Re: OT re: "Popular" fanfic couples

["Koos van Winden" <koosfanfic@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ebailey140" 
<ebailey140@a...> wrote:
> --- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Koos van Winden"
> <koosfanfic@h...> wrote:
> > 
>
> > 
> > Okay, first of all I have tried to determine the situation at 
this 
> > moment, not a year ago. Buffy/Angel for example is winning it 
from 
> > Spike/Buffy.
> > 
> > Secondly. I have followed, I think, all the yahoogroups, all the 
> > sites I cuould find and all the virtual series and discussion 
boards 
> > (which provide interesting inside on current opinions) and Live 
> > Journal. To be honest, Willow/Buffy is my latest ship of 
interest. 
> > Was never really into this ship, cuz of the syrup and the 
pancakes 
> > and the elevator confessions. I mean, waay too sweet for me :)
> > 
> > Willow/Buffy has a large number of members, but output in 
fanfiction 
> > is not so high anymore. Buffy/Faith is more popular on Live 
Journal. 
> > There's barely any Faith/Willow fanbase. Willow/Tara has a strong 
> > faithful fanbase and more sites. Willow/Tara is also the most 
> > populair femslash under the not slash fans. Which you have to 
count 
> > too! So the most popular ff slash couple is still Willow/Tara.
>
> Well, Dan DID specify Unconventional Ships.  Of course, the canon,
> conventional, ships, like W/T, are going to be more popular than the
> unconventional ones.  
>
> I never got into W/T fic, because I see it the same way you see B/W,
> as too sugary, syrupy, sweet.  That's the problem when one of the
> characters has to be played as absolutely perfect at all times.  
And,
> this one had the added problem of it's fan base wanting the flawed
> half of the relationship to be absolutely sweet, nice, and perfect 
at
> all times, too, which, to me, means zzzzzz....  
>
> E

Oh, sorry, I missed the UC label. Yeah, well. I can understand the 
same problem with you with Tara/Willow. It's very sweet too. But Tara 
grew alot in S6. And she has shown potential that never got out. 
Point is that despite that Buffy and Willow are perfectly capable of 
being nasty, bitchy; they act so sweet around each other. 





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