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From this post - thanks, Barb!

C: What character do you identify with most? 

Oof, this is difficult. I’ve moved through a number of fandoms in the last decade where I’ve identified strongly with one of the characters for a given stage of my life – Sansa Stark, Buffy Summers (and Spike, lol), Aziraphale – but if we’re just talking recent stuff, it’s going to have to be Warlock Dowling, the way I wrote him in An Antichrist Walks Into a Bar and Babel, because I’ve basically had to extrapolate his adult character from a couple of childhood data points, and the character I’ve created is… teenage-me, just a little cooler.

P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)

Very much a gardener. I wish I was an architect, I think my writing life would be a lot easier if I was, and I’d probably write a great deal faster and be less scared of longer fics, but I’ve tried and it’s never quite the same, the way the important details just come to me only when I’m actually writing. And I do enjoy the surprises I get sometimes, so it’s not all bad.

Q: Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?

Ugh, I have a couple of very regretfully abandoned WIPs from Buffy. I have to admit that I’m not going back to that fandom now. It’s a mental health thing – there were things I was going through in my early Buffy days that I don’t want to be reminded of now. But I poured so much love into The Soul Lies Down and In For a Penny, I’m really sad I couldn’t finish them.

There’s certainly no Angel fan equivalent to the “pretty bruised Spike” trope that I know of

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He’s tortured by that dude Spike hires in “In the Dark.” Don’t remember how bloody they made him, though. And I vaguely remember the trials that he went through to try to save Darla as being fairly harsh (holy water and stuff) but again I don’t recall if the makeup department stepped up. And Spike beats the shit out of him in “Destiny,” but again…

Indeed, most of the scenes I remember don’t demand much from the makeup department at all. I just find it interesting- is it an intentional thing, where they wanted to make Angel come across as tougher or something, or is it just one of those things where it slipped through the net? Of course, Illyria doesn’t get particularly bloodied by Hamilton, but she was also only in a handful of episodes. Had she been in more eps, I could see them putting Illyria in a big fight.

Ew, sharing an email address is like sharing a toothbrush.

What a jerk!

rahirah replied to your post “thespianreveur replied to your photoset “spanning years and...”

There's a rash of this lately -- some Giles stan felt the need to pop up and shit all over a Giles-Spike parallels post the other day. (The post in question had over 16k notes, so I doubt the original poster is even still on Tumblr, but still. Rude.)

I’ll never understand the motivation behind ruining someone else’s post just because you happen to dislike what they like. 

sandwichdegato replied to your post “thespianreveur replied to your photoset “spanning years and...”

And I havent watched VM but I understand that Logan isn't a soulless vampire either! And although horrible, Spike's assault is his turning point to get his soul back for her, to be a better man. It's his rock bottom before seeking help out.

There are tons of differences between Logan/Spike and LoVe/Spuffy, but of course, they only thought of mentioning the one difference that could potentially make me feel like shit for shipping Spuffy. They only succeeded in looking like douches, though. I’ll be Spuffy trash till the day I die.

pyrebomb replied to your post “thespianreveur replied to your photoset “spanning years and...”

nearly 20 years but the wank never ends

> That means you get a cool redemption arc!

Actual pumpkin is really bland.  It’s a squash, so even sugar pumpkins, which are used for pie, don’t taste like much on their own.

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The writers loved and hated it. There was a huge conflict going on in the writers’ room in S6, between the ones who were pro-spuffy and the ones who were anti-spuffy. And Joss was off playing with his shiny new Firefly and was like “whatevs.” That’s the short version. The long version is the stuff of fannish nightmares.

Holy shit, are you serious? Because I almost wrote that exact paragraph. Like, I almost wrote “I wouldn’t be surprised if the writer’s room was split down pro-spuffy and anti-spuffy lines and Joss was in the corner like an exhausted catlady trying to herd them until he was like “fuck it, i give up; write whatever you want in whatever episode you get.”” And then I deleted that paragraph because it sounded too assuming and presumptive from a fan’s POV, and just holy shit, are you serious? I was right?

Though honestly, I still find that one of the most fascinating and frustrating things about non-adaptive TV works. Because you’ve got the head writer who’s the “author” and every other writer is pretty much a fanfic writer, trying to do their best to adhere to “canon” characterization. Like, to pull a specific example from Doctor Who (because God, I know way too much about Doctor Who), Steven Moffat doesn’t like the character of Rose Tyler. He’s come out in interviews, saying he thinks she’s needy and clinging, and when you watch his episodes when RTD was the head writer, it shows:

- she gets separated from the Doctor almost instantly

- in one she becomes a damsel in distress, in the other she’s just kind of forgotten

- and in the episode where she’s forgotten, it doesn’t make sense with the overall character arc; it’s like this really weird unharmonious blip in their relationship that season

And it gets to the point where you really do have to ask yourself: Is this really an “accurate” representation of the character? Or is this a product of one particular co-author letting their own fanons slip through?