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Happiness Meme!
So Buffy fandom sucks right now. Not us, obviously, but everyone else. ;D
I know that all the drama is sucking the fannish happiness right out of some people, and that breaks my heart. I also know that it's creating a sort of vortex of negativity that threatens to devour us all.
So what I want to do--what I've been wanting to do for the last few weeks--is for all of us to take a few moments to remember things that we love. Straight-up love. Purely, perfectly, whole-heartedly. Characters, scenes, episodes, lines that we have zero complaints about because they are perfect to us. They set us flailing or sighing or crying or smiling. They bring us joy.
So I'm going to start. I'm going to list ten Things I Love that immediately come into my mind, knowing that that I'm leaving a thousand things off of this list. Read them. Take a few minutes, think of your own, make a list here in the comments of as many or as few Things You Love as you like. Read other people's thoughts and remember other Things You Love. Then pimp this out as much as you like. Send people over here to contribute to the collection so that we can create a sort of scrapbook of Things That We Absolutely Love. If you think of more Things You Love, add them to the list. Keep going as long as you want. Revel in the Love.
This is a thread of happiness. No attacking anyone else's squee. If you disagree, just ignore it. Also, if you want to list Angel things--like how awesome Lilah is or the scene where Angel and Connor sing the Jasmine song--go right ahead! Angel fandom's getting hit pretty hard right now, too.
Here are the first ten Things I Love that pop into my head:
1. Spike and Dawn arguing about who is badder in Blood Ties
2. The perfectly in-character Scooby-thoughts that Buffy hears in Earshot: Cordy thinks it and says it, Oz has an existential crisis, Willow is insecure, Xander thinks about sex
3. Buffy and Spike on the back porch in Fool for Love. THEY. SIGH. IN. SYNC.
4. Spike and Joyce in the living room in Becoming: Part II--"Have we met?"
5. The Class Protector Award in The Prom
6. Anya's speech in The Body (And in End of Days. And in Hell's Bells. QUIT MAKING ME CRY, ANYA.)
7. The rocket launcher scuffle behind Robin Wood in Him
8. Restless. All of it. (But especially Riley the Big Dumb Cowboy.)
9. The last half of Tabula Rasa, and the switch from hilarity to beautiful angst in the space of a few moments.
10. The sad, heartbroken montage at the end of Lovers Walk...that becomes Spike barreling down the road singing "My Way" on the top of his lungs
Got the idea? Now. GO!
I know that all the drama is sucking the fannish happiness right out of some people, and that breaks my heart. I also know that it's creating a sort of vortex of negativity that threatens to devour us all.
So what I want to do--what I've been wanting to do for the last few weeks--is for all of us to take a few moments to remember things that we love. Straight-up love. Purely, perfectly, whole-heartedly. Characters, scenes, episodes, lines that we have zero complaints about because they are perfect to us. They set us flailing or sighing or crying or smiling. They bring us joy.
So I'm going to start. I'm going to list ten Things I Love that immediately come into my mind, knowing that that I'm leaving a thousand things off of this list. Read them. Take a few minutes, think of your own, make a list here in the comments of as many or as few Things You Love as you like. Read other people's thoughts and remember other Things You Love. Then pimp this out as much as you like. Send people over here to contribute to the collection so that we can create a sort of scrapbook of Things That We Absolutely Love. If you think of more Things You Love, add them to the list. Keep going as long as you want. Revel in the Love.
This is a thread of happiness. No attacking anyone else's squee. If you disagree, just ignore it. Also, if you want to list Angel things--like how awesome Lilah is or the scene where Angel and Connor sing the Jasmine song--go right ahead! Angel fandom's getting hit pretty hard right now, too.
Here are the first ten Things I Love that pop into my head:
1. Spike and Dawn arguing about who is badder in Blood Ties
2. The perfectly in-character Scooby-thoughts that Buffy hears in Earshot: Cordy thinks it and says it, Oz has an existential crisis, Willow is insecure, Xander thinks about sex
3. Buffy and Spike on the back porch in Fool for Love. THEY. SIGH. IN. SYNC.
4. Spike and Joyce in the living room in Becoming: Part II--"Have we met?"
5. The Class Protector Award in The Prom
6. Anya's speech in The Body (And in End of Days. And in Hell's Bells. QUIT MAKING ME CRY, ANYA.)
7. The rocket launcher scuffle behind Robin Wood in Him
8. Restless. All of it. (But especially Riley the Big Dumb Cowboy.)
9. The last half of Tabula Rasa, and the switch from hilarity to beautiful angst in the space of a few moments.
10. The sad, heartbroken montage at the end of Lovers Walk...that becomes Spike barreling down the road singing "My Way" on the top of his lungs
Got the idea? Now. GO!
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1. Willow shooting Xander down when he tries to move on from Buffy to her for the Spring Fling. ("You think that's my idea of high jinks?") And then Xander listening to country music.
2. "I'm sixteen years old--I don't want to die!"
3. Willow explaining to Giles about the costumes. "I'm a ghost!" "Uh...ha, yes, but the ghost of what, exactly?"
4. Buffy and Angel's main scene in "Lie to Me" in the kitchen. "I don't want you to lie to me, I can't take it." And Buffy hearing about Drusilla for the first time.
5. Xander boiling his young ("Bad Eggs")
6. Cordelia wishing Buffy SURPRISE
7. Willow seeing X & C. "No, all it means is you'd rather be with someone you hate than be with me."
8. Dru and Angel's reaction to the rocket launcher.
9. Giles' speech to Buffy outside her house. ("All I can offer you is my support...and my respect.")
10. "Aren't you going to make a wish?" "Let it burn." (Yes, "Innocence" is that good.)
11. "Are you worried about Oz? He's sweet, but he's not you." "Yes, he is! And you should go to him! Because he's me!"
12. Angel's gift to Giles, the rose petals on the stairs. Willow and Buffy hearing the news on the phone.
13. Angel and Buffy reliving the ghosts of Sunnydale student/teacher past.
14. Darla promising to show Angel the world.
15. Buffy's slow-mo run to find Kendra's body with Whistler's "Big moments" speech
16. Spike's "I love this world" speech
17. Buffy's Slayery coming out to Joyce
18. "Kick his ass."
19. "Close your eyes."
20. "I'm Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. And you are?"
21. Giles' smile when he realizes Buffy is back.
22. Giles' plan to get Buffy talking about Acathla (and Angel)
23. Joyce producing handcuffs.
24. Giles to Buffy: "You have no respect for me or the job I perform."
25. Oz giving Willow a Pez witch. "We need to get a Pez werewolf so Pez witch can have a boyfriend!" "I think we might just have to settle for a wacky cartoon dog."
26. Spike and Willow in that fuzzy sweater. And then Spike and Joyce, and then....
27. The slow-mo deaths in "The Wish."
28. Oz and Willow's night in "Amends."
29. Giles tending to Buffy's wounds at the end of "Helpless."
30. Xander's "I like the quiet" speech to Jack while chaos rages on upstairs.
31. Buffy and Faith dancing at the Bronze.
32. "You don't understand--YOU KILLED A MAN." "No, you don't understand. I don't care."
33. Willow crying in the toilet stall.
34. Xander describing Willow as a geiser of fun that goes off at regular intervals. ("That's Old Faithful.")
35. Anya trying to order a beer. ("I.D." "Give me a coke.")
36. Buffy and Xander trying so hard to be reasonable when they run into Vamp!Willow at the Bronze.
OK I HAVE TO GO BUT I COULD REALLY GO ON FOREVER AND I'M ONLY MIDWAY THROUGH SEASON THREE. GAH. I MISS THIS SHOW.