Mark Watches

[quinara]

FFS, I told myself last night that I wasn't allowed to think about this, but... I can't believe it's been ten years - ten years - and people are still demonising and threatening people who dare:

1. Read Smashed in a way that Buffy is not a victim.
2. Analyse Buffy/Spike on its own individual basis of a relationship between two characters in a fantasy world rather than something solely contextualised by impersonal sociological narratives.
3. Suggest that they find Spuffy hot.

And the whole thing's been brought about by someone who operates on the assumption that we're all dense enough to believe that he 'forgot' he knew about SR when he started shouting at people for having different views about Smashed.

I'm so angry.

All I've got is my video which I like to think indicates that Spike's sarcasm vs. Buffy's violence has been their game for a long time:

Tell me they both fuck up in S6, but don't tell me either is fully taking control.

ETA: On the other side of the coin, All Butterfly AU, anyone? (+ bogwitch's comedy sequel)

Comments

[likeadeuce]

To be fair, I have not followed his writing that closely, but he does seem to have the 'I'll check this fandom out and explain why everybody else's opinions are wrong.'

I remember naively watching Spike/Buffy and being into it and not being aware of all the fannish controversy. And then when I discovered it, it kind of scared me away from the ship. It is complicated, and in the hard-to-talk-about way, not the fun-complicated way.