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!
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.
I mean, couldn't get gayer without being Lex and Clark.
Or Fraser and RayK. But boy are Jim and Blair gay. I hate the terrible characterization of women in general, starting with Jim's exwife and going through Alex and beyond, but I can almost look past it to the shining beacon of Hoyay.
Almost.
Angel/Lindsey is very subtexty to me. Darla's comment is just confirmation to what I've already seen. Lindsey is so damn obsessed with Angel. And by the time we get to the Evil Hand episode... it's all Ho and YAY! and kinda sad because it's their final time together.
But they bicker and spark and the UST is thick in the air and just need to clear the air and get it on.
Sisabet and Dr. Dawn have a great Angel/Lindsey vid, which isn't up on their site anymore. Maybe if ya'll email them you can get your hands on their older vids. But it's Last Stand in Open Country, sung by Willie Nelson and Kid Rock and the vid is slashy.
I'm pretty sure I should know this, but who are Jim and Blair?
