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[oyceter]

Yay! The boy is back! And he brought all sorts of nifty things from Stanford, so I am now in the possession of a new bear (named Stanley) a stuffed tree (as of yet unnamed), and the Buffy season 2 DVDs!!!!! SQUEE!!! They are a finishing the thesis present ^_^.

The stuffed tree is really funny... apparently Stanford's mascot is a redwood (I think the Princeton tiger is infinitely cooler) so it's a little stuffed Christmas tree with a goofy smile, eyes and legs. No arms. So I make it run around and fall down, then it can't get back up. Tee hee. See, it's just like the T-Rex, whose itty bitty arms are shorter than its snout! So everytime it falls, it can't even catch itself because its arms are too little. This amuses me to no small extent. Then I found out T-Rexes actually died of broken necks because they would fall and not be able to catch themselves, which made me laugh even more. I am morbid. But just picture it: the badass of dinosaurs can't even get up after it falls down! Hee!

*runs back to lovingly stroke Buffy Season 2*

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[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

The tree is amazingly funny. It looks a lot better on the seal as a dignified redwood than as a stuffed... er... stuffed thing. I think Harvard's mascot is just "Crimson." No one understands this at all (least of all me!)

*Crimson*? Now I'm thinking the monthly "crimson wave" and I really doubt that's what they were going for. How can a colour be a mascot? -- Not asking you in particular, just a rhetorical question. Yeah, I don't get it either!

And now... commentaries! Woohoo!

Commentaries are excellent! I love it when writers explain what they were trying to do, comparing it with how I saw the show. Love it when they confirm all the subtext and symbolism cuz then you realise Joss & Co really *think* about what they're doing.

(btw, love your icon!)

Thanks! I rather love it too :)

[oyceter]

I do especially love how they comment on things like subtext and realize it exists... even though I'm not that big of a slash fan myself. Although Faith/Buffy... haven't read much of it (may have to start hunting it up), but I've had Morgaine's She Bangs fanvid playing in my head 24/7. It's absolutely lovely, and it made me completely and totally GET Faith/Buffy. Not that I didn't intellectually, but in the sort of punch in the gut type way.

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[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big femslash fan, but I love figuring out subtext. It doesn't even have to be about pairings or slash, it can just be foreshadowing or some kind of metaphor -- i.e. Tara wearing Indian garb in "Restless", thereby linking the First Slayer with the Hindu goddess Kali. Or at least, that's my interpretation!

[oyceter]

Oooo very cool. Basically, am in favor of anything that leads to open interpretation!