tell me a story, game!

[solo_sword]

So with the new kids coming in and showing off their shiny new fandoms, I'm curious.

How'd you get into your canon?

Did you just pick it up one day and found yourself unable to put it down, or did someone (maybe from this game) drag you into it? How long have you been into it? Was there any one thing or character that hooked you on it? This is your chance to wax nostalgic and go on about what made your canon so cool for you. If there's a story behind it, tell us! And if there's not... tell us anyway!

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[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

You know how I love bad movies and TV to make fun of it? Yeah, I thought Buffy was going to suck.

I hated the movie a lot. When I heard they were making a TV show out of it, my reaction was pretty much "....Seriously? Oh, new network, that explains it." And so when it aired, I was all set to watch it and snark on it like I do Syfy movies and was kind of disappointed that the show was pretty good, except not really disappointed because the show was really good.

And then we had just gotten our first computer at home, and with it, the Internet. So the AOL Buffy message boards were found. Hello, Natalie's first experience with online fandom! I got really lucky in that they were relatively low-drama boards compared to what was going on in the rest of the fandom, apparently. Idk, I heard there was a lot of drama elsewhere but I was all happy in my little network of friends. (Who I mainly still talk to. One of them gets my drunk texts.)

So for as much as I raged about certain points of canon (seasons four and six, I'm looking at you), there was never any chance of me giving it up, because I had all my online friends I still needed to be able to talk to, and because I found the show really relatable. Like Buffy is hands down the character I relate to most in anything ever (YEAH I KNOW, OKAY?), and the show weirdly echoed things that had gone on/were going on in my own life. I had problems with season three when it aired because I'd just gone through some of the same situations the previous year in high school and it hit too close to home. Season six happened when I was really super depressed already. Buffy even left Sunnydale both times I moved away from home. So no matter what it was like I had to keep watching because I HAD TO KNOW THINGS ENDED UP OKAY.

And that is also why I was like the only person ever who liked Chosen. :D

[brat_inslayage]

And that is also why I was like the only person ever who liked Chosen. :D

HEY NOW. :D Person who will defend that entire damn season (well, most of it) to the death RIGHT HERE. ;)

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

YOU. I SEE YOU.

Hi~

[needsaparrot]

I adored Chosen! It was the stuff leading up to it that I had to squint and pretend happened in some other Sunnydale. Chosen was like "Woohoo! Everyone I know is themselves again!"

[life_inshadow]

What MP said. "Chosen" is awesome, it's the rest of S7 I had issues with. (Not you, Kennedy. Really.)

[brat_inslayage]

Pssssssssssht. I'll be the first person to cop to the fact that she's infinitely irritating and smackable.

What this says about me that I loved her from the first second anyway, I have no idea.

[life_inshadow]

Dude, I fell for the show because of an episode where Spike kidnaps people and chains them up out of looooooooooove. I'm not sure what that says about me.

[brat_inslayage]

Yeah, it was the scene from "Hush" of one of the Gentlemen standing in the open doorway holding a scalpel and a heart that sold me.

So um.

Yay, we're weird?

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

You're not even the only person in your family who liked Chosen!