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

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

That cost of living calculator is scary. I'd need to make 50 grand more to live in SF. That's just insane.

VK - don't wear your hair like that. Guys are going to hit on you.

UC pairings within cannon. For me, it strongly depends on the pairing. For example, I find it impossible to belive that Angelus/Spike didn't have sex together, especially considering the show strongly implies it. So, it's not a big leap of faith to think that Angelus might have semi-raped Spike while Spike was in the wheelchair to remind him who's boss. Ot that they might have indulged in something when they believed Buffy told them both to take a hike in TGIQ.

KKnight is doing an amazing Wes/Angel series that takes place fully in cannon - it's very clear that Wes is completely infatuated with Angel and that Angel, for the most part, is using Wes. For me, it's not cannon that Angel loves Wes, but I'd have to be blind not to see Wes having feelings for Angel. It's right there in the way Alexis plays it.

Another example - I am convinced Faith wants Buffy. I don't see Buffy as having an interest in Faith.

I guess in the hands of a skillful writer, often I can believe a one shot thing between characters that takes place during cannon scenes. Someone (Gloss maybe?) recently wrote a brilliant short piece about Buffy during that final scene in Enemies where she tells Angel she needs to take a break from him. It turns out that it's mostly her guilt talking because she had a one tine fling with Faith. The scene works perfectly in cannon, but that's because Buffy's voice is perfect.

Now, if you tell me it's cannon up tp this point and then goes AU, that's a different story. But to tell me that seasons 1-3 happened exactly as I saw them but Angel and Willow were having a torrid affair - eh, not buying it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

That cost of living calculator is scary. I'd need to make 50 grand more to live in SF. That's just insane Hence me offering this up. I knew areas to avoid looking to teach but some other places scared me (here for instance housing is cheap but hard to find and gas is about 20 cents more than in FL)

VK - don't wear your hair like that. Guys are going to hit on you. Yeah that was my thought. I figured he was home schooled just so he didn't get beaten on a regular basis in school.

As for the fanfic stuff, you've made many excellent points. Actually I could see Angelus/Spike with Angelus in charge up until he's souled because in those brief periods afterwards they did a good job of implying Angelus was leery of SPike.

While I could buy Faith being bisexual I've never considered her sexually attracted to Buffy. I think she wanted to BE Buffy which is a different thing all together (ditto with Wes/Angel)

I think my problem is wanking canon so that nonconventionals can be together and yet having it look like canon. I've nothing against unconventional pairings I have my share and I hope I do a good enough job with them that the stories feel like they could have been part of canon.

I guess my real problem is if you call yourself a canon whore then you like CANON not some AR of it.