Multiples of 5 for the salty asks (and anywhere they ask to supply a fandom, I say Buffyverse)
5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?*
There’s a segment of people that seem determined to ruin Fuffy for me. They haven’t quite suceeded. They did sort of ruin Mehane though (or more, I was only ish into it and now I associate it with people I don’t get on with anymore)
10. Most disliked arc? Why?
Hm... toss up between the back half of AtS Season 5, Spuffy in Season 6 and The Fluke with Xander and Willow in Season 3
15. Unpopular opinion about the manga/show?
Several, but let’s go with “Season 4 of Angel wasn’t actually awful”
20. What is the purest ship in the fandom?
All the Characters/Therapy. Lots and lots of therapy.
25. How would you end XXX/Would you change the ending of XXX?
Honestly, I’m pretty happy with the ending of BtVS, all said and done. I suppose I might have not killed Anya, though I don’t especially care either way (Maybe kill Andrew instead? Who knows) but otherwise, I quite liked the ‘activate all the slayers’ thing.
As for AtS, well, I’ve discussed how I would have ended it here: (X) but at the very least, I wouldn’t have had them throw their lives away on some ‘glorious’ and pointless suicidal last stand. Especially no killing Wesley (though as I understand it, that was Alexis Denisof’s choice as an ending for his character arc, which I understand from a thematic/storycraft sense - Wesley’s arc is always one of almosts and failures, in a lot of ways)
Salty Asks!