BtVS Video: Anything But Love

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Title: Anything But Love
Music: SOS: Anything But Love by Apocalyptica with vocals by Cristina Scabbia
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Spike/Buffy
Formats: wmv; zipped or streamed
Betas: leviathan101, rhoboat, humansrsuperior
Description: Spike and Buffy's dark...and beautiful story through Spike's eyes.

Special thanks to rhoboat for gifting me with this beyond perfect

Comments

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Thank you sooo much for this beautiful feedback my friend. I'm floored by the way you always weave your way inside my vids and find the most beautiful way of talking about them. I'm amazed and eternally grateful for what you see in this vid and how you embrace it.

Your comments about the ending make me SO very happy; I guess I’m most wow’d by the ending, with the pair in the basement separated by the song title. It sums up so neatly the ambiguity of their relationship. I think we all know what happened after the fade! I know we talked about this and how I was leaning towards not using the final Chosen scene and I am so thrilled you like how this ending worked out...that you feel it does indeed sum up the ambiguity in their relationship. :)

I'm so pleased you like the Smashed images for the first "scare me to death", and you described what I was trying to say just right; that her emerging passion, tho he knew it was there, would still scare him. YES! I had Smashed clips planned there practically since I began planning the vid.
And the second “scare me to death” focusing on buffy, the sex, the violence and finally the tenderness of Spike sitting down on the porch just made me weep.. Bless you for saying it made you weep..I wanted that porch scene in there so badly, it took me quite a while to get it to fit, so it means so much to me to hear it was effective!

love how the overlay at 1:02 of the broken wall dissolves into Spike’s eye. You are an absolute angel for noticing this! I liked it too but thought it would just be me noticing such a thing...you really honor me by looking at my vid so closely. :)

Thank you for such lovely words about my overlays and storytelling, it means the world to hear this from a Buffy fan like you. I'm so happy you like the "broken state" sequence, and the cemetary walk, and the church sequences....and you mentioned another overlay I am fond of, buffy after spike throws the cigarette on the ground. You are the first person to say you liked it.
And I'm so happy you like how the coat worked out within the end stretch of the vid.

Thank you again for taking time to write this terribly wonderful review (and for the one at vidding, too...I'm doubly blessed!) and for all your encouragement. xo