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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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-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?
I really think they weren't paying attention and they couldn't do math. Or maybe they were so far behind in the writing they didn't have time to do math. Early on in the seasons it's easy to say oh they didn't realize they'd have rabid fans who would notice something like that. Later on, they knew. They just...I dunno...couldn't do math?
-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? How come there's not more cheesy ice!fic?
I'd have to say yes. One it was sorta a passtime during his human time. And yeah I think he meant to skate himself. He just sorta got busy with the watching Buffy (cause you know he was lurking, he just chose not to show himself until ugly guy showed up) and then with the ugly guy.
Oooo cheesy ice fic! *covers muses ears*
-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 think a chapter is just as long as it needs to be. If you rush a chapter to make it shorter it feels rushed, if you stretch it out to make it longer, it feels like it doesn't get to the point. I think if a chapter is well written you don't notice the length. I love long finished fic. I prefer to see it posted in one post because then I can bookmark it and read it at my leisure without having to add the chapters to the bookmark.
-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?
I love to follow fb conversations and discussions about writing and I love seeing them in my fb thread as a writer whether it veers into meta/squee or not.
-When people write of zee fantasy land nothing recognizable AU, why oh why don't they just write of zee original fic? Srsly.
OMG YES! I do not understand this! You can even say in the A/N: The character of John Doe is based looks wise on James Marsters or whatever! It's like hello!!!!! you've changed these characters so they aren't even recognizable, not to mention the world!! Just write original fic!! Maybe it's a FB thing? They know not as many people read original fic?? I dunno. I don't get it.
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.
Dear God, again with the YES!!!!!! DB is not petite, slender or any of those other words that would imply he is anything other than a freakin' brick house. His shoulders are to DIE for. Why would you want to change that? btw this had me dying laughing.
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It's just so hard for me to believe that the writers themselves wouldn't notice it. I mean, they may not be rabid fans, but when you think about all the work and research that goes into writing a teleplay, you'd think they'd do the relatively simple work to make the facts fit.
Oooo cheesy ice fic! *covers muses ears*
*pries hands off* Cheesy B/A ice fic. *nods*
I prefer to see it posted in one post because then I can bookmark it and read it at my leisure without having to add the chapters to the bookmark.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense!
You can even say in the A/N: The character of John Doe is based looks wise on James Marsters or whatever!
I know! Exactly! Instead I see fics that say in the "A/N: The character of Spike has Spike's name and looks but is otherwise nothing like Spike." I don't know why it would bother me so much LESS the other way around. Perhaps because I think the looks and names are the very least of a character.
DB is not petite, slender or any of those other words that would imply he is anything other than a freakin' brick house. His shoulders are to DIE for. Why would you want to change that?
WORD.