I WON AN AWARD AT SLAYERSTILLNESS! (And, I have things to say about Buffy and Faith - buckle up)

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Thank you to the moderators at slayerstillness for giving me my very first award for an icon in Challenge #18 "Faith Lehane" ! Kudos to all the winners in this round : iconsoleander, spikesredqueen and delta_dawn_rose - but all the submissions were creative and wonderful, so please go check them out if you haven't had the chance already.

And to make it even sweeter, comlodge made the gorgeous banners:

Comments

[kikimay]

I knew that icon ("Promise to a lady") was yours. :D Pretty icons, especially the one who won. It's really intense.

Very interesting thoughts about Faith and Buffy and many, many things to read/watch. I was always creeped out by Who Are You when I was younger (Now it's one of my all time favourites episodes. The acting is stellar and it's an incredible episode, full of beautiful/funny/disturbing scenes) But at the beginning I couldn't watch Faith taking Buffy's body - I hated her for that. To me it's not only a form or rape and violation of the body, but it's also about stealing the identity of someone else, which it's a concept that disturbs me a lot. The identity is not only the body, but also the psyche and a bunch of other things and somebody stealing it ... is really creepy, isn't?
With Faith and Buffy there's always this envy/emulation thing going on, that the Spuffy relationship doesn't have, because as much as Spike emulates Buffy, he still wants to be himself - or his persona - and being very different from her. (Which is kinda cute because he wants to play the badass Big Bad who knows stuff about the slayers and he ends up learning a lot from Buffy. Oh baby boy! *pats*)

Also I didn't remember the phrase from SR. (I didn't remember that was Spike's line during the rape scene) and IT FITS SO MUCH with Faith and Buffy. The subtext feels like a text to me.