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doyleAs someone else already pointed out on BAPS: Spike says he's going to drive Angel "starkers".
:jaw drops:
I assume someone on the writing staff incorrectly thinks this is British slang for crazy, when in fact it means that Spike intends to make Angel *naked*...
Doing some more archiving for slayerfanfic.com: one big peeve. More than the thousands of crappy Mary Sues and songfics, one thing that annoys me is character names being misspelled. I was reading a Spuffy story the other day which I really enjoyed, but I counted four characters whose names were consistently misspelled, and it drove me nuts. The one I'm archiving right now is an Angel/Highlander crossover. Now... I've never seen Highlander, but I'm 99% sure Duncan's last name is not spelled McLoud.
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on 2003-07-30 09:13 am (UTC)As someone else already pointed out on BAPS: Spike says he's going to drive Angel "starkers".
How long until we get season 5? Next January? Not soon enough
*rubs her palms together thinking about text-subtext*
Now... I've never seen Highlander, but I'm 99% sure Duncan's last name is not spelled McLoud.
LOL!
This is the reason I abandoned BtVS fic way back in '99 - 'cause all I could find was stuff which looked like it had been written by a dyslexic twelve year old to whom English was a foreign language.
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on 2003-07-30 02:25 pm (UTC)In sum: Joss loves me. That is all.
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on 2003-07-30 02:30 pm (UTC)Say, aren't you meant to be spoiler-free? :p
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on 2003-07-30 02:33 pm (UTC)Lo, I meant to be. Alas. It was not to be.
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on 2003-07-30 02:34 pm (UTC):liiicks: Mmm, Alex Tasty.
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on 2003-07-30 09:15 am (UTC)Misspelling's really getting me down lately. Whether it's Larry's last name or the everpopular "Druscilla" and "Zander", it sets my teeth to gnashing.
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on 2003-07-30 09:17 am (UTC)no subject
on 2003-07-30 09:50 am (UTC)Classic. Just classic. You know, call me crazy (or starkers), but I have serious doubts that the person MIGHT have a grip on characterization when they don't know how to spell the character names.
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on 2003-07-30 12:20 pm (UTC)I know she was a bit of an earth mother, but that's taking it a tad far.
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on 2003-07-30 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2003-07-31 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2003-07-30 09:16 am (UTC)But downside of Ghost Spike - no Spike-skin.
*gibbers*
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on 2003-07-30 11:54 am (UTC)I did tell you congrats for this, didn't I? Slayerfanfic was the first place I ever read BtVS fanfic. There are some classic gems buried amongst the wreckage. I'm really glad that this is reopening. But wow! What an undertaking.
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on 2003-07-30 12:01 pm (UTC)Plus it amuses me that a lot of the B/A I've been archiving is nigh-on identical to much of the schmoopy Spuffy fanfic written six years later...
Mmmppphhhh
on 2003-07-30 04:11 pm (UTC)*pours concrete in mouth in a determined effort not to respond and thus start shipper war #_____*
Re: Mmmppphhhh
on 2003-07-30 04:15 pm (UTC)Nah, all I meant was, the bad teen-written schmoopy stories are pretty identical. Angsty song lyrics interspersed with about 200 words of Angel or Spike thinking about their love for Buffy, or Buffy thinking about her love for Angel or Spike.