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red_satin_doll) wrote2013-10-03 10:11 pm
red_satin_doll) wrote2013-10-03 10:11 pm
Happy Birthmonth Bone_dry1013: Meta-fic-y goodness & Crossing Jordan Icons
Happy birthmonth to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bone_dry1013 , with whom I've spent many, many hours discussing one of our favorite subjects: Buffy Anne Summers, not just as part of a 'ship but in her entirety: friends, lovers, psychological traumas and personal triumphs. ("Many, many hours" is not an exaggeration, btw; I mean, literally all day last Thursday while I was at the Cape. P'town and the sand dunes just had to wait.)
Bonedry's multi-chapter "metafic" Origins completely re-images Buffy's story pre-series from her Calling to the beginning of the show; it discards most of the semi-canon version of Joss' original script for the film and the comics based on it. The Seasons series (in S1 now) is slightly different in that the "camp" of S1 in canon is discarded in favor of a darker tone more in keeping with S2 and later. Canon events are not discarded but the focus is on the emotional and psychological fallout from those events. The fic incorporates the Normal Again!verse and the Key!verse, although Dawn is not a huge presence here. I particularly love the use of Slayer dreams in this fic, including the fantastic notion of Buffy receiving the first inkling of her calling through one before Merrick finds her.
The Master Post has links to all the chapters, meta essays and pretty, pretty banners/artwork in one convenient place. (Yes, meta essays about a meta fic about Buffy Summers. I HAVE DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN, Y'ALL.)
"it requires me to try to synthesize an episode as it is within both my knowledge/interpretation of canon (through the series) and my invention of Buffy's Calling and her subsequent experiences before she came to the Hellmouth, the goal being to more or less erase the lines between episodes – to make the seasons (and the series) one big story, rather than a collection of a lot of smaller ones."
Origins/Season1 is a nominee in the No Rest For the Wicked Awards and round 29 of the Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards.
bone_dry1013 , with whom I've spent many, many hours discussing one of our favorite subjects: Buffy Anne Summers, not just as part of a 'ship but in her entirety: friends, lovers, psychological traumas and personal triumphs. ("Many, many hours" is not an exaggeration, btw; I mean, literally all day last Thursday while I was at the Cape. P'town and the sand dunes just had to wait.)Bonedry's multi-chapter "metafic" Origins completely re-images Buffy's story pre-series from her Calling to the beginning of the show; it discards most of the semi-canon version of Joss' original script for the film and the comics based on it. The Seasons series (in S1 now) is slightly different in that the "camp" of S1 in canon is discarded in favor of a darker tone more in keeping with S2 and later. Canon events are not discarded but the focus is on the emotional and psychological fallout from those events. The fic incorporates the Normal Again!verse and the Key!verse, although Dawn is not a huge presence here. I particularly love the use of Slayer dreams in this fic, including the fantastic notion of Buffy receiving the first inkling of her calling through one before Merrick finds her.
The Master Post has links to all the chapters, meta essays and pretty, pretty banners/artwork in one convenient place. (Yes, meta essays about a meta fic about Buffy Summers. I HAVE DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN, Y'ALL.)
"it requires me to try to synthesize an episode as it is within both my knowledge/interpretation of canon (through the series) and my invention of Buffy's Calling and her subsequent experiences before she came to the Hellmouth, the goal being to more or less erase the lines between episodes – to make the seasons (and the series) one big story, rather than a collection of a lot of smaller ones."
Origins/Season1 is a nominee in the No Rest For the Wicked Awards and round 29 of the Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards.
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At Bonedry's rec I watched the series Crossing Jordan this year because we were both bitching about how stupid Bones had become mid-S3 on. CJ is a smarter, darker and somewhat grubbier predecessor to Bones, which "borrows" many elements of the earlier series. (Although the attempts to deal with race, gender and sexual orientation are problematic at best.) I had a huge crush on Jill Hennessey in the '90's when she was a regular on Law & Order, so I'm not sure why it took me so long to check out the series. I don't love Jordan Cavenaugh as much as Buffy, of course, but she was so much fun to watch. And Garret Macy and Renee Walcott might be my second-favorite canon 'ship after Buffy & Spike. Their banter was sexy, witty, angry, mature, evoking old-school movie couples; like Buffy and Spike they're perfectly matched characters.
So I'm returning the favor to Bonedry with some CJ icons. Weirdly enough there's only one fansite, Crossing Jordan Online, dedicated to the show currently with screencaps, from which I've borrowed the images for these. Enjoy the pretties.
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