Questions Post #4

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I have questions. You have answers.


Characters
Whatever happened to Gwen?
Whatever happened to David Nabbit?
Whatever happened to Justine?
Where does Angel's money come from?
How did Xander know where Angel lived in "Prophecy Girl"?
How old is Faith? (How much younger is she than Buffy?)
Am I the only one who liked Willow's white hair in "Chosen"?
Does Wesley have fish?
Am I the only one who liked Eve (as a character)?
Does Illyria pee? Does she have to take off that whole suit every time she does it? Is there a zipper?
Why don’t some people like Principal Wood?
How old was Connor supposed to be? Wasn't he old enough to shave? How did he shave in a hell dimension?

Icons
Why do people put text on icons that’s too small to read?
Why is it so popular to cut an image such that you can only see 1/2 or 1/4 of someone's face, and the rest is empty space?

Actors
What's up with James Marsters' accent for Spike?
Is Charisma Carpenter's name really Charisma?
What were early AtS season 5 DB's hairdressers thinking?

Other Shows
Did "Bones" ever get any better than the pilot?
Is it really worth having to sit through "Smallville" for JM?
I think I heard both CC and AA were guest appearing a lot on some show. What is it?
Don't both NB and AH have shows now? Does anyone watch them? Are they any good?
What is "Veronica Mars"? How come so many people on my flist watch it? What's good about it (the short version. Like, VM in 30 seconds)?
Is "Lost" as good as the first two seasons of "Alias" were?
How come Jack Bauer won't come fuck me?

That's all I got.

Happy unHalloween. It poured here. I was so sad for the munchkins. Except for the seven year old with the purple velvet hat who claimed to be dressed up as Pimp Daddy. Pimp Daddy had no need of my pity. I gave him lots of Reese's.

Comments

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I hope she died chained to that godamn fence. What a useless twat of a character. Uh. I might have Justine issues.

You might. I liked her as a villain. Actually, I like the Justine-construct in my head. Just like I like the AtS S3-construct in my head. The one that doesn't involve Angel being a dork and Cordy acting out of character and stuff.

He invests. Which is a fancy way of saying he steals.

Before or after the curse? And does he use a bank, or just stick it under the mattress? And whom, exactly, does he steal from?

Come on. Xander crushed Angel sooo hard. He totally followed him home one day. And Angel called him on it. And from then on, Xander hated him. It totally works in canon and everything!

This answers every question about Xander I ever had.

I think so. I wrote it into Losing My Religion.

That's one out of the three reasons I ask (the other two reasons are two other fics in which Wes has fish). Btw, Losing My Religion is one of the best fics I've ever read.

I'm still trying to figure if vampires pee.

And if so, do they piss blood?

Because he attacked poor ickle defenseless Spike because Spike killed his mother for no reason at all!

The word "ickle" explains it all.

Personally, I don't think VK even has to shave.

Not much, but there was a time or two on AtS when he looked . . . 1 o' clock shadowish.

Although maybe ASH was really trying to make him look silly.

This also explains much.

He's chained to my desk.

Does he have a bucket?

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

-The actress who played Justine annoyed me, so maybe that's a part of it, but I also hated the whole "uber-anti-Slayer/Watcher" vibe between her and Holtz. Also, Holtz. Also, Angel being a fucktard and Cordy being a Saint. AtS S3 overall makes me want to cry tears of blood. S4 (and the boit of possible retcon by Skip) made up for most of it, but lingering issues remain. I may need therapy.

-I think Losing My Religion suffered terribly by my whacky fondness for italics. A year or so after I wrote it, I took out most of them. The fic worked- better, actually. I like the *idea* of Losing My Religion better than the actual execution. Much like AtS S3!

-No bucket, no escape.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

-I thought both Holtz and Justine brought interesting themes into play--the kind of themes that make me love both AtS and Angel himself. But yeah. The Good Version Of S3 lives only in my head, along with the Right Version Of Phantom Of The Opera and the Film Of Jane Eyre Starring Alan Rickman.

-A lot of people use italics and punctuations as short cuts and cheap tricks, and I almost always view them as such, even in published experimental fiction. To be perfectly honest with you, it took me a while before I began to read your stuff--despite all the good things I'd heard about your fic--because the first thing I started to read by you seemed to use some of those techniques. But however many italics you took out of Losing My Religion, what you left in did a lot to change my thinking about the nature of text in prose. The style you used made some things possible that I don't think would've been possible otherwise, and that I don't think I've seen in many other places. Reading it wasn't just wonderful and heartbreaking; it was a very "there is no spoon" experience.

/gushing

-Dude, doesn't he smell?

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

-You're not wrong about the italics, parentheses, etc. I used a lot of that style stuff before I worked harder on substance. My fic definitely suffered for that. I actually posted about this- and LMR specifically, a while back when LJ was talking about writing styles. How since my writing has improved, I've relied a lot less on shortcuts. Which in itself has *also* made my writing better.

I actually see a lot of writers go through a similar process.

FWIW, all the versions of LMR on any of my sites are now italic-ly sanatized for your reading pleasure. *G* I'm glad it worked for you in whatever form you found it in originally. I definitely think the style has its place, and has the potential to make new things possible. It can also be overused and a total crutch, for writers who haven't figured out any other way to get their points across.

For me, I think I am at a place where I am able do most of the things I want to with my stories, without having to rely on kooky style stuff. I'm really satisfied with the two fic that came after LMR, that contained flashbacks, weird timelines, etc., and didn't need any changes in style to make any of the sunstance stuff clear.

And now I am done babbling at you.

/self-wank

-Dude, doesn't he smell?

Yes. Yes he does, particularly after I killed him.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I only read LMR a month or so ago, so it was sanatized. It still used more tricks than I usually appreciate, but that was the reason it blew me away, because they didn't feel like shortcuts or laziness when you used them.

Yes. Yes he does, particularly after I killed him.

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