To-do list: Buffyverse Essays

[butterfly]

Eventually, all of these will be redone and up on my site. But if you have the urge to wander through my thoughts on various things, I've just created this list to help myself keep it all straight. I was going to have it as a private entry, but eh, might as well go public. One list, behind a cut-tag, will hurt no one.

Many of the entries will be combined to form single essays, some will be separated into different pieces, etc. And there's a bunch of cross-linking as many entries cover more than one subject. Any of the essays may contain spoilers up to Origin -- at least one essay title does.

BtVS: Mental Images; Back to the Beginning; Show and Tell: Buffy Season Seven; Trial Runs; Strength from Pain: Buffy's journey; Breaking Down BtVS Seasons; End of Days: Moments; Tipping the Table: the meaning of BtVS; Sunk So Low: BtVS Season Six; Hitting Bottom: BtVS Season Six; We Never Win: War in BtVS; Ten Fandom Opinions; Character-love peaks; Dismissing Meta; How We Get There Matters: Ends and Means; Basements on BtVS

AtS: Season Checkpoint: Twelfth Episode (AtS: S4); Escher Perspective: AtS Season Four and Five; What You Deserve: Consequences; Ten Fandom Opinions; Season Four: Hella Connected; Puzzle Pieces and Evidence: Seasons Four and Five; Building up to Damage; Corruption: Season Five

Relationships: Sexuality in BtVS/AtS; Moments of Hotness; Exploration of the use of rape on BtVS; Slash: AtS Season Five; Friendship and Growth: Buffy, Xander, and Willow; Buffy/Xander in early Season Seven; When Someone is Everything

Demons/Vampires: Demons as Other; Who Cares About Vampires?; Innate: the Power of the Man in the Monster; Vampire Metaphysics; Becoming More

Morality/Choice: Choice versus Manipulation; Right, Nice, and Good; Religion in BtVS/AtS; Vengeance

Angel: Absence of Hope: AtS Season Five; Approval: Angel's Quest; Hesitation; Personal as Important; A Sea Change: Personal Perspective; Not the Demon, but the Man; Angel's Light Period: AtS Season Two/Three; Night Blooming: Angel and Jasmine; Becoming a Champion; The Wrong Side; Hearts Get in the Way; Like Chicken; Faith: The Inside Job; Angel as Agent for Growth; Exceptional People; Carrying Sunlight: Buffy and Angel (2); The Vampire with a Soul: Stealing Destiny; Choosing and Chosen: Angel and Connor; Control and Belief; Best of Show; Sweeter Blood;

Buffy: Fear: Season Seven; Ben/Glory as Buffy; A Chance: Buffy and Dawn; Choice: Buffy's Quest; Scott and Riley; Buffy as Everyperson; Finding Herself in Photographs; Creating a Hero: Buffy and Angel; Buffy in L.A.; Character Flaw: Pulling Away; BtVS as Buffy's psyche; Carrying Sunlight: Buffy and Angel; Chosen and Choosing: Buffy and Dawn; Martyrs and Heroes: Buffy and Frodo; Building Walls; Prophecy Girl/The Gift parallels; Power and Change: The Last Guardian; Kinship and Forgiveness: Girl to Woman; Inspiring and Ennobling: Buffy and Benton Fraser

Connor: Connor's Fall; Connor's Fall (2); The Answer is Among You; Something Real: Connor's Quest; Love, Death and Vengeance: Connor's Spiral; Love, Death and Vengeance: Connor's Spiral (2); Love, Death and Vengeance: Connor's Spiral (3); Connor's Fall (3); Mutual Destiny; Connor's Fall (4); Connor's Fall (5); His Mother; The Wrong Choice (2); Angel's Son; Nihilist or not?; Negative Space: Season Five; Connor's Return

Wesley: Wesley's Journey; Belonging: the beginning of the end; The Ends Justify; The Same Road; Lost Soul; In that Moment of Panic; Never Again a 'Faithful Servant'; In the Breaking: Wesley's Fall; Wesley's Torture; Second-Best in Love; Shame and Guilt; Consistent Obsession

Spike: Dirty Secret: Spike and Basements; Love: Spike's Quest; The Spike Angle; The Vampire with a Soul: Stealing Destiny; Second-Best in Love; No Less in Evil

Darla: Promising Nothing; Such A Mom: Darla and Connor; Infinite Incarnations; The Rapier: Elegant and Deadly; Beautiful in White; The Gift of Love

Xander: No Arc Required; Demon Face; Equality: Xander's Quest; What's in a Name?; The One who Sees; Character Flaw: Idealization

Fred: Out of tune on the theme of destiny; Inner Violence; Metaphor and Analogy

Willow: Unintentionally Manipulative; The Journey from Innocence to Power; Character Flaw: Belief

Lindsey: Good Advice; Golden Boy; Different Roads

Cordy: Ten Fandom Opinions: Jasmine as Cordy; Her Dying Breath

Lorne: Regret: Looking forward from the Trial

Giles: Character Flaw: Holding Back

Lilah: Not Top Priority

Faith: Visceral Reaction: Faith and Xander

Comments

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

Uh. So much wow.
By the way, have you ever seen this Xander vid by sisabet? I think you'd like it.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Very cool vid -- it feels vaguely familiar, so I may have seen it ages ago, but it was great to watch or rewatch. Whichever it was. Thank you.

[ros-fod.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've been meaning to ask you - and thank god this reminded me of it. I have a Connor site going up soon (fanfic, essays, that kind of thing) and I'd love to archive some of your Connor stuff. I'm thinking about "Love, Death, and Vengeance: Connor's Spiral" especially. Please?

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Totally, yeah. As long as I know where something's going, I'm cool with it.

Do you want to wait until I've redone the essays?

[ros-fod.livejournal.com]

I can totally wait. If you want to make the three parts into one, or change stuff or whatever. Just give me an approximate ETA, and I'll put it down.

Thanks much!

Good reads, all of them.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

ETA -- now that it's on my radar, I'll probably start redoing things right away. Plus, it'd be nice to redo the Connor stuff before the new-probably-not-about-Connor episode. So, the Connor essays might be redone as soon as Wednesday.