Scientific Research

[alixtii]

Of all the Scoobies, Giles says "God" the most in scenes involving Willow.

God, I love the Buffy Dialogue Database.

Comments

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

And Willow and Tara never, ever, ever say "Goddess!" as an exclaimation. Ever.

[/fanfic pet peeve]

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Yes. That's what I was researching, actually.

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

*face palms* You're right! For some reason (possibly the "Oh my Goddess" as Willow did the sythe empowerment spell) I seemed to remember both Willow and Tara referring to the Goddess instead of saying "my God" from S5 on. Guess you were right after all. Sorry!

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

I could just as easily have been wrong; the only reason I even bothered to research it was that I so wanted to keep it as the setup for Cordy's joke ending the scene. It's not like I had originally written it as a point of characterization. (And the rest of LJ has no idea about what I'm talking.)

For what it's worth, you had me completely convinced, so I can certainly understand.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Also, my apologies for the passive-aggressive way in which the news was broken. I didn't know invisionary would say that! Honestly, I didn't!

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

I don't really read W/T fanfic (I tend to go for the pairings that were not fully developed on the show, and I think W/T had the best relationship on either show, so I don't generally feel the need to change things) so I don't know why that stuck in my head, but I must have selective memory, because I can still hear Willow saying "Oh my goddess" frequently (in my head, at least, if not in the data base). Weird, huh?

I guess everyone has their own pet fanfic peeve. (Mine happens to be "childe" *shudders* Joss used the term sire, but never, ever used childe and when I see the term in fanfics, it makes me cringe.)

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

I don't read W/T much either (a fact I realized when I looked at my profile, saw it under favorite ships, and went, "Huh?"--when I made the list I must have been responding to canon more than I do now that it is closed). Reading fanfiction can warp one's memory, which everyone knows can be highly flawed under even the best of conditions--at least, that's true of my memory.

I can't think of my fanfic peeves off the top of my head, but I know I have them. "Childe" I personally tend to find neutral, like Chalmers, but that may be because I haven't seen it many places outside of Buffyverse fanfiction, and to me it feels the most canonical of the proposed terms for "one-who-has been-sired." (Did Anne Rice use it? I can't even remember. I know the usual etymology is to claim it entered Buffyverse fandom through Vampire: The Masquerade, whatever that is--an RPG, I think.)