Re: Something I've noticed

["bighotvirgo" <BHV@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

yeah to the quantity quality thing. Course, when compared to my 
other fav F/F pairing,which is F/W, B/W readership seems huge.
(I'm always surprised people can't get past F/W animosity. "but 
they hated each other." "Yeah, well so did Buffy and Spike" Fire, 
baby, fire.)
I loved W/T but didnt really feel the need to branch out into fanfic 
to learn or imagine more. And for me I think that's a key thing-
fanfic gives me what canon doesn't, or what canon only teases 
at (in the case of what I call "canon subtext" - F/B and B/W)

Canon pairing fanfic in most cases (there are always those 
exceptions) isn't as appealing to me. 



--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "myself03" <
myself03@u...> wrote:
> 
> Also, I think it's the same group of folks doing the reading and 
> they're making the rounds of sites and once they've read it, not 
> that many new readers are checking in. B/W has a fairly small 
> following, something I've never understood, but there you go...
> 
> >>> You know, i had a conversation about that with someone( 
a K/W fan that didn't really like T/W) around three weeks ago and 
we've come to quite a few conclusions.Actually, if you think about 
it, it's not that strange....B/W and B/F are pioneers when it comes 
to femslsh fans, B/W fans have been around since before they 
even thought about bringing Tara in, and i can tell you, that when 
you consider unconventional ships, we're quite well....At least we 
were, now i dunno.Truth of the matter is, B/W is an idea, a 
possibility, and W/T and W/K were realities...Once it became 
official people just jumped in...I mean, why stay with the could be 
when you could have the is....Not only that, but the thruth of the 
matter is, people want to see themselves in there...TAra , 
Kennedy and Willow are lesbians, Buffy isn't , lots of the fans of 
W/T and W/K are bi/lesbian, at least the ones i've bumped into, 
so the indentification is different( one of the biggest examples of 
that i saw when they decided to include a lesbian couple on 
primetime here) ....I think that is even one of the reasons why 
people tend to idolize TAra...Other than that , you must take into 
consideration that most people are femslash fans, so they don't 
restrict themselves to pairings....ANd there is the one for each 
concept...So, WIllow is with TAra/Kennedy, why break that ? STill, 
there are other female there, so they end up pairing Buffy with 
other female ( mostly FAith, who showed to be more ambigous) 
... And so it goes....
> 
> Not making much sense , i know, but i'm having a hard time 
putting my thought into words ( waiting 50 minutes for your sister 
to get ready while you're dying to eat something is arghhh...last 
time i try to be nice...) 
> Still, while small, the true B/W fans are quite faithfull...Or at 
least i know i am....We may not have quantity , but we sure have 
quality...What matters isn't what is explicit, but what we read 
between the lines...And THAT we do very well...