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[liptonrm_backup]

So, I recently renamed my lj. While Imaginary Batman still does make a lot of sense, I just had to replace it with "turgid supernatural soap opera." And, yes, it makes me laugh because SPN does occasionally have soap opera tendencies (*snorts* occasionally), but the name change really stems from that episode of Angel where Gunn goes to steal something with Gwen Raiden and that's how he explains what his life had recently been like. So now everytime I look at my lj I get to think about Charles Gunn, who is so totally awesome and I love him.

Also, I've been thinking about the end of Buffy and the whole "You get to be a Slayer! And you get to be a Slayer!" ending. It made me wonder about disabled women who become Slayers. We know that becoming a Slayer is no kind of "cure" for anything and we've seen how being a Slayer can exacerbate certain conditions, like schizophrenia. And I would bet good money that it would exacerbate a condition like fibromyalgia as well (because holy crap, making the nervous system even more overactive would not be a good thing).

But we haven't seen a lot of that consideration in the source or the comics (at least, I hadn't seen anything by the time I stopped reading the comics) and I can't think of any fanfictional consideration.

Anyway, I think it would make for an interesting story. Heck, it kind of begs for a ficathon, and if I had more time and ambition I would totally run one. Because there are all kinds of women in the world and they all kick ass.

There you go, there are my deep BtVS thoughts for the day.

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[bookgrl.livejournal.com]

I needed deep BtVS thoughts today. Thank you!

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

It all begs the question of how one gets chosen to be a Slayer in the first place. Is one pre-destined to be a Slayer? At what point is a Slayer chosen? In the womb? So like Pre-end of BtVS, when there was one Slayer to stand alone, what happened if that one Slayer was disabled or sick in some way.

I mean, super Slayer strength for me means being able to lift myself in and out of the bathtub, but Giles had better not show up on my doorstep expecting me to go fight vamps (besides we all know I am more prone to having The Sex with them than killing them anyway.)

You should write something on this, you could use Xander in it somehow. <--see how I just want some Xander. I always just want some Xander.

I approve of your journal change (though you know I love Imaginary Batman) because it does make you think of Charles Gunn - and you know what...if you love him so much, why don't you just marry him? Sheesh.

Also, mildly related to this and our discussion the other day, what girl from various fandoms would you like to have seen been tapped at the end of BtVS? Mostly, just, if you were writing Buffy-style fic in other fandoms, what would they be? I'm thinking like mini-fics from where they showed the little girl playing teeball and did that little montage of all the girls everywhere having their powers turned on, but also, in my head, well...fun! (I know we discussed how I can't RPS this up without making the Slayer a chick - even though Jensen is pretty like a girl - and that's okay, cuz a) you know I won't actually write it cuz if I ever get over my writer's block I apparently have to write my sister some more Leah&MishaBestestBestFriends fic - and b) if I ever did actually write it, Danneel would be so much more kick ass than Jensen anyway, cuz I love her, shut up.)

Oh right - I pick Kaylee, Rogue (imagine the messed up ness of this considering her mutant abilities as well), Stef from Goonies, Brooke from OTH (because then I would turn Skillz into a werewolf and make Uncle Keith be her Watcher), Summer from School of Rock, Brittany from Glee (because omg that would be awesome), Susan from Narnia, and omg I can't remember her name but Jaime King from Kitchen Confidential (because imagine those guys as her Scoobies!).

That was fun. Why aren't I in bed?

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

And now I fic:

They started off calling it the "Special Section" because that's what you called things like that. They'd had to create it from the ground up when they got wind of that poor girl in the institution who'd gone even crazier after the whole "Spreading the Slayer Around the World" thing. In fact, after Buffy had heard that her big idea had ended up making a crazy person even crazier she'd moped around Slayer HQ for a week, angsting over how difficult her life was.

But like Dawnie said, it wasn't like Buffy was the one locked up in an institution.

Anyway, one schizophrenic slayer appears and they started to realize just what they had unleashed in order to save the world. Finding out that the Council had a wetworks team to take out rogue slayers had been bad enough, but it became even worse when Giles informed them, shamefacedly, of the team's other function. After all, you couldn't have a slayer who couldn't actually be a slayer.

Yes, they all looked as horrified as you feel now. And when Wesley's pansy ass father showed up and started making similar suggestions nobody apologized for the broken larynx that ensued. Frankly, Giles had never been prouder of Xander than in that moment (well, there was that whole "talking Willow down and saving the world" thing too, but watching Roger Windham-Pryce get kicked in the neck was its own brand of satisfying).

Hence Special Section was formed. And that's how everyone referred to it until its second member, Beth, the take charge woman who'd lost her legs in an auto accident as a teenager, turned up and put a stop to that nonsense for good. And then it was like a damn burst (or, at least, that's how it felt).

They hadn't realized that there could be so many different ways to be, well, different. There were slayers who could be slayers with some tactical modifications and then there were people who were worse off than before their whole Slayerizaion. As Ana Luisa, the Council's new legal counsel and all around ass kicker, you had to take it all on a case by case basis.

Dawn ended up handling a lot of new Slayer inductions, so she got to experience a little bit of everything. One of her favorite's was the woman who'd point blank told her "You're frigging Slayer strength, or whatever, just means I can get myself out of the bath tub. I sure as hell can't slay vampires." Dawn respected that kind of honesty.

So yeah, their whole Oprah moment with the Slayerness didn't exactly turn out the way they expected. But they were dealing with it.

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

Hahahaaaaaahhh! Yay.

Because, you know, they can't think of everything upfront.

Also - XANDER FTMFW!!! Why doesn't Mr. Wyndham-Pryce just go join a cyborg-ninja-dance-troupe already?

And - "You're frigging Slayer strength, or whatever, just means I can get myself out of the bath tub. I sure as hell can't slay vampires." Dawn respected that kind of honesty. - And then they spent an hour talking about 5 X Everything and they all lived happily ever after. The End.

See, I like it when your brain does ficcy things!