Continuing the fannish thoughts

[cornerofmadness]

So I wrote in a fandom I haven't before trying to fill a lonely stocking and after I get 500 words, I see a little side request that changed everything. Tough, this is what you're getting now. Ah well.

Can you believe that within 4 days I got back the second round of edits on my novella? I can't! Yikes.

But that's not fannish. No, a couple of things. Hello to the new people from the Snowflake challenge and the great Tumblr diaspora. Welcome. If you have questions ask.

Now here's one of mine. Well first the thoughts. I was looking over su_herald and it was something about the comics canon (why did I look at it? I literally have no idea.) It was interesting that there was something of an argument being made that the IDW Angel After the Fall comics weren't 'canon' and only the Dark Horse comics were. That struck me as SO odd. For one, Whedon himself had a hand in the IDW comic so literally how can it not be canon? HOW in the name of God did Dark Horse not seem to know about it and/or ignored it since it really apparently contradicts it. And that the IDW wasn't very good but the Dark Horse stuff was (honestly I didn't think the IDW stuff was that bad but have not read any of the DH stuff)

The question however is, how did Dark Horse deal with Buffy learning about Connor? I honestly don't have plans of reading the DH books at this late date (though I might read the Angel & Faith ones). The actual show never made it clear that Willow and Faith kept it secret or not. So I was wondering did the comics ever address it. I did see one wiki where Willow recruits Connor for some bizarre mission (where he stays temporarily in Quor-Toth, which right there makes no sense so doesn't make me want to go and read) but I was wondering does Buffy know about Connor and was there a comic's canon reaction?



And in non-fandom thoughts, I'm working on a CHristmas story and it needs to have things go wrong but NOT be too angsty. Thoughts? I'm working on 2 stories but one thing I will say about these new 'anthologies' is that they aren't truly anthologies so much as an umbrella title. When the shortest story word count is 15K that's a lot. And oddly I wanted to do established couples romance which is harder to generate that much word count since you don't have the shooting fish in the barrel aspect of first time dating (with date nights, etc). So, how DO you think you keep a marriage romantic/happy (in this case one story is m/m and the other f/f/m). Yes I'm crowdsourcing prompts/ideas

Comments

[tozka]

Hmmmm...maybe beetles in their Christmas tree? :P

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. that sure would put a crimp in crap

[gracenm]

I don't remember any mention of Buffy finding out about Connor or her reaction in the Dark Horse comics. I think we're just supposed to assume that she knows without any more details. Overall, I think the Dark Horse comics are bland (and, at times, horrible) and not worth the trouble, but if you're at all interested, Angel & Faith Season 9 is definitely the best of them, apart from the first several arcs of BtVS Season 8 when Joss still cared.

Angel & Faith S10 is meh, though I liked the art, and Angel S11 is a total mess. I don't think Connor appears in S10 or S11, and honestly Dark Horse's complete lack of interest in Connor is horribly annoying and makes Angel seem hugely out of character.

I think the After the Fall books from IDW are still considered canon through #17, though it is hard to understand Angel's characterization from After the Fall to BtVS Season 8. IDW also kept publishing more (non-canon) Angel books after that (which I have not read but heard bad things about).

In general, there seems to be a very small group of people who think the Dark Horse comics were actually good, and a good portion of them are Buffy/Spike shippers who were pleased with BtVS Seasons 10-11.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. That's a help. No, I'm honestly not interested in the Buffy comics. I never was. I have the first bound graphic novel (a gift from a friend) that I have never read (but should I suppose). I might look for the Angel & Faith stuff then S9 . I suspect DH thinks the fans hated Connor (which a lot did) so more or less wrote him out. I appreciated that IDW didn't).

It could have been the reddit poster's belief that IDW wasn't canon or couldn't figure out the canon since After the Fall to Buffy 8 was such a mess.

Honestly Buffy/Spike has never interested me (though Angel/Buffy/Spike does) I found him more interesting with Illyria than Buffy. (though S6 of the actual show really went a long way toward ruining SPike for me)

[enemytosleep]

THANK YOU, about to check the damage now and hopefully find we're all good (over 30 works were added on Ao3 overnight).

EDIT: Almost full! And your gift is fine. Thank you for the extra stocking fills!

[cornerofmadness]

That is great