OT: Listen up people!

["cdreramius" <o163210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I'm sitting here sick as a dog, looking and feeling like
complete shit (as I tend to do just after chemotherapy) and all of a 
sudden I see a rush of emails that made me go "Whooa! I'm
getting
emails from The Kitten Board?"

One of the few highlights of going in for chemo is that several of 
the nurses and docs are huge Buffy fans. We talk about Buffy and the 
deeper issues on the show; it's great in that it makes the whole 
chemo thing a little more bearable. We got the entire spectrum 
covered, both sexuality and shipper preference. When it come to the 
issues of Willow's sexuality, Tara's death, etc, etc,
they're united 
on the following:

Willow ? gay or bi? Willow loves the person first, gender second.

Tara's death ? homophobic? No, just stupid.

Also they threaten bloody death to all the writers if they hear any 
variation on the words/anvil "GAY NOW".

I've got most of them thinking that in the long run, the only
happy ships the core Scoobies (B-W-X) are ever going to have is with 
some variation of core Scoobies (B/X, B/W, W/X, B/W/X).

John (the ward nurse and a W/T, B/W shipper) said something the other 
day that I think sums up the whole situation:

"Joss really screwed the pooch with the whole Willow thing. He
had a 
story line that could have been fantastic but ended up painting 
himself into a corner. He can't get out without stomping all over 
some group of fans. Sadly he's going down the path of least 
resistance. Over the bodies of Willow/Oz and Willow/Xander fans."

Guys, when a doctor tells you you've got a 50/50 chance of
beating 
cancer, you quickly learn what's important and what's not.

This whole argument don't matter a pair of fetid dingoes kidneys.

Period.

So please, quit the bitching and fighting and get on with the fic 
writing.

Tony McD

(pulling what little hair is left out of his head)