SLO's north of it, IIRC.
At least, I'm fairly certain Santa Barbara was part of our last leg down, but it's all kind of a blur.
I sent in this Pedantic Canon Correction.
Sunnydale is explicity said to be in Southern California.
From Welcome to the Hellmouth:
"The front of the affluent Southern California school gleams darkly in the moonlight."
"A day as bright and colorful as the night was black and eerie. Students pour in before first bell, talking, laughing. They could be from anywhere in America, but for the extremity of their dress and the esoteric mania of their slang. This is definitely So Cal."
Buffy also says about Sunnydale that it's "two hours on the freeway from Neiman Marcus." This would put it near Santa Barbara.
No, there's a bunch of cows for a couple of hundred miles in between.
oh-- that's right. Silly me for forgetting, especially since Sean was mooing at them for most of those miles.
Silly me for forgetting, especially since Sean was mooing at them for most of those miles.
My brain just did a whacky pop culture dance at this mental image.
It went something like this: why is Sean mooing at cows? Does he speak cow? Do the cows understand?
Brainslide over to The Horse Whisperer.
The Cow Whisperer! Ha! Ha ha!
What fandom has cows? Smallville!
Now I really want a Smallville story where it is either about or makes reference to a Cow Whisperer. Yes. It must be so.
My brain just did a whacky pop culture dance at this mental image.
Hee. I'm not sure why Sean was mooing at the cows. By the way back ND was describing it as a Pavlovian response. I just thought it was funny.
Heeheeheeheeheeeee!
I just scared the cat laughing. That's adorable! And with great voices.
Sunnydale is demonstrably not in Northern California. It's most likely Santa Barbara in disguise. So about 2.5 hours north of LA.
Yeah, the author got that feedback already on another board. From her comments, it looked like she just didn't have a great grasp of west coast geography.
Someone should have caught it before the piece went up, though.
Yeah, the author got that feedback already on another board. From her comments, it looked like she just didn't have a great grasp of west coast geography.
There's really no excuse for that if you're putting up something as a canon/continuity check. None. Esp. as the script books for the first couple of seasons are out, and it's all spelled out RIGHT THERE.
Plus, maps?
The West Coast has THREE states along the edge (discounting Alaska, because hey, Lower 48). One of which is very long. About 770 miles long.
t /irritable West Coaster
Okay, so, I came across something on a friend's LJ.
She'd been reading an HP fic, and thought the premise sounded familiar, and went back to find, yes, an XF fic posted about 4 years ago with the same setup and resolution. And then she found about half a dozen instances within the story where the language of the HP story was strikingly similar to the language in the XF story. In some places identical.
So she posted about this on her LJ, not in a nasty way. Someone told the HP ficcer, and she came over and said, in sum, "I felt the original fic was inspirational and I never meant to plagiarize and I'm taking the story down and sending an email to the original writer."
Which is good behavior on her part.
But... how do you use the exact same language in multiple places in a fic without doing it on purpose? Without having a copy of the other story next to you? Without knowing you're doing it?
I'm not saying she's lying, cause I don't know. But I have to be looking at another story, or have read it frequently and recently, to quote it verbatim. Am I a freak here?
