with love in my heart: questions like this simply do not make sense to ask because it’s like. we are talking about Misogynistic Response To Buffy cw supernatural.

remove dean’s masculine role from the show and you are violently gutting the thing. like many of the fans do 😄

I wish I knew enough about buffy fandom to be able to say something abt fan engagement with buffy vs spike (the dean of that show in terms of archetype and fan interest, from what I’ve gathered) but I would be talking out of my ass <3 genuinely the only reason I want to watch that show eventually is for fandom history reasons and character comparisons

L: i love his slyness, his stubbornness, his aloof nosiness, his dry sense of humour, how extreme he is with his curiosity and interests, and how weirdly vague and yet weirdly precise he is as a character all at once. idk I just feel like he just hits the spot in so many difficult-to-define ways for me that just can be incredibly relatable and that I have rarely seen before in any other character, though it's always hard for me to articulate exactly what all those highly relatable things are

Fem!Mikami would be very serious, smart, quiet and a loner like her canon counterpart. Fem!Mikami can be a bit like Takada in that they both would be very intelligent and political. However, that's where the similarities end.

Fem!Mikami would be quite different from Takada as the latter is outspoken & outgoing while the former would be a reclusive introvert.

Fem!Mikami would admire fem!Light a lot from a distance especially if she knew about the latter's Kira identity (just like how it was in canon imo). Fem!Light would be doing more than just meeting fem!Mikami's extremely high standards; Light'd set the standard herself by raising the bar (to Mikami's delight). Light in turn would be highly impressed by Mikami's intelligence yet a little amused at how serious the latter is. She'd like to tease Mikami playfully much to the confusion of the older woman haha.

Oh, that's a tough one. There are so many different aspects and parts that make my fanfiction enjoyable to me, it's hard to narrow it down to just one or two.

But I think I can say - broadly speaking - the love that goes into fanfiction was what made everything else happen to begin with.

Love for the fandom and/or character that bled into the decision to sit down to write and create something. Love was what made me spend hours researching things to make sure I was canon-accurate, or perhaps mostly canon-accurate if the fanfiction itself was canon-divergent, or that I was making a little reference to something else accurately. Love was what encouraged me to take a moment and think about what the characters might do when put in Situation A all the way to Situation Z.

Who'd react the best? The worst? Could I see them behaving this way in canon? If the answer to the last question was "no" I'd rework the scene over and over until I felt like I had my "yes" answer, or very close to it. Which is just another bit of evidence of love when it comes to me and how I write my fanfiction.

If I didn't love something, I wouldn't put in so much effort, y'know?

Fuck yeah it generally does. I have read a few stories from families of victims that describe the constant harassment they’ve faced regarding their deceased family member’s case, people trying to get information and by way of that, forcing them to relive their worst memories. I think many true crime enjoyers forget that these are real people with real lives and real identities. It’s never appropriate to harass a victim’s surviving family for details.

I do think there is a responsible way to report on true crime but ultimately it should be up to the victim’s families on whether or not the story is open for discussion. Also I have a hard time with people profiting off true crime, I think profits should be donated directly to surviving families or to charitable orgs dedicated to violent crime prevention.

Ultimately, I do consume a lot of true crime content but I don’t like to call myself a true crime fan. My interest stems from having studied psychology with specific interests in trauma, criminality, and antisocial behavior. If I ever pursue graduate education in society, I want to study the psychology of violent crime and it’s relationship to trauma. So typically, I’m pursing journalistic sources or content produced by the actual families of victims. Academic research journals are also good, but less accessible. Some examples of productions I feel good about recommending:

Voices for Justice podcast by Sarah Turney, covering her sister’s disappearance and her pursuit for justice. Sarah Turney is also making good content on tiktok and she is actively working to help other surviving family members pursue their own justice.

Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo - podcast by an investigative journalist helping a family find a lost member. This series especially made me aware of the rampant violence toward indigenous women and the lack of investigation into these crimes. Also goes into the consequences of the separation of indigenous families and Canada’s residential school system.

Cold, Season 1 - another investigative journalist podcast covering the disappearance of Susan Powell and the eventual murder/suicide committed by her husband. MASSIVE trigger warning for violence against children. Susan’s story will probably always haunt me, because there’s no end to it. One of my greatest hopes is that one day, her family will have closure.