Just the start of it all

Driveby hospot post is driveby:

The lettercol of Buffy #24, about the Satsu thing? NOT ENOUGH STABBITY IN THE WORLD. Who knew Buffy fandom of all places was so full of homophobia? (Why yes, I am repressing my memories of lurking atbvs, thank you.) And the people who claim there was no buildup clearly weren't paying the slightest bit of attention. LOLS at them printing the disappointed Buffy/Xander shipper at the end, though. (Incidentally, my rewatch has reached early S2 -- oh, evil Spike, you are rather great, as are you, Xander/Cordy UST -- and I suddenly realised that Some Assembly Required, which I had always thought of as decent but disposable filler, contains why I fell in love with the show in miniature. There's a scene there where Buffy, Willow and Xander discuss unrequited love and the history of their little triangle is all wonderfully there in the acting and OH. With my susceptibility to stories about crushes I was always going to go for them, especially as none of it stops them caring about each other or doing the right thing given the whole saving-the-world malarkey [with a few eminently believable exceptions]. Anyway, I still love Buffy, is the point, and Buffy/Satsu goes straight to the heart of what I love most about it.)

OTOH, ( Guardians of the Galaxy #12 spoilers )

God, I'm in a cranky mood. If I was inclined to, I could write wanky multi-thousand-word posts on pretty much every single story in the news this week. About the best thing that can be said is that at least academies have been shown not to work, but thousands of children continuing to be failed by the system would only really constitute good news if at least it meant they were going to stop letting any old nutters with cash to splash indoctrinate them, which it won't.

I'm even being got down by the BBC's wonderfully comprehensive coverage of the 150 years of the Origin/Darwin bicentenary thing, because when they put this much emphasis on Darwin I just see it playing into the hands of the creationists who can't see the difference between prophets and scientists.

Er, anyway, there were new comics today. That's what I originally came here to say. If you are a comics-y person, be warned there are spoilers.

( Capbrit #9 )

( Nova: The Origin of Richard Rider )

( Booster Gold #16 )

( Final Crisis #6 )

( Green Lantern Corps #32 )

On the reasons-to-be-cheerful front, on my way back from my LCS I passed a charity shop that had the little collection of the very first Bridget Jones columns that the Indy put out back in 2005 when they got Helen Fielding to come back to them with it. And so I bought it for 50p, and restrained myself from squeeing at the bored teenager behind the till as I did so (I was half tempted to squee at the sheer existence of volunteering-bored-teenager, but never mind). It has the proper Bridget who was at the top of the column on the cover and everything, not any of these fake Bridgets, and has made me very nostalgic for my school library where I used to read them every whichever-day-of-the-week-it-was-but-I'm-fairly-sure-it-started-with-a-T. I am almost scared in case they turn out not to be as good as I remember.

Er, anyway. As you can see, I'm feeling pretty cranky, though writing this has mellowed me out a bit which was kind of the point because otherwise this was going to segue into My Thoughts on Fanfic Awards. But I could still do with a bit of a pick-me-up. Drabble Ficlet prompt me, pretty pls? (Who, Whedon, or anything that's mentioned here.)

ETA: And here's a good reason to be cheerful I'd forgotten: I'm going to see this next month. Apparently it is not actually that good, but hey.

(cuts for both spoilers and those who don't care)

Various stuff I've read over the last few weeks:

( Annihilation: Conquest )

( Sinestro Corps War )

( Buffy Season 8 #8 )

And today I bought:

( World War Hulk #5, including mention of those big Marvel spoilers )

( Nova #8 )

( House of M: Avengers #1 )