red_satin_doll

*snerk*

I love the Get it Done icon btw (Buffy S7 icons are my crack anyway) but I've been noticing all of your icons are so pretty (Faith/Buffy in Enemies etc) do you make your own?

Edited Date: 2014-03-04 01:11 pm (UTC)

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itsnotmymind.livejournal.com

No, normally I find them in communities and places like that. If you go to my icons in my profile you can see who made them. This one I made myself, but I didn't put much work into it so it's probably not as nice as the others. And of course they are pretty, I pick only the best :). Seriously, thanks.

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I'll have to do that (would you believe it was only a few months ago that I realized I could look at other people's icons and they could look at mine? I am - frequently oblivious.)

And I think this is very pretty - I tend to like extemes - either monochromes and strong contrasts, or delicate "watercolor" effects in icons. Getting an image pale without losing detail entirely is stil tricky for me.

I pick only the best :).

But of course!

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zanthinegirl.livejournal.com

I love it! Great macro!

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Thanks! I don't know where the hell it came from, other than me finding this cap and thinking "Buffy smiled in that episode? She smiled in S6? I don't remember this. She looks so pretty!....Hmmm."

(Btw, I may have to force myself to watch Wrecked again just to find out what's going on here. Maybe. Or I could keep doing silly captions.)

OK - I cry uncle - what's a "macro"? That's the first time I've seen the term in a fandom context before.

That Good Point icon by

bogwich is one of my favorite icons evah, btw. Your collection is pretty fantastic anyway - you have Kermit and Doctor #3 and Marth and ANNE OF CLEAVES! You have an Anne of Cleaves icon! Most awesome.

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velvetwhip.livejournal.com

Hee!

Gabrielle

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Thought you might be amused, sweetie! I may have to make this a regular thing...

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snogged.livejournal.com

Excellent macro!

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Thanks hon!

*looks up macro in this context*

Oh, so basically any pic to which text has been added for effect?

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snogged.livejournal.com

Yep!

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baphrosia.livejournal.com

Biggest laugh of the day. :D

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You saw this, yay! If I've made you laugh, hon, that's a real compliment and honor for all the laughs your fics have given me!

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ever-neutral.livejournal.com

True shit.

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Amirite?

And I couldn't even figure out how to fit Dawn, etc etc in there without obscuring the image of her face entirely. (Although the Anya icon you're using does just that. *ponders*)

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kikimay

She sure is - especially in the first half of the season. (Pretty) Also people judge her too harshly, IMHO.

Edited Date: 2014-03-04 10:03 am (UTC)

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She sure is - especially in the first half of the season. (Pretty)

Isn't she though? Pretty and cute as a button. *notices your icon approvingly* I LOVE how she looks here (Buffy braids!), even if it's a weird combo on anyone, the braids, the big hoops and red lipstick, and - she smiled in S6? Whoa, I don't even remember that.

And then her statement to Prophecy Girl popped in my head and I just HAD to go there.

Also people judge her too harshly, IMHO.

You should see the S7 / Empty Places text icons I've been making *hugs Buffy* Gotta laugh to keep from crying, right?

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Well, when you put it like that - at least I'm still pretty too. Excellent! :D

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Thanks! *HUGS* I know the feeling by the way.

(BTW, You've seen Prophecy Girl, right?)

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Ummmmm,,,,,,,,,,,,,nope but I read the script once. :D

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Oh god if you can, DO. Ever. I know you're strapped so I'm not saying go out and buy the CD's but if you can ever stream them or find Season 1 at the library to check out. The script can't begin to do it justice. I cry every single freaking time I watch it. (I just put up a couple of PG icons on my post today. GREAT GREAT GREAT episode. *points to icon*)

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Actually I think I may have seen it many years ago when the show first aired in Oz. I did watch a few of the first season eps and I did have the hots for Angel - all mysterious and dark and tall and handsome. Will have to get the dvd's one day.
I posted a pretty Buffy today - just for you. Oh alright, I liked it too. :D

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I just saw it and commented - I thought perhaps you had me in mind! (Or I really am that self-centered esp when it comes to Buffy. *lol*)

"Angel" is definitely one of the ones I recommend from S1 if folks have to pick and choose - there's the need to protect Joyce, the mirror image of Buffy in Darla, his first love and maybe his real "true love"? The one who kicked him out and I'd say he never really got over. (and you'd never guess from that ep that she has a very important role down the line in AtS) That's one of the stunning things about the show, and about S1 - EVERYTHING starts in S1. All the seeds are planted there, no matter how silly or inconsequential the episodes.

And yes I admit I shipped Buffy with Angel at the time, of course I did. She loved him I wanted her to be happy and who doesn't want a happy ending, deep down? I was not yet savvy to the ways of Joss.

Methinks a rewatch is in order. My dear friend Kendra is slowly watching S1 eps and telling me about her reactions - such fun to talk about. She fell in love with Buffy in WTTH - it took me a lot longer than that to actually fall in love with her!

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I'm not sure what I think of Buffy. I never really got into the celebrated BTVS is a fore runner of celebrating that a woman can be the strong one because Joss so often just turned the tables and made the men - even the vampires, the weak one and for me, you do not make someone strong by making someone else weak. But that is a whole other conversation.

I have to say that when all is said and done I wanted Buffy to be with Captain Cardboard - or someone else who could give her kids. I know, it's nature talking. Survival of the race. And I have no idea how that fits in because I was never actually into breeding myself, though we do have a son. But apparently something is hard wired in there. lol.

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Joss LOVES to tear characters down. Absolutely loves it.

My friend Kendra is watching Season 1 for the first time and LOVES Buffy, and HATES Angel and Xander, but she says that she thinks Joss got better at writing men in later series like Firefly and Dollhouse, which she has seen. Perhaps you would like those series better? IDK

I certainly don't think that Joss is some feminist paragon - there are too many regressive messages, especiallly about female sexuality. He's actually a little afraid of women, I think; and so he has to tear them down (Rapes, mystical pregnancies, death etc)

Joss is into tearing characters down, big time, regardless of gender, and no one gets torn down (dies twice - three times actually) and humiliated (loss of social and economic status, loss of parents, etc) more often than Buffy. I don't know if you saw Dead Man's Party in Season 3 - Empty Places is a repeat of that, ganging up on Buffy but without kicking her out of the house. She cries, she is often weak, she needs support - I don't see her as this ball-buster.

In fact, one of the most painful things about the series, for me, is watching Buffy gradually lose the bright confidence she seemed to walk in the door of Sunnydale with in WTTH. She becomes far less confident - and ironically that's the point when I began to love her and identify with her. And I hate what that says about me.

But I know a lot of people don't care about Buffy or even acknowledge her as the protagonist of the show, so I guess they wouldn't be fussed about that?

Then the comics - UGH. I won't even.

There's poor Cordelia, who also loses social and financial status, is cheated on by Xander, is impaled for god sake, leaves btvs to become a really interesting character in her own right, on ats only to have her body taken over by an evil entity, give birth in a mystical pregnancy and end up in a coma. Fred is killed, Darla stakes herself, there are no major female characters left by the AtS.

Then there's Willow and Tara in btvs - two women, but Tara's obvious power and ability in S4 is somehow "downgraded" to make Willow the more powerful person in the pairing. The show almost forgets about Tara's power at times. Then she leaves Willow, becomes a more confident person, a "total woman", goes back to Willow and is killed. Or Anya, abandoned by her "demon" father, and by her fiancee and left adrift, etc.

But apparently something is hard wired in there.

I guess. Once a decade I've had a hormonal surge and a sudden crazy urge to give birth or to nurse a child - and then I take a walk and it goes away immediately and I feel much better. (NOT because I'm a lesbian btw - I've known far too many lesbian mothers to believe that stereotype!)

I wanted Buffy to be with Captain Cardboard - or someone else who could give her kids. I know, it's nature talking.

Interesting *(hides shovel)* Seriously, I liked him for a time and shipped them together in S4, although I ignored the warning signs ("Doomed"). I gues when I was watching I shipped Buffy with whoever she loved and wanted to be with at the given moment. I just wanted her to be happy. But then I would have shipped her with Robin Wood at the beginning of S7 - sexy, cool, and he actually took her out to a nice restaurant, how often did that happen in the series? (It wasn't even Spike that squashed that for me it was the You remind me of my mother line in Get it Done. No thanks *lol*)

As for Riley, I think it could have worked in theory if they'd been willing to go to couples' counseling. And he learned that cheating on your partner is NOT an acceptable way to get their attention. *lol* (That's not what they teach in Iowa - is it?) I really would be curious as to how he would react if something happened after he married Sam - she was promoted, he was injured and couldn't work etc. I don't get the sense that he ever worked on his issues, just sort of retreated and regressed to his old self.

As for kids, given that she and Faith are now the grand matriarchs of the new Slayers, can you imagine Joyce reacting to all these "granddaughters"? There has GOT to be some great, funny AU fanfic in that idea, I swear. (Maybe I can get

clockwork_hart1 to write it? *ponders*)

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I didn't mean to imply that he doesn't tear his girls up. He does indeed get into everyone and makes them all quite human and I really think that's why we love the show - we can identify. And sometimes validate and sometimes feel better about a weakness because one of our heroes went through it.

As for Riley, I should have mentioned that I was so not into the whole vamp bite thing and I didn't see that as stepping out on Buffy, so much as a drug type problem. Riley did not get developed much but the whole man in charge, taking care thing, So not required these days when physical strength takes a back seat to other strengths and men are changing because of it. And so are women. It's a slow process. But I really thought that Riley/Buffy was a crack at that whole paradigm because it was and is so very topical and part of the whole 'female no longer the victim thing'.

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punch-kicker15.livejournal.com

Heh. That's great!

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Thanks hon!

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spikesredqueen.livejournal.com

This is excellent!

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Heh. This reminded me of the meta on Buffy and PTSD I was supposed to write over the summer. And I have a guilt complex about that one. Other than that, this is great!

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No no no - no guilt, sweetie! (As I glance at the 850 unanswered replies in my inbox, or the notes on Buffy and Tara that I still need to pull together, or the dopplegangers meta. Nope, not feeling guilty at all. *lol*)

Anyway schoolwork definitely comes first, and I can wait. I think that will be an interesting discussion. I've always wanted to take it on, but I think it's been like, little bits of the theme have just been "leaking" into these posts all along, which maybe works better for me than "formal meta essay".

Athough now that you mention it, snowpuppies once said she was working on a meta on trauma in the buffyverse and we haven't seen it yet. Although it's pretty much there in all her stories anyway.

BTW - my friend Kendra is watching Season 1 for the first time - she LOVES Buffy already, HATES Xander and Angel; and we got talking about the theme of consent and violation which is a big deal to her. And I had no idea. She talked about the novel she's writing now and how one character had the opportunity to mindwipe the female protagonist but refuses because he respects her too much and it would be against her wishes.

So I broke my no spoilers code and told her all about I Will Remember You. Part of my duty as a friend.

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You're a good friend.

Maybe over the summer we can collaborate on something about trauma? That would be fun!

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Maybe over the summer we can collaborate on something about trauma? That would be fun!

I'd love to!

Now I'm wondering if I need to re-evaulate my concept of "fun".

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I just realized how bad that sentence sounds.

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You know I was joking, right? About the second part, not the first. I'd totally do it.

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I know! I was laughing when i realized how bad it actually sounded!

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clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com

This is a beautiful thing and something that I definitely needed to see right about now with everything in my life falling to shit. All true, every word, and yet she still manages to get out of bed in the morning and save the world (a lot)

I love this so much.

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