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[ironymaiden]

got into a conversation on a locked post about when and how we cancel creators, led me to to do a bit of personal spelunking.

i used to be a big fan of Joss Whedon, at one point he was even my stated answer to the "free pass" question. (i was over that by at least ten years ago, recent news was sad but no surprise.) i noticed two things via that search: Whedonesque is just gone (i had heard, but i forgot how many times i used to link it), and you can't view LiveJournal with an ad blocker enabled.

there's something scary here - since i couldn't load it directly, i thought i would look up what was a public ElJay post about why Xander Harris is horrible on the Wayback Machine. and i discovered that the Wayback Machine crawl of ElJay is very shallow and broken. i'm sure it's too late to rescue that content now :(

at least The Secret Life of Dolls is archived elsewhere.

there was a question posed in my comments back in 2007 that's still valid:

Poll #25311

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

View Respondents

Which Willow would you like to have capture you and have her way with you?

View Answers

Dark Willow
1 (12.5%)

Vampire Willow
2 (25.0%)

Vanilla Willow
2 (25.0%)

All of the above
3 (37.5%)

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

That's unfortunate about Wayback though not entirely surprising given how many posts had restrictions there. I am surprised about not being able to browse it with ad block though. I use a javascript blocker and never see ads on it, but perhaps that's different because I can be selective about what I allow through.

Yes, Whedonesque had quite a lot of content over the years, both a history of activity as well as conversations. And Mike got a shirt with your icon saying on it years ago from a friend. I noted he shouldn't keep wearing it (though in fact, as with most of his t-shirts, it didn't get used often anyway).

[sistawendy]

Willow in a leather corset, please.

[swingandswirl]

Yeah, there's a reason I'm almost manic about saving anything on the internet I consider valuable to Evernote, especially after living through the various purges and the C&E era.

The ace chick will bow out of being had, but would like to pick any and all Willows' brains re: magic. /g/