As far as I know it's just something you post that gets passed around. Like a survey or a quiz and someone says "reply to this then post it on your own journal." And then they do, and their friends do... I don't know if you were hoping for a more specific definition. I do know that I recently found out I've been pronouncing it wrong and that it should be 'MEEM'.
-How do people feel about using fanon? For instance, some fic writers use the name "O'Connor" for Liam (mostly in all-human AUs, which I don't really read, but whatever). Do you frown upon writers who use this name? Does it throw you off when writers don't use this name? Do you yourself consciously just avoid ever getting anywhere near the characters' surnames just to avoid the issue?
O'Connor I can deal with, just so long as it's a fic in which there is no Connor, because Connor O'Connor is just mean. And, yes, I'd normally just avoid the issue.
-From where did O'Connor-as-Liam's-surname originate, anyway?
The same place as Buffy-smells-like vanilla? I think it's the only Irish name a lot of them can think of.
-Does Spike have a commonly used last name? What about Faith? What about Darla, whose first name we know isn't hers, and Drusilla, whose first name is almost certianly not hers?
Out of those, I've only heard that Faith's last name was said to be Lehane by Joss sometime earlier this year... purely because fic writers/rpgers had been pestering him!
-Does canon make Buffy out to be a natural blonde? I.e., is her altar of love, her carnal trap, her eye that weeps most when best pleased, her bearded clam, her garden of eden, her nest of curls blonde in most fics? What? Just asking.
I've normally seen avoidance of the color being mentioned.
-Is there a generally accepted explanation for how vampires get it up?
Ha. That's one I'd like to know. "It's mystical."
-Is the idea that vampires "pretend" to breath in order to look natural a fanon thing, or was it on the show?
Well, we do see vamps breathing on the show, which bugs me to no end because it's usually when they've been running and are out of breath, but no one's around to fake for, so... but I don't seem to remember the fake to look natural thing on the show.
General again
-Whatever happened to Miss Kitty Fantastico? Did Dawn really shoot her with a crossbow?
So I've heard.
-Does anyone besides me hate Joyce Summers' guts in a visceral, it's-even-alright-to-character-bash sort of way?
Aww, no! I love her to bits. Wouldn't trade my mother in for her, but I think she was a good mom in the end, if a little misguided at times.
-Have you ever not been able to find relatively common words for weeks at a time? (I once spent a month looking for the word 'conceited')
Yes!!
-Am I the only (character) Angel squeeing fangirl who didn't find David Boreanaz convincing as Angel at times? (don't get me wrong; most of the time he was great.)
No. There were times.
Hope I was helpful! That's quite a random assortment of questions there.
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As far as I know it's just something you post that gets passed around. Like a survey or a quiz and someone says "reply to this then post it on your own journal." And then they do, and their friends do... I don't know if you were hoping for a more specific definition. I do know that I recently found out I've been pronouncing it wrong and that it should be 'MEEM'.
-How do people feel about using fanon? For instance, some fic writers use the name "O'Connor" for Liam (mostly in all-human AUs, which I don't really read, but whatever). Do you frown upon writers who use this name? Does it throw you off when writers don't use this name? Do you yourself consciously just avoid ever getting anywhere near the characters' surnames just to avoid the issue?
O'Connor I can deal with, just so long as it's a fic in which there is no Connor, because Connor O'Connor is just mean. And, yes, I'd normally just avoid the issue.
-From where did O'Connor-as-Liam's-surname originate, anyway?
The same place as Buffy-smells-like vanilla? I think it's the only Irish name a lot of them can think of.
-Does Spike have a commonly used last name? What about Faith? What about Darla, whose first name we know isn't hers, and Drusilla, whose first name is almost certianly not hers?
Out of those, I've only heard that Faith's last name was said to be Lehane by Joss sometime earlier this year... purely because fic writers/rpgers had been pestering him!
-Does canon make Buffy out to be a natural blonde? I.e., is her altar of love, her carnal trap, her eye that weeps most when best pleased, her bearded clam, her garden of eden, her nest of curls blonde in most fics? What? Just asking.
I've normally seen avoidance of the color being mentioned.
-Is there a generally accepted explanation for how vampires get it up?
Ha. That's one I'd like to know. "It's mystical."
-Is the idea that vampires "pretend" to breath in order to look natural a fanon thing, or was it on the show?
Well, we do see vamps breathing on the show, which bugs me to no end because it's usually when they've been running and are out of breath, but no one's around to fake for, so... but I don't seem to remember the fake to look natural thing on the show.
General again
-Whatever happened to Miss Kitty Fantastico? Did Dawn really shoot her with a crossbow?
So I've heard.
-Does anyone besides me hate Joyce Summers' guts in a visceral, it's-even-alright-to-character-bash sort of way?
Aww, no! I love her to bits. Wouldn't trade my mother in for her, but I think she was a good mom in the end, if a little misguided at times.
-Have you ever not been able to find relatively common words for weeks at a time? (I once spent a month looking for the word 'conceited')
Yes!!
-Am I the only (character) Angel squeeing fangirl who didn't find David Boreanaz convincing as Angel at times? (don't get me wrong; most of the time he was great.)
No. There were times.
Hope I was helpful! That's quite a random assortment of questions there.