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[dolorosa_12]

Last night I went over to my friend M's house for St Patrick's Day shenanigans. There was a group of about six of us. We basically hung around, drinking and chatting, and, as is our wont, listening to increasingly cheesy music. This playlist got quite an airing.

At some point, M, C and I separated off into a little Whedonite group and started discussing which Buffyverse character we identified with. C was convinced he was Giles ('Don't talk Latin in front of the books!'). M said that she was Buffy. I was more confused. I said I thought I might be a strange mixture of Willow, Xander and Dawn. C shook his head emphatically.

'You're Tara,' he said.

I'd never thought about that before, but as soon as he said it, I knew he was right. I'm both amused and confused about what this says about me.

In terms of Firefly/Serenity characters, it's obvious. I'm Simon. No question about it.

I've got some links for you tonight. This two-part interview with Jake Adelstein, an American reporter for Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun who spent 12 years writing about the Yakuza. The interview is absolutely fascinating.

I've been following the whole Avatar: The Last Airbender racebending debacle in a rather scatterbrained manner, but Hal Duncan has some rather important things to say about the matter. Check it out.

Sady Doyle's got some good points to make about the 'Telephone' video clip. Also, I've been saying for years that each era gets the vampires it deserves, but I never really thought much about zombies. But Mark Dery's done it for me.

Now, sleeeeeeeeeep.

ETA: I, um, have 'Mr Vain' by Culture Beat on repeat.

Comments

[catpuccino.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think I might be Cordelia. After the joins the Scoobies. :P
Or maybe Anya.

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

You're definitely one of the characters who isn't afraid of speaking out when other people are behaving like idiots, so I'd say Cordelia or Anya is exactly right. It's weird how easy this is to work out.

[losseniaiel.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure who I am. Giles, possibly?

St Patrick's Day sounds fun; I wish I'd been there.

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

I wish you'd been there too.

I can see where you're coming from with Giles, but I'd have to think about it some more before definitively assigning you to a Buffyverse character. I think most of us have elements of all of them.

I think in some cases other people are better at seeing it than you are, as was the case for me with Tara. (However, I didn't even have to think for a second before realising I was Simon in Firefly 'verse.)

[losseniaiel.livejournal.com]

I'd have to think about it some more before definitively assigning you to a Buffyverse character

;)

I think in Firefly terms, I'm probably Simon too - but with a fair helping of Kaylee.

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Oh, Jesus. Bing bing bing bing (in my internet circles, 'bing'='proto-that's-what-she-said/catch-all term for inadvertent innuendo').

That being said, assign yourself away to whichever character you'd like except Spike.

Firefly characters are easier because there isn't as much canon to work with, so you don't have to weigh up all the, 'but I'm nothing like Season 6 Willow! Season 1 Willow, on the other hand....' considerations. They do develop over the course of the series and film, but not to the extent that the Buffyverse characters do.

[losseniaiel.livejournal.com]

Heheheheh. I think we've been spending far too much time with Asnacs to find innuendo in this. (And I've just found innuendo in 'Simon - but with a fair helping of Kaylee').