(no subject)
Feb. 28th, 2011 03:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gala_applesNoooooo. It happened again. I should have expected this, but somehow it always comes as a surprise.
See, I love Angel and Buffy. NOTE, CONTAINS A/B SPOILERS. I bought all 12 seasons back when they were 70 each at HMV. Half the episodes are scratched and skipping, because the shows are my happy place. For a while in high school I would skip season 4 of Buffy because college scared me, once I got to college I would sometimes skip 1-3 so my nostalgia for high school didn't kill me. (For those that are newish to my journal, nostalgia is Very Very Bad for my mental state). Angel was different. I loved Doyle so \o/ season one, and then I hated Darla so I tend to skip straight to season three. And then I get to the beginning of season 5 and I cry for Fred. Every time. And then I get to the end of season 5 and I flip out about how it ends. Not Fade Away my fucking ass.
(and then I don't read the comics, because comics=/=tv show, just like no xmen comic reader is happy about xmen movies, and hp books=/=movies. I suspect I will have difficulty reconciling this issue when the Killjoy comic comes out. But I'll deal with that later, for now I just say FFFFFF no to the comics. And if I ever wanted to try, Buffy being a random lesbian and Dawn and Xander hooking up killed that urge fucking completely. Anyway, back on point...)
Whenever I get to the end Not Fade Away I have a complete temper tantrum, and decide to write fic so that they don't all die horribly. Most have never been completed, most noticeably the one that would have been Spike/Xander/Oz/Doyle and about 50k long. As I moved into other fandoms crossovers started to occurs HARRY POTTER SAVES EVERYONE. XMEN SAVE EVERYONE. Brief flirtation with SAM AND DEAN ATTEMPT TO SAVE EVERYONE.
And now I have come to the end. And my brain immediately starts doing toddler fists of rage at all of it. So my first thought was of course "anyone in bandom that tried to help would die horribly', and that wasn't an attractive thought so I DON'T NEED TO WRITE A CROSSOVER \o/.
Except I totally \o/'ed too soon. Because then I had this thought... Do we all remember Angel calling dibs on the dragon? Presumably dragon breathes fire. What if it caused the Great Fires of 2012 (ignoring Angel canon timeline, obvs)? What if the reason California is a wasteland is because of the wrath the Senior Partners sent down? What if Battery City is a deal of sorts created with a liaison to the Senior Partners, a tiny bit of safe space from the demons? SCARECROW exists to 'organise the organisms', so maybe they're a version of The Initiative that actually works out, and gets corrupted and decides it knows what the citizens need.
Ugh. The more I think about it, the more it works. The zones are labelled for what lives where and what needs to be avoided. There are companionbots. Dracs are creepy robot-people hybrids because who cares if one gets eaten? MOTHER OF GOD, BLI HAS A SOUL PROTECTION PLAN. The grenade launcher Ghoul and Grace have seems a bit overkill for a Drac? Well it's not when you have a MOTHERFUCKING DRAGON chasing the Trans Am. *flail* Someone tell me I can't write this.
See, I love Angel and Buffy. NOTE, CONTAINS A/B SPOILERS. I bought all 12 seasons back when they were 70 each at HMV. Half the episodes are scratched and skipping, because the shows are my happy place. For a while in high school I would skip season 4 of Buffy because college scared me, once I got to college I would sometimes skip 1-3 so my nostalgia for high school didn't kill me. (For those that are newish to my journal, nostalgia is Very Very Bad for my mental state). Angel was different. I loved Doyle so \o/ season one, and then I hated Darla so I tend to skip straight to season three. And then I get to the beginning of season 5 and I cry for Fred. Every time. And then I get to the end of season 5 and I flip out about how it ends. Not Fade Away my fucking ass.
(and then I don't read the comics, because comics=/=tv show, just like no xmen comic reader is happy about xmen movies, and hp books=/=movies. I suspect I will have difficulty reconciling this issue when the Killjoy comic comes out. But I'll deal with that later, for now I just say FFFFFF no to the comics. And if I ever wanted to try, Buffy being a random lesbian and Dawn and Xander hooking up killed that urge fucking completely. Anyway, back on point...)
Whenever I get to the end Not Fade Away I have a complete temper tantrum, and decide to write fic so that they don't all die horribly. Most have never been completed, most noticeably the one that would have been Spike/Xander/Oz/Doyle and about 50k long. As I moved into other fandoms crossovers started to occurs HARRY POTTER SAVES EVERYONE. XMEN SAVE EVERYONE. Brief flirtation with SAM AND DEAN ATTEMPT TO SAVE EVERYONE.
And now I have come to the end. And my brain immediately starts doing toddler fists of rage at all of it. So my first thought was of course "anyone in bandom that tried to help would die horribly', and that wasn't an attractive thought so I DON'T NEED TO WRITE A CROSSOVER \o/.
Except I totally \o/'ed too soon. Because then I had this thought... Do we all remember Angel calling dibs on the dragon? Presumably dragon breathes fire. What if it caused the Great Fires of 2012 (ignoring Angel canon timeline, obvs)? What if the reason California is a wasteland is because of the wrath the Senior Partners sent down? What if Battery City is a deal of sorts created with a liaison to the Senior Partners, a tiny bit of safe space from the demons? SCARECROW exists to 'organise the organisms', so maybe they're a version of The Initiative that actually works out, and gets corrupted and decides it knows what the citizens need.
Ugh. The more I think about it, the more it works. The zones are labelled for what lives where and what needs to be avoided. There are companionbots. Dracs are creepy robot-people hybrids because who cares if one gets eaten? MOTHER OF GOD, BLI HAS A SOUL PROTECTION PLAN. The grenade launcher Ghoul and Grace have seems a bit overkill for a Drac? Well it's not when you have a MOTHERFUCKING DRAGON chasing the Trans Am. *flail* Someone tell me I can't write this.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-28 01:00 pm (UTC)fred gets me everytime too. i loved her and then.. just *suck* i get weepy just thinking bout it
(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-03 05:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-28 06:09 pm (UTC)and nifty
perhaps shelf the idea until 2015????
(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-03 05:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-28 08:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-01 01:51 am (UTC)Ooooo. OOOOOOOOOOOO. I know everyone else is saying you can't write this, but it should be added to the list. Nomnomnom...
(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-03 05:41 am (UTC)*Puts up the Gala Signal*
Date: 2011-03-01 10:46 pm (UTC)Over on one of my communities, I ran into a person who took a long hiatus from the MCR fandom and now wants back in but is totally at a loss for RPers. I instantly thought of you- not for RPing, but as a rather loved author and "hub" for where MCR fans gather. I'm sure many of your fans are RPers.
I asked if she knew you, and she said no but she asked if I would pass the word along.
Couldja help, Gala Wan Kenobi?
(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-03 05:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-03 04:31 am (UTC)...I heard that Giles died and then blocked it from my memory till now. But what? Buffy goes lesbian? WHAT? And DAWN and XANDER?! EW. (She got over that crush when she started crushing on Spike which makes WAY more sense)
Omg that is all so amazing.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-03 05:50 am (UTC)I KNOW. I was a bit 0.0 at the Buffy thing, but was still going to read it eventually, maybe. And then I found out about Dawn and Xander, and was like I CANNOT POSSIBLY CONDONE THIS. NOPE. SORRY. Xander talks more than once about her being his little sister towards the end of the show, he can't just fuck her.