ever_neutral | your stitches are all out but your scars are healing wrong;

06 | the ship where fandom is DOING IT WRONG

What about me? I love you so much. And I tried to make you go away. I
killed you and it didn't help. And I hate it. I hate that it's so hard,
and that you can hurt me so much. I know everything that you did because
you did it to me. Oh God, I wish that I wished you dead. I don't. I
can't.

I dallied on this "day", but then I figured that in the realm of "fandom IS DOING IT WRONG" ships, there is no formative contender than Buffy/Angel. I mean "formative" in the sense that the Buffyverse was my first fandom and I'd never before seen such incorrect shipping in my life. There are no scars like Buffy fandom scars, &c. &c. Obviously, the wrong shipping (as in, WRONG WRONG WRONG, not wrong!shipping which is in fact what we're here for) surrounds the idea of B/A as a straightforward pure epic starcrossed forever love, when clearly at its best it's pretty deliberately a horror story. I do think the show(s) had a tendency to romanticize the story (... a lot), but in some ways I also think that was a somewhat necessary part of the story -- it's the epitome of that heady, destructive (understatement) first love, the kind you feel like you "can't breathe" without, the kind that scars you for life. And Buffy really is emotionally scarred by Angel -- and all of the bad related to Angel -- for years into her adulthood.

In a word, it's trainwreck syndrome. I don't care for the fluff/schmoop; I don't buy into their pure forever love; I'm not sure they'd even work together in the long-term or are even particularly compatible as people aside from their damage (though I do see the potential in their friendship). But dude, watching this shit growing up, I all but threw myself before the altar of Joss Whedon's sadism.

Also, Buffy/Angelus is the kind of thing that makes one scared to walk around their house, do u feel.

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My eveything is slow. I growel at your feet like usual. /things are in order

I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS POST AND I REALLY NEED TO COMMENT ON IT DESPITE THE LATENESS.

First off : your picspam is good to my eyes.

Second (off? lol) : YOU ARE FOREVER CRACKING ME UP OKAY. JUST THE WAY YOU DO WORDS I DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN IT BUT I WISH FOR IT TO GO ON INDEFINITELY BECAUSE YOU ARE HILARIOUS. I just prefer not to tell you most times because your sarcasm is the best when the content is the worst and it feels unfair that I keep laughing out loud at the description of your pain (except that I am pretty sure that you want me to, so I suppose that my angst is your evil intent etc etc). BUT TODAY IS ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHERE I AM RIDICULOUS IN MY ALEX!LOVE AND NEED TO TELL YOU ALL THE CREEPY EMOTING YOU ARE PUTTING ME THROUGH. WHAT IS MY LIFE AND WHAT EVEN WITH MY LIFE-CHOCES SRSLY. But yeah, basically you win at this meme and this line : But dude, watching this shit growing up, I all but threw myself before the altar of Joss Whedon's sadism. for the epic win please.

Also, Buffy/Angelus is the kind of thing that makes one scared to walk around their house, do u feel.
MY SHIPPPP :') THEY ARE FOREVER MY WRONG!FAVORITES. SORRY NOT SORRY.

Pray, from what heavenly star did ye fall to shower my undeserving self with words of nectar??? Legitimate question.

Late comments are gifts from Satan.

lol I don't like that graphic but I'm glad you do.

I AIM FOR COMEDY, AMIGO. Happy to entertain. /smooch. TYVM for sharing your wrong!shipping feels, and for such an enthusiastic and flattering comment. Have a garland of roses:

I wish I could remember the name of that shiny star. I AM SURE IT WAS COSY UP THERE WHY WAS I THROWN OFF OF THE PRETTY ROCK /WOE. Don't give me star-feelings you cruel troll.

Late comments are gifts from Satan.
This pleases me greatly as I am in the process of word-vomiting at you in your latest-before-last (I am making this a thing kk) TVD review/recap/thinky-thoughts-that-are-just-bulletpoints-of-feels. Not that the opposite would have refrained me from posting because I am selfish and will force my emoting down your throat always. BUT. I keep getting interupted by the devil that is Marta's new baby AND UGH MULTITASTING WHAT IS IT.

Thank you for the roses, I am touched.

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