all's quiet on the comics front

[deird_lj]

You know, as much as I dislike season 8, right now I'm actually missing it.

Mainly because every new issue brings many fun and snarky posts from members of my flist, plus lots and lots of crackfic.


What are we going to do to relieve the boredom until November? We need something controversial and insane to happen - so that we can all get extra snarky about it! Quick! Someone think of something!



For instance:

I HAVE JUST REALISED THAT TARA IS THE MOST EVIL PERSON EVER IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION. SHE'S NASTY. AND IN LEAGUE WITH MAGGIE WALSH. AND POSSIBLY SOULLESS.

DISCUSS.

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

:::collapses in giggles:::


Gabrielle

[deird1]

Hey, I'm serious.

:)

[ohwaluvusbab.livejournal.com]

I'm missing the wank too. Ah, nostalgia.

I wouldn't be surprised if Tara and Maggie Walsh were in cahoots. She's always had that shifty look about her...

[deird1]

Yep. They're clearly planning something.

(Was Tara the secret evil mastermind behind Adam's plan? Hmm...)



*loves your icon*

[zooeys-bridge.livejournal.com]

lols there's a fanfic about that...

(probably the most common phrase in fandom)

[snickfic]

Was the last wankery not recent enough for you? You needs moar?

I do think that the cracky elements are a lot of fun on their own, like Spike's steampunk spaceship. Not to mention the adventures of Peel and Steed.

[deird1]

I always need more. :)


(Peel and Steed?)

[gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com]

ALL THE REFERENCES TO SPIKE BEING 'NEUTERED' IN S4 OFFEND ME!!!

ANGEL IS WAY WAY HOTTER THAN SPIKE!!!

BUFFY'S AFFORDABLE BOOTS ARE SO NOT STYLISH!!!

I THINK THE SERIES JUMPED THE SHARK AFTER PROPHECY GIRL!!!

WILLOW SHOULD HAVE BEEN A BLONDE!!!

/wankiness

[deird1]

ARE YOU INSANE? IT JUMPED THE SHARK WAY BEFORE PROPHECY GIRL!!!! I ROBOT YOU JANE WAS THE LAST GOOD EPISODE OF A ONCE-GREAT SHOW!!!!!!!

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

I JUST REALIZED THAT ANGEL IS THE BESTEST HERO IN THE HISTORY OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS AND THAT HE AND BUFFY ARE TOTALLY LIKE SOUL-MATES OR SOMETHING, YO.



Psych!

[deird1]

LIES. BUFFY'S SOULMATE IS TOTALLY HOLLAND MANNERS.


(After all, she has a thing for evil dead guys...)

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

*Pats you on the head*

I know exactly how you feel. How do we snark when there's nothing to mock? It's a chicken-or-egg question. It's like my snark glands have a cold or something and Season 8 is vitamin C!

Ooh, someone somewhere just reported that Joss' arc is going to be called "Last Gleaming" . . . can we wank about how he totally stole that from BSG's "Kobol's Last Gleaming"? I mean, it's not like that phrase is used in some famous song or anthem or something . . . are we wanking yet? No?

Crap.

This means I might actually look forward to Eclipse because at least then I can get my snark on. Damn you, Scott Allie! I used to have principles before Season 8!!

. . . and that's all I got.

[joans-journal.livejournal.com]

I just heard this, too. Can you spell "lame"? Sheesh. Can't the man come up with this own ideas!?

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

LAST GLEAMING IS TOTALLY A REFERENCE TO GLEAMING THE CUBE AND IT'S GOING TO END WITH BUFFY AND ANGEL IN A SKATEBOARD RACE FOR REDEMPTION!

[next_to_normal]

I for one am glad for the quiet, but Tara totally was evil. In fact, she and Warren were working together in order to drive Willow to the dark side. She seduced poor Willow into thinking she was a lesbian, then dumped her and made her quit magic so she'd be extra needy when Tara took her back, then had Warren kill her so that Willow would go dark and destroy the world. (Come ON! Do you really think Warren shooting her like that was a coincidence? Right through the heart, through an upstairs window, from the BACKYARD? Yeah, THAT'S likely. Tara was TOTALLY IN ON IT.)

It was all part of the plan. *nods*

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Plus the Adam and Amber dated or something! WHAT MORE EVIDENCE DO YOU NEED??

[sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com]

I WROTE EVOL TARA FIC ONCE. For a challenge. I wish I'd made it wankier. *rolls around*

http://community.livejournal.com/gen_storyteller/170861.html

[probablecylon.livejournal.com]

Shuckydarn, I'm four days late -- but obviously it's THERE, why would two people think of the SAME THING?!?!
*mwahahahahah*

[joans-journal.livejournal.com]

Controversy? You want CONTROVERSY? I'll give you...controversy...

*thinks*

Parker was obviously Buffy's soul mate. Angel? Puh-leeze. She was just biding her time with him until sweet, sweet Parker came around. Spike? All they shared? Nah. He was just a rebound from Parker, obviously.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

OH, COME ON! WE ALL KNOW BUFFY HAD AN UNREQUITED THING FOR CLEM! I MEAN, THOSE SKIN FOLDS . . . WHO COULD RESIST? JUST LOOK AT ALL THAT UST DURING THE KITTEN POKER GAME! PARKER'S JUST TOO . . . BOTOX-Y.

[neutralalienist.livejournal.com]

MAGGIE WALSH IS TARA'S REAL MOTHER AND REALLY IS A DEMON. It was so obvious all along!

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

HOW DARE YOU TO TWIST THE CANON? EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT JENNY CALENDAR WAS TARA'S REAL MOTHER. It's so totally evident that I refuse to discuss it!

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Tara actually never existed. She was merely a shape-shifted alias of Amy Maddison. Tara is, after all, an anagram of 'a rat'.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

BEST. ANAGRAM. EVAR.

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

For starters, we all know that Tara was a demon - or rather half-demon on her mother's side. Didn't Mr Maclay just remind you of the kind of degenerate cultist who's always worshipping and breeding with the Elder Gods in Lovecraft's stories? Well then. When Tara told Buffy her mother died, what she really meant was "She went back to her Hell dimension".

Just before Tara went to see Willow for the first time in 'Hush', she was researching spells. When they linked hands in the laundry room, the spell activated and made Willow crazily obsessed with Tara. And also turned her gay. After that, Tara's evil plan could proceed.

Slowly, steadily, Tara encouraged Willow's obsession with witchcraft, and fed her arrogance by pretending to be all dependent and admiring. (Secretly, she was laughing at Willow.) She taught Willow the Lethe's Bramble spell herself, knowing how she'd use it.

When Tara judged the time was right, she engineered a quarrel and left Willow, hoping that it would push her over the edge. Unfortunately, Willow proved too strong-willed, and tried to give up magic instead. This left Tara only one option.

So she turned up in Willow's bedroom and pretended to get back together with her. Meanwhile, she'd cast a spell on Warren implanting the suggestion to try and shoot Buffy. When he did, Tara used telekinesis to make the bullet travel through two 90-degree angles in order to hit her body in the back through a first-floor window.

As her mortal body collapsed in a shower of blood, Tara's true invisible demon form left it, and hung around the room gloating as Willow went totally crazy, and used her powers to burn down the entire world.

Just as planned.

And then Tara's evil plan was foiled at the very last moment by some dumb carpenter wittering on about a yellow crayon!

[ubi4soft.livejournal.com]

When Tara judged the time was right, she engineered a quarrel and left Willow, hoping that it would push her over the edge. Unfortunately, Willow proved too strong-willed, and tried to give up magic instead.

Remember when Tara's clothes shaped into her body and they were offering Willow some comfort? There were in fact three belts there, YES foreshadowing to Twilight's costume, because Tara is actually Twangel taking revenge on Willow.

[probablecylon.livejournal.com]

TARA was a RAPIST who USED MAGIC to twist Willow into a lesbian! Just go back and look at how she pretends to be nearly victimized by the Gentlemen in "Hush" in order to absorb Willow! She stole Willow from Oz & Willow went psycho -- she forced Willow to kill the deer, while pretending to know nothing about it! She used a spell to draw the bullet to kill herself in order to drive Willow into the darkness!! Mind-twisting, manipulative, evil, selfish Tara!!!

*you mean like that?*

[probablecylon.livejournal.com]

Gah, didn't read the thread first, someone was there sooner, sad :( . . .