I'm hoping it works because it's not explicitly B/G, simply an acknowledgment of their relationship in its proper form whatever way the reader interprets it.

The requirement t shudder was "hot sex," which I blatantly ignored because there was no way on this earth I could have written it.

I got a read of affection, not groininess. Which I liked.(Is it vain if that also reminds me of that part in "Sweets" where Munch asks about the "deal" between Giles and Buffy, and what's it like to do Wonder Woman?)

I got a read of affection, not groininess.

I picked that up as well. I think the problem I have with B/G is the same problem I have with 'shipping any trainee/mentor pairing, especially the ones that have such a strong parent-child feel to them. Plus, there's the fact that Giles and Joyce slept togther, which makes the whole idea of B/G just that much more squicksome.

I have a feeling, though, that if I'd started watching Buffy in, say, late S5, that I would be much less skeeved by the notion of the two of them getting together in "that way."

I don't know. I think I'd still be pretty skeeved. But it might simply be that my current skeeviness about it is overwhelming all other possibilities of non-skeeviness.

Oh, I like that word.

I started late...much less skeevy.(Not enough for ship-ness, you understand.) But you know, looking at linoleum makes Munch think about sex.

I don't know. I think I'd still be pretty skeeved. But it might simply be that my current skeeviness about it is overwhelming all other possibilities of non-skeeviness.

And yet? You're still not squicked by Cordy/Angel. Freak.

And I say that with love.

I think I'd still be pretty skeeved.

You'll be taken care of by a young magician and his trusty dragon Gleep?

I can see people who see Giles as being the same age as their fathers being squicked by the idea of a 'ship, but he's my age, and I'm all over the sexiness that is Giles. Postulate a circumstance where Buffy is more than of age and they've moved past the most obvious mentor/student situation into more of a partnership, and I'm there. Call me a freak, I'm still going to read the stuff.

I find G/B skeevy generally, though I could see them as an "old" settled couple in SA's story and not be disturbed by the idea.

I picked that up as well. I think the problem I have with B/G is the same problem I have with 'shipping any trainee/mentor pairing, especially the ones that have such a strong parent-child feel to them. Plus, there's the fact that Giles and Joyce slept togther, which makes the whole idea of B/G just that much more squicksome.

Yup. As someone said about Woody Allen? You're not supposed to fuck the children.

You'll be taken care of by a young magician and his trusty dragon Gleep?

Pervert! I mean, Pervect! (Mythconception.....)