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Midnight Empire (3/?)
Midnight Empire
Chapter 3: The City That Never Shuts the Hell Up
Summary: When the Slayer and her gang come to New York City, they quickly discover what it's like to work the toughest demon beat on Earth, battling ancient prophecies, supernatural fiends, outrageously high rents and more. Unfortunately, nothing in the city is as it seems. The ( Read more... ) -
Midnight Empire (2/?)
Midnight Empire
Chapter 2: Technical Difficulties
Summary: When the Slayer and her gang come to New York City, they quickly discover what it's like to work the toughest demon beat on Earth, battling ancient prophecies, supernatural fiends, outrageously high rents and more. Unfortunately, nothing in the city is as it seems. The streets are paved ( Read more... ) -
Midnight Empire (1/?)
Midnight Empire
Chapter 1: It's a Bird, It's a Plane
Summary: When the Slayer and her gang come to New York City, they quickly discover what it's like to work the toughest demon beat on Earth, battling ancient prophecies, supernatural fiends, outrageously high rents and more. Unfortunately, nothing in the city is as it seems. The streets are ( Read more... ) -
Buffy, Season One: the season that wasn't?
I'm still in the process of my epic re-watch of the Whedonverse, but the question that struck me very early on was this: is Season One of BtVS really a "season"?
I mean, it is a season, in lots of obvious ways. It has a central problem to be solved, a subtext and a particular arc that is referenced in future seasons. But there are also some very ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts about betrayal in the Buffyverse
To help with a new fic I'm writing, I've been doing a re-watch of both "Buffy" and "Angel" lately. It has inspired a few random thoughts. One of the thoughts that struck me is that the bad guys in the Buffyverse (and perhaps in all plays, films and TV shows) are largely marked by their instinct to betray. This is especially true amongst the show' ( Read more... ) -
Bookend Imagery in BtVS
Hailing from a background in painting and commercial art, I think I tend to pay a lot of extra attention to the composition of shots in films and TV shows. I don't think the attention is either undue or completely subjective - I've worked with art directors, and have a good sense of the kinds of conversations that lead to visual decisions - but I ( Read more... ) -
The Highbrow Fart Joke: Misleading Metaphors, False Themes and Other Comic Devices in the Buffyverse
The Highbrow Fart Joke:
Misleading Metaphors, False Themes and Other Comic Devices in the Buffyverse
by Lostboy
Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief.
O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath.
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (V, iii, 169-170)
WILLOW: Maybe you're trying too hard. Doesn't this happen to every vampire?
SPIKE: Not to me, it doesn't!
"The Intiative", Buffy the ( Read more... ) -
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The Meta Arsenal:
Stakes, Fangs and Other Symbolic Weaponry in
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
by Lostboy
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"Being a vampire sucks ( Read more... )
