Your Monday (VERY Early) Dose of Fandom Positivity, Pimpage and Squee - PGoM style!

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Any resemblance between this image and Edvard Munch's The Vampire is quite unintentional.
Just be grateful I didn't pull out any of my "Excedrin Headache" advert jokes. You're welcome.

** Cast your votes in slayerstillness Challenge 33; the deadline is Tuesday and there are 27 great entries this round!  Then take some time to admire the wonderful winning entries and pretty banners by comlodge for Challenge 29, and by tempertemper for Challenge 32.

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** Then cast your votes for your favorite/best icons in Round 4 of btvsats20in20 - and don't forget to vote in all of the categories: 10 Themes, Category (Shapes) and Artist's Choice.  Voting closes on Thursday, October 9th, so spread the word and let your f'listies know.


I've noticed that there are 21-23 "participants" (voters) listed and not to get persnickity on y'all, but - 23 votes? There's 12 artists, so if every one of the artists votes, plus at least a couple of their friends - that should still be a lot more voters. Now I know for a fact that at least a handful of my friends have voted because my friends are awesome and I hang with the bestest people. However, my nearest and dearest can't be expected to pick up all the slack so go to, people, and make some fan artists happy. It's an easy thing to do.

And if anyone out there is still hesitant to vote because you "don't know art" - tell me the name and address of the person who instilled that abject nonsense into your heads and I will go after them with a shovel. Actually, I'll scold and shake my finger at them. But I promise I will be merciless.

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Banners by dawnofme

** buffyversetop5 Halloween Classic Recs Edition is right around the corner already - how is that even possible? Four days for you to bring your all-time favorite recs of fics, vids, graphics, anything and everything fandom has produced in all the Whedon fandoms! All time periods before 2014 are eligible. Meaning, anything you didn't get to include in the January edition can be included here. I missed last year's classic edition (due to house fire and various other life things that took priority and can be forgiven) but the January edition was a great party, so I don't want to miss this round.

In addition to the banners by dawnofme, check out the snaggable icons by ruuger, kathyh, amavel_bel and eyesthatslay going all the way back to 2005 - the epitome of classic, classy and fun.

Comments

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I read it and I love it. Buffy and Dru mirror each others in so many ways. In a way Dru is Buffy's negative. What she could have been in different circumstances.

Exacty. I was talking to itsnotmymind last year (just before the apartment fire I think - I started making Buffy - Dru pic spam and saved to the computer that burned up); about the parallels between Spike in School Hard as the leader of a gang and the demon gang leader in Bargaining and then the Dru-Buffy connection hit me very hard and I'd never noticed it before: Dru as Angel's "masterpiece", Buffy as Willow's "masterpiece" (for what greater achievement could there be than raising the dead? And if the show had been serious about Angelus, how much more likely that he would have tried to make Buffy his latest "masterpiece"?), how neatly Dru's "it's dark where the slayer is" fits Buffy in Bargaining; how they are both connected by Angel and Spike, both used abandoned by men who are drawn to them and claim to love them; both metaphorical mother-figures, both seers and "madwomen".

The Dark Princess and the Golden Warrior-Goddess.

Your icons are very meta-ish.

Thank you sweetie. I actually do some things just for the prettiness! *lol* And sometimes my concepts get in the way of good design. My eyes icon for this catagory would have been more interesting as an essay because I was trying to make that little image convey too much - and make the viewer work too hard, I think. When I "get it right" it's terrific and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to "get it right"

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And if the show had been serious about Angelus, how much more likely that he would have tried to make Buffy his latest "masterpiece"?

Personally I was thinking about that. Buffy was going to become Dru 2.0 in Angelus' mind, but she saved herself. It would be interesting to explore Dru as a mirror: Dru as the woman who didn't save herself.

how neatly Dru's "it's dark where the slayer is" fits Buffy in Bargaining; how they are both connected by Angel and Spike, both used abandoned by men who are drawn to them and claim to love them; both metaphorical mother-figures, both seers and "madwomen".

The Dark Princess and the Golden Warrior-Goddess.

OH GAWD THIS. Parallels are life, honestly. The possible scenarios are interesting and it could be interesting to explore the further connections in fics. (I'm thinking about my story Shanshu, my darkest one. I made Buffy kill Dru as a first act of her destruction of Angel ... sorry, my mind races)

Thank you sweetie. I actually do some things just for the prettiness! *lol* And sometimes my concepts get in the way of good design.

Prettyness is so important and pretty icons are so precious, but you often get that.