No no, the point I so blatantly failed to make was - I used to think Spike was hot, back when he was a normal evil vampire, and then I was filled with burning rage at the morality of the writers with what they did to their characters, and that pretty much killed the show for me, so that I was watching Seasons 6 and 7 with the cynicism of watching your lover as an undead zombie, and then I stopped reading fic pretty much because I hated the existance of Spike at all, in any version, and so then when I watched these images after all this time, I was surprised by how non-existant my shallow, 'oh, Marsters is hot' reaction was, which is to say, the scars the burning rage left me run pretty deep.
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I have to say I am glad that GK won the argument, because while I think your version may be far more layered and crafty, the message is complex enough without subsuming the visuals to the lyrics, which are, I have to say, post-modernly abstract in their incomprehensibility. So please to provide annotated meta about lyrics as well, in your commentary. :)
Hmm. Was is Robin's POV all the way through? It felt a little fragmented, because it seemed to talk about the Slayers sometimes as a much bigger entity than one black man, which was thing number 21 to hate about Joss - the sisterhood of slayers defaulted to white women, and the Black slayer, the Chinese slayer, they were always on the outside looking in, being killed, having to defer to white vampires or watchers or slayers, just like Robin did.
Somewhere in this I have a huge rant about how feminism in fantasy has led to the plucky white girl becoming the oppressor for the person of colour other, ALA Robin McKinley's books, and how Buffy was always entrenched in that sort of ignoring of intersectionality.
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I have to say I am glad that GK won the argument, because while I think your version may be far more layered and crafty, the message is complex enough without subsuming the visuals to the lyrics, which are, I have to say, post-modernly abstract in their incomprehensibility. So please to provide annotated meta about lyrics as well, in your commentary. :)
Hmm. Was is Robin's POV all the way through? It felt a little fragmented, because it seemed to talk about the Slayers sometimes as a much bigger entity than one black man, which was thing number 21 to hate about Joss - the sisterhood of slayers defaulted to white women, and the Black slayer, the Chinese slayer, they were always on the outside looking in, being killed, having to defer to white vampires or watchers or slayers, just like Robin did.
Somewhere in this I have a huge rant about how feminism in fantasy has led to the plucky white girl becoming the oppressor for the person of colour other, ALA Robin McKinley's books, and how Buffy was always entrenched in that sort of ignoring of intersectionality.
But I await to hear your thoughts.