The Earth Her Body - Fic by La Noyee, (and random thoughts about the women of the 'verse) (1/?)
ETA: Additional screencaps added below cut - which has also been added. (Post in haste, repent at leisure.)
Take a Moment: by lanoyee. Gen, Buffy, Tara, Dawn. A "deleted scene" , post-"Grave"; Buffy bids a friend good-bye. Spare, elegant and melancholy, it's a scene I wish had been in the show. One of the things I love best about BtVS is how ( Read more... )
Take a Moment: by lanoyee. Gen, Buffy, Tara, Dawn. A "deleted scene" , post-"Grave"; Buffy bids a friend good-bye. Spare, elegant and melancholy, it's a scene I wish had been in the show. One of the things I love best about BtVS is how ( Read more... )
Yeah, I don't have an account - and since that's usually needed for "NC-17" fics, I haven't bothered. Your description pretty much makes me NOT want to read it, although I don't doubt it's well written. There is SO MUCH fanfic focused on Spike as the protagonist, Spike as the hero, etc.
I used to read Moulin Rouge fanfic ten years ago (and even wrote some) on ff.net, and I got bored pretty quickly with the narrow focus on Christian to the exclusion of Satine or other female characters. But he was the protagonist of the movie after all, and most of the writers seemed to be "Ewan fangirls" anyway. I didn't expect that to also be the case in a fandom where the protagonist is female and the verse is filled with strong, dynamic female characters and interesting relationships. I assumed, for instance, that there'd be a ton of fics fleshing out the Joyce-Buffy-Dawn dynamic, or fics about Jenny, etc.
Oh and I haven't read TVD; your comment about Stefan's POV reminds me of a made-for-tv movie I saw maybe 20 years ago or so, about birth control activist Margaret Sanger, played by Dana Delany. I remember a scene where she was in prison explaining to her husband that she was doing this for their daughter (and other women of course by extension, all daughters) but the narrator of the story was her SON, who was perhaps 8 or 10 when the action was occuring. WTF? WHY did they think that was a good idea, honestly? Why do they keep taking our stories away from us and WHY do we keep letting them and participating in that "theft"?
I think it negates how progressively the series portrayed Tara's sexuality - making her fall for a man after declaring herself a lesbian. I know sexuality is fluid, and on a spectrum, but because of the marginalization of LGBT characters, I want to keep Tara gay because LOOK! IT'S ACTUALLY A POSITIVE, NON-CLICHE GAY CHARACTER!
SPEAK TO MY SOUL. This is it, in a nutshell. I've talked to people who say that they enjoy that pairing as long as the characterization is good - but the problem is that Tara's sexual identity is PART of her character. It's not separate from it. Coming from the family she came from, claiming her identity and her truth is an extremely brave thing to do. That courage is part of who she is. And there is nothing on the show to indicate she's anything but lesbian. She's THE ONE fully-fleshed lesbian character in a realistic lesbian relationship in American tv that I know of. ONE and ONLY. There are thousands upon thousands of characters in all of literature, tv and movies to play with; bending Tara to conform to heteronormative standards is deeply problematic - and frankly, gross.
I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion that will get me in trouble or not, I just want to keep Tara gay so that we have that 100% lesbian figure in the 'verse
Just because it's unpopular doesn't mean it isn't true. And if they won't give her back we will TAKE HER BACK. The revolution starts HERE.
(Willow is a lesbian as well, because that's how she identifies herself, but I think her sexuality is more flexible than Tara's? Does that make sense?).
Oh absolutely, yes it does.
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