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| You look at pieces of wood, deciding if they would make a good stake You decide that you will only see your boyfriend at night and in the graveyard "A happy slayer is a good slayer" becomes your motto You have the whole collection of Buffy T-shirts But you won't wear them - you want to keep them in mint condition. You've taken up karate and practise your Buffy moves regularly You refuse to go out after dark... just in case You have suddenly taken a liking to tweed You start calling your boyfriend Angel You prefer to watch Buffy alone because other people just "don't get it" You find yourself quoting the show several times a day You go shopping for clothes and only purchase things that have appeared on the show You always say the words "the wacky", "wiggins" and "a happy" All your user names on the internet are "Willow" You start hanging around libraries You love to hack into the coroners office You have either a cross necklace or a Claddaugh ring You decide the graveyard is really cool hangout You look at abandon warehouses in a whole new light You never invite anyone into your house after dark You find yourself in a situation and say "This is something Xander would do" You are secretly in love with your best friend Your licence plates read "Queen C" You think "Too much Buffy? Never!" You name your puppy Willow or Xander You recite Amy's rat-turning spell when in the company of your older brother You demand that people call you Buffy Every time you step out of the shower you say "I seem to be having an extreem case of nudity" You appoint yourself a watcher and choose someone to study/train etc. You stay away from your teacher just incase they turn out to be prey-matis' Your room looks like a shrine, you have Buffy posters as wallpaper, a Buffy bedspread, curtains etc. You won't take cookies or mini pizza's from your Mom's new boyfriend You find a whole new liking for miniture golfing You hear that song "I hope you dance" and think of fighting Faith You cried two hours after the fifth season finale of Buffy was over because she died even though you know she is coming back. You pondered becoming a vengance demon after your last breakup. You own enough Buffy comics and novels to have your bedroom be considered a fire hazard. You won't go out past sunset unless armed to the teeth with stakes, crosses, and holy water. You have crosses nailed over every window and door. You start tracking the local murder rates after a new girl moves into town. You read all the occult books in the school library searching for the Watcher diaries. To you, sexual protection isn't birth control, it's making sure you're partner is human. You practice sticking thumbtacks through houseflies and mosquitos--"Just to be safe." You perform the reverse invitation spell after every visit from some person you haven't recently seen in sunlight. You insist on traveling from class to class via the ceiling. You try to exorcise the possessing hyena spirit when your best friend gets PMS. You cast a gypsy soul curse on the sadistic principal who gave you a suspension. You whittle wooden stakes. You kick doors open. You carry around a stake, just in case. You take long walks in the cemetery at night. You have a strange fear of hospitals. You don't complain about going to church anymore because you remember that your supply of Holy Water is running kind of low. You wear crosses every day and have a vast selection of them. You never verbally invite anyone into your home. You keep all your important information on yellow disks. You avoid fraternity parties. As a rule you don't like to be surprised. Your friends are fearful that if they call during "Buffy Hour" they'll be in for a long lecture the next day. You bookmark the Coroner's Office Web Site as a favorite place. When you hear that there's a new librarian at your school, you slam open the doors of the library and yell; "Okay. What's the sitch?". You can recite a whole Buffy episode(s). You wallpaper your room with pictures of the Buffy cast and complain when there isn't enough space to put them all up. You ask a priest to bless your bottle of Perrier. Just for the hell of it, you enter Moloch into several search engines. You name your doll Miss Edith. You let your bird die of starvation. You paint your nails like Drusilla. When your brother comes back from the zoo, you won't let him in the house. The only way you know how to say the word bitch is 'bitca'. You get your hair cut like Buffy's and your hairdresser keeps remarking that the picture you show her (for your haircut) looks oddly familiar. Whenever you quote Buffy Verse, you laugh hysterically while your friends stare at you like you've grown another ear. You always protest that Buffy is NOT a ditz's name. When watching a new Buffy episode, people gawk at you when you manage to say the actor's lines right before they do. You can't think of a thing to talk about with people who have never watched a Buffy episode. You spend hours on the net looking for new Buffy pictures. You get really really excited whenever you do find any new pictures. You sit on a grave twirling a yo-yo and say: "Come on, rise and shine. Some of us have a ton of trig homework waiting at home." You look for padlocked sewer access systems in mausoleums. You decide to be Buffy for Halloween but your friends don't notice a change. You own everything possible with the words Buffy the Vampire Slayer on them. You get wigged out by mimes and dummies. You have a chest in your room with a fake bottom that contains garlic, stakes, holy water and crosses. You freak whenever you have a substitute biology teacher. You never go out with your boyfriend on the night of the full moon. You avoid supposedly empty warehouses. You have a fear of railroad spikes. You punish your dolls. You get a wheelchair just so that you can be called "Roller Boy". You never have sex with your boyfriend for fear of what might happen to him. You take up tae kwon do, kick boxing, karate, street fighting and gymnastics. You eye your librarian to see if they're trying to tell you that you're the next Slayer. You sleep with a stake under your pillow. You sneak out of your bedroom window at night and hang out at the park because you've heard that several people have died there lately of exsanguination. You're horrified of people who have never even heard of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You want to kill people who dis the show. You dream of past lives as a Slayer. Whenever you have a dream and you see your friend in it you run up to them the next day and choke them as you shout: "What do you know?". You never sign in someone's yearbook "Have a nice summer!". You don't like to use the word Master. You write Buffy FanFic. You date men whom you meet in dark alleys (but only after kicking them in the head). You bring a fire extinguisher to cheerleading tryouts. You get nominated at school as "Person Most Likely To Be The Next Slayer". You buy knee-high boots. You get five holes pierced in each ear. You're on a first name basis with all the actors of BtVS except that you've never met them. Though they used to appreciate your interest, the actors on BtVs are now scared to death of you. You check people's lockers to make sure they don't have any books such as 'Gray's Anatomy' and 'Mortician Desk Reference'. You read a Buffy transcript at least once a day. You befriend a computer genius and her dorky friend. You file complaints that the substitute biology teacher is harassing you. When asked what your hobbies are you answer; "Slay...slay...slave to the television". As far as you are concerned, Buffy and co. are actual people. You drive to California to look for Sunnydale, you dial operator and ask him where it is, operator says there is no such place and you yell back at him that he's probably in league with some demons to keep you out of Sunnydale. You enroll at Torrance High School. All the actors on the show are shown a picture of you and are told to stay away at all costs. When asked what you'll do when you're older you answer either dead or it's already been 'sealed in fate'. You tape all Buffy episodes, then retape them so they're in chronological order. You buy all the CDs of songs that have ever been on Buffy. You've been to all 1000 or so Buffy sites on the net. You legally change your name to Buffy Anne Summers (or another character from the show). You practically had a nervous breakdown when the series ended. You cannot remember what you did with your life before Buffy. Your motto is 'Life is short' or 'Seize the day'. You never bring your date to the morgue. When buying your Halloween costume you make sure it's something you'd like to be in real life. You always beat up a snitch. You nail crucifixes to your wall. You needed to visit a grief counselor when Tara died. You make sure your parents never come to Parent-Teacher night at school. You watch, mock and laugh at talent shows. When given an egg for parenting in Sex Ed class you boil it or smash it with something heavy. You're frightened of cheerleader wannabes. You avoid saunas, who knows what they put in the steam? You don't let people with long fingernails get too close to your throat. You use a Thesulan Orb as a paperweight. Whenever there's a Sadie Hawkins dance at school you lock yourself in your room. You refuse to buy any candy being sold by the band at school. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to Buffy. |
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| buffy_fan1 Posted on Dec 30 2005, 10:27 PM A funny post, these apply to me: You are secretly in love with your best friend you always say the words "the wacky", "wiggins" and "a happy" V check You have either a cross necklace or a Claddaugh ring V check You prefer to watch Buffy alone because other people just "don't get it" You find yourself quoting the show several times a day V check You own enough Buffy comics and novels to have your bedroom be considered a fire hazard. V check You're horrified of people who have never even heard of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You want to kill people who dis the show. Does this mean I'm an addict? |
| QUOTE (Mehitabel @ Jan 3 2006, 06:57 PM) |
| It's such a long list- I'm wondering about the percentages before a person knows she's over the edge. Of course, seeing OTHER people doing any of these things and knowing why probably counts too. Even if you dont immediately join in...Right? :thumbsup: |
| QUOTE (Jo @ Jan 4 2006, 12:38 AM) |
| and the worrying thing is...I have been guilty of a hell of a lot of these things in past years... :unsure: In my defence.... teenage years make you do the wacky! ;) |
| QUOTE (The last watcher @ Jan 4 2006, 10:10 AM) | ||
Not just the teenage years...believe me........ ;) |
| QUOTE (Jo @ Jan 4 2006, 12:38 AM) |
| :lol: and the worrying thing is...I have been guilty of a hell of a lot of these things in past years... :unsure: In my defence.... teenage years make you do the wacky! ;) I'm addicted- so slay me ;) |
| QUOTE (buffy_fan1 @ Jan 4 2006, 04:04 PM) | ||
No need to feel guilty, there's nothing wrong with that I often quote Xander which is even worse :whistling: I was 19 when I became a Buffy fan so I can't use my teenage years as an excuess. I think life in general that makes you do the wacky not just your teenage years :thumbsup: |
| QUOTE (The last watcher @ Jan 5 2006, 10:01 PM) |
| I think my worst offence from that list is the buffy quoting....I do that a lot :whistling: :rolleyes: |
| QUOTE (Mehitabel @ Jan 6 2006, 12:12 PM) | ||
Offenses. eh? Think I've been going about this the wrong way then- you mean we're NOT competing to see how many we can cram in to a single day, ideally visiting as many crowded supermarkets, libraries and homes of close friends and family as possible? Then I'm a list-ticking fool for trying! :blush: |
| QUOTE (obnoxious brat @ Jan 6 2006, 12:14 PM) |
| A fool indeed if you haven't had a video camera at the ready! (Or some new-fangled recording device would suffice I suppose...) |
| QUOTE (Mehitabel @ Jan 9 2006, 02:54 PM) | ||
Sigh! Thee's never a papparazzo round when you really need one... :whistling: |
| QUOTE (The last watcher @ Jan 9 2006, 07:32 PM) |
| Sorry, but I cant think of any reason that anyone would want/need a papparazzo.....ever.... :shrug: :lol: |
| QUOTE (Mehitabel @ Jan 11 2006, 03:33 PM) | ||
Again, target practice comes most readily to mind. :rolleyes: |
| QUOTE (The last watcher @ Jan 11 2006, 04:04 PM) |
| That and possibly medical experimentation.... ;) |
| QUOTE (Mehitabel @ Jan 13 2006, 11:11 AM) | ||
Plus basic gravitational physics - if you eg kick one over a cliff, will it go (a) up, or (B) down....? These things need to be checked occasionally, n'est-ce pas? |
| QUOTE (The last watcher @ Jan 15 2006, 09:41 AM) |
| does that make me a scientist???? :) |
| QUOTE (The last watcher @ Jan 15 2006, 11:57 AM) |
| Do you think I could get a grant to persue my research? :ponder: :devil: |
| QUOTE (The last watcher @ Jan 15 2006, 12:23 PM) |
| Mmmmmmmm :ponder: Celebrity cliff dropping, live from Beachy head........I can see it now....Big Brother move over the new TV sensation is here :yahoo: |
| QUOTE (Mehitabel @ Jan 15 2006, 12:27 PM) | ||
Remember my new (temporary) workplace will have actual battlements, an actual MOAT! Extreme Celebrity Dunking is a lot more pre-watershed as entertainment :ponder: Could do both I suppose. And come to think of it- HOW am I going to survive Buffyless for a whole month? I'll be needing occupational therapy in no time at all. EEK! |
| QUOTE (The last watcher @ Jan 15 2006, 12:37 PM) |
| You SO need a laptop with a DVD player in it.........CULTTV Board access...AND Buffy playability goodness built in.... :thumbsup: |
| QUOTE (Mehitabel @ Jan 17 2006, 04:47 PM) |
| it's either that, or investigate the Buffy books I've now got my designs on... :thumbsup: |
| QUOTE (The last watcher @ Jan 18 2006, 05:04 PM) |
| Keep an eye on Sussex Stationers, Bookends, or similar end of line bookshops, as they sometimes turn up at seriously reduced prices........ :) |
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| Is fandom taking over our lives? Could a grocery list ever become a cult hit? Perhaps. A satirical article from Datelinehollywood.com envisioned what might be if fans of cult writer/director Joss Whedon ever took fandom to a scary place. The article jokingly reports that a grocery list written by Joss Whedon leaked onto the Internet and has been generating thousands of hits, inspiring a Joss's Grocery Shoppers fan club. This caused sales of items on the list to increase by 173 per cent and even rallying fans to raise $2.5 million to turn it into a television series. One would assume that no one could possibly take this seriously, but an article published in the official Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine refers to the Datelinehollywood.com article as if it were based on truth. "It sounds like the maddest Buffy April Fool ever, but it's not." The ambiguity of the Datelinehollywood.com article eludes to something profound about the nature of fandom today - and not just the need for a competent fact-checker at the Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine. After reading these two articles, and as a self-professed fan of Buffy and Joss Whedon myself, I began to wonder about a few things. What was Datelinehollywood.com trying to satirize when it published that article? What would make the Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine believe such absurdity? What does it even mean to be a "fan"? And why won't Joss return any of my calls? My first two questions are probably the easiest to answer. Joss Whedon has an incredibly obsess-ahem devoted fan base, despite the fact that most people don't even know who Joss Whedon is. A writer for the San Francisco Chronicle's website, SFGate.com, was recently bewildered to receive hate mail from fans of Joss' latest project Serenity because of his favourable review of the movie. (Serenity is based on Firefly which was cancelled after one season). According to the writer, the fans were angry that he "didn't praise Whedon's TV show Firefly enough" and because he "pointed out that critics generally didn't like that show". In a response to the hate mail, the writer, who is a self-professed geek, went so far as to say, "Joss Whedon has spawned the most hardcore science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts ever to walk this planet. This includes people who learn to speak Klingon, people who remain in character after they leave the Renaissance Fair and people who boycotted the Lord of the Rings movies because there were elves at Helm's Deep." I can do nothing but nod my head slowly in shame and agree. So that answers my first two questions: Datelinehollywood.com was ridiculing the fervour with which those hardcore Joss fans, and any hardcore fans for that matter, fixate on one fandom or another. And the Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine was quite right to believe that satirical article because Joss fans might just be that scary. But I still wanted to know what it means to be a fan. So I took my query to YAMA (Anime and Manga Association at York University). YAMA is known for coordinating weekly anime showings and for hosting contests at local conventions, such as CNAnime and AnimeNorth. The members currently reside in an office at Bethune College proudly sporting life-sized posters of anime characters and a respectable library of shows for the perusal of its paying members. Surely this would be the perfect place to rest my pondering head. According to YAMA president, Vladimir Kavoun, "A fan is someone who is consistently searching for writing and information on a specific genre or topic." A fan is just someone that likes something enough to invest time and effort into finding out more about it, and who presumably expresses some level of affection toward it. But, contrary to popular belief, not all fans are as rabid or fanatical as Datelinehollywood.com would have us believe. As Kavoun adds, "There are different levels of fandom." A trip to the annual Canadian National Expo in Toronto will prove just that. Every summer fans of gaming, comics, science fiction, horror and anime come together at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to celebrate their fandoms by communing with stars at Q&A sessions, perusing vendors and participating in or observing the many impressive costumes at the final masquerade. One look at the thousands of people milling into the centre will prove that there is more than one type of fan. From the people that spend months realizing their elaborate costumes to the 12-year-old who just wants to see Captain Kirk, trying to come up with a finite definition for "fan" there of all places seems rather daunting. But whatever a "fan" is, whether you can chart Superman's progression as a character through the decades citing comics and movie adaptations, or you just have an N'Sync poster hanging on your wall, let's throw our hands up together and celebrate our fan-love, be it secret or vehemently public, hardcore or just budding, but always wonderfully, beautifully geeky. Fun Facts about Fandom: -Three books have been published in Klingon: Gilgamesh, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing. -George Lucas originally planned on using the title The Adventures of Luke Starkiller before settling on Star Wars. -Buffy the Vampire Slayer roughly translates in German to Buffy in the Thrall of Demons; in Japanese to The Vampire Killer: Holy Girl Buffy; and in Hungarian to Buffy: The Bogey of the Vampires. -Many anime fans produce and watch "fansubs", which are recordings of anime series subtitled by fans. This is a violation of copyright law in many countries. -Fans of Kiss are said to be planning a protest march on the Hall of Fame in Cleveland on Aug. 5, 2006 in response to the band being snubbed for induction. -The first Superman character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the 1930s was a bald-headed villain, but was reworked onto the side of the law after poor sales. |
| QUOTE (prophecy girl @ Mar 5 2006, 06:26 PM) |
| The Greatest Buffy The Vampire Slayer Tatoo of the world !!!!!! :blink: |
| QUOTE (prophecy girl @ Mar 7 2006, 11:46 AM) |
| just wonder who is the guy with cordelia (i think it's cordelia) :ponder: |
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| QUOTE (prophecy girl @ Mar 7 2006, 11:46 AM) just wonder who is the guy with cordelia (i think it's cordelia) Isn't it meant to be Spike and a pneumatically-enhanced Dru? |