A week late but...
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wesleysgirl's Friday Five last week, so here's me playing catch-up:
1. A pairing that you enjoy reading but will never write, and why.
This will break my wife Cindy's heart but Fraser/any Ray, most likely. I love Due South but I can't break out of my broody vampire mindset enough to try to do any of the fic properly.
2. The pairing that you think has spurred the most really awful fan fiction.
Willow/Angel(us). Hello to a huge violation of my two-step theory of fanfic. I can't tell you how many of those stories start with "Angel realized he was in love with Willow the whole time" or some shit like that. And nobody gets the right dynamic for how Angelus would break someone like Willow back in the Sunnydale days. Believe me, I've looked.
3. A pairing that you just don't get.
Wesley/Drusilla. What the Hell? Where did these shippers come from? How? What? How?? I mean I get some pairings where the characters haven't met - like Wes/Spike - when the canon for the characters suggests that there could be chemistry between those personality types, but who the Hell thought Wes and Dru were star crossed lovers?
4. A pairing that you think is difficult to write believably, and an example of it done well.
Xander/Anya, Anna S's Season Noir. Reason being is that Anya is hard for many people to write, and a lot of people take the fact that she was written badly on the show as an excuse to write her badly in fanfic. Add on top of that the fact that the Xanya relationship didn't get significant screentime during the development stages so it's hard for the viewer to understand what these guys see in each other. I know a lot of people where OMWF was the first time they'd ever seen reasons for these two to be in love (Anya's dance of capitalism was another - although it's worth noting that season six fleshed out Anya much better than other seasons did), so it's hard for people to figure out how to do fanfic with these two. But Anna S does an amazing job of fleshing them out and making them believable.
5. A pairing that you have written or have thought about writing, despite your own surprise that you would consider it.
Angel/Buffy or Wes/Gunn. Just to surprise the Hell out of all of you ;)
wesleysgirl's Friday Five last week, so here's me playing catch-up:1. A pairing that you enjoy reading but will never write, and why.
This will break my wife Cindy's heart but Fraser/any Ray, most likely. I love Due South but I can't break out of my broody vampire mindset enough to try to do any of the fic properly.
2. The pairing that you think has spurred the most really awful fan fiction.
Willow/Angel(us). Hello to a huge violation of my two-step theory of fanfic. I can't tell you how many of those stories start with "Angel realized he was in love with Willow the whole time" or some shit like that. And nobody gets the right dynamic for how Angelus would break someone like Willow back in the Sunnydale days. Believe me, I've looked.
3. A pairing that you just don't get.
Wesley/Drusilla. What the Hell? Where did these shippers come from? How? What? How?? I mean I get some pairings where the characters haven't met - like Wes/Spike - when the canon for the characters suggests that there could be chemistry between those personality types, but who the Hell thought Wes and Dru were star crossed lovers?
4. A pairing that you think is difficult to write believably, and an example of it done well.
Xander/Anya, Anna S's Season Noir. Reason being is that Anya is hard for many people to write, and a lot of people take the fact that she was written badly on the show as an excuse to write her badly in fanfic. Add on top of that the fact that the Xanya relationship didn't get significant screentime during the development stages so it's hard for the viewer to understand what these guys see in each other. I know a lot of people where OMWF was the first time they'd ever seen reasons for these two to be in love (Anya's dance of capitalism was another - although it's worth noting that season six fleshed out Anya much better than other seasons did), so it's hard for people to figure out how to do fanfic with these two. But Anna S does an amazing job of fleshing them out and making them believable.
5. A pairing that you have written or have thought about writing, despite your own surprise that you would consider it.
Angel/Buffy or Wes/Gunn. Just to surprise the Hell out of all of you ;)
