The Open Road

( spoilers for Buffy series finale 'Chosen', spoiler for Angel season finale 'Home' )

I'm so very proud of Joss.

I'm so thankful for this show. It brought me so many wonderful things, including many of you. And if not for this show, I doubt I'd have become as involved online as I have been, and so I might have missed the rest of you as well.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was ground-breaking television. I will always treasure what it gave me.

There's so much that I'm going to miss.

Buffy was there for me during the tough times. Back when I felt like I had nothing, I could watch an episode and for 40-odd minutes, I was in another world, a beautiful, scary, funny, amazing world.

Like everything in life, the show wasn't perfect. But it was pretty damn close at times. It's made me laugh, made me cry, but most importantly, it's made me care. Just because the final curtain has fallen, that won't make me stop caring about the people of the Buffyverse. And they are people, fully-realized, with flaws and flashes of brilliance, and moments of heart-breaking humanity.

Buffy: A hero who stumbles and falls, but always gets back up. A woman who loved so strongly that she was terrified of it.

Xander: A man who acts with his whole heart, anger and love and pain and strength. Someone who will stand with you while the world's ending and never pull away.

Willow: More powerful than most people could ever dream of being, and terrified of her own strength.

Giles: A teacher who didn't want to be a father and who was horrible at being a parental figure. Who loved and lost, and didn't let that keep him from loving again.

Dawn: She started out a fake little girl and grew up into a strong, determined woman in front of our eyes.

Spike: Who showed us the highs and lows of living life to the fullest and never holding back.

Anya: Who went from a man-hating demon, to a one-man-loving woman, and finally to a human-loving person.

And everyone else who shaped the world of Buffy and made it feel like a world.

I haven't loved every moment of the show, but I wouldn't trade a minute of it.

Thank you, Joss Whedon, for Buffy's life.

Buffy's finale; also new icon

Quote on the icon is by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I wrote a long post and then *poof* it went away. So, this is going to be much shorter and probably much less eloquent than the original.
( vague spoilers for 'Chosen' )

Look! I'm writing!

In this week's wednesday100, the challenge was to write about an ending.
( spoilers for Smallville's season finale, 'Exodus' )

Buffy icon plans:

I still plan to finish that B/A song set, but right now, something has my attention.

I'm collecting famous, Buffy-appropriate quotes to use on icons. Most of them will probably be to Chosen.

This quote is interesting, as I normally only see the first line:

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel