Re: Buffy/Willow Moderator Challenge: The Early Days

["Blin Vizzable" <debvii@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, danspector@w... 
wrote:

> who one of these eons is going to hit this list with a brickload 
of
> Buffy/Willow/Cordy fics, but can see the point, anyway.

Don't get that last clause, Dan, but B/W/C might be cool. Frankly, 
my problem with B/W/3rd fics is that, well, usually I don't like the 
3rd party. Plus, I find it hard enough to find juicy, well-written B/W 
fics that I begrudge intruders. Finally, I seem to run across too 
many triad fics that are all about the wild sexin' and not much 
else.

Ironically enough, although I'm totally hardcore fanatical about 
B/W/X as Core Scoobs, I can't get into them as a romantic triad. I 
don't know what it is, but it just feels wrong somehow. W/X/Anya, 
OTOH, feels more emotionally right to me.

Also, just so you know, I totally understood what you meant by 
the 'cop-out' comment, because I happen to be one of the people 
who feel that way on occasion. I could be wrong about this, but it 
seems to me that stories that delve into the pain and pitfalls of 
triangulation without using the 'easy' solutions of either the 3rd 
leg leaving town pretty quickly or "let's ALL have sex, yay!" are 
hard to find. But, ya know, I would have liked to have seen, for 
example, Oz STAY at the end of "New Moon Rising" and make 
Oz/W/T have to deal with that angst for at least 5 episodes... so 
there's that.

blinviz