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Welcome to the Fringedwellers' Guide. A bizarre and slightly eccentric collection of all the jokes, comments and utterly pointless trivia we've yelled at the television over the past five years.

This is not the kind of episode guide that gives you plot summaries, favourite quotes and pretty screencaps, there are plenty of those out there on the web, and we have links to some of the best of them. This is a very personal take on all the shows that we love and, occasionally, hate. It's a guide to the best bits and the screw-ups, the parts that made us cry with laughter and the parts that just made us cry. Mostly though it's just a chance for us to make extremely bad puns at the expense of people who are far more talented and much better paid than we are.

The fringedwellings themselves are designed to be read alongside the episodes and are colour-coded by author so you can see who said what. The fringedwellers are introduced below, where there is also a link to our mailing list; a collection of banners and all the other bits and pieces that just wouldn't fit anywhere in the guides themselves.

So browse, enjoy, laugh (we hope), and prepare to enter the bizarre yet extremely well-punctuated world of the Fringedwellers' Guide.

The Fringedwellers' Guide v3, August 2003

 Diminuendo- (webmistress) good things come in small packages, but so does poison, we mention this because occasionally she cooks for us. She is fond of chestnut hair, good posture, moral ambiguity and Captain Cardboard, has a three track mind at the last count and can make grown men cry. Her comments are shown in purple. She can be mailed at indian_skimmer@yahoo.co.uk or visited at http://www.livejournal.com/users/indian_skimmer/

 Tobin- a seriously overworked contributor with an inexplicable attraction for large, broody men with overhanging foreheads. Unfortunately she lives in Wales, so finding tall, primitive males is something of a problem. Her comments are written in red. Follow the inner workings of her twisted mind at http://www.livejournal.com/users/fringedweller/  Mind the hamsters, they bite.

 Lizard- who was contributing to (and viewing) these web pages by post, but as she now shares a flat with the webmistress, that has been replaced by the more simple method of yelling across the hallway. Personally responsible for Spike and the chocolate orange, and the second greatest Angel insult ever written. Contributions in blue. Mail to lizard@fringedwellers-guide.net

 Bitca- who will very soon be getting her own fringedweller page of pointless information. She is best known as the person who actually worked out a complete map of Angel's apartment, and then told people about it. Her contributions are completely random, occasionally mystifying and written in green. She can be mailed at bitca100@hotmail.com

 Bentheslayer- who is providing a rare male (and occasionally pro-Buffy) perspective, the only fringedweller who, when Angel fell naked from the sky, his first thought was 'ouch'. His remarks are in dark grey and his mail goes to bentheslayer@hotmail.com 

 Somnambulantus- who has made all of our backgrounds, graphics, links and banners (with the exception of the dancing mice pictures which were donated by Diminuendo's mum) and often amazes the webmistress by doing these things without even being asked. You can thank her too at searingidolatry@bolt.com. Her fringedwelling remarks are in a definitely un-girly pink 

 Heatherbelle- Also a member of the UWA Mafia, albeit a year later than the rest of the gang, rudely introducing herself to them by email. Short and somewhat insane, her claim to fame is this: That she got James Marsters to recite Shakespeare in front of 3,000 people, thus showing herself to be a fan girl of taste. She can be contacted on heatherbelles@yahoo.co.uk and her comments are in a sort of teal-blue colour

 Izzie- Our newest recruit (victim?). She has never been to Aberystwyth, and just stumbled upon Fringedwelling whilst looking for Josh Lyman. However, she once stood on a garden rake just to see if it would hit her on the head, so you can see the kind of mind you're dealing with. Contact at izzielatham@hotmail.com,  comments in orange

We also have some one-off comments and guest fringedwellings, these are in black, and credited afterwards. 

General feedback can be sent to fringedwellings@fringedwellers-guide.net or (excitingly) posted via the brand new mailing list!

Our newest toy, the Fringedwellerland mailing list. This is a total free for all, for chat, discussion, feedback and general fringedwelling goodness. This is also the place to post guest fringedwellings, the best of which will be archived on the site. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fringedwellerland or click the link below to join (you'll create a Yahoo profile if you don't have one already, the system will walk you though that) .

Message to New Members

Yahoo Groups is currently having a lot of problems with spammers joining mailing lists and sending unwanted posts to members. As a result, we're having to approve all requests for list membership. 

To be approved, first sign up to the list. You then need to send an e-mail from your subscription address (it must be the address you' signed up with) to fringedweller@ukonline.co.uk or indian_skimmer@yahoo.co.uk or heatherbelles@yahoo.co.uk . Important- typing a message in the 'Comments To Owner' box on the sign-up page is not enough. We need a private e-mail that we can reply to, sent directly from your e-mail account.
This is the only way we can verify that you're not a spambot of some kind, and the only way you'll be allowed on the list. If we do not receive a confirmation e-mail within a week of your request, the request will be denied and you'll have to re-apply.

I know this is annoying, but it's better than having to shut the list down because it's being constantly spammed.

Diminuendo