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shapinglightThese smooshed up names for 'ships can be very silly, even irritating, but I do like this one. It sounds like the name of a disgruntled teddy bear.
So anyway, the latest semi-official (and very badly worded) Word From On High about the whole who does Buffy love most, Spike or Angel, revolving around that little threesome fantasy panel from one of the early Buffy comics (for full details of which go here), has got me thinking about S/B/A as a threesome again.
This has no bearing on Georges Jeanty's right to have an opinion, by the way, before anyone says it does. He believes that Buffy loves Angel more than Spike, fine. Lots of people do. He also believes that she has some kind of feelings for Spike, though it's hard to make out what exactly, and unfortunately in his attempt to explain it, poor Mr Jeanty manages to make Buffy look like an enormous slut who is stringing two men along, but never mind. Essentially, Jeanty's view, as is the view of many others, is that the level of feeling between B/A and S/B is unequal and weighted towards B/A.
Come to think of it, I've probably read fanfics where the threesome was written like that. And I may have read some where the weighting went the other way. There may even have been some where poor Buffy was getting in the way of the pure, true love of Spangel. However, I don't think I've ever read one where the relationships between the three participants were all equal.
There are some that are very good, among which I include![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
missmurchison's hilarious S/B/A trilogy. There are probably some others too that I enjoyed at the time and have forgotten, or possibly found vaguely unsatisfying and have forgotten. But I've forgotten them, so I can't link to them. However, I haven't managed to write one myself (Vampire Winter was the closest I ever got, and that's not very close at all). I've been wondering why that is and have decided it's because I can't think of an earthly reason why these three characters would threesome-up, even though I like the idea and it's the obvious solution to the 'shipper wars.
I want to write one, though, and have decided that the best way to approach it might be as I approached Spike/Buffy as a settled pairing in The Worst Journey in the World- ie. showing it as a fait accompli and not the whole point of the story. This will have the dual effect of not making me have to spend hours racking my brains to try and work out how these three characters - Spike in particular - would go for this, and also not having to write a threesome sex scene, which I'm sure I would do very badly.
Actually, even though I love smut - yay!for smut! - I think I'd be inclined to try and write an S/B/A story where there's no smut at all. Hmm, maybe I won't write that Spangel story for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
plot_wout_porn after all?
Or, I could just take Georges Jeanty's idea and run with it.
Angel: Buffy, where are you going? Didn't you say home is where the heart is?
Buffy: I did, but I'm having one of my periodic bouts of being fed up of you hogging the TV remote and brooding a lot. I'm off to the cabin in the woods for some R&R with Spike.
Spike (out in the cabin in the woods): I'm bored! :chops another log, twiddles thumbs, sighs: Being the holiday getaway is all very well, but at least she could have got me cable.
So anyway, the latest semi-official (and very badly worded) Word From On High about the whole who does Buffy love most, Spike or Angel, revolving around that little threesome fantasy panel from one of the early Buffy comics (for full details of which go here), has got me thinking about S/B/A as a threesome again.
This has no bearing on Georges Jeanty's right to have an opinion, by the way, before anyone says it does. He believes that Buffy loves Angel more than Spike, fine. Lots of people do. He also believes that she has some kind of feelings for Spike, though it's hard to make out what exactly, and unfortunately in his attempt to explain it, poor Mr Jeanty manages to make Buffy look like an enormous slut who is stringing two men along, but never mind. Essentially, Jeanty's view, as is the view of many others, is that the level of feeling between B/A and S/B is unequal and weighted towards B/A.
Come to think of it, I've probably read fanfics where the threesome was written like that. And I may have read some where the weighting went the other way. There may even have been some where poor Buffy was getting in the way of the pure, true love of Spangel. However, I don't think I've ever read one where the relationships between the three participants were all equal.
There are some that are very good, among which I include
missmurchison's hilarious S/B/A trilogy. There are probably some others too that I enjoyed at the time and have forgotten, or possibly found vaguely unsatisfying and have forgotten. But I've forgotten them, so I can't link to them. However, I haven't managed to write one myself (Vampire Winter was the closest I ever got, and that's not very close at all). I've been wondering why that is and have decided it's because I can't think of an earthly reason why these three characters would threesome-up, even though I like the idea and it's the obvious solution to the 'shipper wars. I want to write one, though, and have decided that the best way to approach it might be as I approached Spike/Buffy as a settled pairing in The Worst Journey in the World- ie. showing it as a fait accompli and not the whole point of the story. This will have the dual effect of not making me have to spend hours racking my brains to try and work out how these three characters - Spike in particular - would go for this, and also not having to write a threesome sex scene, which I'm sure I would do very badly.
Actually, even though I love smut - yay!for smut! - I think I'd be inclined to try and write an S/B/A story where there's no smut at all. Hmm, maybe I won't write that Spangel story for
plot_wout_porn after all? Or, I could just take Georges Jeanty's idea and run with it.
Angel: Buffy, where are you going? Didn't you say home is where the heart is?
Buffy: I did, but I'm having one of my periodic bouts of being fed up of you hogging the TV remote and brooding a lot. I'm off to the cabin in the woods for some R&R with Spike.
Spike (out in the cabin in the woods): I'm bored! :chops another log, twiddles thumbs, sighs: Being the holiday getaway is all very well, but at least she could have got me cable.