Buffy links: analysis and fic

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Analysis

Authorial Intent and Audience Interpretation from the folks at Tea at the Ford

A terribly sad analysis of Buffy's interaction with Angel in "Chosen" by Alira

azdak's discussion of "Underneath"

Fic

I've been updating my recs page. My guess is that most of you will have already have read these, but, hey, sometimes I'm slow. Also, random.

Ethan after "Chosen": Silent Upon a Peak in Darien by Doyle (PG, Damage)

What Dru got up to in the Wishverse: If That Mockingbird Won't Sing by Doyle (PG13, The Wish)

Angel and hands: Manus by Kita (PG, Damage)

Wes and Illyria go shopping: Lost in the Supermarket by Lint (PG, Shells)

Spike/Tara romance: Quick and Bitter, Slow and Sweet by Miss Murchison (R, Entropy)

Connor's schooling: On the Education of a Young Man by Yahtzee (PG13, Tomorrow)

Comments

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Just to be all nitpicky:

I read a post at that site about the Angel ep 'Deep Down' and it was stunning in its complexity and insight. I linked to it from my AtS site, in fact. But I never trolled through the entire site enough to know it was Spuff.

The Ford itself isn't really a "Spuffy site", but a few (not all, by any means) of the members are B/S shippers. Alira is probably the Spuffiest Spuffy who ever walked the earth--and, in general, the most vocally pro-Spike fan of all the members--so you should probably be aware of that when reading her posts. (Not that one doesn't immediately realize the fact, as you noticed.)

Just a minor correction, because it would irk me a great deal to see TATF labeled a Spuffy shipper site. I'm anal that way. ;)

Just good to know that not all Spuffy fans dislike one half of the ship, and actually root for the main character on occasion as well.

It really doesn't make sense that a certain contingent of self-described Spike fans want to see him live happily (?) ever after with someone they hate so viscerally, does it? I never got that, myself.

But then, my mantra has pretty much become, "Fandom is weird, yo." ;)

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The Ford itself isn't really a "Spuffy site"

Thanks for the clarification. I couldn't find anything saying one way or another (and why would I?) but many of the posts I've read there are pro-Spuffy, or at least, not anti-Spuffy. As I'm that way myself, I forgot that others would take issue with some of Alira's assumptions as Kita pointed out.