1. You enjoy a little Watcher/Slayer role playing
2. You become as obsessed with B/G writers as you are with the actual show
3. Tweed turns you on.
4. You vow to name your first born *Ripper* whether it's a boy or a girl
5. Dissatisfied with an episode of Buffy, find your self yelling at the TV, "We'll just see about that!"
6. Wear T-Shirt that says, "Hmmm Angels taste like chicken"
7. Find yourself buying Earl Grey Tea when you HATE tea.
8. Think "FreeBird" is the greatest song ever written.
9. Listen to the radio, not for the actual music, but to see if the lyrics fit in with your latest B/G story
10. Meet a woman named Jenny and you become hysterical, calling her a *Gypsy Hussy*
11. Spend so much time in your room surfing B/G sites you make Emily Dickinson look like an extrovert.
12. Betty Ford stops taking your calls and tells you you're hopeless
13. Feel you must accept any and all B/G challenges as a matter of honor
14. Create B/G Challenges just so you'll have more fanfiction to read.
15. Thinks B/A fans are in denial. Where *we* are simply optimistic, and ultimately correct.
16. One day realize you are member of over 30 Buffy/Giles related mail lists, have your own B/G website, and are currently writing your twentieth story about B/G. Oh My!
17. When anyone tells you they wish Angel and Buffy would get back together, you suddenly turn on them and hiss, "Are you threatening me?"
18. Send get well cards to ASH whenever Giles is injured on the show
19. Know what *ASH* , *Fin* , *PWP* , *AU* , *Angst*, *Stevedore*, and *Shipper* mean.
20. Find that you have 30 documents saved on your word processor titled: Giles1, Giles2, Giles3...
21. Find yourself in the bathtub saying, "Rupert..take me away!"
22. Evilly snicker every time Xander calls Angel "dead-boy."
23. You have a bumper sticker saying "Librarians do it by the book"
24. Believe there are two versions of BTVS:
1. The one that Joss and Co. wrote.
2. And your corrections of what Joss and Co. wrote.
25. Come up with inventive story lines for the soul purpose of..
* Making Arkin depressed (in a good way)
* Shocking Anne
* Making Gail sigh in happiness
* Impressing Cat with your large vocabulary
* Making EW and JBG laugh
* Making Darcy cry (Bittersweet tears of course)
* Out-doing Gabi and Cap in craziest plot lines
that,oddly, make sense somehow
* Making Gileswench and Dee blush
26. Know your day is going to be good or bad based on whether Gabi has updated her site w/new stories. Know your day is going to be REALLY good if it's rated *R* or *NC-17*
27. If you know all the words to Biff Naked's *Lucky*.. even if you have never heard the song before. EVERYONE!!
"It was a Monday when .. my lover told me. Never pay the Reaper.."
28. Whenever you find yourself in a heated argument with a B/A shipper,you get revenge by way of telling GylzGirl they said something not so nice about ASH's family. (Then sit back, and watch the fur fly. ;o)
29. At the mere mention of a W/G relationship you cleverly reply "What..I can't hear you...la la la la la ..."
30. Believe those who support Giles' spin-off are part of a larger evil **Conspiracy** plotting against you right now. ;o)
31. Gleefully point out to B/A shippers, that while Angel and Buffy's love may (or may not) have been *forever*, it was only Giles' name she spoke before leaping to her death. (OH YEAH!!! THAT"S RIGHT! NOT ANGEL, GILES!)
32. You watch the show and think "Hmm, Joss (Marti, Jane...) is a pretty good writer but doesn't (s)he know that tooo much exposition to the actual B/G stuff can be aggravating for the reader." ;) (Gabi)
33. When you see Buffy with one of her 'boyfriends' (Angel, Scott, Parker, or Riley) and you scream, "STOP CHEATING ON GILES!!" (JBG)
34. You wonder how anyone can not only be blind to very truth of B/G, but deny the mere possibility that it *could* be seen differently. On the other hand the only reason why we have to defend ourselves where Tara/Spike shipper's (just as an example) don't have to is that people actually *do* see the possiblity and only for this reason try so vehemently to 'argue' against it. Anyone who has 'talked' to a die-hard B/A shipper knows what I'm talking about ;) (Gabi)
1. After reading so many B/G on the Library table fics..you can't look at it again in the same way, and you sulk cause it's been blown up!! (Nightbird)
2. After spotting Giles's tattoo in the episode "Goodbye Iowa", you thought to yourself well that isn't right?!? You've kept up the reading with "The Transformations Trilogy" and know darn well he doesn't have it anymore! (Elissa)
3. A subject heading of BG comes up on an A-Team mailing list you're on and you think "WHOO! The message is spreading!" Then you realize that it meant Battlestar Gallactica and you are sorta disappointed about it. (Tricia Stewart)
4. All you wanted to know about the episodes you have missed is 'were there any b/g moments?' and you couldn't care less about the storyline (Chosen1)
5. When your dad reads this stuff and sees your name on more of these items than he should. Uh-oh! (Tev's Dad)
6. You can't get through a day without check your fave b/gshippers sites at least 5 times before lunch. Forget Coffe--I need some b/g lovin!!! (Mydnyght)
7. You don't understand this term 'too much B/G fic' but you're still happy to read the list 'cause there might be story ideas and besides, all your favourite writers are on there anyway. :) (Katyd)
8. When you *try* to tell your best friend about the wonder and the light of B/G, and when he says, "Oh, no!! Eww!!" you wanna hit him like Giles hit Parker . . . and I haven't even seen her at college yet!!! (Talia)
9. There's a big sign near your college that has the word shipper in it. Finally your obsession wins and your change it to B/G SHIPPERS MAKE SENSE DANMITT!. Even after spending saturday night in a police cell your still really proud of yourself. (Lex101)
10.When reading an article in the Australian T.V. Week in which Sarah Michelle Gellar talked about her character and said "I think Angel is her true love and I don't know if she can ever find love like that again "you yell back at the magazine " Snap out of it already, can't you see what's right under your nose!!". You then feel very pissed off for the rest of the day that SMG doesn't get the whole B/G ship thing! (Semper Custos)
11.You're on so many Buffy/Giles 'Shipper lists, that OneList sent you a Christmas card. (Holly)
12.Your idea of a birthday gift for your B/G 'Shipper sister is to post a challenge to the lists for B/G smut for her . And she thought it was a great gift. (Holly)
13.You never finish the eight fics you've started because you spend all your spare time (and then some) visiting sites such as this. (BeeCee)
14.When you're perpetually late to work, school, meetings, etc. because you log onto solo's site first thing in the morning, and you can't stop until you've read every single new fic that's been posted while you were sleeping. (Lily2332)
15.After you read "The Liberation of Wesley" by Gibberish, you can't help but be disappointed that the author didn't include a scene in which Spike arrives to L.A. to tell Angel the joyful news of B/G. With maybe...oh, I don't know...a audio tape or two as proof. ;-) (BeeCee)
16. When your ink cartridge on your printer runs out in 3 weeks when it used to last 3 months! (Semper Custos)
18. The station in your neck of the woods no longer gets the WB line- up(*snarl*) and you start to panic. Not really because you miss watching new episodes, but that now you might not get the spoilers that authors drop in B/G fics. (This has not really been much of a probelm for me yet, but DAMN IT, nobody should have to go through this kind of withdrawl!:) (BeeCee)
19. You're writing some fiction and are outraged to realise that your spell checker's internal dictionary contains neither slayerettes nor fuddy duddy nor any other perfectly normal Buffy words (Mick)
20. You're reading a Buffy book (you know, the things with pages made from paper that cost money), you see lots of B/G subtext and are totally disappointed to get to the end without even one tiny kiss! (Selenay)
21. You're writing a fic that deals with memories, you come up with a great one and can't remember if it came from the show or a fic. Then you swear, it was a fic. Yes, I did that.
22. You're searching a lyrics site for your favorite group and have to be physically restrained from doing B/G songfics for about 85% of what you find there. "But they're all so clearly about Buffy and Giles! Are you blind?!" (Tricia Stewart)
23. You look at the title of this list and think, 'Too much? There's no such thing!' (Carmilla)
22. You would die of embarassment if your mates knew you so much as sniffed in Titanic, but freely admit to crying buckets over any of Arkin's tragedies. (Carmilla)
23. You're a deprived British viewer who's only up to Series 2 on terrestrial television and you're merrily reading this list, then you see the mention of Giles and Joyce in 'Earshot'...Oh my God, they had sex??!!! Eeeewwww, that's practically incest. I'll never watch the show again ('til next week
24. You look for ways to bribe the nomination commitee for the upcoming awards (chocolate anyone?) (Beth C.)
25. You read this list, even though you've written half of them and checked it an hour before (Beth C.)
26. Deep down inside, Angelus was good. Didn't he get Jenny out of Buffy's way? (Arkin)
27. You can't remember what G/J, G/W, and G/X means anymore. (Donut)
28. The finall proof Drusilla is nuts - she showed Giles JENNY instead of Buffy . . . and she calls herself a professional. Sheesh. (Arkin)
29. You won't converse with any internet B/A fans (Beth C.)
30. If it's a really painful episode, you refuse to converse with your real life B/A friends. (Tevye)
31. You know immediately if it's an author's first fic you're reading, simply because you know all authors by name. (Arkin)
32. When you see Riley, you want to reach through the TV screen, strangle his little "I'm a nice guy" neck and scream "you can't have her, she belongs to Giles." (Beth C.)
33. When you hear basically any song by the Police, your mind turns to B/G. (Beth C.)
34. Any and all songs are inspiration for fic. (Tevye)
35. This site makes sense to you, nothing on the list strickes you as ood,and by some . . . "holy cow", you don't think there's anything strange about the fact that it's now 6:37 a m and you're up writting to the list. (Arkin)
36. Your boyfriend learned not to call you during Buffy because as he puts it "I'm tired of losing out to an old guy." (Tevye)
37. You type "Pain" into the thesaurus and don't even blink when it suggests "suffering, misery, and...Arkin." (Lily2332)
38. Your family stops watching Buffy with you because you yell at the TV screen too often. (Beth C.)
39. Your parents learned not to call you during Buffy because your response when you answered the phone was "Go way" (Tevye)
40. You start a chat and have nightly fights with the bot cuz you can't get enough fic, you have to talk about said fic too!!! (Arkin)(the chat goddess, we love her, yes we do . . . unless of course the FFH is mentioned :-P)
41. All of your friends know what the words B/G 'shipper means even though they don't watch BtVS. (Tevye)
42. At any scene that has Buffy and Giles standing near each other you yell at the TV screaming "Kiss her, Kiss her." (Beth C.)43. You read a Willow/Oz fic and think "Buffy and Giles are such a better couple" (Beth C.)
44. You wrote your W/O 'shipper friend a B/G story for her birthday, and then couldn't understand why she wasn't immediately converted to the wonderment that is B/G. (Tevye)
45. "You run?" "I run. And jump. And ocisonally, I make love to you like there's no tomrrow." You all heard that, right? (Arkin)
46. Rather then paying attention to your Biology teacher, you outline your next story (Beth C.)
47. You consider this outline the best possible use of your Biology class time. (Tevye)
48. You have B/G authors you look up to. (Beth C.)
49. Getting an e-mail from your favorite B/G author makes you able to get through the week of finals. (Tevye)
50. You send Joss Whendon brouchers for Betty Ford because the drugs he is so obviously taking are interfering his brain (e.g. He can`t see the obviousnessof B/G) (Nerys)
51. You watch the welcome home scene in 'Dead man's party' and go - "Where's the rest?" (Arkin)
52. You mentally kill Angel in 'The Prom' so that Giles can ask Buffy to dance. You're going to give her the prom she deserves, even if you're going to have to kill every soul-baring vampire on the planet. (Arkin)
53. In the "Zeppo" when Giles asks 'Did you eat all the jelly?' You hear Buffy saying 'Yes, but I have some at home. What do you say we go over there, and I can lick it off your bare chest?' (Arkin)
54. You read Arkin's jelly quote and think "thats a great idea for a fanfic" (Beth C.)
55. While you listen to your psych teacher talking about split personalities and amnesia, you think "Ooooh, that would make for great fic." Then pass the rest of class in dreamland. (Tevye) You watch Jenny lust after Giles and sigh. 'If only she knew, the poor dear.' (Arkin)
56. You wonder why nobody mentioned their trip to England over the summer. You'd think that all stuff with Ripper and the council never happend. . .(Thank you Kris for a wonderful fic.) (Arkin)
57. You freely admit to printing out fiction to read during work, school, family vacations etc . . . (Tevye)
58. It doesn't strike you at all odd that you read the day's new fic before you have breakfast. Priorities, people. (Arkin)
59. It doesn't strike you as being odd, that even though you've got a test at 8 a.m. the first thing that you do when you wake up in the morning is open your e-mail, then you find the Biology book. (Tevye)
60. You mentally deleted the scene in "Earshot" where you find out Giles and Joyce had sex. You didn't hear about it, it didn't happen. It didn't mean anything. He was thinking of Buffy the all time. So there. (Arkin)
61. You wonder why they didn't show the making-up scene in 'Helpless.' "What's the show's raiting again??" (Arkin)
62. You watch Olivia and think "Not another response to Cap's 'one night stand' challenge...'Bye Bye Olivia." (Arkin)
63. Giles stops Buffy from taking her shirt off in 'Harsh Light of Day', and you're sure Buffy didn't know WILLOW was in the room. (Arkin)
61. You watch Riley punch Parker and snort, "Giles did much worse than that." (Arkin)
62. This is after you wonder how all Parker's broken bones healed so quickly. (Tevye)
63. You keep wondering if it was the censors that cut down on the amount of thoughts we got from Giles in "Earshot". (Arkin)
64. You want to smack the Slayer for even *looking* at Angel again. (Amy)
65. After watching the scene in "Graduation pt. 1" where Giles plunges the sword into the mayor's chest for the billionth time, you shout out to an empty room, "And does she ever thank the man?!" (BeeCee)
66. You read BeeCee's comment and wonder just how she thanked him... (Arkin)
67. You watch a B/A sex scene and immediately think to yourself, "Giles was always so much more romantic with her" before you realize that was Holly's last piece of fiction. (Tevye)
68. You start to go through withdrawl symptoms (i.e. curling up in the corner, rocking back and forth muttering "Buffy/Giles need some lovin") when Solo takes more than a day to update her archive. (Tevye)
69. You start writing because there's not enough stuff out there. (Tevye)
70. You read the list and laugh your ass off until you realize . . . it's all true! (Arkin/Leoclaire ...what can we say great minds think alike)