"School Hard" / "Chosen"

[red_satin_doll]

Like Mother, Like Daughter original artwork a gift to me from comlodge, an amazing artist and generous friend. Check out the original on her journal.



Apparently, Buffy isn't the only Summers woman who is going to be "a fireman [sic] when the floods roll back."

ETA: beer_good_foamy reminded me that Joyce's threat to Spike, "You get the HELL away from my daughter!" (Rock on, Joyce!) could be seen as applicable to Buffy's actions in Chosen, if we consider the new Slayers as her metaphorical "offspring".  (What's the plural for "childe"?)


Or, Kendra was her "daughter", Faith her "granddaughter", then Buffy and Faith got together and now the new Slayers have two mommies - which. ok, is kind of
incest-y, but no worse than the Fanged Four, right?

 And Willow is their midwife. Something like that.

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Comments

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

There's a meta in a Buffy essay book about sisterhood and being a potential in Buffy Meets the Academy (I think that's what it is, but a lot of the scholarly Buffy books run together in my brain), and I know angearia has something on Buffy and Willow as the parents of the slayers somewhere (it's comics-compliant though, as I recall, so it may not be your bag). But Buffy=mother of the Slayers needs to be explored in fic.

I'll be right back - plot bunny happening.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I think I've heard of Buffy meets the Academy; I've not read it. (I looked through the state's interlibrary loan database and found none of the scholarly books on the buffyverse whatsoever.) I'll have to look for Emmie's story - I don't like the comics but I appreciate what she does to/with them.

But Buffy=mother of the Slayers needs to be explored in fic.

ABSOLUTELY. It's right there in the DNA of the show. I'm really still surprised how little fic or meta I've seen on the subject. I don't know why I expected more, given what I would guess to be the number of female fans especially? We've all been daughters and/or mothers at some point.

I'll be right back - plot bunny happening.

*bounces eagerly in chair* Has it happened yet?