Yay, Buffy
Dec. 4th, 2009 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backupAs I mentioned a while back, it's taken me a long time to 'get' Buffy as a character (and I don't think I have it all yet). When I watched the show, I had a sort of forest-for-the-trees problem - the show was so very much about Buffy that I had trouble seeing her. I finished the series and she was pretty much still a cypher to me. I couldn't have explained to you who she was or even what was important to her. She just didn't make innate sense to me as a character the way Spike or Faith or Giles or Dawn did.
And because of that, I was somewhat ambivalent about the Spuffy ship, even though I read tons of Spuffy fic because, hey, I love Spike and in terms of het, Spuffy pretty much is the fandom. So I understood his side of the ship, but I didn't really understand hers. I think this is partly why, despite my claimed Spuffy partisanship, I've written very little of it - just one sonnet and one drabble thus far.
All of which is prepatory to saying that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angearia just wrote some fabulous awesome Buffy meta, and you should all read it. Because now, finally, I'm starting to have opinions about Buffy, and they pretty much are angearia's, only less articulate. Yes, Buffy is proactive and strong and a leader. I knew her portrayal in lots of fics bothered me (especially "Spike is the perfect boyfriend and Buffy doesn't deserve him, the bitch." *gag*). But, now, finally, I'm starting to understand why.
And it comes down to this: Buffy is an amazing woman. She's got superpowers, sure, but in the long run that's just the raw material for the Awesomeness of Buffy. It's Buffy's inner strength, Buffy's character that makes her a hero instead of just pest control. The more I understand her (finally), the more I like her. Very much.
And because of that, I was somewhat ambivalent about the Spuffy ship, even though I read tons of Spuffy fic because, hey, I love Spike and in terms of het, Spuffy pretty much is the fandom. So I understood his side of the ship, but I didn't really understand hers. I think this is partly why, despite my claimed Spuffy partisanship, I've written very little of it - just one sonnet and one drabble thus far.
All of which is prepatory to saying that
angearia just wrote some fabulous awesome Buffy meta, and you should all read it. Because now, finally, I'm starting to have opinions about Buffy, and they pretty much are angearia's, only less articulate. Yes, Buffy is proactive and strong and a leader. I knew her portrayal in lots of fics bothered me (especially "Spike is the perfect boyfriend and Buffy doesn't deserve him, the bitch." *gag*). But, now, finally, I'm starting to understand why. And it comes down to this: Buffy is an amazing woman. She's got superpowers, sure, but in the long run that's just the raw material for the Awesomeness of Buffy. It's Buffy's inner strength, Buffy's character that makes her a hero instead of just pest control. The more I understand her (finally), the more I like her. Very much.
