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[quesarah]

1. mosca has posted Chasing Amy slash fic. Obviously she has done so because she is wrong and broken and full of juicy evil creative genius.
   
   I owe you a fruity mixed drink, complete with a decorative paper umbrella.



2. scrump who is the brokenest of all the broken, posted about the Lovemakers. And I listened. And now I want to use an entire canister of Aqua Net on my hair and wear granny boots with lacy socks and listen to all my old Berlin and Missing Persons albums and dance like I have imbibed five pounds of coc -- POWDERED SUGAR-- off the piano.



3. Who was discussing the use of dialect/idiolect in the Firefly 'verse a while back? Someone was discussing how the unique dialect that Whedon created gave him freedom to explore dialog and character in ways that "conventional" English would not have. It occurred to me this morning that he was probably trying to do something similar with the peculiar slang of Buffy, but was limited by the setting and scope of that universe. Is language his true kink, or just tiny girls who are much stronger than they appear?



4. I found a nearly new 9'0 Iron Cross longboard shaped by Dave Murphy listed for $160 on ebay. And I bid on it. Because I too am sad and strange and weird and broken and the notion of gliding along a sweet swell on a big daddy longboard turns my crank.
   
   I prolly won't win the bid. No sweat.



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Comments

[mosca.livejournal.com]

#3 is also me. Apparently I am predicting all of your kinks and pre-emptively fulfilling them.

Glad to be of service.

Joss is definitely kinked for languages, although he's conscious of that kink in a different way than he's conscious of his character kinks. And I think the language is much more successful as an idiolect in Firefly: it's more complete and more consistent, and it doesn't have the baggage of sounding wrong to a Valley Girl.

Glad you liked the Chasing Amy fic, too!

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to remember what the dialog in early seasons was like. Did Willow and Xander brought certain phrases and Buffy brought others? He sort of did that with Faith and her odd little "five-by-five" phrase. Did Buffy have her own peculiar speech patterns that gradually affected the rest of the group, suggesting that everyone else was gradually drawn into her world? Or did he just try to create this offbeat idiolect out of whole cloth?

This may require careful reviewing of S1 of Buffy, but that will have to wait for a week in which I don't have a final due on Friday.