I totally agree that age per se doesn't matter so much, although I still think that if Angel looked like he was 200 years old more of us would be bothered by the B/A relationship. But as for Buffy/Giles, I think it would be wrong wrong wrong for that relationship to be sexual at all. I guess partly because, as a college teacher, I feel how wrong wrong wrong it is for teachers to be sexually involved with students (even if they are "adults"). And partly it's the quasi-parental thing. But it goes beyond that, I think. I just think that the Slayer/Watcher relationship as I understand it is so unique and special that I want to keep it unique. I.e. no s-e-x.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?
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Camcam - Jan 11, 2005 2:56:23 pm PST #3156 of 3531
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk. --Tuco
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2005 2:59:57 pm PST #3157 of 3531
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Call me shallow, but people who look 200 years old having sex will bother me, even if it's with someone their own age.
It's a thing.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 11, 2005 3:02:05 pm PST #3158 of 3531
What is even happening?
The only B/G I've ever read was really desperate and sad. And now, it's the only way I can see them, when they are mentioned as a possible pair. It's a hollow, sad thing, and they're just shells. It was a beautifully painful story, but not how I want them to be.
I want more for my babies than that.
Camcam - Jan 11, 2005 3:17:10 pm PST #3159 of 3531
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk. --Tuco
Call me shallow, but people who look 200 years old having sex will bother me, even if it's with someone their own age.
ita, we'll be shallow together. ook.
Beverly - Jan 11, 2005 3:20:11 pm PST #3160 of 3531
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
::cue Yoda::
"When nine hundred years old you reach, look this good you will not!"
Camcam - Jan 11, 2005 4:39:50 pm PST #3161 of 3531
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk. --Tuco
Buffy and Yoda? Angel and Yoda? Giles and Yoda? I have no problem with any of these pairings.
Gris - Jan 11, 2005 5:04:53 pm PST #3162 of 3531
Hey. New board.
I've read Buffy/Giles fic I loved. It was by yahtzee, I think.
Teacher/student does squick me, so it takes effort for it to work. Most Snape/insert-student-here fic, which is ridiculously common in HP fandom, for example, bugs the shit out of me. But I've read some pretty good long-post-school Snape/Hermione fic. I think it works if they've been long enough apart from each other that the old roles of student/teacher have dissipated, and the relationship can begin again.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 11, 2005 5:30:59 pm PST #3163 of 3531
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Anya/Giles would have rocked, and that's way May/December.
Yeah, but in a way totally contrary to appearance. She's older than Giles by a greater factor than Angel was compared to Buffy. (And way eviler, to boot.)
I've read Buffy/Giles fic I loved. It was by yahtzee, I think.
This explains much. The woman was able to write Angel/Cordelia fic which, while not to my taste, got past my "Burn the writer!" reaction to such stories.
Gris - Jan 11, 2005 6:10:36 pm PST #3164 of 3531
Hey. New board.
This explains much. The woman was able to write Angel/Cordelia fic which, while not to my taste, got past my "Burn the writer!" reaction to such stories.
She's amazing.
P.M. Marc - Jan 11, 2005 6:14:20 pm PST #3165 of 3531
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Eh, when she's on, she's on, but I've never much cared for her Gunn or Wesley.
But then, we have established that I'm a picky, picky human.
(Her Yuletide Jeeves and Wooster fic is keen--it loses the tone a little in the middle, gets saggy, but other than that section, manages to remain quite close in tone to the books.)