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

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[natgel.livejournal.com]

I've also known self proclaimed "Canon Whores" who hardly wrote anything but AUs. So yeah, tricky ground. I think the only (shipping) fics that can be really loyal to Canon are, say, pairing an unlikely pairing AFTER the ending of the show, and leaving everything as it happened. Being loyal to Canon is also pairing two sub-text characters - like Spike and Angel for example - while the rest of the events go as they were on the show. Or maybe letting the character realize afterwords that something wasn't as it appeared within Canon: insert reason #1, 2 and 3. Everything the writer sees on the show is material to play with and twist in any way he/she likes.

But Fanfiction isn't always about sticking to Canon, nor it is about whatever you damn want to, since, IMHO, if the characters don't sound or act like themselves (without proper justification) and the Jossworld is just so not It ('vampires, slayers and demons arent real and buffy is the school cheerleader and her boyfriend angle is a jerk and she meets this hawt guy spike and they fall in looov!!11one! WOOT!!') Then why in Goth God's name don't you write an original story and be done with it? What's the point with characters in a written story that just look like the actors? Nobody sees them anyway! Ugh.

A lot of (good!) fics out there don't go by Canon (who doesn't like a "what if?" once in a while?) But when Canon is altered for no good reason, when The Change doesn't farther the plot in any way...Yeah well, it can get on the reader's nerves sometimes.

/rant

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ANd an excellent rant it is. It pretty much sums up how I feel. I like sticking to canon when I can. And if you look at most of my stories they do follow along up until the point at which they were written.

That said I do like writing what if's to to rescue characters I like, say Wes or Cordy or even kill a few (hopefully it DOES advance the plot or I have failed in my mission)

But paragraph two of the rant...yeah, I'm with you. That's why I don't get all human AU's. If that's what you want to do, why not make it something you can sell then I remember not everyone wants to publish but I don't get it.

Making characters OOC, that was my biggest problem with a lot of stories bashing on Riley so Angel/SPike could save Buffy (ditto Angel bashing to put B with SPike and vice versa)