The Tradëscan Codex

cereta, one of the many fabulously brilliant producers of meta whom I've friended recently, has posted a mea culpa of sorts to her controversial (at least on my flist) essay The Ten Commandments of Crossovers:

[. . .] I can't deny that this play was making a lot of people very happy, and I didn't see that it was my place to piss on their Cheerios by telling them all the reasons they should stop it. I mean, it turns out my notion of play wasn't some folks' cuppa, either, but it sure makes me happy.

Now, I value cereta as a new addition to my flist, and I don't want to piss in her Cheerios (or anyone else's) when she is being gracious, but I do have some issues with her new post and in the spirit of friendly dialectic I commented with my thinky thoughts, and now this post is being cannibalized from those comments, because part of the raison d'être of this LJ is that so when I have thinky thoughts, I can tell to the world, damn it!

( Metametametatastic )

Title: Firmness and Restraint (1/?)
Fandoms: BtVS/WW
Characters: Leo McGarry, Donna Moss, Josh Lyman, Sam Finn, Jed Bartlet, Dawn Summers
Rating: PG-13
Timeline/Continuity:Immediately after “Not Fade Away.” I figured out where this would be in West Wing continuity, but I forget what I figured out. Anywhere the two canons might contradict, Buffyverse canon trumps.
Summary: “An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. . . . a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint.” – Jimmy Carter

( Firmness and Restraint )

( Spoilers for Tonight's West Wing )

Tomorrow, I take my brother to Serenity.

3 months ago: This meta post on the relationship(s) between canon, the source text, and the AU which I thought was a brilliant conceptual analysis of the terms and didn't so much as cause a drop in the meme pool. I still think its the most well-done meta I've meta-ed, but oh well.

6 months ago: I didn't have an LJ six months ago. Wow. It seems like I've been doing this for longer than that. Of course, I was around in LJ-land before that, reading wisdomeagle's, karabair's, and hjcallipygian's flists and leaving anonymous comments signed "Alixtii."

Yesterday: A friend of my roommate came over to use our TV to watch Charmed. This is the guy who tried to start a Buffy student organization last year. I can't be sure how far he's fallen, since I've only watched a single episode (while I was in London, home of 5-channels-one-of-which-is-in-black-and-white-the-reception-is-so-bad), but I've heard mixed reviews. As in mixed, because this guy who came over last night likes. Otherwise, they'd not be mixed. You do the math.

We made plans to see Serenity this weekend. Hopefully it'll be showing here in Hamilton or else in Oneida, but if not we'll drive to Utica or Syracuse. I didn't want to make that type of drive, but if I'm not alone it won't be so bad. I still haven't figured out anyway of finding out which theatres are showing it and which aren't. Hopefully as the date gets closer that type of information will be made public.

Anyway, I was going to watch the show with him to be social, but I found out yesterday while driving to the campus store to get my weekend editions of the New York Times (thank Goddess for my car's radio!) that yesterday was the season premiere of The West Wing. So I watched that.

( Spoilers for Last Night's West Wing )

Maybe new canon will inspire me to write that WW/BtVS crossover I've been thinking about. I'm still not sure I can get the WWers' voices right yet, though. But I love West Wing so much, and I'd love it so much more if it had vampires in it.

While reading (in some cases re-reading) the posts referenced by wisdomeagle's version of the meme above, I came across an interesting meme that predicted your interests by looking at the interests of people who shared your rare interests. Now personally, I'm interested in finding out which of my interests counted as "rare." Dawn/Ethan and Mal/Kaylee, sure, but what about the non-fannish ones? Do people interested in German idealism, social construction, and showtunes all love Harry Potter. Or are they actually incredibly common and popular interests and I just don't know it? (I'm too lazy to actually check and find out.) What would the results have been like if it had taken my non-fannish interests (assuming that it didn't)? (One of these days I'm going to do that "10 interests" meme that's been going around, but that day is not tonight/)

Anyway, the results themselves aren't all that surprising:

( Results )

The next chapter of Divine Interventions should be posted sometime tomorrow. I can't believe we're at the denouement already. I've never posted the denouement of a fic this long before. It's a bittersweet experience, because once I get to Chapter 16 the fic is over, and I need to actually write some more if I'm going to post. And with the exception of femslash_minis, I don't think I have the time to do that.