Gotta get a belly full of wine.
Oct. 5th, 2016 10:10 pmI've now finished watching all of Buffy, Angel, the Buffy movie, and "Scooby Road." And I legitimately can't wrap my head around the fact that I had Buffy and Angel fandom icons for years without knowing exactly where they'd come from. Fandom is weird like that. But in a good way.
Buffy remains a great show trapped inside of a good one, and Angel a good show inside one that's genuinely entertaining. It's weird, looking back on them - not just how TV storytelling and Western media have changed since they were broadcast, and how clearly they're constructed for viewing models and sweeps weeks requirements that simply don't exist anymore, but also in how familiar they seemed. Both from hanging around in fandom and being aware of the rampaging juggernaut that was one of the big fandoms for so long, and in their stories not being new anymore. Still good stories. But I've already heard them. So to hear them from the first place they were told took some time to understand how it was to tell them when they were new.
The next couple of weeks may be given over to wishes over fics that the fandom may have already seen to sometime in the last decade or so. You've been warned.
...I mean, are there any fics out there for Faith/The Groosalugg? There's got to be at least one by this point, right?
Buffy remains a great show trapped inside of a good one, and Angel a good show inside one that's genuinely entertaining. It's weird, looking back on them - not just how TV storytelling and Western media have changed since they were broadcast, and how clearly they're constructed for viewing models and sweeps weeks requirements that simply don't exist anymore, but also in how familiar they seemed. Both from hanging around in fandom and being aware of the rampaging juggernaut that was one of the big fandoms for so long, and in their stories not being new anymore. Still good stories. But I've already heard them. So to hear them from the first place they were told took some time to understand how it was to tell them when they were new.
The next couple of weeks may be given over to wishes over fics that the fandom may have already seen to sometime in the last decade or so. You've been warned.
...I mean, are there any fics out there for Faith/The Groosalugg? There's got to be at least one by this point, right?