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Did I get you to click the cut? Did I? Did I?

Is everybody and their mother rewatching BtVS from the beginning? Because about 4 different people have said they were, just recently. We should all do a MASSIVE REWATCH TOGETHER.

So, I was reading about aea's freaky crush on the Rice Krispies guys, and it got me wondering, do you have any erstwhile freaky crushes from way back when? I'm not just talkin' Emilio Estevez (yes, I did, and yes, it's freaky. It was all about Mighty Ducks) I'm talkin' downright weird. Like how I was massively a Baloo/that-bear-woman shipper, from "Talespin," and how there was mental fanfic about that movie star cat lady getting between them. Or like how I was in love with Goliath from Disney's Gargoyles. Stricken because I am still in love with Goliath from Disney's Gargoyles. C'mon, fess up. Freaky crushes.

Reason #859 why I love fandom: because rahirah's post about the size of Angel's schlong made metafandom. Also, dude. Look at us, looking at our navels. We write navel!fic. We ship inny/outy, and write inny/outy porn, sometimes outy/outy porn and inny/inny porn, and sometimes navel fluff, which is nothing like navel lint, because that we pull out of ourselves with a kind of wonderous awe and say, "look! Look! Contrails of my navel!", and navel meta, and navel wars, and navel manips, and navel wank, which is like sticking your finger into your bellybutton and just digging a hole so deep we can see inside your insides and laugh and laugh at all the gooey stuff there, until we turn away in vomitting disgust, and the upchunk so hard we start laughing again, for lo, the same vile goo is in us as is in you! Oh, girls, except not you because you are a man but you're welcome too!, let us hold hands and bare our midriffs, except have nothing like that one creepy commercial 5 years ago where navels kept singing, "I'm Comin' Out," except we WILL be singing that, singing about our undying love for each other, and our midriffs, and our navels, and the size of Angel's schlong.

In other news, I love Buffy. Seriously, I adore that gal. She just--tingles me.

P.S., That AoQ guy I told you about just did a review for IWRY. And you know what, I've said over and over again that I'm just not the biggest fan of that ep, but I think I must be a liar, a total liar, never trust me again, because I'm thinking about it now, and how much I love me my B/A, and how I got to see them perfectly happy but Buffy never did, not really, and the AoQ LIKED it, which just I don't know, makes my navel feel really really full, almost throbbing, like I'm gonna cry, because everything (ok almost everything; he bashes Cordy too much. But the bit about SMG is sarcastic because he really likes her) he says is true, and he doesn't know that Doyle is going to die, and he doesn't know what a great show AtS is yet but he's going to, he's going to (/Yoda) and l_aurens never will because she won't believe me about Connor, and--a-and he gave it an "Excellent," and what was I thinking, ever, it is excellent, because it's BUFFY AND ANGEL KISSING ON A TABLE, and then Doyle dies, and Buffy dies, and Buffy hates herself, and Angel has a son he loves but can't keep, JUST LIKE BUFFY, no Buffy doesn't have a son but you know what I mean, and even though Buffy gets to not be alone in the end it's still sad because she always will be alone, in a way, because that's who she is, and what about Angel in the end, what about Angel and Spike and Gunn and even Illyria, even Illyria damn her because I loved her, her and all of them.

Except Joyce.

/emo

Comments

[m-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay, you got me to click and now my navel feels all weird and tingly and it's all your fault ::stares hard at navel, navel remains stoicaly unresponsive:: I too love Buffy and Angel and the whole damn, glorious thing way more than is probably healthy, and you have reminded me again of just how much. IWRY was never one of my favourites either, except that I love it against my will, I love Buffy and Angel happy because I know it can't last, I love their struggle and their pain and longing, and trying to do what is right even though all they want is to be allowed to be happy, to live like people shomehow, even if it's just for a little while. And the end, the 'not enough time,' thing makes me cry every time I see it. Ouch.

I've been thinking about doing the big rewatch too, but it's always so much more fun when you get to do it with other people. Maybe we need the great LJ Buffyverse rewatch 2006?

[tkp.livejournal.com]

You can't see it, by my navel is virtually hugging your navel.

I guess the thing about IWRY is I loved the shippiness, I just thought all the other elements, like the plot and some of the dialogue and stuff, was really sub-par. But, I don't know, last night I was thinking about it, and about how much I love B/A, and how much I love seeing them happy, and I realized that totally beat out over the lame monster and stupid Oracles and all the other stuff I didn't like. I mean, I still don't like those things, but in a weird battle between my id and sense my id just won.

Wouldn't it be awesome if we all started rewatching it together? I just think it would be, I don't know, so connective for fandom. But while we might be able to get a group of people it doesn't seem likely that masses of ljers will agree and decide to go at it together.