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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 like chapters to be as long as they need to be, which tends to mean short-to-moderate, relative to the story. Really long chapters, in my experience, tend have a few paragraph breaks within them that could have been chapter breaks, but were ignored.
-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?
Yes, actually. I'm a slow reader, so I tend to avoid really long fics, as they often lead to sleep deprivation. I'm more likely to read a long fic if it's spoon-fed to me, or if the chapters are separate and linked through a directory page.
As to the WiP issue, I only consciously avoid WiPs that I know are inactive, and even then there are exceptions (I am scarred for life by
-Picture Anya in your head really quick.
Shortish (but not really short) light brown hair, usually pulled back or slightly curly (my mental imaging is being indecisive).
-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?
No, or at least not through supernatural means. When she first became a Vengeance Demon (in addition to being really pissed off at that point) through some point well after she became human, she was in a position and mental state where the vengeance deal was morally right. After a while, her perspective changed, as sometimes happens to people.
-Has anyone ever done any meta/had an explanation for why Anya liked Wishverse?
Two words: Power. Trip. And who knows, maybe things really were better. In Cleveland, at least. Buffy probably didn't die, so neither did Kendra, which means Faith and her (female) watcher never messed with Kakistos. Anya was so lacking in perspective at that point, she probably considered Drusilla never being kidnapped away from Angelus to be a good thing, as well.
-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?
My theory is that upon the granting of Cordelia's Wish, the Amulet of Power returned to Anyanka, and the one Cordelia was wearing was just a talisman, to identify her as having had a wish granted.
-What do birds say to each other?
Depends on the type. I know orioles bicker about interior decorating.
-Am I the only one who likes fake food? Extremely processed food, where you know you can't pronounce a single ingredient?
I <3 junk food. Though oddly enough, my favorite junk food (Chili Cheese Fritos) has a surprising amount of not-fake ingredients. Hmm.
-Did you see X3? Did you like it?
Not yet! I think I'm prepared for any badness I might encounter, so I expect to enjoy it. It's got Callisto! (OK, she's badly cast, but nobody could have played comicbook Callisto anyway, so I don't care!)
-When people write of zee fantasy land nothing recognizable AU, why oh why don't they just write of zee original fic?
I think
He also made a pretty pretty neck. I love that neck.
Very true, although I am more of a fan of his hands. I'm a great admirer of hands.