Oh I just sent a reply in the Monster thread that probably should have gone here but as I mentioned on that thread I rec'd Desoto_hia873's AU the Gift fic "All Set Down" today and "Holding On" really makes a great companion piece to it. They both focus on Buffy and Giles and their dynamic, the emotions and conflict as you say.
This is why a lot of shippy fic, esp romantic or fluffy fic, whatever the pairing, puzzles me: we love the characters because of the dynamic, the challenges and difficulties they have and so the first thing we want to do as writers is....smooth that all away and trade it off for constant declarations of love and devotion, hallmark-card notions of babies and picket fences? Ok.....Different strokes, I guess.
I'm not good with schmoop so I think I frustrate most Buffy/Giles shippers.
Schmoop is one of those things that has me hitting the back button post-haste. I've mostly read Spuffy fic (I don't ship them in S6, do in S7 canon but am fascinated by their dynamic together); and I cannot stand the characters I loved to be reduced to cardboard cutouts. I don't want damsels and woobies. I want honesty. (Which makes me unpopular in some "Spuffy - read, Spike - corners, I guess.)
I think the show writers didn't really address buffy's problems in season 6, they just gleefully kept adding to them. In this, she does at least manage to express some it.
YES. I talked a little about her depression arc on one meta (http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/5820.html)but I'd love to go a little deeper into that sometime (I'm more of a non-fiction writer) because I really identify with Buffy in S6 but there is something incredibly wonky in the way they try to handwave away her mental illness as something that she can just "get over": "she just needs to pick herself up and dedicate herself to Dawn" etc. "People always try to connect with me and I always just...slip away." What? Huh?
It's a very common perception of depression and a very dangerous one (http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/21078.html), I think.
I can't and don't write porn scenes. But I do enjoy writing conflict. :-)
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This is why a lot of shippy fic, esp romantic or fluffy fic, whatever the pairing, puzzles me: we love the characters because of the dynamic, the challenges and difficulties they have and so the first thing we want to do as writers is....smooth that all away and trade it off for constant declarations of love and devotion, hallmark-card notions of babies and picket fences? Ok.....Different strokes, I guess.
I'm not good with schmoop so I think I frustrate most Buffy/Giles shippers.
Schmoop is one of those things that has me hitting the back button post-haste. I've mostly read Spuffy fic (I don't ship them in S6, do in S7 canon but am fascinated by their dynamic together); and I cannot stand the characters I loved to be reduced to cardboard cutouts. I don't want damsels and woobies. I want honesty. (Which makes me unpopular in some "Spuffy - read, Spike - corners, I guess.)
I think the show writers didn't really address buffy's problems in season 6, they just gleefully kept adding to them. In this, she does at least manage to express some it.
YES. I talked a little about her depression arc on one meta (http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/5820.html)but I'd love to go a little deeper into that sometime (I'm more of a non-fiction writer) because I really identify with Buffy in S6 but there is something incredibly wonky in the way they try to handwave away her mental illness as something that she can just "get over": "she just needs to pick herself up and dedicate herself to Dawn" etc. "People always try to connect with me and I always just...slip away." What? Huh?
It's a very common perception of depression and a very dangerous one (http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/21078.html), I think.
I can't and don't write porn scenes. But I do enjoy writing conflict. :-)
Well I hate the first and love the second so YAY!