Christmas Where? (The Dedicated Fan's Perspective)

So where in your various fandoms would you want to spend Christmas, if you could? Let's see:

Farscape: Are you kidding? The Unchartered Territories? No way. I don't care how intriguing the characters are or how much I love them, John can have the UTs all for himself. (This being said, kixxa wrote an adorable Farscape christmas story, which greatly appeals to the John/Rygel 'shipper in me. Read it here.

Buffy: Offers the Angsty Christmas (TM) of Amends and the fun Christmas flashback (which only in context becomes heartbreaking) from The Body. Now that Body flashback Christmas looks like it would have been great to participate in, but otoh, it's a family affair. I'd feel like a hopeless outsider.

Angel: Not counting Angel himself (see: Amends), we don' t know how the characters handle this. I bet Lorne organizes something, and is good at it, but given Wesley's recent encounter in Lineage and given Angels ongoing depression, I don't think it would be fun to join. Hm. Maybe Christmas in season 1, just with Angel, Cordy and Wesley. But then we'd have the fourth wheel problem. (What, do you think they'd have enjoyed it if David Nabbit or Kate Lochley (pre-Prodigal) had shown up?)

Babylon 5: Their New Years parties tend to look good (if prone to bloody events), so presumably some festivities are due on Christmas as well. However, the risk of me being a bystander shot/knifed/otherwise disposed off is rather large. Besides, I did my bit for a Christmas-time B5 when writing the recent story.

DS9: My best bet. You just know that Christmas, given all the merchandise, is the first human festival Quark learned to exploit. Hence there'd also be a party at his bar. If it's during the show's run, a second quiet gathering chez Sisko might also be going on, with great food, and I guess people like Jadzia switch between both parties (but stay longer at Quark's.) Garak probably thinks it' s all very silly but offers delightful opportunities to tease Julian about mistletoes.

X-Men, Movieverse: I bet Kurt does his best to organize something, but with everybody and their dog depressed and angsty due to Recent Events, what chance does he have? Meanwhile, at the Brotherhood, Erik probably wouldn't even celebrate Chanuka, let alone Christmas.

Speaking of the X-Men, since I felt bad about having read only one of the comics (God loves, Man kills, and fabulous it was), I tried to read some more. The local comic store had one collection about Magneto which was called Dark Seduction or something like this and didn't do anything for me (can his kids be any more Upstanding And Virtuous?), and two about Cyclops, one of which, Odysee, I did enjoy. (Another minority I belong to would be the one finding Scott more interesting than Logan, Hugh Jackman notwithstanding.) Still, the fanfic the movieverse preduced read better than all three of these collections. For a recent example, go and read penknife's take on Christmas in the X-Man-universe, here.

Lastly, probably everyone has read this already, but just in case anyone hasn't: melymbrosia talks about depression as presented in BTVS, AtS and Farscape, here.