red_satin_doll: (Chosen One - purple)
red_satin_doll ([personal profile] red_satin_doll) wrote2014-02-05 03:38 pm

Tsunami of Polls #1 : Any interest in a comm devoted to Buffy and the women of the Buffyverse?

#1 - Thank you to whomever gifted me with a temporary paid account last month. Now I can create polls! Oh wonderful Anonymous Benefactor, you have no idea what you have unleashed upon this fandom.
#2 - Thanks also the the lovely [livejournal.com profile] velvetwhip for coming up with the insanely awesome title/tag phrase "tsunami of polls" and allowing me to snag it.

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The other day I was having a conversation with [livejournal.com profile] wickedbish in which I may have mentioned that most fandoms and fandom activity, in my experience, are focused primarily on the male characters. I assumed this was common knowledge. Except that he didn't know that. Because, you see, Ryan's favorite character is Willow (see #2 in his list of "13 Witches I Fucking Love"); he still mourns Tara (as do I; shared grief is comforting) and Buffy is one of his heros. The Gift has convinced him to not commit suicide "so many times". He's all about the ladies, bless.

You know what they say about "assuming".

Oops.

 Then [livejournal.com profile] clockwork_hart1 (Lucy) popped into the conversation and in her brilliant, enthusiastic way suggested the idea of a comm dedicated to Buffy, the other women in the 'verse and their interrelationships - complete with a name (Summers Blood) and a banner (she's working on it - is there no end to the young woman's talents?) and three-part harmony. What that might actually look like or what interest there would actually be in such a thing was a matter of conjecture. So I'm channeling my inner Willow (Research Gal) for my very first poll.

What say you, Gentle Reader? Based just on the title of this post, you probably know who you are and how you stand.

(And as this is my first poll, please let me know if it functions ok. And I apologize for the wonky formatting. The LJ instructions for poll-making are vague and confusing at best. So says I.)

[Poll #1955410][Poll #1955410]

[identity profile] clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com 2014-02-07 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Gif use = perfect. I love.

And yay for more Dawn love! She bugged me in S5, too (and a dash in S6 - love her in S7), but I know why, and I'm still annoyed that the writers managed to screw he up so much. The bickering I totally get - I'm the younger sister, the "Dawn" and me and brother can be such babies around one another (and he's thirteen years my senior. We like to play the insults game, see how far we can escalate it.

And I've been writing a lot of Dawn recently, I feel kinship with her - a need to protect and defend her. Plus there's a school picture of me looking scarily like Michelle, so there's that too.

[identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com 2014-02-07 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
And being the older sister, I can understand it from Buffy's end, but my sister and I do love each other and she turned into an awesome woman and mother.