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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 believe Joss's explanation when the first "huh?" moment came was, "I suck at math." Not really an explanation, but whatever.
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?
He watched Passions and Dawson's Creek. Musicals can have similar heightened emotions (not a bad thing, really, I love musicals), so yeah, why not.
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!
I don't know about *more* ice fic, but I definitely saw an AU somewhere that had Buffy and Angel as figure skaters. But I think Angel knows how to skate. It was probably a fairly common pastime in Ireland in the 18th century.
And I really want to see your Connor fic!
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?
Basically, I want them to be as long as it takes. I want something to happen, and I want it to be longer than a paragraph, but anything else is fair game.
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?
I always see her with her OMWF hair--reddish blonde and slightly curly.
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?
My theory is that she retains her soul when she becomes a demon, but that her rage and anger dull her conscience, and living with other demons reinforces that.
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.
I don't think she knew when she granted Cordelia's wish that Buffy was the Slayer, so the resulting world was an unexpected bonus. She probably thought that without Buffy, Xander would be a very unpopular geek, as opposed to a semi-unpopular one. Instead, she got Xander dead, and a wish that rebounded on the wisher.
Plus, she did like the Russian Revolution, and you can't say that wasn't chaotic.
When people write of zee fantasy land nothing recognizable AU, why oh why don't they just write of zee original fic? Srsly.
Larger readership? Or something. I don't really get it.
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AHAHAHHA! The Olympics makes out like the skaters' lives are like soaps, anyway.
I always see her with her OMWF hair--reddish blonde and slightly curly.
Seems like everyone's Anya has different hair.
My theory is that she retains her soul when she becomes a demon, but that her rage and anger dull her conscience, and living with other demons reinforces that.
It just doesn't make sense on the level of the way Jossverse usually handles things. Anya comes into great power and kills thousands probably and does horrible terrible things for centuries. Then she comes to Sunnydale and gets a lot of people killed, and while that gets undone, she does try to get Willow killed after she becomes human. And yet she feels forgiven and accepted. Faith, on the other hand, comes into great power, kills a few people, and is The Bad Guy.
I don't think she knew when she granted Cordelia's wish that Buffy was the Slayer, so the resulting world was an unexpected bonus.
Oh, I never thought of that before! What an interesting theory.