Various stuffs

[cornerofmadness]

One is a handy little site for those of us moving and/or looking for a job that would take us out of our usual neighborhood. It's a site that does a comparitive cost of living. In other words it tells you what you need to be making in your new location in order to live with the same type of lifestyle you're currently at. In other words that dream job in LA might sound great and the pay's more than you're making now but when you look at the cost of living you realize you'd be living in your car if you took that job. Some places are FAR more expensive to live than you realize (most of us know that L.A., NYC, SF etc are expensive but other places are just as bad and you might not even think of it). Anyhow here you go. Hope it helps  Cost of Living.

And since I couldn't get the damn coding to work on that nanomo thing and my webmistress had a devil of the time with it too, decided to just SAVE it in photobucket and do it like any other picture. so here

And came across this magazine scan. Now tell me, isn't Makai better off with shorter hair (seriously, poor VK was much girlier at that age than I was.) 

 

 

And while I'm not looking for a huge fight to ensue in my lj like we've seen recently with other fandom things, I am curious. How can you label yourself a canon whore and yet have all your ships be unconventional (het and slash) ? How does this work? This is the third time I've drawn something like this in a ficathon and I don't know how to approach it.  By their very nature unconventional ships are non-canon so how can the requester be a canon whore? Do I pretend everything happened as it did on the show but with the unconventional ship in play? I've been unsuccessful in giving the people what they wanted in past ficathons which is why I ask, not trying to bash. I'm just curious

Comments

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

hmmm, that's an interesting question, and one I've never come across, perhaps its a case of how the relationships are presented on the show? (Im assuming we're talking ATS/BTVS) Id say there was enough subtext presented between, say, Spike and Angel, or Angel and Wesley for it to be argued you could present those relationships within the canon of the show, or Wesley and Fred pre season 5, but it's harder to argue that Wesley and say, Connor, is a canonical ship, even though its one that is visible in the fandom, and hey, whatever floats your boat, but the sheer lack of character interaction between them makes it hard to present it as one rooted in canon, and not merely in fandom.

Well, that's my 2 cents anyway....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

You've hit on my problem. Sometimes I've been given ships I could through subtext see how making them canon wouldn't be so hard. Others no way. I think the problem really is the label 'canon whore.' What I think they're really saying is 'dont' stray TOO far from what the show put forth' like for instance all human AU's which are my least favorite subgenre of BtVS/AtS.