[fic] Buffyverse: Light + Magic

[jantalaimon]

per usomitai's request.

Fandom: Buffyverse
Summary: "Tara comes back from the deaaaaaad to chat Willow up." Setting: sometime toward the end of BtVS S7, but not after the ending.
Spoilers: up to where I said when mentioning the setting above? :)
Rating: R

Comments

[jantalaimon]

wasn't it that Amber Benson wanted to leave? or am i mistaken?

oh, my sievish memory. :P

[jantalaimon]

The First, yeah. which was lame. have i told you how i really rather dislike S7? because mostly, i do. which is why it's kinda funny that by necessity this fic had to take place at that time. XD

yay for Amber. tho she did some really crappy sci-fi movie that i saw on TV recently. hope she gets better work than that in the future. :P

[jantalaimon]

oh, and a few things i forgot, cos i was tired when i responded to this initially:

the "butneverdeadinmyHEAART" thing was meant to be self-mocking. plus, in my mind, Willow's totally the sort of person who'd interrupt herself even in her thoughts. perhaps that's projection, but. XDXD

yanno, at its essence, i REALLY REALLY like Willow/Tara. there were lame contrivances that sprung up around it, like Willow's magic addiction (DON'T GET ME STARTED ON HOW LAME THAT WAS) and killing Tara off and yeah, i understand the concept of Kennedy as rebound (and i was reading something where i think Jane Espenson said something about how Kennedy was never meant to be Willow's sooooulmate but rather was supposed to be her Riley, but still LAME LAME LAME LAME.

granted, i liked Willow/Oz, too. but that's because Oz was, yanno, an actual fleshed-out character. back when they were still writing those. not just a warm-fleshed plot contrivance.

damn, i am apparently still angry about S7! XD

[jantalaimon]

oh, and one more thing: i'm amused you didn't even blink at the suggestion of Willow/Fred. or would that be Frillow? XD there was some other comment i read somewhere awhile ago that has stuck with me, something to the effect of Willow and Fred having more chemistry in that one single scene on Angel than Willow and Kennedy did the entire time they were together. i think it's stuck with me because it's TRUE. theirlovewouldbesoGEEKTASTIC! :D

[jantalaimon]

...dammit, why'd you go put another bunny in the yard? cos i'd really like to see them have that conversation, too. XD

will write more cohesive response later. XD

[jantalaimon]

oh, i do, but the problem is, if left to their own devices, they multiply uncontrollably. and exponentially. XD

FTR, bunnies aren't rodents. they're lagomorphs. :)

how'd S7 brainwash you?

[jantalaimon]

in that case, you're probably better off. write your own S7! >3

[jantalaimon]

that's probably the best way to remember S7, the way you have. XD Buffy's first day in that job was pretty great, yeah. and was S7 the Doublemeat Palace episode or was that back in S6?

S6 had better things to remember than S7, although you could tell the show was kinda limpin by then, too. and don't get me started on all the things wrong with Spuffy. >P

i've never watched SV, so i've never read nyonyo's entries about it. XD i do know the theme song makes me want to stab someone, though. XD

oh god, Kennedy shows up in S8? :( damn, maybe i'm misremembering (which as we've discussed, i do ALL TOO OFTEN), but i thought they'd split up by the end of the show? ;.;