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

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#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 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 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 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]

Comments

[endeni]

Yay, what a wonderful idea! Count me in!
Also, Illyria! Illyria is my favorite! Come on, just because she's a God-King of the Primordium doesn't mean she doesn't count... :D
There's this wonderful meta by paratti that perfectly describes her as "Queen Elizabeth meets The Terminator". I mean, what's not to love? :D

[ruuger]

I'm more of a lurker in the Buffy fandom these days, but I might be persuaded to unlurk for Buffyverse ladies ;)

Speaking of ladies, I think that halfamoon might be relevant to your interests ;)

Buffy comm pimp.

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[il_mio_capitano]

I'm in. I have no idea what I'll do when I'm in, but it sounds fun.

[kikimay]

I don't know what can I do to partecipate. I went for "I have to see the goods" because I really don't know what I can bring to the fandom, but I'm totally for it. BUFFYVERSE WOMEN FTW!

Also, you put there Maggie Walsh! And Buffybot! And the Chinese slayer and all the potentials! And Anya and Halfrek! I LOVE YOU! <3 <3 <3 All these interesting and unexplored women.

Oh, and I forgot Illyria. (I LOVE Illyria. I'm kinda meh about Fred, but Illyria <3 <3 <3 ... Even though, is she a female? Whatevs. Illyria rules.)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Whither Dana? :P

But yes, whatever enthusiasm I have left for fandom, I would gladly spend some of it on this.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Sign me up, ma'am! You know this is exactly my sort of place! Love the idea!


Gabrielle

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

My soul belongs to Illyria, always.

I will join, but I'm not committing to doing much. We'll see if I get swept away with it all...

I would like to wish you very good luck in getting this going. In my experience even in the good old LJ days comms needed to be constantly feed by the mods with interesting goings on or they quickly die, People are generally passive until there is momentum, however much they say its a great idea at the start,

[wickedbish.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I love this banner, absolutely love it - but I just noticed that all four characters appear to be intensely focused on those sandwiches. Which, um, I can relate.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

I am definitely on board with this idea!
It sounds absolutely marvelous!

Wednesday, February 5

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[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Yay! Keep me posted (via pm's if I'm MIA) as to how this goes!

[baphrosia.livejournal.com]

Adding my vote as 'silent lurker'. :)

[punch-kicker15.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a fantastic idea. I put down "I have to see the goods" because I'm not sure how much I can participate. Sometimes I struggle with writing for prompts/communities/deadlines. But I am definitely up for enthusiastic lurking, at the very least.

[quinara]

I have a terrible feeling that my words are going to be eaten by my thesis even more this year than they were last year, so the risk of my participation might be slim - but I definitely want to encourage you in doing this!!! Buffy comms are fun. :D And there should be more fic about Kate (and also Illyria. And everyone).

[endeni]

I was thinking of LJ comms across fandoms and the idea of your buffyverse comm sounds very similar to the one behind where_no_woman, dedicated to the women in Star Trek, which seems to be doing fairly well for itself, so maybe it could be used as some kind of inspirational model? Also, talking about pretty active LJ communities, be_compromised, dedicated to Clint/Natasha from Marvel's Avengers seems to me one of the most active comms I participated to, lately. The key is probably the extraordinary team of mods who constantly propose new and interesting activity, though being part of a new and large fandom probably doesn't hurt lol...

[zodiac-sign.livejournal.com]

You know what they say about "assuming".

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO KNEW THAT JOKE! I'M SO GLAD I'VE FOUND YOU :D

Sorry for the caps lock but I'm just so happy that other people use and get my humour too!

[kwritten.livejournal.com]

Most of my fandom experience has been female-centric, so while I know that there's a male-bias out there, I'm always bemused by/ ignore it.

That said - communities are wonderful places and one that centers on Buffy ladies is a lovely thing indeed. Not sure how much I can be of service (and honestly I don't really understand what you are planning yet) so I can't commit to anything atm/near future b/c of RL stuff - but I'm waving pompoms in the general direction of this possibility and hope to be there in full armor when the time comes.

[clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com]

WHOOO! We have interest!

I think my favourite thing about this whole post and comments is that people are like "I'm not sure what this is, but I like it!" - Well, we don't really know either, but we want it!

she's working on it - is there no end to the young woman's talents?

heh, you mean those random pictures hovering on the laptop not turning into anything productive at all? Getting to it, I swear. But save the flattery until you see the thing - like I said, I'm no pro, I don't really have a clue what I'm doing...

and three-part harmony - pass me the mic!

I am loving all the enthusiasm here. It gives me wild hope that this might just take off.

Also, very (pleasantly) surprised to see Buffy tip the scales in "Favourite female character" - overtaking Willow, who I was sure would win. Huh, this fandom never fails to surprise me.

[waddiwasiwitch.livejournal.com]

Yay!! Fun idea. :) Though I HATE you for making me chose just one favourite female character.

[foxstarreh.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to point out that at this moment, Dawn is the character the most people said they'd want to write/talk about and this makes me so unbelievably, stupidly happy, even if she gets just one vote for favourite character. (I can pretend for now at least all this talking will be super positive, and none of that hateful shit I see getting thrown at her elsewhere.)

[lanoyee.livejournal.com]

I have already told you this, but HERE YES ME just point me in the right direction. :DDD

[norwie2010.livejournal.com]

:-D

Yay! (I have... issues with internet connection and i don't know when the problem will be solved, but: I'm ALL for this!)