Octaves of the Heart Interview with Victoria P.
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Octaves of the Heart Interview with Victoria P. |
| Interviewer: | Octaves of the Heart |
| Interviewee: | Victoria P. |
| Date(s): | early 2000s |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Buffyverse |
| External Links: | online here, Archived version |
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Octaves of the Heart Interview with Victoria P. is posted at the Buffy website Octaves.
For others in this series, see Octaves of the Heart Interview Series.
Excerpts
The first fic I ever began (not counting the hellacious Vampire Chronicles thingy a friend and I attempted back in 1990) was an Angel story. I liked the idea of a round robin of unrequited love, magically induced crushes that would embarrass all the participants. I thought it would be a funny episode, and wanted to see if I could write it myself. Sadly, I never finished it and the show moved beyond that stage of comedy/characterization, so I've never gone back to it. You can see it here: in all its unfinished glory. That was in June 2000.
Generally speaking, the characters inspire me, things that the show has brought up and then not followed through on (Faith learning of Buffy's death, though I guess that was jossed; Xander's role as a 'comfortador', Angel and Cordelia learning about Joyce's death, Wesley's feelings during Supersymmetry), though I've never quite grasped the idiom in which the Buffy characters speak. I enjoy listening to it, but I suck at writing it. Angel is somewhat easier, because there's less of that slangy byplay - the characters are more adult.
What does the end of BtVS means to me and fic? Heh. Now that I don't have to worry about getting jossed every week, I may write more fic. Because I'm a canon whore, and writing something and having it be completely contradicted or made irrelevant by the next week's episode upsets me, as a writer.I haven't really been part of the fic side of Buffy fandom. I mostly played on the newsgroup - was a high frequency poster from fall of '98 through oh, fall of 2000 before getting shanghaied by X-Men Movieverse.
It's the fandom I have the fondest memories of, and some of my closest friends now are people I met in my time when I was really active in Jossverse fandom. I think it's easily the most welcoming and yet divisive fandom, because everybody's always so ready to be polarized - Angelistas v. Xanderistas, Angel v. Riley, Oz v. Tara, redemptionistas v. evilistas, Spuffy v. Spuffy-haters, Faith-lovers, early seasons v. later seasons etc. etc.
I have to say, though, that atbvs was only my second exposure to online fandom and everybody was so nice, even when arguing, so I do use it as a benchmark for courteous online behavior - we argued over everything from the way Angel's soul works to the Lie to Buffy feeding Faith to Angel and really, the majority of posters stayed civil and funny.