#buffy tie-in book

[oveliagirlhaditright]

"Buffy always thought of Faith as beautiful, but tonight hers was a tragic, porcelain beauty that seemed delicate and fragile. It troubled and surprised her to think of Faith in such terms, and she hoped it never happened it again." Buffy's thoughts in the season 8 book "The Dark Congress." *cough* Fuffy. *cough*

#Buffy the vampire slayer #Fuffy #Buffy summers #Faith lehane #Buffy book #Buffy tie-in book #The dark congress #quote

[drawingducktalesducks]

You make great art!

Your opinions on Vi’s alternate designs?

I could stare at her all day. Perfection.

Design wise? Her final one is (chef's kiss) SUCH a good balance of showing and contrasting Violet’s personality.

And the alternates show why!

She’s a nerd. Shorthand for that is usually glasses, as seen in almost all her alternative designs. (Think Velma from Scooby Doo.) Not a bad trope.

But at the same time, does her character need a visual short hand for smartness?

Just the way Violet SPEAKS tells you she’s a nerd. She uses big words, and calls people by their full names. When we first meet her it’s in a LIBRARY and her and Webby instantly start switching between various ancient languages.

We don’t need glasses to know she smart and a nerd.

So unless the show is willing to commit to some moments or gags where Violet loses her glasses / takes them off specifically not to see something / cleans them regularly as a character tick (think Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Conservation of Character Design says get rid of them.

Which the show creators did.

(also her introduction scene includes Quackfaster, and I appreciate that, instead of them both wearing glasses- a thing that isn't actually about smartness literally it's just wanting to be able to see- the thing Violet shares with the Terrifying Librarian is... hair tie / hair band, including the color thereof.)

(It's a more personal choice. And it's message is "Practical")

Next is clothing style. Most of her alternates have a more fancy, ‘outfit’ kinda look to them. Like this is something she put together to get a specific Look. Nothing wrong with that. Nerds can be fashionable (Ellie Woods queen thereof).

But… there isn’t anything in Violet’s personality, story, or situation that connects to that idea.

Her things are Books, Learning, Forbidden Magics, Honorable Conduct in Contests and Duels, Adopting Stray Shadow Teens Off The Street As Her New Sister, Brining Pie To A Sleepover, Smacking Invading Moon People With A Spiked Mace, and Using Tibetan Breathing Techniques To Survive Eating Three Bowls Of Deadly Hot Spices In A Row.

The closest she gets to caring about her appearance is when her and Webby (and then her and Lena) put on gruesome costume make up and prosthetics for fun.

So a snazzy outfit, while cool, doesn’t really… jive with the vibe of Violet Sabrewing.

Nerd clothes, like a vest, isn’t needed the same reason glasses aren’t. Also the details would be a pain to draw over and over again. Even Webby’s clothes don’t have that much little bits in them.

High collars again look cool… but Lena’s already got that covered. Stand them next to each other, and where’s the contrast?

Violet wouldn’t “pop” next to Lena if they had that on top of Violet’s dark color scheme and Lena’s dark sweater.

Wearing the same thing (to show characters are connected to each other) works best when either the color or the style DOES contrast sharply

(Huey Louie Dewy and May June wearing basically the same thing as their siblings, but in very different colors)

(side note I’ll make a separate thing for someday: Lena and Webby with button down collar shirts worn under something, but with different style, effect, and colors)

The leggings are seen on two of Violets alternates and I think that got picked for Meta Simplicity and also In-Character Practicality.

They’re athletic, the kind of thing that isn’t at risk of snagging on stuff (befitting an eventual Senior Junior Woodchuck), and the dark color balances out with her hair. And they’re VERY easy to draw. Very good!

Sweater.

Sweater with turtle neck (unless it’s one of those very loose ones) usually gets used as shorthand for “Comfort over Appearance” (Velma again, contrasting Daphne)

And in this case it’s a contrast with Lena who LOOKS like she doesn’t care at first glance but actually has put maybe the most effort into her outfit (sweater stolen from favorite band, dyed her hair, wears bright colored converse in a world where most people go bare foot)

and Webby, who is wearing basically a uniform (picked by her Granny or by herself while daydreaming of experiencing Normal School Things???)

So to balance out Lena’s rebel teen punk look, and Webby’s prim and proper look, Violet has a comfort and practicality look.

BUT!

They kept the eyeshadow.

A VERY GOOD MOVE.

See, eyeshadow on someone who wears an ‘outfit’ (Lena, Daisy) says fashion minded and image conscious.

(this includes Beakly the former spy taking up the role of grandmother).

Eyeshadow on someone who wears a non-snazzy turtle neck and legging with her hair tied away from her face in a simple ponytail says something else completely-

It says, Violet likes eyeshadow, and that is the ONLY reason she wears it.

Either she doesn’t notice that it’s unusual to do this, or she doesn’t care.  

THAT is showing her personality.

If it’s that she doesn’t know it’s unusual, then that fits with her in the Woodchuck Challenge not knowing about smack talk until Lena teaches her, and in Friendship Hates Magic brining a pie to a sleepover, and in The Split Sword of Swanstantine wondering in the middle of a fight if she should change in to more occasion appropriate clothes instead of, you know, running.

Smart yes, savvy to social norms? Not so much.

If it’s that she doesn’t care, then that fits with her direct and blunt way of getting what she wants out of situations, never mind others' objections-

-Instantly running to Webby’s loft so she can see the picture of the demon lord and confirm the crookedness of his fang, repeatedly pressing for using the runes to try contacting the shadow realm despite Webby’s nervous boggle deflections, happily employing smack talk so she can learn it properly without stopping to ask what it’s effect on her competitor might be..

So the clothes of her final design all work really, REALLY well telling new parts of Violet’s personality, without just repeating what we’d instantly know from listening to her talk for half a minute.

Hair.

One of her alternates has loose floofy hair, which I imagine is what canon her would look like without the hair tie, and it rocks.

But the hair tie is kinda important.

Violet isn’t a book nerd who never leaves the library- She’s active, she gets in the thick of things, she’s happy to jump in a fight, and she’s a Junior Woodchuck. Practicality, again, makes more sense. Keeping her hair out of her face works with her character.

Her little flop of bangs is really fun to me too because… well…. It reminds me of Lena.  

Again, it’s different enough to pop while the two stand together, but it’s there. Lena has flopped bang thing. Violet has a curly bang thing. They are sisters. It’s cute!

Also helps her silhouette stand out more against Webby and Lena, who’s hair is pretty smooth and down in general. Gives her this sharp thing that moves around and makes her extra easy to pick out, even when you just see part of her head. Important for a main side-character.

If you're going to add detail, add it to the silhouette -> very big visual payoff.

Colors! COLORS!!!!

Already mentioned the pants balancing her hair nicely, dark on top, dark below, but then there’s her eyeshadow and sweater!

They ALSO tie her with Lena!!!!

Lena’s shirt, hidden under her sweater, is pale blue- the same color her friendship magic is later- it’s the color of Lena being happy and being connected to people.

And Violet’s eyeshadow, is also blue? And Lena’s eyeshadow is purple! Like Violet!

Eyeshadow! That thing both her and Lena wear, them the Sabrewing Sisters, but Webby doesn’t!

That’s so cool! That’s a way to show a connection between them AND their personal tastes, before they even become family! And once they ARE family it helps them visually LOOK like one!

Also, Violet’s green sweater?

Again we’ve got the color contrast compliment thing (huey red dewy blue louie green) this time with Team Magic: Webby pink, Lena blue, Violet green. It helps them feel… individual in scenes they’re all in frame together, while also making them look good next to each other.

The choice of all of team magic’s colors to be either more pastel or duller than the Primary Colors Trio also lets all six of them work together visually, like in Nightmare on Killmoter Hill.

But again, LENA.

Lena has two other bright colors tucked into her design, aside from her pale blue.  

The pink in her hair (visual cue to Webby) and her lime green shoes. Green. GREEN. It’s enough of an important color for it to ALSO be in her friendship bracelet.

And it’s the main color Violet, her adopted little sister, wears.

Oh my heart….

Finally, it’s looks like they tested out ideas of Violet being some kind of, parrot maybe, or wren, or such.

I love her being a humming bird for one very queer reason.

Female violet sabrewing humming birds are actually green, not purple.

And Violet.

Is purple.

Just like her dads.

(also name puns for the win yeeeeessss)

So on the whole, looking at the designs Violet could have had, I guess I’d say they’d make nice occasional outfits for her...

but if you’re going to make her an important supporting member of the cast and if you have to draw her over and over again, almost always with the same other two characters… and if those characters are Webby and Lena...

Then they picked exactly the right design to go with <3

#Ducktales (2017) #Violet Sabrewing #character design meta #Sabrewing Sisters #Lena and Webby mention #i love her i love her i love her i #everything about her design presses the happiness button in my head

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Disney’s writer wage theft, a year on.

In November 2020, SFWA came forward with a stunning accusation: Disney had told the beloved writer Alan Dean Foster (author of the original, bestselling Star Wars novelization) that they would not ever pay him the royalties he was owed.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/disneymustpay/#disneymustpay

Disney argued that Foster’s contract — where he was guaranteed wages for his creative labor on the Star Wars book, which was written before the film was complete and formed the basis for many elements of the final movie — was with Lucasfilm, not Disney. Disney said that when it acquired Lucasfilm, it only acquired its assets (including the right to continue publishing Foster’s book), but not its liabilities (including the obligation to pay royalties to Foster).

The contract lawyer’s technical term for this is tu stupri cognati mihi (“are you fucking kidding me”) (I made that up, but it really should be true). In truth, this “we only acquire assets, not liabilities” argument is grounded in the idea that the workers Disney stole from couldn’t afford to fight them.

That’s where SFWA came in: as an association, it had resources that Foster himself — elderly, sick with cancer, caring for a a sick wife — couldn’t marshal. The org kicked off #DisneyMustPay, a shaming campaign that called on Disney to honor its obligations to the creative workers who made the company its billions.

The campaign rapidly picked up many supporters, especially among creative workers, who understood that if Disney’s theory about acquiring assets and not liabilities was true, then no one was safe. Any royalty-based arrangement — with a label, studio or publisher — could be upended by incorporating a numbered LLC in a corporate crime haven like Delaware or Nevada or South Dakota, and transfering the assets to it. The liabilities, meanwhile, would be owed by another numbered company that could be discarded.

As the campaign picked up steam and more writers came forward, the full scope of Disney’s wage-theft was revealed. The Alan Dean Foster heist wasn’t an isolated incident: it was part of a systematic program of theft from a whole cohort of writers, stemming from Disney’s orgy of acquisitions that saw it merge with Lucas, Fox, Pixar, and other media companies. Disney took the position that all of these corporate mergers only transfered the literary assets — the right to publish — but not the obligations — the requirement to pay authors.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/writers-must-be-paid/#pay-the-writer

It’s been a year since SFWA published its followup report, revealing the widespread practice of wage theft. On the eve of that anniversary, the group has published a followup:

https://www.writersmustbepaid.org/

They note that Disney has paid the highest-profile writers what it owed them, but that the company has refused to engage in the systematic accounting and negotiations that SFWA demanded, and that many lower-profile writers are still waiting for justice.

“You still refuse to recognize your obligations to lesser-known authors who wrote media tie-in works for Marvel, for Star Wars, for Aliens, for Predator, for Buffy: TVS, and more, universes that you’ve bought the rights to, along with the obligations to those creators.”

The SFWA #DisneyMustPay task force (@Neil_Gaiman, Tess Gerritsen, Lee Goldberg, Mary Robinette Kowal and Chuck Wendig) note that Disney continues to reprint and reissue works by these unpaid authors, all under the pretense that they are not owed a penny, nor the courtesy of an accounting or even notification that their work is reissued.

This is shameful, and it points to the hollowness of Disney’s long-running holy war to get us all to “respect copyright.” Disney respects copyright only to the extent that it serves as a charter for corporate abuse of creators, or a means by which Disney can reach beyond its corporate walls and dictate the conduct of its competitors or other industries. When it comes to copyright as a tool for securing the rightful wages of creative workers, Disney exhibits contempt far beyond they taunts of The Pirate Bay or the insouciance of bootleg DVD hawkers in a night market.

Copyright’s power to create worker power has always been oversold, mostly by giant entertainment companies who correctly understood that the more copyright creators got, the more copyright they could expropriate through non-negotiable contracts. Copyright isn’t useless to creators, but it is also no substitute for fair contracting laws, labor organizing, and antitrust enforcement.

This coming September, Beacon Press will publish “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back,” in which Rebecca Giblin and I explain how the creative labor market was rigged, and how to think beyond copyright as a tool for unrigging them:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/

In the book, we talk about Disney’s theft from Foster and other writers, and analyze the legal, economic and political structures that led to that situation — the “monopolistic flywheel” that let corporate robber barons go from strength to strength, so they could shift more dollars from their workers to their shareholders. But even more importantly, we present a whole basket of shovel-ready policy prescriptions — for creators, creators’ rights organizations, regulators and lawmakers — to reverse the flywheel.

We delve into the parts of copyright that Disney objects to: for example, the “termination right” in US copyright law that lets creators take back their copyrights after 30 years and resell their work, or reissue it themselves. It’s a subject we were well-poised to write about, because Rebecca’s one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject and co-authored the most comprehensive study to date on termination:

https://doctorow.medium.com/take-it-back-e3689628f4f0

Disney is fighting hard against termination right now, as the heirs of the creators who Marvel’s superheroes (including Stan Lee’s heirs) seek to terminate their assignments of copyright to Marvel and take back the characters:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/marvel-suing-avengers-copyright-termination-1235020110/

Termination isn’t limited to heirs. It can be a huge boon to living creators, particularly those whose desperation caused them to sign grotesque, lopsided contracts at the start of their careers. We can make termination an even stronger force for workers’ rights by shortening the term and streamlining the process.

Some of our most beloved living creators are already benefiting from termination: writers like Stephen King and George RR Martin have clawed back their early books and resold them on more favorable terms. But they’re doing retail termination: Francine Pascal (Sweet Valley High) and Ann Martin (Babysitters’ Club) have terminated wholesale, and taken back hundreds of books.

Termination isn’t just for books! George Clinton spent years chasing his crooked ex-manager in the courts, claiming that he’d stolen the copyrights to Clinton’s catalog. Clinton definitively settled the matter by terminating the copyright assignments to 1,413 of his works.

For too long, creators’ rights groups have focused on copyright as the main tool for ensuring fair compensation — and not even all of copyright, rather, the parts of copyright that present the biggest upside to the entertainment monopolies who profit from our works but do everything they can to avoid their obligations to us.

Today, artists’ groups are becoming more involved in antitrust and other non-copyright policies that shape outcomes for creators. Remember: Disney’s wage theft started with a string of nakedly anticompetitive mergers — mergers that a prudent competition regulator would have blocked on sight.

We didn’t have prudent competition regulators back then. For 40 years, corporations benefited from the Reagan-era doctrine of “consumer welfare,” an antitrust theory that embraces monopoly as “efficient” and explicitly excludes the effect of monopoly on worker pay from consideration.

At long last, that idiotic doctrine is being upended. A revolution in antitrust is underway, led by hard-fighting, brilliant regulators like Lina Khan, Tim Wu and Jonathan Kantor. Unlike the Copyright Office, the DoJ and FTC are forums where creators can win victories without strengthening the whip-hand that entertainment monopolists wield over them.

What’s more, when creators fight corporate power, they don’t fight alone. The struggle for workers’ rights is universal, from Starbucks baristas to long-haul truckers, from Amazon warehouse workers to NYT tech workers. Work is work, wage theft is wage theft, and we’re all in this fight together.

[Image ID: The Disney Must Pay banner, depicting a human figure overshadowed by the silhouette of a giant, fanged mutant mouse. It's captioned '#DearMickey, a contract is a contract. #DisneyMustPay.']

#pluralistic #disney must pay #pay the writer #dear mickey

[coraniaid]

@elsalapizza

The short answer, I think, is no. Especially not if Faith didn't realize that that's what actually happened to her.

It's not stated either way, but it's possible that the Council don't normally confess to their role in the Cruciamentum at all if the girl taking part in it survives (fanon seems to be that the Council do let the Slayer know after the fact, but I don't think anything Giles or Travers says in Helpless backs this up). If she did know about it, there's the same question of why she wouldn't have warned Buffy, of course (I don't think Faith is the type to consider herself bound to follow the rules about these things and not reveal something like that), and I'm not sure she'd be quite so upset about her first Watcher's death. But if it happened and she never knew it was a test, I imagine she'd be reluctant to admit to once having briefly lost her powers for no reason, yeah.

Faith was presumably called in mid-May 1998 and didn't get to Sunnydale until October. That means, I think, that's there time for Faith to go through the Cruciamentum a couple of months after being called, with her watcher not dying until August or even September. We don't know how much time passed between Faith's watcher dying and Faith getting to Sunnydale, but it only has to be enough time for news of her watchers death to somehow make it back to the Council. Maybe it was only a few days. The only other obstacle I can see is that it's a bit surprising a Slayer called that recently would be able to survive the Cruciamentum at all. But if anyone was going to survive a vampire without any powers, I suppose Faith is as likely as anyone.

(For that matter, and with much the same reasoning, it's also possible that Faith went through her Cruciamentum in Sunnydale, while Giles was acting as her Watcher. That would at least explain where Faith was during one of those random early season episodes she's not around for. For that matter, it could even explain where she was during Helpless. I don't necessarily think it's likely, but it's possible.)

The biggest case against this idea, I think, is simply that I don't believe Faith really is older than Buffy. She certainly could be: a line of dialogue in Graduation Day suggests she is (when she describes Buffy as "all dressed up in big sister's clothes"), and I've heard that the tie-in book Go Ask Malice states it outright (but I don't know if the writers consider this canon and I do know I don't). On the other hand, Eliza Dushku is a few years younger than SMG, nothing other than that one line on screen suggests Faith is older, and surely the default assumption is that sucessive slayers generally get younger, not older? A lot of the way Faith acts suggests she's younger than Buffy, too, to me at least (e.g. the fact that the Mayor wins her over with cookies and a new Playstation and generally treats her as a child and not a legal adult) but I don't think there's anything conclusive.

But yeah, that's definitely a possibility, I think.

Although, if Faith did go through the test before Sunnydale (and Buffy knows she's older than her and won't have to go through it herself in the future), I guess the question becomes: how does Buffy feel about the fact Faith didn't warn her about it before it happened to Buffy? Did they talk about that?

(Ultimately the answer to all these questions is "the writers probably didn't spend any time at all asking themselves how old Faith was or what the practicalities of the Cruciamentum were", but it's fun to speculate as if they did.)

#btvs

[drjohndisco]

Title: First Encounters

Pairing: n/a

Word Count: 600+

Summary: Wesley and Yarrow meet for the first time, and Yarrow isn't impressed.

Warnings: mentions of blood/potential feeding on a human, minor spoilers for season three of buffy the vampire slayer.

( Ao3 Link )

[ Sunnydale School Library ]

With a quiet sigh, Yarrow took hold of the box. They’d been in the library longer than usual, and the bloodlust (and the fidgety-ness that came with it) was beginning to rise.

(In fact, Yarrow was almost 100% sure that Giles had offloaded Wesley onto them so he wouldn’t have to pay proper attention to his prattling any more - especially since he’d absconded to his office five minutes ago.)

‘You’re cold, are you sure that you’re okay?’ Wesley asked.

Shocked that he’d noticed Yarrow let go of the box -- dropping it directly onto Wesley’s foot. He cried out, and stepped backwards towards the railing behind him. Then, within seconds, Yarrow had caught him by the tie, halting him in his tracks.

(After all, they didn’t want to injure a third watcher (no matter how much he was getting under their skin.) Giles would kill them if that happened.)

But, now that they were closer to him than before, Yarrow was able to sense just how loud (and fast) his heart was beating.

Surely it wouldn’t matter if…?

‘Uh, Yarrow?’ Wesley said awkwardly, breaking their thought process. ‘I think you can let me go now. You’re going to choke me if you’re not careful.’

So, Yarrow let Wesley go -- dropping him unceremoniously onto the hard wooden floor.

‘Oh!’ Wesley groaned. ‘Thank you.’

‘No problem.’ Yarrow replied curtly and (before Wesley could notice they’d gone) Yarrow had disappeared into the shadows.

[ Giles’ Office ]

‘Yarrow?’ Giles asked, concerned. He’d stopped in the doorway, and was watching them thoughtfully. ‘What happened? Are you all right?’

Yarrow shut the door to his fridge, taking a mug of blood (and a pink curly straw) out of it, before turning around to face him.

‘I dropped a box on his foot and then, unfortunately, had to catch him.’ Yarrow replied, nonchalantly.

‘I do hope you didn’t damage any of the books.’ Giles replied.

‘Of course that’s what you got from that sentence, Dad.’ Yarrow laughed, leaning backwards against the wall. ‘Also, it’s not like he didn’t deserve it. He’s very punchable.’

‘I will neither confirm ‘nor deny that statement.’ Giles said, then paused. ‘Do you think you’ll be comfortable enough to join us again after you’re done here?’

‘I will be.’ Yarrow stated, taking the straw into their mouth.

‘Good.’ Giles said, leaning down and quickly pressing a kiss to Yarrow’s head before straightening back up. ‘Then, I’ll see you again in a bit.’

[ Yarrow’s House - Evening ]

‘What…?’ Yarrow said, opening their door to see Wesley standing there. He’d been the last person they’d expected to see, especially this late at night.

(Thank goodness they were still wearing their outfit (a blue shirt and brown pants) from earlier, and hadn't opted for their sleep clothing - which was decidedly less professional.)

‘Uh, I need a place to stay.’ He replied awkwardly. ‘Giles told me you had a spare room.’

(Ah. Offloaded once again.)

‘I do.’ Yarrow said, knowing they couldn’t (unfortunately) leave him outside in the cold. ‘Please, come in.’

‘Thank you.’ He said, as he stepped past Yarrow into the house. Yarrow watched as he carefully attempted to balance his luggage (a bag and two suitcases) between his arms.

‘Is it okay if I leave my stuff downstairs?’

‘Sure.’ Yarrow replied, knowing that disaster would strike (again) if he didn’t. ‘We can deal with them tomorrow.’

‘Great.’ Wesley mumbled, leaning the suitcases against the wall and shuffling the bag over to his other arm. ‘Now, where am I headed?’

‘Your room’s upstairs, on the left.’ Yarrow explained. ‘You’ve also got a bathroom attached, but I’d advise you to be careful with the taps, as they’re a bit rusty. Cupboard hinges and curtain rails should function perfectly fine, and there’s a linen cupboard in the hall - for sheets and other stuff, since the bed probably isn’t made.’

‘Okay.’ He replied, as he began to slowly trudge his way up the stairs.

‘Oh, and Wesley?’ Yarrow called out, after shutting the door behind themselves. ‘I’m very sorry that we got off on the wrong foot this morning, so to speak.’

This statement was met only with a loud groan, which made Yarrow grin.

(Maybe this unexpected ‘arrangement’ of theirs could turn out to be fun after all.)

#my writing* #[r] like a moth to a flame #self ship

[dumbass-duo-showdown]

ROUND 2

So I’m back! Bracket time!

Reminder the time zone being used is CET

APPLE BRACKET

Aka Cartoons, Anime, and games associated with such (fire emblem and ace attorney)

Day 1 22/4, finished

Part 1: 5pm

Reigen Arakata (mob psycho 100) vs Corazon (one piece), finished

Lord Garmadon (Lego ninjago) vs Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb), finished

Iroh (avatar: the last airbender) vs Bob Blecher (bob’s burgers), finished

Iruka Umino (naruto) vs Darkwing Duck (darkwing Duck), finished

Part 2: 8pm

Hakoda (avatar; the last airbender) vs Ice King (adventure time), finished

Greg Universe (Steven universe, he won an extra battle because I forgot him at first) vs Splinter (teenage mutant ninja turtles), finished

Bruno Bucciarati (JoJo’s bizarre adventure) vs Greil (fire emblem: path or radiance), finished

Professor Kukui (Pokémon) vs Phoenix Wright (ace attorney), finished

Day 2: 24/4, finished

Part 1: 5pm

David Evans (Inazuma 11) vs Loid Forger (spy x family), finished

Tim Lockwood (cloudy with a chance of meatballs) vs Oscar Proud (the proud family), finished

Shouta Aizawa (my hero academia) vs Donald Duck (ducktales), finished

Sailor Uranus (sailor moon) vs Skipper (penguins of Madagascar), finished

Part 2: 8pm

Sully (monsters ink) vs Kouhei Inuzuka (sweetness and lighting), finished

Alibert (wakfu) vs Meta Knight (Kirby), finsihed

Gru (despicable me) vs Zenkichi Hasegawa (persona), finished

Kanan Jarrus (Star Wars: rebels) vs Mr Ping (kung fu panda), finished

BAPELSIN BRACKET

Aka live action media, books, and video games & graphic novels not associated with anime (so no light novels or tie ins)

Day 1: 26/4 5pm, finished

Bobby Nash (9 1 1 on fox) vs Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek, deep Space 9), finished

Subject Delta (bioshock) vs Atticus Finch (how to kill a mockingbird), finished

Paul Blofis (Percy Jackson) vs Gomez Addams (the Addams family), finished

Lee Everett (telltale’s the walking dead) vs Waymond Wang (everywhere everything all at once), finished

Part 2: 8pm

Joel Miller (the last of us) vs Calvin’s dad (Calvin and Hobbes), finished

Pyrrha Dve (the locked tomb) vs Common Wubbox (my singing monsters), finished

Doc Louis (punch out!!) vs Riki (xenoblade), finished

Bob Cratchit (a Christmas carol) vs Mo Folchart (inkheart), finished

Day 2, 28/4

Part 1: 5pm

Alfred Pennyworth (Batman) vs Asgore Dreemurr (undertale), finished

Dave Seville (Alvin and the chipmunks) vs Chimney Han (9 1 1), finished

Glamrock Freddy (fnaf: security breach) vs Bail Organa (Star wars) , finished

Kim Dokja (omniscient Reader’s viewpoint) vs Hal Wilkerson (Malcom in the middle), finished

Part 2: 8pm

Lee Scoresby (his dark materials) vs Dream (sandman) , finished

Thrushpelt (warrior cats) vs Barret Wallace (final fantasy 7), finished

Domingo Montoya (the princess bride) vs Terry Jeffords (Brooklyn 99), finished

Rupert Giles (Buffy) vs Pollination Tech 9 Smith (the sims 2: strangetown), finished

QUICK QUESTIONS

WHY THIS PAIR UP? I’m a bringer if chaos, also it was random

What time zone? CET!

How do I do propaganda? Well first you reblog with a text post, don’t put the propaganda in the tags. Or send me an ask! I will make sure to reblog it with the right tags

Hey I saw you made a mistake, what should i do? First, don’t use anon asks to correct my spelling and if I misuse slang. Just tell me directly. If it is 2 hours after a poll has launched, I will redo it immediately. But I will write down the mistakes I make and correct them later on

CODE OF CONDUCT

Previous battles

Main Rounds

ROUND 1

Second chance/dad mansion break in

ROUND 1

The only way to show how the battles (second chance) will happen cuz it’s random AN EXTRA NON DAD BATTTLE?!?!?!?!?!?

#best dad battle #tumblr tournament #tumblr bracket #tumblr poll #jjba #bioshock #9 1 1 #Corazon #arakata reigen #ace attorney #my singing monsters #punch out #sims 2 strangetown #bioshock 2 #darkwing Duck #omniscient readers viewpoint #ffvii

[lilacsandorangeblossoms]

I posted a couple new chapters. Tagging: @austennerdita2533, @crazychicke, @karinanic, @mydarlingklaus @i-believe-in-melinda-may, @sapphic-lottienat, @gh-0-stcup

Chapter 4: Spike leans down and runs a finger down the side of Dru’s face. “Darling wake up.”

“I was dreaming we were in Paris.”

“You hated Paris.” Spike swallowed. He never thought he would be doing this but after last night and his conversation with Buffy, he knows he has to. It’s not fair to any of them, he never broke up with Dru, he distanced himself. Now he’s with Buffy but to do right by both he has to officially break up with Dru.

“Dru, we–” Spike is shushed by Dru who puts a finger up to her lips then to his lips.

“My wise and brave knight is no longer mine. You’re all covered with each other.”

He brings their foreheads together. “I’ll always be your wise and brave knight. You delivered me from mediocrity, I was lucky to have touched such a black beauty. You never stopped surprising me.”

Dru tenderly smiles at him. “Awww my sweet William. I will miss your bleeding poetry.”

“I’m still going to cure you, I’m just not dating you anymore.”

She caresses his cheek and he leaves a tender kiss on her forehead.

Chapter 5:

Spike reaches out and glides his thumb across a spot of blood on Buffy’s lips. He licks it off his thumb. Buffy smiles at him as the dead guy between them falls off a bench.

“We didn’t release.”

Spike kicks the dead body as he moves closer to her on the bench. “He was homeless and nobody will be looking for him. We do have to find someone for Dru. Do you want to pick tonight?”

Buffy points to a random woman passing by.

Xxx

“Spike, After I drink blood why do I also want sex? Is that still the bloodlust?”

Buffy and Spike are walking back home with Dru’s dinner; he has his arm around her shoulders. “No, you’re past the bloodlust. It’s a vampire thing. The drinking of blood can be very sexual, sharing a person with someone you care about or biting the person you care about is orgasmic.”

“Blood gives us life, makes us something other than dead. It makes us hard.” He removes his arm from around her shoulders, taking her hand and putting it over his Jean-lad groin.

She smirks up at him, rubbing his hard-on through his Jeans. “I care about you too Spike, feels like you need help.”

Chapter 6: Angel walks into his apartment and is punched in the face by Buffy. Caught off guard, he stumbles back, dropping his pig’s blood on the floor.

“Eww, that blood doesn’t even smell good, what’s wrong with it?” All the blood she has ever had has been from a person.

Buffy questioning his blood choices and the punch to the face has given her minions enough time to tie his hands behind his back. “Who are you?”

Buffy puts a finger up to her lips as she puts a gag in his mouth.

Xxx

Buffy comes into the living room. Dalton is sitting at the table writing and looking at a book while Spike stands over him, waiting impatiently.

Buffy has a pep in her step as she comes in; she is pretty proud of herself. She comes up behind Spike and wraps her arms around his waist and leans up to give his neck a kiss. She bites his earlobe and tells him, “I got a surprise for you daddy.”

#buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #spike #spuffy #drusilla #Darla #angel #spuffy fanfic

[jennycalendar]

ALSO BUILDING OFF MY GILES THOUGHTS it's why i always say that i just Do Not Get the giles fans who don't also like jenny, because what jenny represents to giles is so significant! she inspires him towards positive growth through her thirst for adventure and through what he perceives as this dedication to putting herself and her desires first! he likes being around this person who is so unapologetically Not Tied To Anything and Not Bothered By It and then also simultaneously completely supporting his own calling!

note that when jenny pushes him out of his comfort zone, it is never connected to his responsibilities as a watcher! i have seen shitty giles fanfiction that suggests that jenny doesn't fully understand giles's responsibilities as a watcher and resents that she doesn't come first, but canon actually actively contradicts that reading -- most clearly, in school hard, where he is about to go off on a suicide mission because he Has To Protect Buffy, and she is visibly upset but tells him only to "be careful." their next scene together is one where he essentially gives her an opportunity to break things off with him and she responds by Physically Holding Onto Him. there are certain implicit messages sent by both of these gestures: i love you, and i hate that this is something that you have to do, but i know that there is no situation where i can argue you out of it. (and the retconned backstory we get for her also implies that she DEEPLY understands his dedication to his calling, which makes this one-second interchange so much richer!)

so she will drag him on silly little adventures and bug him about coffee on books but there are lines she doesn't cross. it is a kind of playful exploration that giles intrinsically feels safe with, because (while he doesn't know this), jenny comes from a situation that is so much like his, so she knows how to handle him! and i don't even really think it's a conscious decision jenny makes, like she isn't Trying To Take Care Of Him, she just loves this guy so much and she knows how hard it is to be weighed down by this destiny you didn't choose and she's not going to make THAT part of his life harder for him. she throws herself into instead being a distraction. a reprieve. a place where when he is with her he is not thinking about anything but her, and while this is pointed to as smth that is so profoundly loving on giles's part, it is also really magical that jenny has and uses this ability she has to Turn This Anxious Man's Brain Off For A Minute.

when giles is with jenny he is worried about what she thinks of his tie, if he's said something dumb, if she still likes him. when giles is by himself he is worried about if he's a failure as a watcher, if he's really going to be able to keep these kids safe, if someday he's going to be standing by another grave. the fact that jenny is constantly teasing giles and turning off the part of his brain that is thinking about all the reasons why he shouldn't do things he wants to do, BUT that she also understands that there are limits to what he can and can't do and is able to keep him safe and on the right path, is soooo indicative of the positive growth that he experiences when he's with her, and the ways that it would have continued had she lived!

#meta #rupert giles #calendiles #none of this is new i just think about it all the time.

[buckybarnesss]

i pulled put my copy of on fire today to reference something for a reddit post (don't @ me about it).

interesting that this is the only book tie in they did for teen wolf. they could've done a whole side series like buffy, angel and charmed used to do. the unseen adventures and shit. imagine.

they don't do cross media experiences like they used to that's for sure.

#my blog #teen wolf

[throughhazeleyesofgreen]

Nine People I Want to Get to Know Better

Thank you for the tag, @waywardcheshire

Last Song:  Teleconnect Part 1 by VNV Nation. Absolutely love their music.

Favorite Color:  Purple or Midnight Blue. Pretty much most colors that reminds me of the sky at late sunset.

Last Movie/TV Show:  Currently watching through Buffy again for a fic series I’m working on. Nearing the end of season 3. Movie before that was Bullet Train.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory:  All of the above.

Relationship Status:  Seriously dating someone for about 5 years now.

Last Thing I Googled:  Probably something food or music related.

Current Obsession: Tie between Supernatural and Buffy right now. Been a fan of Supernatural since 05 and Buffy a bit before then. Obsession is probably due to that fic series I’m writing. Could go feral talking about all the details having Sam dropped in the Buffy verse S4 and his relationships with the Scoobies over time. Not to mention how early seasons Dean would react.

See, can't shut up about it.

Last Book:  I mainly read fanfiction but last book would be Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

Looking Forward To: Attending a music concert in the summer and posting the fic I have been writing for the past 6-7 months. Damn you perfectionism.  

Tagging the following people but no pressure to them if they don’t want to play. Also, if you see this post and feel like doing it even though I haven’t tagged you, please do!

@writinginthesecrettrees

@ruinedsam

@lonewolf638

@lizdoral79

@out-in-the-open

@arwenadreamer

@samwinchesterism

@inbredbrotherhood

@sammyhale

#about me

[desirepathzine]

The Desire Path Ins and Outs of 2024

IN

Full album listens

creative display of plushies

hanging art on the wall instead of just letting it sit on desks and window sills

trimming your hair

wizard print. Forever. Stars and celestial symbols are always in.

Tie-in novels. Buffy. Vampire the Masquerade. The Crimson Peak novelization. They're in.

USING THE LIBRARY now more than ever

obnoxious jewelry from the thrift store.

writing for no one

OUT

Doubt

Fear

Doom scrolling

Finishing bad books

Out of character fanfiction

Not dancing when out at the club

Blind buying perfume

May we all do our best this year.

#zine #art #list #ins and outs #happy new year #2024

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Parallels, because of the line I underlined.

But this scene in "Child of the Hunt" is just too cool. It's an intense scene between Buffy and Angel, of course. But the Wild Hunt is just an amazing enemy (I say as someone who has now read two series that has done that:)). And I love how you can feel Buffy's fear here, that is so justified. "Child of the Hunt" all around is a great book.

Edit: I feel like it's self-explanatory in this scene, but if the Wild Hunt sees or hears you, you become a member of their crew.

#buffy the vampire slayer #bangel #parallels #child of the hunt #buffy book #buffy tie-in book #rupert giles (mentioned) #rupert giles #angel and giles #buffy and giles #the scoobies #buffy summers #angel #another awesome thing about this book is that it introduces us to info about lucy hanover for the first time who becomes a pretty important #character in the tie-in books

[cobalt-knave]

#Polls #Hyperspecific poll

[incognitajones]

TV shows to get to know me

@anghraine tagged me for a meme in which you’re supposed to pick 8 TV shows to watch to get to know me. Like them, I couldn’t think of that many! I don’t watch a ton of TV, if only because I’m more of a book or movie person.

But, in roughly chronological order:

Anne of Green Gables - I grew up on the 80s CBC version, accept no substitutes! Megan Follows was a red-headed icon.

Twin Peaks - bizarre, terrifying, mesmerizing, the reason I can tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue.

X-Files - a truly formative experience; searching for “more” between seasons is how/why I discovered fandom and fanfiction. Scully was another red-haired icon and a role model. 

Buffy/Angel - entered my second phase of fandom with these shows, which introduced me to online communities that kept me sane while my kids were young.

Poker Face - the cast is amazing and the writing is so sharp; Rian Johnson is a master at planting story seeds and making them pay off.

No idea who to tag for this one but if you feel like it, join in!

#memes #i did the thing #tv

[coraniaid]

Out of curiosity, how did you chose your URL?

This is kind of a boring answer I'm afraid but my URL doesn't have much thought behind it.

Back in 2018 (I think?) I needed a username on fanfiction.net to post my (ridicuously over-ambitious and currently still unfinished) Mass Effect AU fanfic which (1) wasn't already taken; (2) wouldn't tie me down to Mass Effect too obviously (or at all) if I wanted to try writing something else later; (3) I'd actually remember.

I was reading a book on Welsh mythology at the time, and ... well, this name worked. Later I realized that it was also free on both AO3 and Tumblr and since (in theory) I joined Tumblr to try to promote that Mass Effect AU / find other people who liked Mass Effect (and only then sort of fell into the BtVS fandom later) I thought it would make sense to keep using the same name.

I think I stopped working on the aforementioned Mass Effect AU within a couple of months of joining Tumblr (during which time I might have made as many as two posts about it?) but that was not the plan at the time. In fact while I was outlining my first Buffy fanfic -- which of course ended up being a quarter of a million words long -- I distinctly remember thinking it would be a fun short distraction from my then 'main' writing project. If I had known I was probably never going to post another chapter of that first fic (which at this point, being honest, I'm almost certainly not) I would probably have chosen a different name for my Tumblr blog and might have tried to pick something at least marginally Buffy related.

#thanks! #if anybody was following me hoping for progress reports on an obscure ME fic that hasn't been updated in almost half a decade then ... uh #sorry you had to find out this way?

[evilwickedme]

What do all the terms mean? Like what's a tradeback? And any related words you can think of, I know I've heard a lot that I don't know what they mean but I don't remember them right now

hey for sure!

(the images are just random ones I found on google to demonstrate)

basically when it comes to comics they can come in lots of different forms, and the terms can overlap and be a little confusing.

the original way to get a comic - well, aside from the funny pages in a newspaper - is a single issue. between say 20 to 25 pages, more if it's a special issue like a pride collection, with ads taking up a few pages in the middle. Supposed to tell a full story from beginning to end, although it might tie into the issue before or after.

a trade - or trade paperback, or trade hardback, sometimes shortened to a tradeback - is a collected edition of a number of single issues, reprinted in usually chronological order, to tell a slightly larger stories. usually if you go to a comic book store and pick a book up that actually resembles a book, it's going to be a trade of some kind. most trades getting published nowadays have around 5-6 issues, but sometimes you'll see a trade of significantly larger chunks, especially for classic stories, for maxi series*, if a run is short and you might as well, for an Event(tm) that would be too difficult to read otherwise, or for things published for the express purpose of becoming a graphic novel.

*where a mini series is a pre-planned limited series that is usually between 4 and 6 issues, a maxi series is a pre-planned limited series that's a little bit longer, like 10 or 12 issues

examples off my shelves for slightly larger trades include watchmen (express purpose of becoming a graphic novel); deadpool by kelly thompson (the whole run is ten issues, so might as well); the death of superman (a classic story); spider-verse (an Event); and batman: the long halloween (a maxi series).

trades are usually paperback, although there will sometimes be limited hardback releases for various reasons, such as it being a collector's edition. for some reason my trades of angel: after the fall are hardback, which I didn't expect till they showed up.

for marvel, regular trades for series are printed with the numbers on the bottom of the spine, so you can collect them and not have any doubles; as such as I have Alias volume 1 through 4, easy peasy. dc is weird about this, and sometimes prints them on the side, sometimes on the back, and sometimes you just have to look inside for which issues are being reprinted. it's a nightmare and I don't understand it.

aside from single issues and trades there are also omnibuses, which are just REALLY BIG trades, to be honest. these things are massive, and technically will get you the most bang for your buck - but it's a big upfront expense. they're higher quality than your normal trade (or at least are supposed to be), they're printed on slightly bigger paper so they're easier to read, and also, at least for all of my hardcover omnis, they're actually sewn, which anybody who's ever talked to me knows is a rarity in today's hardback book market, but makes sense because it reduces the strain on the spine. these things aren't printed for just everything. one of the omnis I have is the gwenpool omnibus, which includes all her main titles and most of her appearances to date - that's not nothing! depending on the omni and how long the issues were, this thing can contain several dozen issues, all in one place.

there is such a thing as a paperback omni, but they're rare, and in my opinion, stupid. I have a collected edition of half of season eight of buffy that's supposedly an omni (it says it on the cover at least), and it's literally half the size of the original comics (instead of being a little bit bigger) and it's still falling apart.

generally, if you're reading an ongoing run, you're either going to be following the single issues or the trades - at least for marvel, who publish the trades in a timely manner; dc is, again, fucking weird about trades, and I would love to pick their brains on why they think it's okay to take six months to a year to maybe print a trade, when for marvel it's on the shelf the next month, guaranteed.

thanks for asking and I hope this helps!

#if anybody wants me to talk in depth about my collection. yes I will thank you #if you're reading digitally you're just reading a digital edition of one of the above #comics #marvel comics #marvel #dc #gail speaks #fun fact there used to be an omnibus for deadpool by posehn and duggan and it's definitely a wet dream of mine to have one #ask #anonymous