new do #2

I've just rearranged my entire journal.

Again.

I'm way deep into the watermellon thing. Run screaming from the bright & cheerful pastels.

I've got song lyrics, links, and personalized comments. This stuff is so cool.

Now all I have to do is track down anniesj, and ask her how she changed her font.

And maybe change my background image.

Fic Rec :: One More Mile by BuffyX

buffyx has her fic up!

http://www.buffyx.org/fanfic/onemoremile/

Everyone else on the east coast gets to go to Cons together and meet and stuff. I'm jealous.

I'm trying to find out exactly how many people I know on LJ who are Buffyfans that live near me or thereabouts.

[Poll #160686]



EDIT: Ok, if you DO live near me, why didn't you write it in?

What do I think about in the wee hours of the morning? What I think about every other hour.

I just had the most random thought.

isabellecs's fanfic, Son of Solomon, the one of earlier Spuffy stories I ever read--- could so be considered like canon now.

Well, until AtS 5 starts up. But that's TWO whole months in which that fic is canon!

I know how it all ends!

Whee!! Go me! Whoot Woot!

gripe gripe

I'm so embarrassed about this whole Gray Davis recall. One political faction makes the entire state look foolish for their campaign. Did Davis commit a crime? Was he immorally or unethically abusing our state resources on a radical level? No. We should not be trying to recall an elected official just because some people disagree with his policy decisions. That's not what the recall system is for. The Republican party is invalidating the entire election process by doing this. And the money. Millions of dollars wasted for a recall that shouldn't be happening in the first place, when our state is already suffering massive deficits? Not what we need. Besides, why don't people realize that its the state legislature, not Davis, that controls the budget? Why don't we toss them out too?

wank

You know, I was thinking about this whole wanky fan thing with Spike vs. no-Spike fans of AtS.

I know it's, like, a whole 2 days too late to post on this topic, but I'm slow like that. I didn't even know what was what until it was half-over.

It's seems to be offensive to some (that they're being labelled crazy), amusingly to others, brilliant to some, and stupid to the rest who don't care either way. I think I sort of agree with all of those groups.

I can sympathize with wanting to start a group where you discuss the characters you like, as opposed to the characters you don't like. That's what all fans do.

I think it does look silly, though, when it's not one character to the exclusion of all others, but rather all others to the exclusion of one. I don't know why the one strikes me as silly and the former doesn't, but it does. No help there.

I think we should stop generalizing people into categories of "crazy verses non crazy." I'm guilty of that as much as any shipper, but to be honest? -- If you spend this much of your time talking and writing about a tv show or book that you like and going to cons, then it doesn't really matter if you spell properly or use netspeak, or if you type-squeal or talk in a refined collegean manner. Because you're still here, doing the fan thing. You. are. fans. At your heart, you are no different that the 13 year old squealy ones. We're all doing the same essential thing. Accept that. Anything else is pretentiousness.

Disagree? You think there are fans who qualify as a freak, and you don't?

Well, if they literally kill someone in the name of character-worship, that qualifies as insane radical freakdom. Flaming fanfics or bashing posts is just the internet, and everyone's tried it, no matter how mature or noble.


That said, this whole thing does kinda amuse me. I mean, what if we were all Gunn worshipers? Then would there be communities out there, strictly forbidding any and all discussion of Gunn?

I really have no feelings about Xander. Maybe I should have a no-Xander rule. oOhoh... Scaaaar--ry.

(no subject)

octopedingenue pointed me to this: The Geek Hierarchy


I can't tell you how much this amused me.

If you follow it down, it tracks "these" geeks who consider themselves less geeky than "those" geeks, by fan-subject matter.

It has a special place for Mythology fans, Comic fans, Anime fans, Video Gamers, Heinlein fans, amateur Sci/Fi writers, amateur Sci/Fi artists, and Sci/Fi Television fans. And each of those have their sub-categories.

Hilarious.