Fandoms I Have Loved 6: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Today I realized I was more than halfway through Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Or, actually, I realized my Best Beloved was, but more on that later.) What better way to celebrate my approaching familiarity - or, rather, acquaintance - with this fine series than by writing a Fandoms I Have Loved for it? Sure, some people might say you should get to
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(PMS continues to rage here unabated, but am now in the throes of minor illnessy-type thing as well. Fever. Aches. Inability to stay vertical for more than two hours. Thank god for the almost-entirely-finished FIHL that I have lying around, or I'd have nothing to post at all.)
Anna S. kicks ass. You should probably read all her stuff. Or almost all her stuff. Her abandoned WIP is wonderful and good and then WHAM there's a brutal, horrible rape and Blair is all covered with scars and humiliation and horror. It was way too much for me. Consensual beatings? Fine and good. But rape? No. Just, no.
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The double-Ray thing confused me when I started in the fandom, too, and I was seriously thrown by the whole lip-reading-in-five-languages half-wolf thing, but I got over it. Because, as you say, there are many, many good writers in that fandom. And - you'll like this - a lot of BDSM fic. (For reasons unknown, many due South and The Sentinel writers are convinced that immediately after the guys admit their mutual passion they will plunge into a long-term relationship that will involve handcuffing each other to lighting fixtures on a nightly basis. And, in dS's case, moving to Canada.)
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Good god. This theory explains, in retrospect, a frightening amount about my sex life.
And I think there might be some sort of flaw in my logic - adopt them all, and then we will be free - but I'm far too busy flirting with The Man From UNCLE to identify them. Join me! Join me in every fandom! Together, we can conquer the fannish world! Or universe! Multiverse! Whatever!
*sings a rousing rendition of "On, Wisconsin" with numerous appropriate word substitutions*
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I'm thinking we should all get you some lovely BDSM fics as wedding presents. Where does one go to get things of that kind? Are you registered with a writer somewhere?
(Note: you will not suck me into RPS. You won't, you won't. I have so few remaining standards, and I cling to them with such pathetic pride. You would not rip them from my bosom, would you? Wait, who am I kidding? Of course you would. But I shall be steadfast. I shall!)
And you have too heard "On, Wisconsin." You must have, because everyone has. Everyone. I don't even know anyone from Wisconsin and I've heard the damn song. But if you insist on maintaining that you haven't, there's a version on this page (click "listen to MIDI"), which has the distinction of being the tinniest version of the song I've ever heard. And there's two versions on on this ( ... )
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I'm no longer sure how I feel about the kink. I used to be pro some kinds, anti other kinds. And I had very definite opinions on everything. (Usually along a continuum. For example - Bondage: god, yes. Dom/sub stuff: Mmmm. Yes. Pain: depends. Serious pain: um, probably not. Humiliation: Definitely not. Permanent scarring and lots o' blood: absolutely not.) But last night I found myself reading a series of BtVS stories with, shall we say, a heapin' helpin' of kink, including serious bloodplay, torture, oxygen deprivation, and, if I don't miss my guess, actual (though temporary) death, and I was just thinking: hmm. It did nothing for me one way or the other, and that sort of scares me, actually. Has FF corrupted me for all eternity? Worse, has FF corrupted me in such a way that even things I would previously have found pretty revolting now don't bother me provided ( ... )
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