One, Angel/Lindsey is not obvious

"It's not me you want to screw."

"It's not me you really want to screw."

But I guess I'll accept the 'eye of the beholder' clause.

I think Angel/Lindsey is just as obvious as Buffy/Faith -- but that doesn't mean I find both of them inevitable (I see what points to B/F, I just don't feel it).

Any pairing in a good writer's hands can be magic. And I'm trying to only read good writers. There isn't a scenario (see Herself's and PMM's "badfic") that's broken, in my books. It's just the instantiations that may tend to be.

Heh. X-post.

But I do agree that the idea of Buffy/Willow leaves me totally flat. I haven't thought about why, though, as you obviously have.

One, Angel/Lindsey is not obvious

Am-Chau, I think YMdefinitelyV on this, because a whole hell of a LOT of people think it is.

"It's not me you want to screw."

So says Darla. Who is crazy, and untrustworthy, and generally... Darla. I don't see it, except in rare fic; I don't believe her, generally speaking.

Edit: Yes, Steph. I did conceed that at the end of my post. YMV. Enough.

Any pairing in a good writer's hands can be magic. And I'm trying to only read good writers.

You sane, sane person. I still occasionally get grabbed by a pairing and Google for it.

I don't find obvious boring in the slightest.

Buffy/Faith, while generally poorly written, has a ton of potential. Clark/Lex? Hell yeah.

Blair/Jim (cue theme music in the other room)? Give momma some sugar.

It all depends on the writing. I have to be able to believe it, and in that sense, wildly UC pairings have more to prove to me, the reader, than less wildly UC pairings do.

A writer would have to work *harder* to convince me of Buffy/Willow than of Buffy/Faith, because except for Faith, Buffy has never seemed attracted to another woman, and Buffy/Willow would seem creepy and incesty. (I'm going to ignore that I've written Buffy/Willow, because that was a remix, and it made sense at the time.)

So says Darla. Who is crazy

She wasn't at the time, though, was she?

The more canon/conventional the ship the more likely I am to want to read about it, usually, but Buffy/Willow is one of those pairings that makes me go "Buh?" Kind of like Spike/Xander, except with that one I have actual logical arguments and B/W I just feel very very confused.

Buffy/Faith I like. Angel/Lindsey I ought to like, but it doesn't do it for me, probably because I'm not big on enemy slash. (Mulder/Krycek doesn't work for me either, outside of the porny aspects.)

Blair/Jim (cue theme music in the other room)? Give momma some sugar.

God, the attitudes toward women on that show, though. I'm glad the reruns are almost over, because seriously if I see one more assertive woman who learns her place I'm going to throw something at the screen.

But damn, the boys are cute together.