I was sorting debating making this a seperate thread. But I decided to put it here. So here goes...
As many of you know I am a big Buffy fan..., and the Buffy fan community has become in many ways a real community on the internet. Of course BtVS fandom grew in many ways with the net. Well, through Buffy I became a fan of the actress Amber Benson (who played the witch Tara Mcclay on the series). I saw her at a con last summer and I have over three hours of video on VCD, including her Q and A session, that were made at the 2002 Toronto Trek where she appeared as guest. And whenever she meets fans she comments on how Buffy fans have forged themselves into this community of like minds and how this is good thing.
Now getting to the point here, and I do have one. Amber fans on the net have their own posting board pub31.ezboard.com/bamberbenson Essence of Amber. I surfed over to this board earlier and found a thread that was started by a netizen, that came from a very dark, lonely ,fearful and potentially dangerous place. And the amazing thing, to me, was within such a short time, literally a few hours, there were at least a dozen or so posts attempting to give this lost person a little hope, light and some courage. (Supposedly one of the posts came from Amber Benson, herself as much one can believe it, but it was confirmed by the board's owner, a netizen known as 'Little Willow' who interestingly personally knows some of the BtVS cast) Well, anyway this post is rather long and really does not say much, and maybe is a little lame.
Last point, one of the posters offered a qote by Magaret Atwood (Handmaiden's Tale):Quote:I would like to be the air that inhabits your body for one moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessaryI liked this quote, too. taraswizard
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