author_by_night: (zoetrain by hobbitseeker)
2013-11-06 11:23 am
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National November Blog Post: Day Six

Days 1-3

Day 4

Day 5

6. Who is your favorite villain?
After some deliberating, I think I'd have to go with the Mayor from Buffy. If nothing else, because of his relationship with Faith. On one hand, he's a psychopath who clearly used a broken young woman for his own benefit; on the other hand, he seems to actually really care about her. It's impeccably screwed up, and that's why I love the Mayor.  I prefer villains who seem unbalanced and complex, not... sarcastic and surly.

Second up is Spike before season five, maybe even in season five. We had all these cheesy vampires (and, in Angel's case, overly emo), then there was Spike. I don't even have any fangirly feelings towards him the way some people in fandom did - I liked Spike when he was still on the Dark Side, or at least... more Vampish than Scoobyish, to put it in Buffyspeak. He was just perfect. Then he fell in love with Buffy, and I got "bored now" very quickly.
author_by_night: (Sarcasm by justbolognese)
2013-11-04 08:44 am
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NaNoBloPo: Day 4

Days 1-3

04. Share your favorite stories from your current fandom love(s)/ship(s). Tell us why they're amazeballs if you're so inclined.

I already kind of did these, and it's so hard to choose anyway, but I'll share two stories.

Harry Potter:  I remember how on several occasions, major tragedies stuck, and fandom came together to make sure everyone was okay, help find friends. 9/11 and the June 7th 2005 bombings in London in particular come to mind. I had my phone on all day, trying to make sure my friends in London were okay, checking on LJ, not giving a stuff what my boss thought. I know these aren't happy, but they are powerful memories that come to mind.

Earth's Children:  On one of the few messageboards for the fandom , we had the most epic troll ever. He was from the future, possibly an alien (I don't really remember - it was around the time Doctor Who came back, I believe, so...) and had traveled back to the ice age at some point. I really wish I could find his old posts, but the site had some problems a while back, and I think like this troll, they were lost in the time-space vortex. Unfortunately this person apparently stopped being funny and got kind very nasty towards mods in private messages, but at least he made us laugh for a while there. The thing is that we weren't always 100% sure if it was a troll or a sockpuppet pulling everyone's leg.