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Questions Post #10
-Why did they fuck with Spike and Angel's ages so much? Were they really just not paying attention to what had come before, or were there reasons all the dates got switched around?
-Ok, is it completely OFF to think Spike might like musicals? There's that "76 trombone" line, and he's seen Les Mis in order to tell Angel it's not all that. Any other proof?
-Can Angel ice skate? Don't you think when he asked Buffy to ice skate in What's My Line Part 1 he meant to skate himself? Can David Boreanaz ice skate? How come there's not more cheesy ice!fic? I...I wrote a fic in which Angel says he's going to teach Connor to skate. It was an accident!
-How do you you prefer chapters to be doled out in long fics? Do you want 'em short, so you can zip through 'em? Do you want them just as long as it takes, to cover a scene or get to the point, whether it's 2 pages or 20? Or do you like them long?
-How about the posting of long fics? I've learned from experience a bunch of people stay away from WIPs, but what if *ahem* someone had a really long *finished* fic--would you still want them to post a chapter at a time? How have other people handled this in the past?
-I know writers are whores and always like in depth fb. But as an fb-er do you ever feel slightly uncomfortable leaving extremely long fb? What if the writer replies to your fb, and you want to reply back, does it feel weird having a long conversation in the fb thread of the story? What if the conversation has veered into meta/squee/something not fb, do you ever feel like the writer might not want to talk about it there because it's in the fb thread?
-Picture Anya in your head really quick. Did you think of her as bright blonde/dirty blonde/honey-light-brunette/dark brunette? Short or midlength hair? Curly or straight?
-Is there any change in Anya's soul/conscience/sense of morality/etc when she turns from a demon to a human, and vice versa?
-Has anyone ever done any meta/had an explanation for why Anya liked Wishverse? In "The Wish", she says it's both "wonderful" and "exciting". Of course there's that difficulty establishing her soul/conscience etc as a demon, and also they weren't very careful with Anya as a character there because they didn't know/weren't sure she'd play such a big role later. But later she does talk about enjoying doing awful things to men, but she doesn't at all seem to be a personality that enjoys chaos.
-So. Anya's power source, that necklace. In "The Wish", does she give it to Cordelia? But later, she's wearing it, and Giles has to take it off of her in order to smash it? Is anyone else confused by this?
-What do birds say to each other?
-Am I the only one who likes fake food? Extremely processed food, where you know you can't pronounce a single ingredient? Just me and Xander? Anyone?
-Did you see X3? Did you like it?
-When people write of zee fantasy land nothing recognizable AU, why oh why don't they just write of zee original fic? Srsly.
P.S. When making Angel into a merman or fairy or Renaissance princess, please keep in mind that David Boreanaz has huge ass motherfuckin shoulders. When God made that man's shoulders, he was actually making a door. Then he thought, how about a head on this door? And so he built a head, and said to himself, "Father, Son, Holy Ghost, that is one motherfucking pretty head!" So he added pretty hands and pretty hips and pretty calves to match, but he forgot and left the door part of the shoulders, and to this day that is why David Boreanaz has trouble fitting through doors. And also why when you give him wee slender sloping downward shoulders when you make him into a horsie or blacksmith or bird-man, the baby Jesus motherfuckin cries.
PPS. He also made a pretty pretty neck. I love that neck.
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- I'm sure that a gifted fic writer such as yourself could come up with a great meta reason why Spike and Angel's ages are, let's call it fuzzy. However, in the real world I think the reason is that different writers were writing the eps and no, they weren't paying attention to the details. These aren't true fanboys and fangirls we're talking about here. At least not the kind of obsessive fangirls that live in our LJ community.
- Spike absorbs a lot of popular culture, I don't know whether he'd particularly *like* musicals, but he'd know about them, wouldn't he?
- Let's see that ice skating fic!
- As long as it takes. Definitely. Variety adds something, I think.
- If you want feedback on a chapter-by-chapter basis, then please post a chapter at a time, leaving me a day or two to mentally digest between. If you want feedback on the entirety, then go ahead and post the whole thing, but I may take a bit to get back to you... especially since summer's coming up and (*wails*) my reading time will be therefore reduced.
- I only *wish* I could give extremely long fb. You give excellent, insightful, and long fb. If that's a problem, then please let me have it too.
- hair to the shoulders, dirty blonde, straight. I don't even know what season that is from, but that's how I picture her. Is that even one of her many hair styles?
- only gradually, I think. My memory is very bad, so I'm not the best person to ask, but I seem to recall in the episode ("Doppelgangland"?) where Vamp!Willow comes to visit, Anya is kind of on the side of the vamps. She's not really very nice. She's human at that point, but obviously not empathetic or conscience-struck.
- no real explanation that I can think of other than just an enthusiasm for her job as vengeance demon. Cordelia's wish was carried out and the results were truly horrific, and Anya's job was well and truly DONE. Therefore she was pleased. Is that enough of an explanation? I'm not sure.
- I don't remember seeing Anya give her necklace to Cordelia at all. But then as I said my memory is Swiss cheese.
- I think mostly birds say, "I'M HERE! I'M HERE! COME MAKE BABIES WITH ME!"
- I like Cheetos. They're pretty fake.
- I haven't seen X3, and I'm dying to. We rewatched X1 and X2 this week in preparation, and had the babysitter all set up for tonight and THEN... my youngest son came down with a fever last night. So I'm going to grit my teeth and call the babysitter and cancel. We won't be able to go until next week.
*cries*
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-hee! I'm glad people are interested. It's been sitting on my computer for months because I fear it's cheesiness. Maybe I'll work on it some more.
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-See, I think if I was reading I'd prefer the chapter by chapter mentally adjust idea. Then again, I'm more drawn to finished multi-chaptered fics I can spend three days straight reading. Anyway, I'm not sure you personally would be interested in this fic; I think at heart it's a B/A shipper fic. And it won't be finished for quite a while.
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-I'm not sure. I always imagine Anya as short, curly, and bright blonde, and was surprised at a recent rewatch to see she ever had dark brown hair.
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-See, I didn't think her job as a vengeance demon was well done, unless her job is to create chaos. I would think her job would be to 1. punish the offending party (do Xander or Buffy really get "punished"? It's more like everything just sucks), and 2. satisfy the "wronged" (and Cordelia claims right near the beginning of her wish fulfillment it was better before).
-Anya gives the necklace to Cordelia, saying it's a good luck charm and that she needs it more than her. When Cordy dies in the Wishverse, Giles removes the necklace, studies it, and learns from it that Cordy was granted a wish by Anyanka. Presumably, that is why when he summons Anyanka and sees her necklace, he understands that that's her power source...but that means two necklaces. huh?
-I think you're right.
-I love Cheetos.
-Awww. Best wishes to your son. That sucks for him and for you!
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I started out in BtVS fandom as a B/A shipper and some part of my heart will always belong to that 'ship. I'll read it gladly.
See, I didn't think her job as a vengeance demon was well done, unless her job is to create chaos.
Looking at the examples we're shown of Anya's previous jobs, it seems that the ones she's most proud of all include the element of rebounding on the wisher. So I'm not sure that satisfaction of the "wronged" is ever intended. The Wishverse is an extreme example of "rebound." As for punishment, if Xander was the intended target, I think he got some.
that means two necklaces. huh?
Absolutely right. Now I'm completely puzzled too.
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I didn't notice that she particularly enjoyed the wish rebounding. That makes it make more sense, thanks.
Though not about the necklaces. agh!