SLOW LIKE A TORTOISE: Whilst I try to come back into the fandom swing of things...

[red_satin_doll]

...dashing off something fun and lighthearted always helps. Besides, it's time I came out of the closet, don't you think? I've added version #1 below to my Welcome Post but I also like the slightly paler "vintage" version (#2) and a bright rainbow one with and without (#3) the torn paper frame, as well as the original. I can never decide between

Comments

[velvetwhip]

I completely accept your Buffy/Tara shipping and not just because I kind of ship Buffy with another of Willow's canon lovers will stand up for you to the bitter end.

Off to vote now.

Gabrielle

[red_satin_doll]

You mean Oz? I can get behind that ship and don't worry, I won't tell a soul because Oz is beyond cool into his own Universe.

Off to vote

Didn't you do so already, dearheart?

[velvetwhip]

Yes, I do have a bit of a thing for Buffy/Oz. It happened when I accidentally wrote them as a couple in Feral.

Yes, I did. Oops.

Gabrielle

[debris4spike]

As you know I "possibly" ship Buffy & Spike .... just occaisionally!! However I do love Buffy and Spike with Tara as a friend to both/either. She is super

I really must get the final chap of the fic I was writing finished ...I have a few chaps up here so you can see what I mean. She was just such a gentle soul and given a chance to open up she would have returned that 100% making those she was with so much more at peace.

[kikimay]

I love Tara and Buffy as bestfriends and teen mums of Dawn too much. But I also like the idea of rare pairings. The rainbow version is kinda cute and also fits the possible ship because it would be all hearts and rainbows.

[red_satin_doll]

The rainbow version is kinda cute and also fits the possible ship because it would be all hearts and rainbows.

Unless you're kwritten (see her beautiful series "Blurring the Lines") or you're me and you try to write a B/T & B/S AU S6 fic in which Buffy thinks she's hiding everything but everybody knows, especially Dawn and Willow, and that goes way way angsty because - because it's me apparently. (No, I've never posted it. I might just though.)

[kikimay]

Yeah ... unless that. So you're thinking about writing? And specifically writing about Tara/Buffy? (I'm kinda thinking about Thor/Buffy. Again. Ugh, I have so many feelings about blonde big bro/sis who are superstrong) S6 is a place of dispair but also so incredibly fascinating and I love some good Spike/Buffy as always.

[red_satin_doll]

Oh see there is very very little B/S in it - I've only written a couple of things that are B/S, one a dream sequence. I don't tend to write very shippy anyway, I tend to write "gen" but I don't know if I have B/S in me as a fic writer, I don't feel the need to. There is SO MUCH good fic out there already. I want to fill the corners and explore the stuff that's gone untouched (or urge others to do so, like the fabulous clockwork_hart1)

S6 is a place of dispair but also so incredibly fascinating

Oh yeah. There are things I'd change, things I disagree with (*cough*killing Tara*cough*) but beyond that I don't feel much need to make it "less angsty" because pain is such a familiar thing to me. Although I'd be all for Buffy getting therapy or for goodness sakes some quality girl time out with Tara, Willow, Faith and Dawn, just having fun. (Which means I'm actually thinking post series, since I just threw Faith in there.)

[snogged]

I endorse your love of Buffy/Tara. Those two are pretty darn wonderful together.

[red_satin_doll]

I endorse your love of Buffy/Tara. Those two are pretty darn wonderful together.

Aren't they? I'm surprised there isn't more friendship fic - they must have had more moments than we saw. (Tara and Willow's conversation in Tough Love implies as much, doesn't it? That Buffy and Tara have been spending time bonding over the shared experience of their mothers' deaths beyond that moment in the Body.)

I'm kind of surprised that female friendship isn't explored more in fandom, generally, but then again the show could have given us more of that too and i would not have minded at all.

[rbfvid]

Actually, if anybody asked me "with whom would you ship Buffy if you want to see her in a happy realtionship", Tara would be my first call, too.

[red_satin_doll]

Choose life! Choose Tara!