Sweeney: ANOTHER MONTH HAPPENED! That’s how we begin each of these recaps of recaps (#recapception) because that’s about how it feels. Sitting down to work on a TMYK leaves me with all sorts of big, dramatic feelings of concern for the rapid disappearance of time. This post is especially like that, having recently finished a big, enormous project that has been such an essential piece of this blog.
We’ve both been busy with work and life and planning all the things. These first two months were my two stationary months before a long string in which I will be in a new time zone at least once a month until August at the earliest. This should mean I can do some awkward blogging from airplanes in the near future! Snark Squad: bringing additional passenger discomfort to a flight near you.
Lorraine: This is where I jump in to squee about how two of my upcoming trips are to see Sweeney! I always feel like I should announce when we might be in the same place. Prepare yourself world: two Snark Ladies in one location. Coming soon.
Sweeney: Prepare yourself world: two Snark Ladies simultaneously wearing real clothes. Coming soon.
February was a bit of a struggle for us, scheduling-wise. We’re making some in-house changes to try to fix that in the future. Mostly this means we’re going to send each other an additional eight emails a day so we can keep super hardcore tabs on each other and know when the monsters of “Work” and “Real Life” are interfering with true priorities like “watching TV for the internet.”
Lor: We’re also setting up back-up procedures in case someone has to shave their hands or motorcycle to Africa. You never know.
Sweeney: Gotta be prepared for anything.
Last Month:
We started the month of February in Sunnydale, where Spike and Buffy ignored Spike’s still active First-trigger so Wood and Giles went behind Buffy’s back to try to kill Spike. Good choices were made all around. Things finally started to feel apocalyptic when Faith and Nathan Priest-ion rolled into town. Resuming the dubious choices theme, Buffy is overthrown as leader and she leaves Chez Summers. For Valentine’s Day we watched a long sex/cuddle montage. The penultimate episode did some contrivance magic wrapped up in callback feels and Angel’s return to Sunnydale. The series went out with a literal bang when Buffy and Willow used magic to activate every Potential around the globe and Spike exploded himself in sunshiney death to save the world.
February in Los Angeles started with our new favorite episode of Angel, in which we got not only Faith but Willow and the amazing line, “Arf, arf psycho.” Gwen showed up to give Gunn a break from the stupid evil Cordelia plot. When Evil Cordelia was ready to give birth she made Connor fetch a sacrificial virgin which was stupid and terrible, but it gave ghost!Darla a reason to appear. Cordelia’s demon spawn Gina Torres had everyone high on her seeming perfection. Until Fred scrubbed some Gina Torres blood into her blood and shot some Gina Torres blood into Angel. It was a whole blood thing; comatose Cordelia and the rest of the gang got involved too. Connor remained 100% devoted to his hellspawn, though. But Angel went to a CGI dimension to steal a head and destroy the power of Gina Torres and Connor punched her head right open. Finally, for no apparent reason, Wolfram & Hart offered the Fang Gang their LA branch. We tried to process this cracked out season by ranking it.
Rosewood gave us more nothing developments. The Liars confronted Jenna about her not-blindness. Aria sets up a dating profile for her mom so she won’t feel bad about her ex who got the house and kids getting back with Center Stage. Paige drank from Emily’s blackout flask and got hospitalized because the blackout flask was drugged.
Our lone trip to Neptune in February gave us a student council election with an aggressive helping of the town’s SRSBSNS class warfare issues.
Christina Hendricks came back to outer space to give us the gift of naked Mal. A Whedon Hat Trick made his third appearance as a dead guy who was not dead and then became dead for realsies.
Dean gets impersonated by a shapeshifter and then a terrifying hook man appears and more importantly the comments section became a lengthy discussion of terrifying ghost stories. Because childhood trauma.
We also read some books! Lor gave Alienated by Melissa Landers a D and we took a trip back to Sweet Valley where post-kidnapping Liz got bullied into a creepy date with some dude. They became besties after, though, so it’s all good.
Coming Up:
We’ve recapped our last Buffy episode, but we’ve still got a big party ahead of us. This week we’re ranking S7 and then taking trips down memory lane to rank S1 (the only season we didn’t rank immediately upon completion) and then doing individual vloggy goodbyes to revisit some of the best and worst moments of the series. Finally, on Saturday, March 8 we are doing a very special edition of #snarkathon. Join us at 5pm EST (10pm UTC) as we livetweet (and Google Hangout!) the Buffy movie. End things with a proper party.
The rest of our schedule marches on. If we stick to it, we’ll also be wrapping up Firefly this month, which is weird. Fear not, though, because as two shows leave us we are finally kicking off Orphan Black with the first post going up on March 10th. Angel, Pretty Little Liars, Veronica Mars, and Supernatural should keep happening as scheduled. We’ve got a few other fun things planned here and there, including the return of our vloggy faces as well as two giveaway posts! Fun times ahead.
Nuts & Bolts:
We’re scrapping our spreadshirt store in favor of something a little different. We’d much rather work with local vendors to design shirts, so starting this month we’re going to be doing monthly (ish) week-long shirt sales.
For one week the shirt will be available for purchase. At the end of that week we will have them made (locally) and then (personally) ship them off to you. The dolla-dolla-billz aspect for us will be a negligible difference. Mostly, we just like the idea of being more involved in the production process. Plus, we think the limited time aspect is just plain more fun.
To date we’ve only made a few dollars off our spreadshirt store. I feel like I’m stating the obvious, but to reiterate, this isn’t some giant money grab scheme. Our hosting renewal is coming up soon and I’d be lying if I didn’t say that was partially a factor in this t-shirt sale decision, even if this is highly unlikely to cover those total costs. The idea of having a “donations” button has never sat well with either of us. However, if you guys want to help us out by getting a sweet t-shirt? Well, that would be awesome.
First up we’re actually doing two shirts instead of one – a TEAM FEELS shirt and a TEAM HEARTLESS COW shirt. They will be $20 and yes, we will ship them internationally.
Lor: Just a funny aside: we were emailing with all the other Snark Ladies while brainstorming ideas for this t-shirt thing. Sara mentioned something about wanting both t-shirts: “I would love to get both, so like, if I’m going to see The Hunger Games, I wear my Feels shirt, and if I’m going to see 50 shades, I wear my Heartless Cow shirt.”
I AM BOTH TEAM FEELS AND TEAM HEARTLESS COW.
Sweeney and I laughed and laughed about how we never considered this being on both teams thing. Weird.
Sweeney: IT HAD LITERALLY NEVER OCCURRED TO US. I realize now that many of you have been declaring your episode-by-episode allegiances for a very long time now. We’re just super slow that way. We’re also very dedicated to being Team Feels.
But yeah, it’s true, we’re both. WE CAN BE BOTH. WE DON’T HAVE TO CHOOSE! The world is magical.
If you feel like getting yourself a sweet shirt and helping us out in the process, we’d be forever grateful.
Welcome, Questionable New Friends:
As any good blogger should be, we’re well versed in Questionable Google Searches. We’re always excited to meet like-minded friends here on this crazy internet. We’re not entirely sure if fellow Questionable Google Searches are like-minded friends or disturbing people who don’t realize that their searches should make them reevaluate the life choices that brought them to that moment. It’s all the same to us, really.
This month’s gem? The two separate people who searched for “killer pizza vampire stakes toby.” I have no idea what you were looking for and I doubt you found it here, but welcome!
Honorable mention to the many 50 Shades searchers we still acquire. “50 shades of grey disgusting paragraph” might be my favorite. I hope your stay here helped you see that the answer is “all of them.”
Thank you old friends for sticking around another month. Expect a lot of group hugs this week as we give Buffy that final send off.
♥
The Snark Squad
