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[jmatonak]

I seem to remember posting a lot on a site called Mighty Big TV, which changed its name to Television Without Pity not too long after I started posting there. I mostly posted about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was a really good show- and I specialized in getting into fights by defending characters who didn't seem to be popular. It turns out Spike was a lot more popular than I thought, and people got passionate all out of proportion- one of the ways I can tell Buffy was a really good show. So I got into a lot of Spike-related... discussions.

(Dawn was never popular. So I mostly remember taking abuse for defending her. Poor thing.)

Of course, there is a possibility that none of this ever happened and I was made to believe it did by creepy monks (see what I did there?), because a recent post in swsa's journal sent me back there, and... I don't exist. There doesn't seem to be a single post by me. At least the fights I remember were kind of fun. So at minimum, I fabricated some memories of fun stuff.

So, to sum up:

Dawn Summers = 100% real
Me = not so real. Dawn's evidence that her memories actually happened is considerably more detailed.

Or maybe TWoP's search engine is broken. :)

Comments

[swsa.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if you'll be happy to know that I found you, when I post this...

JMatonak
Just Tuned In
posted June 02,2001 02:56:47 AM EST profile email
Peggin: Your points are well-taken. However, there are two factors you've neglected to consider.

First, James Marsters is a very good actor and a very charming bastard. (I'm a heterosexual male- no, really!- and even I am strangely drawn to Spike.) It is impossible for some people, when presented with a figure who looks and acts (in the sense of "carries himself") like such a badass, to realize that in fact, he just does whatever the cute girl du jour tells him to.

Second, Spike is occasionally very scary and, well, y'know, _bad_. For instance, the scene in "School Hard" where Spike woos Buffy's juvenile delinquent friend shows him to good advantage, as does the speech in "Out of My Mind" about "make your neck my chalice"- but then he falls into an open grave. By using selective memory, we edit out those parts of Spike's scenes where he plays the buffoon.

Apropos of nothing, I continued that speech during the opening credits:
"make your neck my chalice... and then cover you in chocolate sauce and lick it off slowly... and tie you to my headboard..."
I was roundly mocked by my friends. Then we saw the end of the episode. Heh.

Awww...you sappy little Marsters-crushing shipper. Heee.

[jmatonak.livejournal.com]

No, I basically agree with all that, even still. I have no sexual interest in Marsters or Spike, but I have a definite identification thing going there... having on a few occasions fallen into a totally deep hole while I was trying to be all scary.

As far as "sappy shipper"... absolutely. It's really too late to pretend anything else, don't you think?

[jmatonak.livejournal.com]

Also, thank you. :)