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Jan. 5th, 2003 01:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI was cruising through some older reviews I had on ff.net, and I saw a signed review for "One Step Down From Love". It was unfamiliar to me, and written in August, which was before ff.net reinstated the automatic email reviews.
She said I was a good enough writer, but criticized me for writing a sympathetic, affectionate-when-spike's-not-awake-to-see Buffy, saying...
"Maybe this will help you in future attempts at writing this pairing. Because the thing about Buffy/Spike is that it's a dark pairing. Happy, cutsey, post-coital stuff just doesn't work with the characters..."
I was kind of baffled for a minute, until I checked the date, and remembered that I posted that fic back in January. It was written after Wrecked, and placed sometime in the near future. "Future attempts"? This fic is so old in in fandom-time, it has no bearing on what I write now.
Then I wanted to laugh at her, because as far back as Wrecked we had no IDEA what Buffy/Spike was gonna be like. Well, I certainly didn't. Unspoiled. For all I knew when I wrote that, they'd get over their differences in a few months and be happy, or at least semi-content (back when I drastically overestimated the maturity of all the BtVS characters and believed they would sort out their problems instead of doubly-fucking themselves over). And my fic DIDN'T even have them sugary-in love, it was freakin' titled as something less than love.
I don't get why she'd deliberately read an 8th month old fic and then chastise me for improper characterization, characterization I may know now, but certainly didn't know then. Like I'm supposed to feel bad that she can read my fic with perfect hindsight, then say its wrong?
I was gonna email her to express these opinions, until I looked at her fic list and bio.
No way am I going to bother writing back to discuss my "way off base" characterization with a B/X girl who writes Buffy/Doyle.
I've got better things to do. Like clean my room. Write B/S fic. Laugh at B/Xers.
She said I was a good enough writer, but criticized me for writing a sympathetic, affectionate-when-spike's-not-awake-to-see Buffy, saying...
"Maybe this will help you in future attempts at writing this pairing. Because the thing about Buffy/Spike is that it's a dark pairing. Happy, cutsey, post-coital stuff just doesn't work with the characters..."
I was kind of baffled for a minute, until I checked the date, and remembered that I posted that fic back in January. It was written after Wrecked, and placed sometime in the near future. "Future attempts"? This fic is so old in in fandom-time, it has no bearing on what I write now.
Then I wanted to laugh at her, because as far back as Wrecked we had no IDEA what Buffy/Spike was gonna be like. Well, I certainly didn't. Unspoiled. For all I knew when I wrote that, they'd get over their differences in a few months and be happy, or at least semi-content (back when I drastically overestimated the maturity of all the BtVS characters and believed they would sort out their problems instead of doubly-fucking themselves over). And my fic DIDN'T even have them sugary-in love, it was freakin' titled as something less than love.
I don't get why she'd deliberately read an 8th month old fic and then chastise me for improper characterization, characterization I may know now, but certainly didn't know then. Like I'm supposed to feel bad that she can read my fic with perfect hindsight, then say its wrong?
I was gonna email her to express these opinions, until I looked at her fic list and bio.
No way am I going to bother writing back to discuss my "way off base" characterization with a B/X girl who writes Buffy/Doyle.
I've got better things to do. Like clean my room. Write B/S fic. Laugh at B/Xers.
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Re:
Date: 2003-01-05 03:08 am (UTC)Precisely. I like both those characters but the many ways in which that would never happen is indescribable. You'd have to warp Buffy's character beyond belief to make it work, and I don't even know what you'd have to do to Doyle.