I haven't actually, you know, read Ulysses; everything I know about it I learned from Andrew Greeley novels.
Yeah, way to go picking up enough bits and pieces about stuff in order to seem smart. I do that a lot. I think I've maybe read one Andrew Greeley novel ever, maybe, so all I know about Joyce is the vague stuff one gains from osmosis.
My view of the monks' spell is that I think of it as a lot less, um, intentional? than most people think of it. Like, I think the basic demographics of the person they created (girl, Buffy's sister, young) were in place, but that the magic itself drew a lot from Buffy, both physically (not to remind you of your "Gift" issues, but, you know) and also emotionally, etc -- and from the people around Buffy.
Okay, that makes sense. I tend to create characters who are like myself (or are like who I wanna be) so partly I'm likely projecting my ways-of-creating onto the monks. Plus I assume they would want the vessel to be pure and all (insomuch as one can do that when one is creating a human). And I tend to think that heterosexuality would be their default, so I don't tend to think of her having possible queerness (though I don't actually let that stop me like at all in reading/writing fic). But there's also the idea that they were primarily concerned with just creating a person and given all the work they had to do just to change everyone's memories and the fact that they were kinda pressed for time near the end, arguing that she's not exactly monk!ideal is pretty feasible.
With my obsession for remembering accurately and chronicling my life, both the Dawn-insert and the Connor-mindwipe squick me big time.
Yeah, I hear that. I had a conversation with someone -- forget if it was you or not -- about how Dawn's burning of her notebooks was so anathema and painful to me.
Thanks for your usual excellent level of feedbacking. Love you too. :)
:)
Doyle told me earlier today, "you're one of the people I always treasure getting feedback from." I blushed.
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Yeah, way to go picking up enough bits and pieces about stuff in order to seem smart. I do that a lot. I think I've maybe read one Andrew Greeley novel ever, maybe, so all I know about Joyce is the vague stuff one gains from osmosis.
My view of the monks' spell is that I think of it as a lot less, um, intentional? than most people think of it. Like, I think the basic demographics of the person they created (girl, Buffy's sister, young) were in place, but that the magic itself drew a lot from Buffy, both physically (not to remind you of your "Gift" issues, but, you know) and also emotionally, etc -- and from the people around Buffy.
Okay, that makes sense. I tend to create characters who are like myself (or are like who I wanna be) so partly I'm likely projecting my ways-of-creating onto the monks. Plus I assume they would want the vessel to be pure and all (insomuch as one can do that when one is creating a human). And I tend to think that heterosexuality would be their default, so I don't tend to think of her having possible queerness (though I don't actually let that stop me like at all in reading/writing fic). But there's also the idea that they were primarily concerned with just creating a person and given all the work they had to do just to change everyone's memories and the fact that they were kinda pressed for time near the end, arguing that she's not exactly monk!ideal is pretty feasible.
With my obsession for remembering accurately and chronicling my life, both the Dawn-insert and the Connor-mindwipe squick me big time.
Yeah, I hear that. I had a conversation with someone -- forget if it was you or not -- about how Dawn's burning of her notebooks was so anathema and painful to me.
Thanks for your usual excellent level of feedbacking. Love you too. :)
:)
Doyle told me earlier today, "you're one of the people I always treasure getting feedback from." I blushed.