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Selina Mandrake - The Slayer (Buffy Parody)

Caught between Post-modernism and the New Age

This is a parody of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, while referencing other pieces of popular culture, and has many ties to my other screenplay, Star Trek: “We, the Living Dead”. It’s far-fetched, but, on the other hand, conveys some serious messages and insights.

Hope you enjoy it!

Coverage

FanFiction.Net

1. Part 1 (with comments)

Mageia Forums

1. Announcement on the Mageia Forums

On the fxp.co.il forums

1. Ebook available for Selina Mandrake - The Slayer (Buffy parody)

On the /r/buffy subreddit

1. Selina Mandrake - The Slayer - a Parody of Buffy and related works

Licensing

Well, since this work is a parody of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (written by Joss Whedon), and contains characters from there, I am theoretically protected by the Copyright’s “right of parody” as part of the ”Fair Use” provision. There are other parodies of Buffy’s works online and possibly offline, and no one was sued yet.

This work also uses other characters and concepts, from other copyrighted works, and those that are already Public Domain.

All the text in Selina Mandrake - The Slayer is original, and as far as I’m concerned can be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence Unported (CC-by-sa) (either version 3.0, or at your option any later version), but like I said, the situation is more complicated than that.

I’m putting it here on this site in hope it will amuse or inspire people, and also because it may encourage people to watch some episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or of Star Trek: The Next Generation or Star Trek: Deep Space 9, learn about Jewish culture and some Near East history, read Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, etc. etc. all of which I can highly recommended. I’m not charging people any money to download, build, or view the works, but I have some web commercials which I’m making some small money from, and which I hope are acceptable to the copyright holders. Please don’t sue me.

Credits

1d10 Image Credit

1d10 image taken from Wikimedia Commons by User:Krdan under the GFDL/CC-by-sa-3.0.

ebookmaker

Ebookmaker is a Python 3 script that allows one to generate an EPUB and was used for preparing the Selina Mandrake E-book. While not perfect, it proved extremely useful and the author (= Marcelo Lira a.k.a “setanta”) also promptly merged a pull request I sent him. Thanks, Marcelo, for your great work!

“20 Websites To Sell Your EBook”

A post about websites that allow you to sell your electronic book / EPUB.

Thread in fxp.co.il about buying d10 Dice

Some people on the fxp.co.il forums helped me with purchasing some ten-sided dice I was seeking (in Hebrew).

Sources of Inspiration

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) - main source for inspiration, reference and parody.

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel Wiki - Wikia, so you should register to get rid of annoying ads.

  • Buffy Fanfiction Wikia - please populate if you have something of your own.

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - provided some fodder for this story.

  • “Star Trek Expanded Universe” Wikia for Star Trek fanfiction

• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.

• The Muppets (2011) film - I saw this film in the cinema and was impressed by its take on a brutal honesty criticism of various 2010s culture, as seen by the apparently more old fashioned (but still funny as ever) muppets. I eventually decided to adopt a similar approach in writing Selina, both as a criticism of some of our contemporary culture, and more importantly as a way to honestly convey my farfetched imaginary world (induced by a long period of hypomanias and manias) into this screenplay.

• Sesame Street: “Grover the Waiter - Big Hamburger” - provided some inspiration to the scene with The Three.

• The film The Princess Bride - some quotes are taken from there.

  • My review of the film.

• The Harry Potter franchise - I believe now that I drew some inspiration from Harry Potter in the fact that Selina starts as a normal teenager, who just happens to be geeky and knowledgeable enough to be dangerous.

  However, like Harry Potter and his good friend Hermione Granger, she secretly wishes that there was more to this world than meets the eye, only to discover this is the case, to her great apparent dismay. And now she has to find a way to handle the situation gracefully.

  While Harry and Hermione find assistance using supernatural magic, Selina only has her own natural slaying resources of her words and actions, which turn out to be enough.

• “Sister Act: Oh Maria” - from the 1992 film, Sister Act - on how to make a traditional religious song “alive and dynamic”.

  • Michael Meets Mozart on Eric S. Raymond’s blog - on why most contemporary Classical Music is a bunch of “museum pieces”, and what can be done about it.

Links to Judaism and Israel

• The soc.culture.jewish FAQ

• Israeli Images - it’s not all desert, not all Jews there are orthodox, it is an industrialised country, and people there lead happy, peaceful lives.

• “Dispelling some Myths about Israel.” - an essay I wrote.

• The Wikipedia Judaism Portal

• Define “Zionism”! - an essay I wrote about: 1. Why Zionism now has several meanings. 2. What Israel is doing wrong? and - 3. How people confuse anti-Zionism, anti-Israelism, and anti-Semitism.

• A solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - another essay of mine.

• Psychological Bicameralism on the Wikipedia - explains about Julian Jaynes’ theory about the emergence of human consciousness (meaning “sentience” - not “awareness”) relatively late in history at around 1300 BC to 300 BC, presented in his book which makes a good read from the historical perspective and similar perspectives, whether or not it actually happened.

Links

Buffy Links

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel Wiki - Wikia, so you should register to get rid of annoying ads.

• Buffy Fanfiction Wikia - please populate if you have something of your own.

• The Buffy subreddit - a forum and community for fans of the show.

• Ayn Rand’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer (via Reddit).

See Also

• Summerschool at the NSA - another screenplay with a strong Buffy/Sarah Michelle Gellar theme.

• Buffy: A Few Good Slayers - a work-in-progress screenplay that is a more traditional Buffy fanfic. Set in a fork of the Buffy universe, and takes place in 2014/2015 Sunnydale, where the Scooby Gang are adults, married men and women, parents, and teachers/mentors.

• Buffy Facts (also by me) - facts about Buffy Summers, the protagonist of the show.