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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

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no big development really surprised me, which I think was a bit of a bummer actually.
I know what you mean. I consider myself quite fortunate to be more how- and why-focused than what-focused. Being spoiled for most major plot points has reduced the number of "Oh my God..." surprises (which are always fun), but not as much as you'd expect (part of this might just be good writing, where I get caught up in the episode and forget what's about to happen), because the things that surprise me, even spoiler-free, are the small (and not so small) character actions and reactions that happen around the big event. The best example is Doyle: it's common knowledge that he died in a heroic sacrifice to save a whole mess of victimized quasi-demons, but the real jaw-dropper, IMO, wasn't his death but the left hook he pasted Angel with immediately beforehand, which I hadn't heard about.

I always get so carried away by the story when I'm watching that things like the great lines don't stick out to me
This is basically a rephrasing of what I just said about spoilers, in that I'm more focused on the things that happen in and around the plot than on the plot itself. Unless it's a really suspenseful story ("Hush" for example), I don't tend to register the overarching coolness of the plot until the end credits roll. Also, I tend to watch most eps at least twice before sending them back. :)

Who doesn't want to turn into an owl, that's the operative question.
Point.

The short version is I think she's selfish; she often considers herself before Buffy
I love psychology. How two people can see the same event and perceive two very different things is something that fascinates me. I'll wait to elaborate until I have specific points to respond to, but I'm just not seeing the same things you're seeing. Well, we're seeing some of the same things, but somehow I doubt that your argument is based on Joyce Bogarting the Cheese Nips. :D

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