Dawn how she treated Spike-- at the very least, not in detail. It made sense that Dawn would feel doubly betrayed-- he broke Buffy's trust and he broke hers, because she obviously held tightly to the idea that Spike loved Buffy. But a lot of the mediocre-to-poorer written fics don't portray it how it was on the show, or they were written before hand.