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		<title>Slayage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across &#8220;Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies&#8221; today. It&#8217;s difficult to look at any neo pagan online community without finding frequent references to Joss Whedon&#8217;s television series &#8220;Buffy the Vampire Slayer.&#8221; One of the most often used quotes about wicca, for example, is this exchange between the characters Willow and Buffy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across &#8220;<a href="http://slayageonline.com/">Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies</a>&#8221; today.  It&#8217;s difficult to look at any neo pagan online community without finding frequent references to Joss Whedon&#8217;s television series &#8220;Buffy the Vampire Slayer.&#8221;  One of the most <a href="http://wicca.timerift.net/fluffy.shtml">often used</a> quotes about wicca, for example, is this exchange between the characters Willow and Buffy after Willow has attended a meeting of her college wiccan group:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Buffy:</strong> So not stellar, huh?<br />
<strong>Willow:</strong> Talk. All talk. Blah Blah Gaia. Blah Blah Moon…menstrual life force power thingy. You know, after a coupla sessions I was hoping we could get into something real but . . .<br />
<strong>Buffy</strong>: No actual witches in your witch group?<br />
<strong>Willow:</strong> No. Bunch of wanna-blessed-bes. You know, nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she’s a sister of the Dark Ones.
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<p>The effect of films like &#8220;The Craft,&#8221; &#8220;Practical Magic,&#8221; and the television series &#8220;Charmed&#8221; and &#8220;Buffy&#8230;&#8221; is far reaching.  Social networks, retail suppliers and bloggers adopt a posture either in favor of or opposed to these depictions and construct identities in line with or opposed to them.  There seems to be very little terrain online that hasn&#8217;t been touched by &#8220;slayage.&#8221;</p>
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