I made a big post about the Buffy musical episode "Once More, With Feeling" over here, if anyone cares.  Also, you can reply on LJ posts if you sign in with OpenID - it's just your login from Google or another of those kinds of sites.  Again, if anyone cares.

Flesh and Blood didn't make it to the semis at AFF.  Didn't get a letter for Fall River (I would have been called by now, so I'm not thinking it made it.).  I...have not been happy with the way they've done things this year.  First of all, why are they still mailing out actual letters?  Just email people.  Secondly, we got an email way back in August or late July telling us we'd get an email notification of whether or not we'd advanced on September 2nd; the day came and went with no email whatsoever.  I finally had to Google for like half an hour before I found the AFF Facebook page, where several people had asked the same question.  A staff member didn't answer till the next day.  I just kind of find that sort of thing to be really unprofessional.  Whatev.

Day 21 - Favorite ship.

HAHAHA like I can pick just one. Let's face it - shipping is important. Sometimes that brief hand-hold or peck on the cheek is all that saves an otherwise mediocre episode. You need to see characters grow and evolve over the years, and no better way to do that than to see relationships grow and evolve as well. And, you know, shallowly, sometimes you just want to see attractive people make out.

So I narrowed it down to the top five. I couldn't cut any more than that. In chronological order from when I shipped 'em.











Yeah that last couple made it on the list! Why else do you think I managed to watch the entirety of seasons three and four in eight days? (Okay, it was like 30% ship, 60% the show was just that good, and 10%...because...I have a crush on Bruce Boxleitner. I mean, come on!)

Day 20 - Favorite kiss.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 6x08 - "Tabula Rasa"

Buffy's been through a lot, including being brought back from the dead when she really didn't want to be. Alienated from her friends, feeling overburdened, she ends up turning to Spike as a kind of comrade-in-arms, confidante, and punching bag. Down in the dumps, he shows up to be there for her, but she wants none of it, and so he leaves. Or so we think...

Day 14 - Favorite male character.



While there are plenty of male characters whom I've loved and whom I've even primarily watched a show for, I've never been invested in a character like Spike. This particular character archetype is probably my favorite when it comes to male characters, just because I think it lends itself so well to drama; there's nothing like a long redemption arc to pull you in.

The runners-up:

Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 5x07 - "Fool for Love."



The aforementioned episode Fool for Love was only the fourth episode of Buffy I'd ever seen up to that point, when I was a freshman at USC (oh my God, that was ten years ago). I had mostly started watching it because there was nothing else on, and after this? I was in love. With the show, and with Spike. This is just a great, great episode from every single perspective, and is definitely my favorite of the series. It's an origin story, a significant step in Buffy and Spike's relationship, and one of the most potent expressions of one of the show's most important themes: that the Slayer is caught between two worlds, that in fighting to vanquish evil cannot help but be touched by that evil herself.

(ETA: Whoa, I have, like, no Buffy icons. I need to rectify that.