Love is in the air

[hazelk]

Damn comics. I may have inadvertently written my very own Buffy/Angel manifesto. I think I need to go and exfoliate until it bleeds. Or watch Spuffy vids as a penance, although most of them are really Spike vids in disguise. The unholy combination of the camera’s male gaze and the creator’s object of desire. There are some honourable exceptions. This one in particular is Buffy through and through:

One Last Time by dualbunny
Turbulent and self-excoriating but with occasional moments of grace and not a flaming hand in sight. It ends with the “Does it have to mean anything?” scene, which is pretty much my philosophy on love. I feel better now.

Comments

[laurashapiro]

I LOVE One Last Time -- it's definitely my favorite Buffy-Spike vid out there. I think it accurately captures her experience and, yeah, it's rare to find a B-S vid from her POV. All too rare.

[hazelk]

It's so good. And I think dualbunny made it in a day or something.

[laurashapiro]

Wow. That's kind of staggering.

I tried to make a vid in a day once, but I got bogged down in clipping. Ironically, that's the only vid I've ever not finished.

[sqbr]

So I read this post just before bed, and was thinking "I should ponder if I have any Buffy-centric Spike/Buffy vids" and when I went to sleep my subconscious turned this into a dream about having signed up to MAKE a vid and thus awoke feeling quite tense. I BLAME YOU.

I'm not so much a Buffy/Angel shipper as an anti-Buffy/Spike shipper(*), but that was an interesting read :)

(*)THough not so much I can't enjoy the vids when they're good

[hazelk]

My bad. Is the tense from having to make a vid because I get that? I used to have a complete horror of being asked to write stories in Primary School and it's never really gone away - just as we got older they started asking for essays instead.

I think I am to B/A as you are to B/S and as for B/S, it's somewhere between interesting (like trainwrecks and their aftermaths are interesting) and a guilty pleasure.

[sqbr]

Yes, the idea of making a vid makes me tense since all my previous attempts to do so have failed. But I forgive you :)

Having watched the vid: see, that sort of B/S I can enjoy (when I'm in the mood for trainwrecks), it's the shmoopy romantic sort that doesn't work for me.