Not Making Friends and Alienating People

[infinitewhale]

So I rejoined tumblr a week or so ago, mainly so I can screen out annoying community blogs (why not just post all fic links in one post like the SDHerald? like 2 pages of fic recs...) and post pictures

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[lynnenne]

Yesterday made a wry comment about the drawings Spike had in Crush, how it was always my guess is they came from Angelus.

Exactly! Spike found them in the mansion during Season 2. But just as he was rooting through Angelus' stuff, the old sod came home ranting and raving. Spike was out of his wheelchair and didn't want to be found out, so he hopped back into the chair, stuffed the drawings in his pocket and rolled on outta there. He meant to rip up the drawings in front of Angelus just to brass him off, but the poof was already in a rage and Spike decided not to poke the bear on that particular day.

Later that night, he thought to burn the drawings, but for some reason he couldn't quite name, he hung onto them.

Months later, in Brazil, Dru found the drawings stuffed into Spike's coat pocket. That's how she knew he was in love with the Slayer. The stars had nothing to do with it.

[infinitewhale]

^^^ Completely reasonable explanation if you ask me.

[baphrosia]

I always thought they were Angel's drawings too - but the rest of this is my new headcanon!

[elisi]

Remember that the average age of Tumblr people is, like, 16. They take things SERIOUSLY. Not always, but a lot of them do, they think this makes them look old, presumably.

See this post or this one.

Mind you, I have fun with the tags.

Also, my two oldest girls are on Tumblr (in very different circles, omg, I wouldn't stalk them), but it's hilarious to be the 'cool' mum who knows the memes.

OTOH maybe they were Oldtime Fans totally wedded to THEIR interpretation...

[infinitewhale]

Remember that the average age of Tumblr people is, like, 16

Yeah, they're young. Or a least they act young. This person is late-20s according to their profile.

I thought it was a light-hearted spec post or I wouldn't have stuck my nose in. Like how fans used to have fun speculation why Buffy changed her clothes before going after Sweet in OMWF, you know? Obviously we know it was a production thing--Joss wanted that color palette for the characters. Fun.

Then it's like: Look, idiot. I have taken film studies courses and I KNOW IT ALL MEANS SOMETHING. OBVIOUSLY SUNNYDALE MOVES. THAT'S WHY THE FOREST, DOCKS, OCEANS AND AIRPORTS DISAPPEAR AND YOU CAN'T SEE THEM WHEN THE TOWN COLLAPSES.

Okay...

OTOH maybe they were Oldtime Fans totally wedded to THEIR interpretation...

Definitely not a new thing. You usually only saw such a hardline on important stuff, though.

[elisi]

Definitely not a new thing. You usually only saw such a hardline on important stuff, though.
I came a cross a genuinely creepy guy, back when I was following Arbitrar of Quality's reviews - not AoQ himself, but someone who'd comment (with a vicious anti-Spike agenda btw) and took everything literally. Like when Buffy comes to Spike at the end of Intervention, pretending to be the Buffybot, he refused to believe that Spike was taken in because he was a VAMPIRE with SUPER HEARING & OTHER SENSES he'd TOTALLY BE ABLE TO TELL that it was The Real Buffy, which meant that Spike was playing her the whole time and was thus Completely Evil...

/random tangent can you tell I'm tired?

[rahirah]

That's the explanation that's always made the most sense to me. But Tumblr is full of people who only pause wringing their hands about how problematic Spike is in order to get offended at the suggestion that maybe he's not the world's best artist. *g*

[infinitewhale]

The way they carry on, I don't think most of those folks even believe what they say. It's just that their merry little clique is so focused on being hyper-SJW that they drag him down for the attention and social points. Look, I found a new way Spike is a POS! Everyone clap!