Re: Re: FIC: Under the Willow Tree [1/1]

[Joey Lee <xenarip13@xxxxxxxxx>]

thank you i always appreciate your feedback..i must
say that i don't know if i will be writing anymore
buffy willow stories as i have missed most of the last
season and what i have seen was not really buffy
willow inspiring (how depressing)..thanks again Bynx
--- danspector@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> [Go Buffy, it's your birthday!! <G>]
> 
> Woohoo! Two new B/W authors in one day! (or it
> would have been if the
> list hadn't frozen for a couple of hours :p ) Very
> cool! 
> 
> (hey, if we could keep this pace up...okay, two
> newbies a day might be
> tough, but we won't know unless we try <g>)
> 
> Bynx, glad to have you writing for us. I've 
> enjoyed your C/F fics and
> I'm glad to know that this is your fave couple. 
> (Then again, how could
> they not be?)
> 
> I really liked this fic, there were a lot of nice
> ideas in play. (BTW,
> you seemed to be unclear on where this would take
> place in continuity,
> but it would seem to fit right in Season 6, between
> "Tabula Rasa"?Tara
> just left Willow?and "Smashed", since Buffy and
> Spike haven't done
> their urban demolition impression yet.) Thought the
> passively suicidal
> Buffy was an interesting twist on her depression?it
> tied in nicely
> with the arc for Buffy's "patrols" to have reduced
> themselves to sitting
> around waiting to be killed, and yet finding herself
> "going through the
> motions" of slaying and thus self-preservation.
> 
> You gave us an excellent reason for why Buffy and
> Willow hadn't had the
> conversation they so desperately needed to have all
> year. (Well, aside
> from my cynical thought that a B/W confrontation
> over the resurrection
> would be a logical outgrowth of the plot and would
> move things along, so
> naturally Joss and Marti couldn't let **that**
> happen :( ) 
> 
> The idea that Buffy couldn't talk about it because
> only Willow was to
> blame and she couldn't bring herself to hate the
> girl she loves is a
> favorite B/W theory, of course, but you quite
> cleverly tied it in with
> past continuity by suggesting that Buffy keeps her
> emotional turmoils to
> herself because it's her nature to protect those
> around her, even from
> her own temper. Lord knows, I like that explanation
> for her tendency to
> keep secrets a lot better than "you wouldn't
> understand", which she's
> been hiding behind since Season 3.
> 
> And after all, even not getting 'shippy about it,
> who has Buffy
> dedicated herself to protecting more thoroughly than
> she has Willow? No
> one, not even Dawn. So it's completely unsurprising
> that she can't
> bring herself to attack the redhead, even over being
> ripped out of
> "heeeeaaaaaven"?it goes against her basic "Save
> Willow" instincts.
> 
> The other half of the story is Willow not able to
> talk about her
> bringing Buffy back for what she admitted in canon
> were "selfish"
> motives; meaning of course that she wanted Buffy
> back and damn the
> consequences, because she was in love. Logical.
> 
> The conversation where this came out was strong, and
> I liked Buffy's
> confrontational, almost harsh, kiss. I dug Willow
> not being able to be
> sure of Buffy's motives and being willing to accept
> the punishment of
> having to admit the feelings she'd been ashamed of,
> if that's what Buffy
> wanted. 
> 
> Fortunately, it wasn't a punishment, it was love. 
> And I liked the line
> about Buffy's birthday (see top) and the bit where,
> trying to please
> Willow, Buffy has to strain to remember what gives
> her pleasure because
> she hasn't felt it in so long in her despair. 
> Lastly, I smiled at your
> use of the concept of Willow-as-Buffy's-home, since
> mentioning it when
> Buffy's head was at work between Will's legs was a
> much saucier twist to
> the idea than we usually see.
> 
> Finally, it was good to see someone bring up the
> idea that Buffy's leap
> in "The Gift" was suicide?that got buried when we
> found out she was in
> "heeeeeaaaaaven" and we couldn't be sanctifying
> suicide, right? But
> here it ties in very nicely to Buffy's
> self-destructive mindset earlier
> in the fic?Willow really is saving her, again and
> again.
> 
> I don't mean to over-rave (some of the dialogue was
> a little flowery,
> for example) and I promise I won't write tomes like
> this every time, but
> I found this to be a convincing character work with
> some nice attention
> to continuity, so thank you very much.
> 
> I look forward to seeing more of your B/W work.
> 
> Dan 
> 
> 


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Understanding of truth can change from day to day and my commitment must be to the truth rather than to consistency
---Ram Dass

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