A heartfelt but slightly stunned Thank you! to those of you who nommed and/or voted for me in Round 22 of the Sunnydale Awards. It was a shock and wonderful surprise to be awarded Best Beta Runner Up. ( Now I even have a pretty: )

Since we're approaching an equinox (which happens to be one of the eight festivals of the Wiccan year), it seems like an appropriate time to address an issue that occasionally bugs me in fanfic: the use of Wicca when one actually means Wiccan. Many fic writers have picked up the skewed usage based on original lines from the series, such as “ ( Read more... )

I'm sure many of you are already familiar with the wealth of info collected and shared on fanlore.com (a project of the Organization for Transformative Works). One stub that is currently devoid of input is the one for Spike/Xander: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer/Spike/Xander.  I haven't been in the world of fandom long enough to ( Read more... )

As a Spike fan, what's the first thing to do when you get a copy of Lorna Jowett's Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan? Yup, you check the index and find that Spike has (no surprise) a huge number of entries ranging from 'accent' to 'and Wood'. (Stop snickering.) Well, if we're going to get double-entendres out of the way ( Read more... )

First saw this on whichclothes's journal. I've never posted one of these before, but I do enjoy reading the answers of others, so thought I'd give it a whirl.

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Congratulations to all the winners of Round 3. There are many fics listed that I haven't read, and I love the security of knowing there is good writing out there, just waiting!

Special congratulations to the personable and talented whichclothes for winning the fan's fave Best Angst Author and for her lovely story, Trust, winning the fan's fave Best Slash.

Birthday wishes to mabel_marsters, author of the intriguing "Treading Water." Hope you're doing something fun today!

Both whichclothes and slaymesoftly have done this map, and it looked interesting ( Read more... )

I stumbled onto a fun (but not too lengthy) article contrasting Buffy and Bella Swan ("Twilight") at
http://theflickcast.com/2010/03/16/buffy-swan-refuses-to-suck/

Some enjoyable readers' comments also.

I'm one of those people intimidated by a blank page -- or in this case, a blinking cursor. I've been on LJ since the end of October -- a little over four months now -- and I've wanted to do an initial journal entry. But it intimidated me. What to write? I felt pressure to be insightful, perhaps clever, or at least "on topic" (Buffyverse). Well, the ( Read more... )