::cue Yoda::
"When nine hundred years old you reach, look this good you will not!"
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?
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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.
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.)
WildDemon Cornelius - Jan 11, 2005 9:41:32 pm PST #3166 of 3531
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
To be quite frank, (and I'm aware that this does not seem to be the prevailing opinion w/in fandoms), I'm not a big fan of non-canon relationships in fanfiction. I dunno why, it usually feels forced. And I think Buffy/Giles will always squick me no matter what, but I'd prefer it to the Immortal and Buffy (just because that whole episode was lame and should never have happened except for the sub-plot w/ the Burkles).
P.M. Marc - Jan 11, 2005 9:48:04 pm PST #3167 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
I've found that good unconventional/non-canon fic is usually (nine times out of ten) better than good conventional/canon fic, simply because the author has fewer shortcuts available, yet more room to play.
(Though *cough* I do keep forgetting that TECHNICALLY, Buffy/Faith's not canon...)
WildDemon Cornelius - Jan 11, 2005 10:07:13 pm PST #3168 of 3531
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Hmm...good point. I've only read a smattering of non-canon fic. A lot of it felt, like I said, forced and just not what I was looking for.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 12, 2005 2:00:41 am PST #3169 of 3531
What is even happening?
(Though *cough* I do keep forgetting that TECHNICALLY, Buffy/Faith's not canon...)Your Buffy/Faith reads like canon. I think that's what I need for non-canon fic--that it works off of something well established in the canon.