Meme!

[aisalynn]

Taken from angearia because I'm bored and it's been a while since I've done a meme.

Ask me one fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Favorite character, favorite moment, unpopular opinion, something about a fic of mine... whatever. Subparts allowed. Wackiness encouraged.

Comments

[deird1]

Five things you really like about Buffy's personality?

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

1. Her sense of humor-- I love how even when she is mad, or really upset she still has some smart or bitterly funny comment to say. I like that she can laugh at the bad things, and I especially love it when she tries to lighten the mood and her jokes fall a little flat. I don't know, I find it endearing or something.

2. Her girliness-- She is proof that to be some kind of warrior woman, (or just a strong--emotionally, mentally, physically--woman in general) you don't have to be masculine, or tom boyish or anything like that. She curls her hair and wears lipstick and hoop earrings and worries about boys and shopping--and still kicks ass and saves the world, even if she does annoy Giles by complaining about the state of her favorite pair of boots afterwards. :)

3. Her intelligence-- Buffy is smart. Sure the air headed, valley girl vocabulary would like to tell you otherwise, but she is smart. She's a good strategist, and quick on her feet, and what's more, when she has the chance, she's book smart. I loved the scenes in season 4 that showed her thriving in the college environment--participating in history discussions, getting a better grade than Willow, enjoying the poetry class, 'cause they really showed how intelligent she is.

4. Her conviction-- She sticks to what she believes, and her actions match those beliefs. She wasn't going to let Dawn be sacrificed to save the world, and she didn't. She believed that Spike could be a good man, and that he would be integral in the fight, and she wouldn't let anyone tell her otherwise, not even Spike.

5. Her faith in people-- She's supposed to be different than the other slayers because she has friends and family who love her, right? Well, I think she is different because she allows them to. She has so much faith and trust in people, even after all she's been through. She forgave Giles after the Cruciamentum, and trusted Willow after she turned evil, despite her worries, and believed in Spike after he got his soul, even started to trust him enough after the disaster that was Seeing Red and the whole of season 6 (a lot of which was, admittedly, her fault) to start mending their relationship. She opens herself up to believe and depend on other people, and that's what makes her different from the slayers before her.

(Wow this got long. Sorry about that!)

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I agree with this so much! Love it! These are the reasons I love her, too. ♥

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Tell me about the new fandom loves that are currently inspiring you to write! :)

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

Lately I've been writing in the Supernatural fandom. I don't know if you've ever watched the show, but I love it. It's dark, and angsty and the characters have so many issues to play with, and yet it's absolutely hilarious at other times. And I think the writing of the show is really good. The creator, Eric Kripke, clearly had the whole five years the show has been airing planned out from the first episode, and it really shows. The quality of the writing is fantastic.

And that goes for the fandom as well. I've never seen so much great writing in a fandom before. Usually I have to wade through the crap to find the good stuff. And it's that quality of writing that, I'm kind of embarrassed to say, brought me into reading/writing RPS (real people slash). I always thought RPS was a little creepy, but these stories kept being recommended, so finally I read one, and it was so good I read another, then another and I was just obsessed. So now I write J2 RPS as well as Supernatural stories.

Also, this fandom is freakishly well organized. I mean, really. Master Posts, and recs lists, and search communities, and extremely detailed tags lists, and wow. It's so easy to find good stories. (The people are, however, not quite as welcoming as the Buffy fandom, I'm sad to say. Not that they are mean or anything like that, but I never could make such fast friends in the Supernatural world as I did the Buffy fandom. It all seems a little more isolated.)

[tiiiam420.livejournal.com]

I just found your LJ and fell in love with your J2 and SPN stories. (bows)

I guess my question is, do you find it hard to read other people's fics while working on your own story? Or does reading inspire ideas you can use in your own work? (it's something I struggle with alot)

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you!

Um, my biggest problem with reading other fics while I write is probably the fact that I get so distracted by those fics I forget to write. I don't know, I'm sure some characterizations I've written have been influenced by what I've read--especially RPS, since I don't actually know Jared and Jensen--but I've never thought that reading other people's fanfiction got in the way of my own originality.