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I just read a thing where someone went on about how Xander could have been better if he'd just put some effort into it, saying he mostly failed at school because he was a slacker.

I have this terrible urge to throw a sociology essay at them, that whole one I just did on differential achievement in education that focused on class differences. Well, not actually this one because it is structured around changes in British education and so not quite on topic for Xanders, but one like it, with lots of theories in.
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... I get offended for reasons learned in class and a whole bunch of sociology book stuff pours out. Woah.

Also, I am now planning to read bits of the textbook that won't be in the essay, just for fun. And I spent the last hour and a half reading a media studies textbook.

Check that out. I got all academic through the course of the year.



Of course now I feel the vague anxiety I'm remembering it all wrong, and the need to go look it up and cite sources...

shall post with usual 'could phrase it better' apology

Buffy has a lot of comic book geeks in it. Andrew, Jonathan, Oz, Xander, and Gunn. So now I'm thinking how they would all fit together, and particularly of all the ways Gunn does and doesn't fit in with the rest of that list.
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Just some rambly thoughts.

I could change the focus and compare the style of group cooperation and attitude to crime between Gunn and his crew, the Geek Trio and Ethan & Giles & the Eyghon lot. But there is a lack of canon on that last so I'd be comparing with my stories. Not so worky.