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100 days of enemy recs: 98. Buffyverse, Take 2
Okay, while Giles/Ethan is clearly the best enemyship in Buffy, there are kind of a Lot of them, so I gave it a second run.
Let's start by clearing the air: Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Spike. Both definitely enemyships! Both very much the biggest ships in that fandom, although it feels like twenty years in, Buffy/Spike has roundly won that shipwar. But I never really shipped either of them, I think because = well, if you've been following me for awhile, you might have picked up that I have a thing for characters who measure their lifespans in centuries. But I don't really have a thing for those characters dating teenagers. I don't think it's even really, like, a purity culture thing, I think it's just that, even when I was myself a teenager, it was a "no club that would have me as a member" problem. Like if you've reached your century mark and you still think dating teenagers is a good idea, then you're probably such a fuckup that the teenager could do better? I don't care how much destiny or fate you have on your side, you also have literally all the time in the world, let the cookie dough get nicely firm first. Buffy clearly has a kink for much older men, which I do not judge her for at all, but she's got plenty of time yet to shop around and find one who doesn't want to date a teenager, and that's basically always been my opinion on that particular shipwar.
But! There are plenty of other enemyships sailing that Hellmouth! So here are some other old favorites. In a "no AO3 links at all" special set, because Buffy oldfandom I guess has *really* not moved to AO3, but I was actually keeping bookmarks when I was reading it, and most of them still work!
Let's start by clearing the air: Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Spike. Both definitely enemyships! Both very much the biggest ships in that fandom, although it feels like twenty years in, Buffy/Spike has roundly won that shipwar. But I never really shipped either of them, I think because = well, if you've been following me for awhile, you might have picked up that I have a thing for characters who measure their lifespans in centuries. But I don't really have a thing for those characters dating teenagers. I don't think it's even really, like, a purity culture thing, I think it's just that, even when I was myself a teenager, it was a "no club that would have me as a member" problem. Like if you've reached your century mark and you still think dating teenagers is a good idea, then you're probably such a fuckup that the teenager could do better? I don't care how much destiny or fate you have on your side, you also have literally all the time in the world, let the cookie dough get nicely firm first. Buffy clearly has a kink for much older men, which I do not judge her for at all, but she's got plenty of time yet to shop around and find one who doesn't want to date a teenager, and that's basically always been my opinion on that particular shipwar.
But! There are plenty of other enemyships sailing that Hellmouth! So here are some other old favorites. In a "no AO3 links at all" special set, because Buffy oldfandom I guess has *really* not moved to AO3, but I was actually keeping bookmarks when I was reading it, and most of them still work!
- One Time Thing by Killa
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Angel/Spike
Length: One-shot
Summary: Just a variation on a popular theme. Set after "The Girl in Question." Angel and Spike drown their sorrows, with predictable results. - Slayers' Dance by
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erinya
Fandom: BtvS
Pairing/characters: Faith/Buffy, mentions Spike/Buffy, Willow/Kennedy
Rating: PG-13; implied sexual content
Length: One-Shot
Disclaimer: So very, very not mine
Prompt: 144. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy Summers/Faith Lehane. Buffy realizes that there may be more to how she feels about Faith than she thought.
Summary: Buffy is confused. Kennedy tells her to stop being an idiot. Set post-Chosen, vaguely in Cleveland. - Romantic Dinner by missmurchison
Pairing: Spike/Joyce
Rating: G
Summary: A romantic dinner gets sidetracked a bit.
Special note: This is the last fic in a longer Spike/Joyce series set in an AU where a) Spike is not in love with Buffy and b) Buffy stays an only child. They're est rel in this one. The first three in the series sold me on how much better a story choice this would have been than Spike/Buffy, but they seem to only be available on wayback now that allaboutspike is down. I am not linking to wayback-only fic in this series, but here's my Pinboard bookmark linking to the whole series just to prove it was there.
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I remember how much this was driven home to me by the Twilight books, of all things, especially by the leaked manuscript of Midnight Sun (Twilight from Edward's POV). He's a century old and he keeps choosing to go to high school and date high schoolers. That is some messed up shit.
(To be fair, Spike is that messed up. He never established any kind of sensible adult psyche even before he was turned, and becoming a vampire and dating Drusilla didn't exactly help.)
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I think modern 2020s Buffy fandom is largely writing a rapidly-approaching-her-thirties Buffy where the cookie dough is mostly baked and also Spike has worked a lot of his shit out and they both realize that what happened in Sunnydale was fucked, which is largely not what the fandom was doing fifteen years ago. And I'd probably be a lot more into that, but also! I could just choose to not get back into Buffy fandom. :D Or keep living in the AU where Spike fell for her mom instead.
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To shamelessly toot my own horn, I've got some post-canon stuff which you might like, including one where she's 88 years old and still kicking down doors when she needs a door opened in a hurry.
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Oh! Your opinions re: age difference in Buffy are entirely correct.
While I've had nothing to offer in comments to this epic series, I've appreciated reading it so much.
(Any chance you'll add a "100 days" tag to make it easier to boost?)
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Jinx avoidance is key
...and makes a ton of sense.
I don't know if one can fashion a DW URL that spans "these months of a journal," You've kept shoulder to the wheel pretty much daily since 26 July.
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It would definitely be at least as fucked up as Spike/Buffy in a universe closer to canon, but it would be be deliciously fucked up and in a way that does not involve teenage drama...
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