love makes you do the wacky

[harborshore]

Three things!

1. I got my ass kicked by my supervisor today, in all the best of ways. It was two hours of completely tearing apart a section in my thesis, and in the process of doing so, she showed me what was wrong with the analysis and how to take a position as a researcher. Which she thinks I should do, because my thesis is "worthwhile" and "fits in the field" and "eventually publishable." I LOVE HER YOU GUYS. Remember the woman from last year? NIGHT AND DAY.

2. I'm rewatching Buffy. Who here loves that show? Is it not the best? I'm in the middle of season 2, and I just, ugh. Giles! Willow! Joyce! Cordelia--I LOVE HER AND HER BITCHY SELF SO! OZ! The vamps--here is where I liked Spike the most, when he was with his crazy lady, and I do like Angel here too. Even Xander has his moments--he's a spot-on teenage boy a lot, so sometimes I want to throttle him, but sometimes he is wonderful. Buffy herself, oh man, I love that girl so fucking much. She's a teenager and she's brave and she hurts and she puts herself back together again and--I just love her, I really really do. *fails at coherency* Come talk to me! Favorite quotes! Moments! Whatever. ♥

3. I signed up for h/c bingo, I'm sure you're all astonished. Because, right, try and think of a single story I've posted that has none, okay? Can you? Comment ficlets don't count. Yeah, I know.

Anyway! I would love ideas! I might rework them into something that is a shade of a remnant of a sliver of the original idea, but still. *beams encouragingly* I will write: The Like, Bob, Brian, Mikeyway, assorted members of FOB and Ashlee Simpson, PATD, TYV, BTVS (especially right now), Veronica Mars, the Bats...



Is it not great? Now tell me what to write!

pneumonia	assault	exhaustion	cuddling for warmth / snowed in	muscle strains and spasms
brain damage	hunger / starvation	chronic illness	undercover: discovered and hurt	drug addiction
telepathy (sudden onset)	loss of hearing	WILD CARD	slaves (sexual)	sensory deprivation
broken bones	pandemics and epidemics	heat stroke	body hatred	torture
spinal injury	character is shown the error of his or her ways	wings (always there)	de-age (physical)	forced marriage

Comments

[modillian.livejournal.com]

<333 BUFFY! I like early Buffy so much. Later Buffy got more complicated. (And om nom nom, Ripper!) Superscary!vamp gang with Darla and Drew!

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

I love Buffy! birdsflying and I rewatched S1 & 2, and are planning on rewatching 3. And then probably stopping, because there are good episodes after that, but not great seasons.

But oh, Season 1 & 2! Especially the finales! "Giles, I'm 16. I don't want to die." They break my heart in the best ways.

(FWIW, Buffy is another on my list of random fictional women I like to mentally hook up Kon with).

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Bob with wings? OR, girl!Bob with wings?

Didn't you write Bob/Willow once? (edit: Doh, that sounds like I actually don't know. I do! That was in the spirit of a remindery poke, because I quite liked the Bob/Willow ficlet you wrote.) Bob is cursed and de-aged, but luckily he's in Sunnydale where there are people who know how to fix things like that?

Or, Bob getting tortured in the Bat-verse? Or someone of your choice in the Batverse getting tortured and Bob accidentally rescuing them?

Also, I still hold out hope that there will one day be more Bob/Veronica. Cuddling for warmth? Broken bones?

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

I love Buffy! It's been so many years since I watched it, I think I really need to start again from the beginning.

Also, you got forced marriage! That is my very most favourite h/c trope.

[dancinbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Buffy! Bandom! I SUGGEST CROSSOVER!

The Young Veins play the Bronze. Come on. There's options for assault/broken bones in that before Buffy saves them. And then Ryan gets all flirty with her because he seems to have a weakness for blondes.

[nokomis305.livejournal.com]

Buffy! Ugh, that's one show I NEVER GET TIRED OF, even though I've probably seen the entire series three or four times, plus the dozens of times I've seen my favorite episodes. SO GOOD. I love Season Two the BEST because everything about Angelus and Drusilla and cranky jealous Spike living together is amazing. (Though Season Three does win for having FAITH, who I love kind of unreasonably.)

Your card is a good card! FORCED MARRIAGE OMG.

[nev-longbottom.livejournal.com]

BUFFY FTW!!!!!

After rewatching Angel, I became very depressed that Darla got staked in the first Buffy episode since she would have fit in PERFECTLY with Season Two. Man, I watched Buffy went it first came out, i was like, eleven? Nine? SOMETHING SMALL and every time I re-watch the seasons, it resonates so much more.

ACTUAL SIZE FTW. Best Halloween episodes EVER.

[disarm-d.livejournal.com]

Buffy is the greatest. Without a doubt, my favorite TV show EVER. And it's so awesome to rewatch! Speaking of season 2, I really love innocents. I watched it again not too long ago, and I was just so moved by how gentle it was. I felt like the message was this warm regard to Buffy, who's been hurt so badly, but is still clearly innocent. That Angelus will never really be able to take anything away from her. (Oh my god, I still get all teared up when I think about it.)

I remember not especially liking Buffy the first time I watched it, but holy crap do I ever feel for her in rewatching. Her loneliness is really heartbreaking (ugg, which is what makes the finale of the show SO PERFECT).

In terms of prompts, this is not SUPER h/c, but I want desperately to read a story where Brendon pulls something surfing (muscle sprains and spasms) and Spencer(or Shane!) gives him alllllll the massages. :D?

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

Oh man, Buffy (and Angel). ♥ Not only are the shows amazing, but the *fandoms* shaped so much of my fannish existence. Fandom of my heart, to this day. In some ways AtS was my show more than BtVS was - grace in darkness is my *trope* and that was AtS, but I remember this great quote from somebody in fandom from back in the day, wish I could remember who, that the themes of AtS were that you could find grace even in the darkness and the themes of BtVS were that sometimes you could turn on the fucking light (umm, loosely paraphrased) and oh, just yes. I love that show so fucking much.

[sansets]

... I am the most WRETCHED HUMAN ALIVE, but I sort of really want fic where Charlotte has to come back to the band because she's suddenly become 8 years old again. Like I don't even know how it would go, but there is just something AWESOMELY heart-wrenching about the thought of Z attempting to steel herself to turn Charlotte out, and Charlotte's lower lip just WIBBLING.

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

i am boringly (and predictably) flaily at bob h/c ficlets. that's as far as i can go and i'm already blithery. :DDD

[x_dark_siren_x]

Ohhh, Buffy! ^___^ I really freaking do adore that show, despite its problems. I first watched it when I was like, eight, and it was the first TV show I ever watched properly (y'know, after Animals of Farthing Wood. Which was also a great show). I started rewatching Season 1 a while ago on our old On Demand features, but then we had issues with the phone company and they took it away. :( Now we have Sky, which has FX, which has Buffy and Angel as a staple, and it's slightly awesome. :D

Also, can I add myself to those clamouring for Bob/Veronica? :D? I'm not really fussed on which (although the undercover one would seem fitting...except, oooh, my eyes just lighted on the "body hatred" one, and that could be interesting, especially with you behind it). It's your own fault for making it so awesome, you realise.

...Wow, who knew I could babble before I'd had tea. >.<.

[strange-bt-true.livejournal.com]

Buffy is like the ultimate female heroine methinks. The show kind of lost me towards the end, but how much did I love it? (A lot.)

So I think you should write about Buffy being completely overworked and exhausted and then everyone has to force her to take a break and take over her slayer duties! Hey, it might not be the most original idea, but who awesome would it be? :D?

And have I mentioned how amazing it is that you're WRITING a THESIS? &you