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"Blessed are the Forgetful, For they Get the better of their blunders".. by shadowkat
Fandoms: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Film), Angel the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike Jonz
02 Jun 2023
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Essentially a film review of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", and a bit of a meta, utilizing the film to discuss metaphors in Angel Season 5 and the mind wipe.
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Wonder Woman and Buffy - two women with great powers, male fantasy or female empowerment? by shadowkat
Fandoms: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017), Wonder Woman [Comic], Wonder Woman (TV), Wonder Woman (2017), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffyverse - Fandom
28 May 2023
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From Wonder Woman to Buffy - Sexism and the Male Gaze in Anime and Comic Books, using primarily Wonder Woman as an example.
[published in 2010 - information and views provided in this essay are for items published or viewed prior to or during 2010. I know various things have changed since then.]
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BTVS - Critiquing the Gothic Romance Trope by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
28 May 2023
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Been rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, S1-S3 at the moment, and have just completed the first five episodes of Season 3. What I've become struck by this go around, which I didn't really notice before, no idea why - is the deft critique of romantic love and in particular the gothic romance trope, with all of its horrific consequences. Joss Whedon and his writing team are deft satirists of the horror and in particular gothic horror/gothic romance tradition. Not surprising, considering the name of the series is Buffy the Vampire Slayer - that alone, just screams satire.
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Angel and That Pesky Curse - How one group of writer's dealt with a writing trap by shadowkat
Fandoms: Angel the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
27 May 2023
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This essay comes from a blog post on https://shadowkat.dreamwidth.org/486729.html. It is about how Joss Whedon and his writing team handled the characterization of vampires in their series, post Angel. Angel was a vampire cursed with a soul, who was ambivalently good ensouled, and completely evil without a soul. The soul acted as a sort of conscience. But, this posed a problem when other vampires were introduced. In addition, it posed a problem in regards to Angel's relationship with Buffy - since pure happiness rendered him evil. The essay explores how this was handled in the series -- and how similar writing traps can be be worked around.
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Review and Meta on Angel the Series - Season Finale Episode - Not Fade Away
Compare to classic westerns - The Wild Bunch & Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
"Ah Angel…it’s over. My last episode review ever. A moment of silence. Okay on to my review. The ending did not surprise me nor did it disappoint. It was much as I expected, the Wild Bunch ending with a touch, possibly more than a touch, of the charm of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid."
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I Will Always Remember You with a Touch of Something Blue by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel - Fandom
27 May 2023
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Do you remember your first love? A few, very few, people marry their first loves. My brother married his, and my mother married hers. But most of us -- don't or if we do, it ends in divorce, because once the wild passion ends there is little else. In the case of my parents and my brother - it was not "wild passion" so much as friendship that built into something more over time. They did not hop into bed or do wild makeout sessions at the start, they had discussions well into the night. It was in short not the stuff of novels - which seldom end well and often focus on those wild romances. Why do the wild and intense romances not last? The writers of Buffy and Angel examine those reasons in detail.
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When it comes to Romantic Relationships? Banter is best - or a marriage of equals. (Musings on Romantic Relationships) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Farscape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
27 May 2023
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Why do I like the fictional romantic relationships that I do? I'm not sure I know or that it is necessarily important that I do. Some things are unknowable after all or should be. I know that my tastes change like the wind. But I do know... that there is a pattern in the "fictional" relationships that appeal to me...and the is the gender power-play. Two people struggling to come to a common place. Equals. In power. In view. The push-pull. The banter. But mostly? It's the feeling of two people who are equally matched. They've met their match, their equal. No not soul mate. Not that. More someone who gets you, who understands your values, not your interests, but what means the most to you, what you would die for, what is the most important thing to you. Who knows your weaknesses, your triggers, and what makes you tick...yet is your shadow self, the other side. The complement. The yang to your ying. I look for those relationships in fiction. The other bits whatever they might be are just gravy, sometimes lumpy and unappetizing, and sometimes perfect and rich.
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Victimized Girl Trope in Three Part Harmony... by shadowkat
Fandoms: Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly / Serenity Universe, Dollhouse, Angel the Series
27 May 2023
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This is a review/meta of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson.
References Whedon's series.
Please note this was published after I finished reading Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in May 2011.
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Buffy as a critique on the 1970s-1990s Slasher Horror Flick by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Scream Movieverse
27 May 2023
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Why is it so difficult to discuss certain things in Fandom without falling into a kerfuffle? by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Multi-Fandom
27 May 2023
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I'm not really triggered by tv shows or fictional stories so much as people's reactions to those stories. It's a weird dilemma. I want to discuss these stories with others...but I also, want to enjoy the story and sometimes the two are counter-productive.
Examples? Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I desperately wanted to discuss this series in Seasons 6 and 7, and in some respects loved those seasons, but I had to deal with a volatile online fandom. And often they'd make me hate something, I'd have loved if I wasn't interacting with them. Farscape - was easier to watch, because I watched it long after it aired, and so the fandom wasn't really that active. No problems. BSG however...had similar issues.
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It's All Cheers Fault - or How Sam and Diane Getting Together on Cheers Ruined Romantic Relationships on other tv shows... by shadowkat
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom, Cheers (TV), Farscape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Remington Steele, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Moonlighting
25 May 2023
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A Cascade of Echoes by Mirrored Illusions (Mirrored_Illusions)
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG-1
25 May 2023
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In which Buffy should not be the one explaining things.
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- Part 2 of Echoes
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Classified Tours by Mirrored Illusions (Mirrored_Illusions)
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis
25 May 2023
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The Scoobies are beamed up to the Hammond for a quick tour before the real tour of the SGC.
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- Part 3 of The Queen Bee and the Officer
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Buffy vs. the Buffy S9 Comics Writers.. (specifically Whedon and Scott Allie) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy (Dark Horse Comics 2007), Buffy the Vampire Slayer
24 May 2023
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Buffy disagrees with the direction the Dark Horse Buffy Comics Writers want to take her character, and confronts them on the issue.
So the writers of the Buffy comics think "Buffy" wants a normal life. Apparently they skipped S6 and S7 and the first part of S9, when she tried that? OR...quick, someone mail them Jeannette Wintersen's memoir: "Why Be Happy when you can be Normal?" [As an aside, that has got to be the best title ever. Indeed, why be happy when you fit another person's definition of normality.] I'm sure Willow has a copy handy.
ETA: Dark Horse Comics Buffy only. [Boom's Buffy comics didn't exist when I wrote this. I honestly think Buffy would have been fine with S10-11 of Dark Horse, and the Boom Comics, different and ahem better writers/editors. Scott Allie and Whedon had left the building.]
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Fanfiction, Twitter & Writing Villains (Writer interviews with Espenson, Whedon & Stan Lee) by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Marvel Heroes, Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
24 May 2023
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Shipping Spike: the ups and downs of shipping a controversial character in online fandoms by shadowkat
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Angel - Fandom
24 May 2023
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Written in May 2012, and posted to live journal at the time.
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Connor is manipulating Fred and Gunn while Angel is in the box but how much is manipulation and how much is one boy wanting to be loved?
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Giles needs some information and Ethan is the only person who has it.
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Freshly a vampire, Spike and Angelus go out for dinner. Later the ladies return from their own meal and the four sit as a family. If there are rules to his new family, Spike is only just starting to learn them and Angelus doesn't know quite what to make of their new family member yet.
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After being handed over to the initiative Ethan decides to lawyer up. Good thing there's a law firm in southern California perfect for his case.
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After Angelus get's a soul Darla grows tired of her other two companions and in her loss decides to return to her old master.
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While Angel is in the box in the ocean, Connor pays a visit to Wesley to meet the man who changed his life forever.
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Fanwork Migration by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Dollhouse, Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Firefly / Serenity Universe
24 Mar 2023
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This happens to be the 15th anniversary of the Buffyverse Top 5 community, created to share recs in the Buffy and Angel fandoms, and later the other Joss Whedon productions. This timing is particularly fitting because I have spent several months since our 2019 session going through every post in the community (1,846 of them!) as part of an effort to locate recced content on AO3.
This gave me a unique perspective on patterns in the fandom which might be much the same for other fandoms which began in the pre-AO3 online era, and which may also have lost a number of their works over the years.
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- Part 11 of Fandom History
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Movie Talk 2 by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Frankenstein (Play 2011), Glorious 39, Personal Shopper (2016), The Catcher Was a Spy, Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Aquaman, Aladdin (2019), Dark Phoenix (2019), Late Night (2019), Rocketman (2019), Men In Black [Movies & TV], Toy Story, Beauty And The Beast [Movie - 1991], Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), The Lion King, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), The Kitchen (2019), Blinded by the Light (2019), The Dark Crystal (1982), I Tonya (2017), Long Shot (2019), Spotlight (2016), Up (2019), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
23 Mar 2023
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- Part 74 of Reviews
- Part 2 of Movie Talk Series
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"You're Too Picky, Man": An Ace Reading of Oz's Character Arc in BTVS [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
03 Mar 2023
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Metacommentary interpreting Oz as ace and analyzing the Oz/Veruca subplot in terms of (non)consent.
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- Part 4 of Ace Readings
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