crazydiamondsue | Is there a shelf life on obsession?

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I will never be multi-fannish. I know this. I am a Cocker Spaniel of fandom loyalty. My Buffyverse investment wanes and ebbs, but it never subsides. It's currently cranked up to 11. I've been spending my snow days re-watching eps (currently season seven, two and five, in no particular order) and reading and re-reading fic (and leaving comments because I am AWESOME!) uploading fic to archives and reading old meta and scribbling a line or two of fic (yeah, I have no illusions about how that will turn out) and all-out wallowing in a love for the Buffyverse that will never die. It pops out of my subconscious in random quotes and geeky non sequiturs. Reading the fic makes me want to be a better writer; watching the show makes me want to be a better person. And to quote the prescient Miss Dionne Warwick, I know I'll never love this way again.

And I'm pretty much exhausting

cityphonelines and

lunabee34 with my shiny (old) obsession. So.

IP logging is always off (stalk me, all ye young and tender maidens) anonymous comments are always on: Ask me anything about the Buffyverse. About 'ships (canon and unconventional.) About plotlines controversial or contrived. About characters and my love or lack thereof. About the Buffy fandom that was, and what little I see of the Buffy fandom that is. Ask my opinion of a fic you wrote if you want honesty (I'll squee if I squee, I'll email if I concrit.) Ask me about a fic I wrote, or one I didn't write, or one I should have. Ask me about Buffy's coats or Xander's shoes, Cordy's hair or Giles' eyes. Ask me why I love Xander, or why I love, hell, Vi. I don't care.

Ask me anything, just let me talk about my Buffy-love because Caza's heard it all for 10 years and Jonah's 18-month-old contribution is to yell, "Kitty-cat!" whenever Angel vamps out and growls. (I shit you not -- it's a thing of beauty and joy forever.)

ASK ME ANYTHING -- as long as you're humming Nerf Herder under your breath.

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Hell, yeah, they had chemistry. I mean, have you seen "Bad Girls" or "Enemies"? I don't remember what ep it's on, but David Fury or Doug Petrie (I'd have to go look up which and I'm lazy) talks about the Buffy/Faith subtext and how they hadn't meant for it to be so overt, but Eliza just kept going there. I kind of love her for that.

I think Faith would have been all over Buffy in a second. Definitely in Season 3, with sort of a bitter edge to it, and I can still see it in Season 7 or post-Chosen with kind of a mellowed understanding between them.

I think SMG was brilliant as Faith-in-Buffy in Season 4, and I think a large part of Faith's desire to have Buffy's life (friends, family, watcher, lover) would have been assuaged by having Buffy herself. I think Faith could played Spike's role in Season 6 (and of course I'm not the first to see parallels between Faith and Spike, I think "Dirty Girls" pretty much lays that out for us) and I think Buffy would have gone for it in Season 6, had there not been the Spike factor. I've read some phenomenal Buffy/Faith fic and I still find it to be one of the better femmeslash pairings as far as character study and plot rather than merely PWP (not to say that all non-B/F femmeslash is PWP, but that I've found more plottiness in B/F than any other Buffyverse F/F pairing.)

Um, hi - I wandered over here after a link to your meta round-up post from

monanotlisa (thanks for doing that, btw, I adore BtVS meta). If you are still up for answering questions, do you have any recs for Buffy/Faith? Most of the fics I've found in the past have been pure porn and I'd love to read some that had more plottiness.

I totally stalker-pinned this post. Sorry, Sue. :)

I have a self-rec for you: Something Elemental

and also

Fool's Paradise by

thelastgoodname

Theurgy by

hesychasm

A Fairytale--Six Easy Steps by

thelastgoodname

Missing Pieces by

rayne_y_daze

Lovely - I shall definitely give these a go. Thank you :-)

My links are terribly old. I just checked the Faith/Buffy recs on my website and a lot of them are broken. Here are two that immediately come to mind:

Something Elemental by

lunabee34

Sealed With a Kiss Mad Poetess

I haven't regularly read fan fic in about two years, but I'll see if I can't scare up some more for you.

I just checked the Faith/Buffy recs on my website and a lot of them are broken

I hate it when that happens - I wanted to read an old fic I had bookmarked the other day and the website is just gone, sigh.

I shall definitely check out the two you linked, thank you!

*blushes*

Thanks for the rec, doll.

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