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Fuck Gen AI for all the reasons we’ve already established, duh. But also fuck Gen AI for ruining Irondad/Spiderson fics for me cause I get the ick so bad everytime someone asks Karen or Friday to do something that would take them 20 minutes. And I understand that they run on renewable energy and they’re never used to plagiarize other people’s work in these fics but why does Karen need to make you a list write your own damn list.
You guys someone said Hudson Williams could be Nightwing and I think that’s it, I think we did it
You guys this is so niche and cringe-y/Wattpad-y but…
I kind of assumed that the reason behind the sudden revival of my Joshaya fanfiction phase a couple weeks ago must be Sabrina Carpenter’s new album but I’ve realized that it’s because they’re SO PunkLee coded 😬
You guys what in the actual fuck was I talking about
Just realized that by depriving us of Wally West coming back from the dead/the speedforce, the writers have also robbed us of Spitfire edits to Work Song by Hozier. If I have to live the rest of my life with that knowledge you do too
Hey guys “implied Babs/Dinah” in a Young Justice fic is cuckoo bananas wtf
I’ve noticed this happens a lot in DC/Marvel fandoms specifically, I guess because there are so many iterations of the characters across different comic/tv series and movie franchises but if you’re writing a version of the characters where one is a minor and one is an adult jail immediately
I remember there being a shit ton more Spitfire fanfic than this when I was in high school, where are you hiding it all
You guys this is so niche and cringe-y/Wattpad-y but…
I kind of assumed that the reason behind the sudden revival of my Joshaya fanfiction phase a couple weeks ago must be Sabrina Carpenter’s new album but I’ve realized that it’s because they’re SO PunkLee coded 😬
Clean girl? I had all the lyrics to Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne memorized by the time I turned three.
Y’all my sister really thinks she has the best gaydar in the whole fuckin world. Surprise bitch.
Buffy and Faith walked so Toni and Mariah could run
Buffy and Faith walked so Toni and Mariah could run
Okay, y’all did pretty good last time, so let’s try this again
I need some angsty/angry Bangel fanfic (HEA, please) anytime after season 3 that gives off Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac vibes.
📢 Bangels, can we help this shipper out with some recs?
Off the top of my head I'm thinking
Weight of Life by Maren and maybe the Something Old Series by Ducks. For something that probably takes the angsty/angry to 11 there is Bittersweet Legacy by Vatrixsta Cruden
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missing spitfire in these trying times.
Okay, y’all did pretty good last time, so let’s try this again
I need some angsty/angry Bangel fanfic (HEA, please) anytime after season 3 that gives off Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac vibes.
So Rob Thomas killed Logan off, not only because he didn’t think Veronica could be a strong independent woman and be in a happy, committed relationship (🙄), but also because he thought she had gotten over too much of her trauma and needed more for the show to be interesting and for Veronica to have the same crappy personality. And then he skips forward a year in the last 10 minutes, but I wish he could see the future, because if he could see 2020 he would know that he didn’t need to create more trauma for her, because the whole world was about to become a dumpster fire anyway.
Also can we please get a prequel book.
people will say "oh i don't like Bangel, it's such a messed up relationship." (which i mean, everyone is of course entitled to their own opinion and it's all personal preference anyway) but i'm like "heck yeah it's messed up, that's why I like it!"
Also are these people somehow under the illusion that Spuffy isn’t messed up? Like he spent years trying to kill her and then they were frenemies with benefits and then he tried to assault her and felt so guilty that he went and got his soul back and then they still weren’t actually together. But Spuffy is perfect and Bangel is unhealthy? Like I fully acknowledge, as do most Bangel shippers, that it was an unhealthy relationship, but most Spuffy shippers seem completely in denial.
Who get the biggest passes from Buffyverse fans and can you give examples of the worst things these characters do?
Well this is a juicy question.
Spike, and Cordelia.
Interestingly, at some point, both characters were given the role of calling Buffy out on her "crap." James Marsters even talks about how he was brought in as a replacement for Cordelia in season 4, but then was replaced by Anya when they decided to do something else with him.
With Cordy being the mean girl, and Spike the soulless vampire, the writers had the freedom to use these characters to say and do some incredibly cruel things towards Buffy in the name of "brutal honesty," while also excusing their behavior because they weren't meant to be the hero...at least initially.
This worked a little too well, as Charisma and James were amazing in their roles. Each character is charming, beautiful, multifaceted, and extremely funny.
The problem is, you can't keep your characters stagnate, so the writers were forced to give Cordy and Spike character growth, but also find a way to retain who they are. This is incredibly difficult when your character was literally written to clash with Buffy, and is popular for saying mean, biting things in the name of "tough love."
-Cordelia-
While Queen C is more than the resident mean girl, her cruel words and selfish behavior are praised as "truth" and confidence, with her belittling nearly every member of the Scooby gang. She is constantly pitting herself against Buffy; (Homecoming, Halloween, etc) demeaning and belittling her when Buffy has personally saved her life several times. She begins to show signs of character growth in season 3, but once Xander cheats on her, reverts right back to blaming Buffy for everything. Instead of holding Xander accountable for his actions, she makes a wish that Buffy never came to Sunnydale, and then never sees the consequences for her own actions.
Even after her move to LA, she calls Buffy a cry-Buffy, blames her for turning Angel into Angelus, emasculates Wesley, victim blames and shames a SA survivor (Untouched), and is generally just careless about what she says or does, with no thought about how her words effect others.
Personally, while I do see some growth over her time on Angel, I do not buy her characterization in the later seasons where she is drastically changed to become a Champion, and then shoe-horned into a relationship with Angel. On top of that, she never atones for or even recognizes her need to change for her awful behavior, and that makes it very hard for me to forgive her for her past sins, let alone root for her.
It's possible that with better writing and without Joss being a horrible person, that her transition would have been more organic and believable.
-Spike-
For a show about feminism, the writers really spend a lot of time on this man. He steals Buffy's underwear, stalks her, makes a sex robot that looks just like her, attempts to kill her multiple times, boasts about killing and torturing other slayers, justifies it by saying they wanted it, ties her up, then spends a season belittling her just so that she'll sleep with him. THEN when she refuses sex with him, attempts to force himself on her.
And for those of you who say, "oh he just didn't have a soul yet." Fine.
After he had a soul, he boasts about assaulting her, shames her for using him for sex when he knew she didn't love him, shames her for not loving him, and blames her for the reason he's tortured with having a soul. (Beneath You)
He nearly kills Robin Wood, and then mocks him for not being loved by his mother (which is proven to be false in "Damage"), all while wearing the coat that he stole from Robin's mother after he killed her.
Not once does he apologize to Buffy or attempt to hold himself accountable, even after he has a soul. It is not until "Damage" on Angel that we see any sort of unselfish remorse.
Then to add insult to injury, season 7 has Buffy spending so much time taking care of Spike, rescuing Spike, training with Spike, reassuring Spike that he is a good man...all to the detriment of her other relationships. People like to blame the Potentials for why season 7 is as clunky as it is, but I blame the focus on Spike.
Even worse, the show doesn't seem to want Spike to change, as there's hardly a difference between pre souled and ensouled Spike. And that goes against the show's core tenant of choice and growth.
From the very beginning, vampires represent the opposite of adolescence in that they are stagnate and do not change. "Fool for Love" very clearly establishes that Spike's persona is created to compensate for his lack of an identity. Cecily's rejection of him deeply wounds him and he is shown to create a facade to mask his insecurities. So he takes from powerful women and forms a false identity around them to prove that he is not beneath them. The episode emphasizes this pattern with Cecily, Dru, and the two Slayers, continuing in present day with Buffy.
In order to be consistent with the lore and message of the show, ensouled Spike needed to look a lot different from un-ensouled Spike, but the writers knew he wouldn't be as popular.
And so we're left with a half baked season where we're supposed to believe that Buffy is distant from everyone but Spike, who looks the exact same as he did the season before when he tried to force himself on her.
It's just icky. It's the opposite of empowering. It blurs the lines of the lore. And it sends the wrong message.
We can like these characters and even root for them, but we need to be honest about their flaws, and not justify awful writing and problematic characterization.
