entirely ruined her disposition with books

+ mollivanders has some thoughts on Molly Hooper which are excellent. Oh, oh, oh Molly.

+ upupa_epops has brilliant, brilliant thoughts on Katherine and Elena (and by extension Damon and Stefan)

+ lutamira has stats about the Oscar noms that are simultaneously depressing and not at all surprising. [eta--this is flocked, too! But the article is here and if you want to rant, you can totally do it here in the comments]

And now I'm going to go back to work/taking breaks to read Derek/Casey fic because who am I.

So if you haven't heard by now, Warner Brothers is "rebooting" Buffy the Vampire Slayer into a new film. Most people are not pleased about this, though some are hopeful. This news got me to thinking about the ways in which the series really work and the ways in which it majorly fails. My two biggest complaints about the Buffyverse are the consistent wonkiness re: issues of sexual consent (see this post if you're interested) and the race!fail. Do the writers seriously expect us to believe that this California town is that full of white people? Yeah, right.

So I thought I'd take this opportunity to give us a look at what a non-whitewashed Buffy the Vampire Slayer would look like. This, my friends, is a race!swap casting.

A quick thanks to those of you on my flist who helped (especially angearia, eleusis_walks, ploratrix, and eilowyn, as well as anyone else I might have forgotten). Y'all are awesome.

And a warning: I think it's pretty safe to say that you will never see such a collection of pictures of gorgeous people assembled in one place. Your computer screen might actually melt. But don't blame me. I'm warning you! [This is another way of saying that this post is anything but dial-up friendly.]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
A Race!Swap Casting

( The Cast )

I am leaving prompts like mad! And later--maybe I'll actually write fic!

- I'm embroiled in a rather vicious facebook conversation right now with a friend of mine. I mentioned that I was boycotting the Avatar: the Last Airbender movie because of race!fail, and he said he thought "the whole race thing" was blown out of proportion and went on to say a bunch of really privileged things that made me headdesk forever. I then sent him a looooong, ranty, link-filled message ripping apart each one of his points and generally being furious.

I shouldn't be surprised, though. This guy is such a Nice Guy (TM); he's actually the one I invented the phrase Bitter Beta Male Syndrome about. Most of the time when I'm having a conversation with him, I just want to yell, "CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE, JACKASS!" Unfortunately, he's the only person in RL who's into all the shows I'm into, so we still talk. I might have to friend break-up with him, but I'm hoping not.

Oh, people. Why do you fail so hard?

- Apropos of nothing, I'm going to tell y'all the top ten reasons I think Buffy/Angel would never work! Aren't you excited? I know you are!

( Cut for me nattering on. Possible spoilers for S8 )

And now I'm going to be quiet.

I'm not gonna lie, y'all, this article made me tear up a little. Read it.