BUFFY

[fulselden]

I WROTE BUFFY! Which was only the show of my heart for the latter part of my adolescence. quinara, I blame you and Spike. Also, insomnia.Though the blame for my lol!villanelle rests with me and my reliance on esoteric stanzaic forms.

Series: Buffy (yeah).
Rating/Warnings: G. Poetry!fic.

A girl who holds her stake straight in a fight

She leaves a rim of lipstick on her glass

She moves through death and pries apart the night.

She runs down tarmac under streaky light

She jerks out of her death and into farce

A girl who holds her stake straight in a fight.

She grabs a cellphone, keys, the likely right,

She leaves an ex behind to hold the pass.

She moves through death and pries apart the night.

She held her little sister, held on tight

White fences and the long green lines of grass

A girl who holds her stake straight in a fight

She leapt straight down and shattered into light

She opened up her knuckles after class

She moves through death and pries apart the night.

She spears her pancake and she takes a bite

She moves through dust clouds and the thud of bass.

A girl who holds her stake straight in a fight

She moves through death and pries apart the night.

Comments

[deird1]

Hooray for Buffy!

Nicely done. :)

[fulselden]

Oh, man, I feel like I have fulfilled some kind of fannish obligation. Though why exactly I decided to do so by covering the entire show in nineteen lines of villanelle is kinda a mystery for the ages. And thank you!

[pennieblack]

We got into a discussion in class about BtVS the other day~ It's like the entire universe is coming together to say "pennieblack, pennieblack, you need to finally buy that first season on DVD"

But focusing(!): this is amazing and a little hilarious. "She opened up her knuckles after class" is a great line.

[fulselden]

DO IIIIIITTTT. Seriously, Buffy is pretty damn awesome, although there's definitely a lot to take issue with in the later seasons, especially. But, yeah, although the first season isn't the very best, it's consistently smart and fun.

Also, hilariously awful late nineties clothes, oh man. Skin-tight synthetic-y trousers and mini-mini skirts and weird boxy jackets, not valid fashion choices for the style-conscious Slayer, Buffy!

And thank you! Wow, I'm especially glad this worked for someone who doesn't know Buffy.

[pennieblack]

Haha, yes! I'm totally gonna do it. I've caught almost all of Angel over the years (it played (plays?) in the mornings as I get ready for school/work/life) and I've heard that Buffy is way more fun.

And I know I remember this one episode where they were all singing. I'm pretty sure there were corsets, bright-red bras, and badly patterned men's shirts involved.

[fulselden]

Excellent! *rubs hands* I'm very fond of Angel, but Buffy is a lot more sure of itself from the start and hits more high points in general as far as I'm concerned.

And, oh man, the musical episode is an absolute classic. It's in season six, though (I think).

[quinara]

Ooh, shiny town!!! I FEEL ABSOLUTELY NO SHAME IN BEING BLAMED FOR THIS. (And, ack, I am crap at this all-caps lark - the 'absolutely' is too much, isn't it? There should be a style guide...)

Anyway, I really really like this. I love that you rhyme glass and farce, yet also talk about cellphones; I love the idea of her prying apart the night (even if I'm weirded out by how sexual and image I find that, despite it being such a violent one). And I love her leaving an ex behind to hold the pass, because that is sooo Buffy.

Since it seems my duty to corrupt you, and you made the mistake of writing not only Buffyverse, but Buffyverse poetry (oh la), I feel it is my duty to link you to my two favourite Buffyverse poems, so you may continue your, erm, education: Buffy Sonnet #2 by sobsister and Illyria Writes a Poem (What country, friends, is this?) by our very own stultiloquentia... ;)

[fulselden]

CAPSLOCK IS SO FUN! AND YET ALSO A COMPLETE SOCIAL MINEFIELD, I AGREE, I AM SO TENTATIVE ABOUT HOW TO USE IT CORRECTLY.

Um, current appearances to the contrary.

weirded out by how sexual an image I find that

Especially in combination with the repeated straight staking, oh wow. Ahahahaha. Ok, I may have thought I was being a bit more subtle than is in fact the case, reading back! This is what I get for reading too much fic (ie porn) on the internet... JUST PRETEND I TOTALLY MEANT IT ALL, OK.

Especially as, oh man, I have read both those poems, and they are indeed awesome! But I read them because I found stultiloquentia’s Buffy poetry mother-lode after the fact, including your great – and also sweet and mournful – Spike villanelle, which makes me especially feet-shuffly about this one! Not that I wasn’t very glad to discover it, and the list in general – so much shininess.

[stultiloquentia]

Uh, not to mention, She jerks out of her death and the rim of lipstick, and grabs a cellphone, keys, the likely right / She leaves an ex behind, which evokes a bedside table, to me, and even She opened up her knuckles after class lends itself handily to some very porny readings, if you tilt your polarized screen just a tad.

Yup. This here's a poem about powerful female sexuality. Queer female sexuality. *nods sagaciously* *effect is ruined by the fact that I typoed "nobs sagaciously" on the first go*

May I add this to the Mother Lode?

[fulselden]

Heh! I am hilaritized by the fact that while I was totally trying for overt porniness in a poem I posted just before this one, apparently Buffy is just a pathway to my id! Not that I wasn't trying for a degree of porniness - and very explicitly queer porniness with her straight stake, of course.

But, yeah, I got quinara's comment, scrolled back up, and was, like, ... ahahaha yes: I use 'rim' in the second line and it all goes a bit Rochester from there! Oh, Buffy.

And of course you can add this to the Mother Lode: I'm very flattered!

[quinara]

Not that I wasn’t very glad to discover it, and the list in general – so much shininess.

Ooh, yes, super shiny - clearly you have been a-travelling around the (Buffy) internets more than I thought! (And thanks for saying nice things about mine! Buffy poetry: it's an addictive vice.)

I will definitely assume you mean EVERY WORD of what you imply. (Though there seems a certain irony worrying about this considering your other post, which I will now continue to...)

[fulselden]

clearly you have been a-travelling around the (Buffy) internets more than I thought

Well, clearly a fandom which produces the Spikeid (still being great fun, btw - but, oh man, it may have to wait *eyes PILES of boxes*) has exciting things to offer! And wow, it really seems to have thrown up some amazing stuff, though perhaps this is because I had some hand-holding this time via stultiloquentia's recs list, etc.

[quinara]

:D I would definitely nod my head that Stulti's put together some of the best stuff, though I am very fond of the fandom as a whole.

No worries!! Good luck with the boxes...