entirely ruined her disposition with books

These are my ridiculously incoherent and perhaps fleeting thoughts on the season premiere!

( VAMPIRE DIARIES FTW! )

I'm currently working on my manifesto for het_reccers (don't worry; I'll link to it when it's posted), and IT IS SO LONG. Like, SO SO LONG. I've taken that post from a few days ago and cleaned it up and expanded it, and it is seriously the longest thing ever. I don't know that anyone's going to want to read it. Also, I'm endlessly paranoid that I'm plagiarizing by repeating things I've read dozens of times. So if you notice anything that looks too similar to something someone else wrote? Let me know and I will give them credit.

And I have so many recs, but that's okay because the mod told me I can have as many as I want! I've made up all kinds of cunning categories for them, but I'm feeling so guilty about all the ones I'm leaving out! Still, I'm hoping you all enjoy it when it's posted and also that some of you might find a few fics you haven't read before (this is a great challenge to me, considering my flist, but you never know!).

Anyways! I'm just overwhelmed and feeling like I'm never going to finish it because it's SO LONG.

Also, thank you as always for humoring me re: my breakdown the other day. I can't tell you what it means to me that I post whiny posts about my privileged life and y'all give me hugs and make me feel good. You are THE BEST. And I love you. I'm feeling more hopeful today.

[eta] Also, who's going to have time tonight/tomorrow to look this over for me for grammar/clarity/etc.? I don't trust myself at this point.

Okay!

So anythingbutgrey asked me for some Spike/Buffy perspective, and my answer got long. Uh...realllllly long. So I'm moving it to this post instead of a reply because that just wasn't going to happen.

All of this is very, very stream-of-conciousness for me, so all of y'all feel free to jump in when I miss something (as I invariably will).

Here was her question:

also, i have been learning all about spuffy! and am now going to totally hijack the discussion on this post. i am well drenched in meta and discussion. also my own brain. which is starting to realize that there are more than a few parallels between spuffy and c/a, but still can't make the jump. i have established a list of blocks in this regard, and would like your assistance:

1. i don't really have an opinion on spike. spuffy is very much about spike. from my perspective.
2. i don't really like dark and twisty ships? i know, wes/lilah otp but i don't see them as as dark as most people do?
3. i just need buffy's perspective on this. when i think spuffy i think spike fans who hate buffy. i know you love buffy. tell me about youuuu.
4. i should probably rewatch s5-7, but oh look there are my ats dvds.

And here are some of my off-the-cuff thoughts!

( cut for rambling )

Gah. I'm such a loser. Oh well. At least I have something to start with for my het_reccers manifesto!

PEOPLE!

SHERLOCK!

WATCH IT!

I was like this:



the entire time!

The only word for this is delightful!

Moffat, I want to have your babies!

WATCH IT WATCH IT EVERYONE!

Re: my last post: apparently, the position has been filled. SUCK. So, thanks for all your support, but that won't be my new job. *sigh*

UM, EXCUSE ME, FLIST OF MINE, WHO I COUNT ON TO KEEP ME INFORMED ABOUT AWESOMENESS IN THE UNIVERSE. WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT BILL NIGHY WAS ON WHO????? WHY WHY WHY?

I have watched approximately 37 seconds of "Vincent and the Doctor" and I am FREAKING OUT.

I LOVE THIS MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s angearia‘s birthday! And because I’m the Worst Person Ever, I don’t have fic written for her (I’m working on it. It’ll happen this week!). I do, however, have something she (and eowyn_315) has been waiting for for a while now: my West Wing reaction post! So I hope you enjoy reading it and that it makes your birthday better!

Yay!

This is my reaction to the first two seasons, which is all I’ve seen so far. I’m sure I’m leaving stuff out and forgetting things, so feel free to throw questions at me. Also, I’m probably not going to read through it before I post it, so if there’s lots of grammar!fail (which there probably will be) just ignore it. Or point it out to me and I’ll fix it. But don’t point out the fact that this has no structure to it at all and I just randomly jump from topic to topic as it enters my mind. Don’t, because I already know that.

It’s long and obnoxiously flaily and stupidly full of random capitalization and I’m warning you now, okay? Brace yourself.


( nonstop flailing here )


Before I close, a note: I'm not horny (and if I was, I wouldn't tell you), I just wanted to use this moodtheme option because there isn't an "in love" option, and basically I want to make out with this show the way Donna wants to make out with Eric. So there.

OMG WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!?!?!?!

And now for a spoilery Being Erica reaction post!

Do not read this if there's even a chance you might watch this show, 'kay?

( spoilers for everything! )

MY HEART EXPLODES WITH LOVE FOR THIS SHOW.



HOW WILL I SURVIVE UNTIL THE NEW SEASON?

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!