Fanon thoughts.
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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 huge fanon belief before Fool for Love aired.
To move into the specific subject that livia mentioned, there's tons of fanon that's contradicted by the show that people still use. Childe and Childer being a favorite of mine. Well, a favorite to make fun of. Even the Master didn't use those terms. Spike and Angel probably wouldn't ever, expecially when you consider the mocking of Anne Rice that they had going on in School Hard. Also, we know that vamps don't cry blood. We've seen weepy vamps. No blood tears here, mate.
The biggest mischaracterization in slash is the bitchifying of Buffy. You want Xander to move to L.A. to live with Spike, Angel, and Doyle, that's all fine and good, but you lose me completely when you imply that Buffy isn't affected at all by Xander leaving until he mention aforementioned foursome. Whether or not you share my deep conviction of Buffy's affection for Xander, the show does, in fact, show that she cares about him and would miss him if he left (The Freshman, Normal Again).
Making Buffy a bitch just makes the author look bad. And it's interesting that many slash fics with Xander do that, because in most fandoms, you only bitchify the canon girlfriend. So, it's to me, you're saying that Buffy is so important to Xander that he couldn't leave unless she became the bitchiest woman who ever lived.
And while we're talking about Buffy, let's talk about Willow-Sue, a character with no foundation in show canon. Willow is smart. Willow is even cool sometimes. Willow is not the Uberhero of All Time, able to fight harder than Buffy, be the most understanding person in the world and steal boyfriends in a single bound.
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 huge fanon belief before Fool for Love aired.
To move into the specific subject that livia mentioned, there's tons of fanon that's contradicted by the show that people still use. Childe and Childer being a favorite of mine. Well, a favorite to make fun of. Even the Master didn't use those terms. Spike and Angel probably wouldn't ever, expecially when you consider the mocking of Anne Rice that they had going on in School Hard. Also, we know that vamps don't cry blood. We've seen weepy vamps. No blood tears here, mate.
The biggest mischaracterization in slash is the bitchifying of Buffy. You want Xander to move to L.A. to live with Spike, Angel, and Doyle, that's all fine and good, but you lose me completely when you imply that Buffy isn't affected at all by Xander leaving until he mention aforementioned foursome. Whether or not you share my deep conviction of Buffy's affection for Xander, the show does, in fact, show that she cares about him and would miss him if he left (The Freshman, Normal Again).
Making Buffy a bitch just makes the author look bad. And it's interesting that many slash fics with Xander do that, because in most fandoms, you only bitchify the canon girlfriend. So, it's to me, you're saying that Buffy is so important to Xander that he couldn't leave unless she became the bitchiest woman who ever lived.
And while we're talking about Buffy, let's talk about Willow-Sue, a character with no foundation in show canon. Willow is smart. Willow is even cool sometimes. Willow is not the Uberhero of All Time, able to fight harder than Buffy, be the most understanding person in the world and steal boyfriends in a single bound.
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Date: 2002-09-30 04:10 pm (UTC)So yeah, little random - but I just needed to say it. *g*
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Date: 2002-09-30 04:30 pm (UTC)