Canon-related questions for Buffyologists
Dec. 31st, 2012 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's a couple of items about Buffy Summers that I've seen in several fanfics and wondered if they were "canon" or "fanon" information. I don't trust my memory, especially when I've probably spent more hours at this point reading fanfiction than actually watching the show. (What that says about me I shudder to imagine.)
By "canon", I am of course referring to BtVS, seasons 1-7 only, not the comics (aka Get behind me, Satan!)
By "canon", I am of course referring to BtVS, seasons 1-7 only, not the comics (aka Get behind me, Satan!)
1) Is Buffy's given name "Buffy" or "Elizabeth"? I've read "Elizabeth Anne Summers" used in several fanfics and it feels like it might have been mentioned somewhere in S1-3 on the show, if at all?
Actually, I just wanted an excuse to post this screencap. But while you're here:
2) Does Buffy refer to herself in third person at any other point on the show except for Life Serial: "stupid Buffy" "freak Buffy"? A lot of stories have her refer to herself in this way, usually when she's berating herself, although generally not while drunk. (For someone who can't hold her liquor she seems to drink quite a lot of it in LS. Slayer metabolism, apparently.)
Also, she generally does so whilst kicking herself mentally over something regarding Spike, so do early season/Bangel 'ship writers have her referring to herself in this manner as well?
Also, she generally does so whilst kicking herself mentally over something regarding Spike, so do early season/Bangel 'ship writers have her referring to herself in this manner as well?
No, no further questions; I just love SMG in this episode so damn much I can hardly stand it. I mean - come on, Giles, how can you resist that face? Buttons and puppies are weeping in envy. Now do your duty to your Slayer and hand her the check without making her feel like it's an act of charity on your part.
I love Giles, I do. But damn it, he can be an ass sometimes.
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Date: 2013-01-02 11:49 pm (UTC)I don't know - I haven't tried it, and I rather doubt it? I could try.
Fotoflexer is actually the program that Photobucket used to use for editing, until they adapted a new editing program this year - of course without warning anybody. Much like Netf***k and pretty much everything else online. (Customer service? What the hell is that?) I think it's pretty basic - has to be if I can master it - and it allowed me to do simple changes (see my default icon as an example) but also add text to an image, which I needed for a blog I write on.
http://fotoflexer.com/
The new system PB adopted is fancier, lots of "effects" and layers and stuff I don't find useful, but they probably work well for other folks. The problem of course was that with the old system, I had photo editing AND storage in one place; whereas now it's split into two. (I have most of my photos and stuff at the moment on an external drive, but I'm backing things up on PB again.)