I mean, I really do. I like Evil!Spike. I like Obsessed with Buffy!Spike, even. I really like crazy Spike ( Read more... )

So, liviapenn was saying smart things about fanon.

Which, naturally, led me to consider my own uses of fanon.

Xander's family was fanon way before it was canon. It was pretty much accepted that his family bit the big one. But other Buffy fanon ideas have, over the course of the show, been Jossed into oblivion. Spike being evil before he was turned was a ( Read more... )

Seriously, half the reason that I disliked Spike so much the past couple of years was all the "He's so amazing! And hot!" talk. Once I pulled out of TWoP and just let the Spike issue sit for a while, I really enjoyed him a lot more. I'm definitely still not a Spike 'shipper of any kind, because of the whole unrepentant murderer thing, and we don't ( Read more... )