Dru, Steinbeck and the Book of Deer

  You know, I think I'll just say it: I told you so. The new  Buffy  cannot possibly succeed because it's flying in the face of the fates and going the wrong way. It's as simple as that. I am not decrying the class and professionalism of Sarah Michelle Gellar's production team but, to me, it's as if they're trying to find their way through Carlsbad Caverns without a flashlight. ( Buffy the Infantry Officer . 11th November 2025) As also explained in The Glorious 14th , I frankly think Somebody Up There is still stomping hard on you lot because you're still going the wrong way and still seem unable to join the dots together. Unable to work out that that I might just have bought a flashlight, got it right, found Buffy the Vampire Slayer 's true continuation via that lost story arc and (as I myself just realised) continued a certain Xander Harris's own story arc into the bargain. Just to be clear, I know Nicholas Brendon was oft far from perfect and I d...

"We're in a very dangerous slippery slope. ... Where we are is so shocking to so many people they're sitting around saying 'ah, we can't really be there.' You know, we are a group of people that don't like the truth, Andy Ostroy. We don't like the truth so we pretend it doesn't exist, and we live in some realm of denial ... I want to wake you and all your viewers and listeners up to the systemic crisis that we have right now." ( Anthony Scaramucci on The Back Room with Andy Ostroy . 31st January 2026) "Why is there no backbone anywhere ... This is not what the United States stands for, and this is what the person behind you, George Washington, would have said. This is why we have these removal procedures in place to get this insane person out of office. Why are they not doing that, Jim Acosta?" ( Anthony Scaramucci on The Jim Acosta Show . 4th March 2026) Just in case anyone's forgotten, on the 4th of July 1776, the Founding Fathe...

  And so it has come to pass, that just like all the other attempts to get Buffy going again since about 2018,  New Sunnydale has been royally stomped . I'm sorry for Sarah Michelle Gellar but less sympathetic to the rest of you. I was part of an incredible series of events from 2009 onwards which landed me with a vampire flatmate in Partick, an email correspondence with a Buffy cast member, a trek across America to a fateful meeting on Sunset Boulevard, the against-all-odds publication of Dear Miss Landau  and also... I also wrote four novellas about Drusilla, jointly named the Dru Quartet. Two can be found on Archive of Our Own , but the last two have been held back because I believe I found a lost story arc from the original series which was meant to happen but didn't. This is the true continuation of Buffy . At least I think it is. I could put the other novellas in the Archive right now if I wanted, but I don't like self-publishing and I don't want to throw away ...