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.

What excites me about fandom is the interaction of the fan-written texts with the original text. A 'ship like Riley/Lindsey will almost never get me hot and bothered, intellectually, because it doesn't seem to have that much relation with the original text. Things like that have to be written brilliantly and beautifully in-character to convince me of their viablity.

Or: fairly recently, I read a Faith/Kate piece by nautibitz. I couldn't say it was something I'd rec, because it wasn't *so* amazing and I hated the Willow voice, but what was interesting about this story was that it was a retelling of the Buffy/Angel(us) arc: Faith as the souled vampire with a curse, and Kate as the new slayer. It was fascinating to me because the story worked as a comment on the characters of the series, shifting them over and turning them around a little bit: Faith as a centuries-old preturnaturally-young-and-beautiful woman, plauged by guilt for her past of murder and sadistic torture, working towards redemption, Kate as a emotionally- closed-off young woman in love for the first time, her mother dead, her father in denial about many things, including her Slayerdom.

Riley was Xander. Tara was Willow. William was Giles, and Anya Jenny. Buffy was Spike and Willow (in an insufferable baby voice-- insane-baby voice) was Dru. It was neat. In fact, if the plotting had been a trifle tighter and the Willow parts had been written by someone like Jane St Clair, it'd have become one of my favorite fics.

But damn, the boys are cute together.

They are SO gay.

I don't even have to see the screen (occasionally, I'm leaning back and glancing) to feel the Ho!YAY!

cereal:

Becoming Kate.

Okay, I've bookmarked the site, but I really can't read it today. I have work to do, lots of it, really. I shouldn't be here. I will read it, I promise!

I mean, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of pairings I actually look at the screen and think "oh, yeah, they're doing it as soon as the camera looks the other way." And admittedly I read Sentinel slash before seeing the show, so I was primed. But damn they're gay.

Totally gay.

I mean, couldn't get gayer without being Lex and Clark.

Kind of like Spike/Xander, except with that one I have actual logical arguments

What's the quote? "Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd"? Love and hate are two sides of the same coin; hating Buffy, being fascinated by her, was what made Spike love her. I think the same thing could happen to Xander with Spike.

I do have the problem that I don't think Xander is remotely gay, but I've decided that for the sake of 'fic, all characters have latent same-sex leanings.