Re: Adventures of Buffy and Evil Willow

["nobodyofanyconsequence" <fox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@y..., danspector@w... wrote:
  
> Besides, did you see how hot Fox made Tara look the next week?
> MEEEEEEEEOW!! (Okay, that was OT, but I just have to give Fox her 
props
> :) ).  

Thank you, thank you. *bows*
 
> Now I didn't see the correspondence you had off-line with Anne-
Lise, so
> I can't judge who said what and whether it was uncalled-for.  
Sometimes
> people overstep the bounds of criticism and forget that it's an 
author's
> prerogative to tell the stories they want to tell, and sometimes 
authors
> take criticism as a personal attack and overreact to it. (And 
again,
> not knowing what was said, I'm not implying that either of those 
things
> happened here.) 

I did, and Faith's flame was rude. It got a rude response.

And I still don't see what we did to Tara that was so awful compared 
with what we've done to Willow, Spike, Faith, Amy, Dru, or anyone 
else. One of these days someone is going to make a horrifying 
checklist of all the nasty things we've done to each character, and 
Tara will be at the bottom, just above Anya, who I don't think we've 
done anything to. Yet.

To be honest, I think the worst thing we've done to Tara is to not 
include her until now. It's a large cast and a small strip. There 
just isn't the room to include everyone.

> Anne-Lise, I hope you're not withholding this week's strip simply
> because you got a bad reaction from one feedbacker. I guarantee you
> there are dozens, hundreds and perhaps even thousands of people who 
are
> looking forward to the next installment, no matter what 
difficulties you
> may have had with this particular person at this particular time.

She's not withholding this week's strip at all. It's entirely my 
fault it's late because I've had a busy week. Since B&EVW doesn't 
pay the rent, it sometimes has to take a back seat to things that do.
 
> Van Gogh never sold a painting in his life. 

Yes he did. He sold two. To his agent. Lol.

> So Faith didn't like the strip--so what?

I was tempted to ask if we should curtail the abuse we put most of 
the cast through on a regular basis, to see how people felt about 
it. But after all the nasty things we've done, everyone has always 
got the joke, even when it is on their favourite character, and this 
is the first time someone has got cross about it.

Basically, it wouldn't be B&EVW if we didn't torment the characters 
for fun. If we are going to have to worry about offending someone, 
then it's time to stop doing it.

Fox