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When Fandom's Collide

Well this is interesting and pushing me towards getting tickets for CHESS?

Sarah Michelle Gellar's post on FB:
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Ironically, I started watching Buffy because I'd fallen in love with Anthony Stewart Head in Chess. My Buffy and Chess fandoms have collided?
I was obsessed with CHESS in the 1980s. I'm not now though? But it is intriguing that it's Gellar's favorite musical and she was flying all over the country to support Danny Strong (aka Jonathan from Buffy).

Another case of fandoms that have collided? Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine, just stated in a recent interview that she comfort watches Buffy, specifically Season 6, and even came close to calling her most recent album - "Season 6". Someone in the comments to the video where she announces this - wondered how you can comfort watch S6. Folks, we all have things that comfort us? Some people like Hallmark Movies, some baseball games, some Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

I found Season 6 Buffy very relatable and comforting - and it's what brought me into the fandom. Don't judge. It's okay if you don't get it.
The fact that one of my favorite musicians does...is more than enough for me.

Oh from the Calvin and Hobbes Fandom - Bill Waterstone who drew and wrote Calvin and Hobbes, states that the two versions of Hobbes aren't meant to convey Calvin's imagination vs. Reality, but rather Calvin's perception of Hobbes and other's perceptions of Hobbes. Waterstone wanted to get across that we all see the world or perceive the world and reality differently, and literally drew those differences into his comic strip. [I've only really been a huge fan of Calvin and Hobbs when it comes to comic strips.]

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Optometrist appointment was obscenely expensive - it was the contact fittings and new contacts. My insurance refused to pay more than $51 for it. And the FSA wouldn't cover it. [I need contacts, because glasses give me a headache and I have no depth perception with them.]

But I rewarded myself with a trip to Planted to pick up a blueberry muffin, apple tart (about the same as the fruit tart, but better crust and a touch sweeter), corn bread, and a chocolate chip cookie. I ignored the Matcha glazed donut and the brownie (didn't much like either last round). Then took a long walk to the Seventh Avenue Subway Station (as opposed to the Carrol Gardens station) through Gowanus and Park Slope. It was a lovely afternoon - in the low sixties with clear blue skies, and the trees aflame with color, so why not?

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4. Have you ever received a birthday present that was just perfect for you? What was it?

Probably? But no real memory of it at the moment. My brain is blank.

5. Monopoly went on sale for the first time on this day in 1935. Have you ever played it?

Many, many, many times while growing up. Multiple versions. Not really a fan.

6. Have you ever listened to a play on the radio?

Yes, Star Wars radio play, along with a few others here and there.

7. How long can you stand on one leg – is it easier on your left leg, or your right leg?


Been doing a lot lately due to sciatic nerve - so about twenty-thirty minutes, maybe longer or as long as is necessary? Lately it is easier to stand on the left - because the right has sciatic nerve.

8. Have you ever collected pinecones to display in your home?

Not since I was a child. I have a small home now, so no space, also no pine cones that are readily available.


Photo from Today's Walk. Six to ten blocks down from my old brownstone apartment - they've really built a bunch of luxury apartments along the Gowanus (which smells like rotten eggs), and have a walk way along it (even though it still smells like rotten eggs). I'm so glad I moved to Kensington, better apartment, more trees, and it doesn't smell like rotten eggs.

I have to go to the Optometrist tomorrow. I thought it was next weekend, but apparently not. They confused me. It's at 2pm - so I can sleep in at least. It only takes fifteen to twenty minutes to get there. I'll probably leave around 1:30 - because sciatica.

[I met yet another co-worker with sciatic nerve today - hers is also going down her right leg from the mid-back. Wanted to know how I was managing to sleep? (Not well.) We discussed how our nutty workplace is trying to kill us amid the chaos. ( more on co-worker )

Optometrist requested I wear glasses to the appointment and bring my contacts. (I'd rather do the opposite - ( brief rant as to why )

[Ack. I think I saw a little mouse dart out from under one of my armchairs. But I'm not sure where it disappeared to. And whether I imagined it. It's the downside of living in an old pre-war 77 unit apartment building - there's mice often from other tenants apartments, and living in the walls between. I'm going to have to put down more mint. To date mint works the best at fending off mice. They hate the smell of mint - I think they are allergic. It's also the most humane. I am not comfortable killing them. And mice traps are gross.]

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Buffy/Angel Rewatch

Picked up on something that I'm not sure I saw the last time I watched the two shows together? In S4 Buffy and S1 Angel - the writers all of sudden decided to expand on their world by making the humans the bad guys, and the demons kind of...ambiguous?

The other thing I noticed is how they are paralleling Spike and Angel in the two series - which is kind of odd, and interesting at the same time.
( rather lengthy analysis of Angel S1:The Ring and Buffy S4:Goodbye Iowa )

Go to your Works page on AO3, look at the tags, and see what the answers to these questions are. (Or any other site that has tags, I don’t know if FFnet or Wattpad does)

I'm [archiveofourown.org profile]shadowkat67 on AO3. (Most of my stuff is meta, essay, or analysis, with a couple of fics. All of the fics are in the Buffy and Angel fandom.)
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My only true interaction with fandom was the Buffy/Angel fandom. I do discuss shows in other fandoms, but I don't do anything more than discuss and speculate on spoilers.

As an aside? I rarely read or respond to the comments on Ao3 (because they pissed me off a few years back when they insisted I remove over 100 works or they'd suspend my account indefinitely). But I decided to do it tonight, and read one in Spanish and actually understood it? Have I picked up the language by osmosis? I can't speak it or necessarily understand verbal Spanish? But maybe I do? I hear it, and about 100 other languages daily.

Either that or there are a lot of similar English words in Spanish. Possibly. Often it's just the gist I get, and that's enough. But maybe I will take Spanish on Duolingo.

1. Woo-hoo! Democrats won across the board. (In NYC - they won everything but Staten Island Borough President, because you know...Staten Island? And Texas. But it is Staten Island and Texas...)

New York City hits 2 million votes for first time since 1969. Biggest turnout for a Mayoral election ever.

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Miki Sherrel won the Governor's Race in New Jersey - becoming the first female Democrat Governor of the State.

Oh, and NBC has an interactive map showing how each neighborhood in NYC voted for the Mayoral race. It's kind of fun, and shows that elections are complicated.

2. Work wore me out. That and lack of sleep - I couldn't get comfortable, and I kept waking up. Didn't fall asleep until Midnight, and woke up at 3 am and 5:26 am. Something beeped outside and woke me up at 3. Took a while to get back to sleep. Then something woke me at 5:26, and I never got back to sleep.

Very busy. Kind of inundated? They decided to get together and unload all their work on myself and Breaking Bad at the same time. Don't procrastinate folks? It just makes more work for everybody. But my good deed was installing two printers on my computer and Breaking Bad's. Just in time for the new folks to move in - in two weeks. Maybe they'll bring a printer that is in closer proximity. Albeit not too close proximity.

Commute wasn't easy either - but went smoother than expected. I miss hopping on the G taking it to 4/9th Streets, and running down the steps.
Now? Going down steps hurts, so I take the F, run up, then down steps, and wait on a tiny platform with a ton of folks for the R. Oh well, it's 35 minutes either way.

But overall? Happy to be back at work. I enjoy what I do for the most part - it's a lot of analysis, editing, problem solving, and figuring things out.

3. Cooler - in the 40s-low 60s. Typical Autumn weather in NY. A-typical is 60s-80s, typical is 40s,50s, and low 60s.

Time change is still messing with me though - by the time my body gets accustomed to it - they'll change it again, right around my birthday.
Whose bright idea was it to do the Time Warp?

4. Buffy/Angel re-watch.

I'm enjoying Angel more now than I did the first go-around. Buffy, I always enjoy. It occurred to me today that the writers fell in love with a specific plot twist - which they employed in S2. Which is the good guy turns bad or switches sides. They also did the bad guy switches sides to help the heroine - but they enjoy the good guy turns bad a lot more.
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[I'm mainly just writing about this at this point to please myself at this point. Hopefully it entertains others too. But alas, as in most things, there's really no way of knowing for sure. I'm thinking I probably wrote it to please myself back in the day as well. Although a bit better, and more targeted.]