Amusingly enough, I might have become an obverse example for kantayra's theory, if things had gone just a little differently. I had avoided both the BtVS show and its attendant fandom for years, thinking it would have little if anything to appeal to me (and having now seen the early seasons in repeats, I was right). Then a friend pimped Willow/Tara at me, and I sat up and said, 'Well, why didn't you tell me that before?' and tuned in.
Just in time for the last few episodes of season five.
So I came for the canonical lesbians, but I stayed -- and I even stayed past the end of BtVS into the final season of AtS, despite an intense disinterest in Angel himself, Cordy, Wesley, Harmony and most of the other regular cast -- for the Spuffy. It was a disorienting experience for me, because I'd been a slash fan since the mid-90s when I discovered slash online, and though I'd been a fan in the more general sense (a Trekkie initially and still, with a great many other media layered on afterwards after TOS ended) for years before then, I'd never been all about one or another 'ship in any of the other shows, films or books that made my fannish heart go pitter-pat. But I really was tuning in every week much more for the Spike/Buffy relationship than for any of the other characters, though I was fond of many of them for other reasons.
I did actually look for Spuffy fanfiction online, and found and read some, but... it failed to move me. None of it seemed to quite hit the button that what I was seeing on-screen did.
So I never went through the full transformation-of-fannishness-orientation -- does anyone, I wonder, in either direction? -- and when other fandoms *did* grab my pleasure centers with well-written fic, I went there.
I don't have many comics-based het 'ships -- though two of them, Roy/Grace and (sort-of het) Indigo/Shift, are enshrined in my icon there. Recently, Te has turned me into a CSA!verse Tim/Steph 'shipper. (In addition to my 6794 other DCU OTPs.) Maybe we should be trying to unravel her cunning plan -- or Judd Winick's in giving us canonical pairings that can interest slashers...
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Date: 2005-08-13 05:42 pm (UTC)Amusingly enough, I might have become an obverse example for
Just in time for the last few episodes of season five.
So I came for the canonical lesbians, but I stayed -- and I even stayed past the end of BtVS into the final season of AtS, despite an intense disinterest in Angel himself, Cordy, Wesley, Harmony and most of the other regular cast -- for the Spuffy. It was a disorienting experience for me, because I'd been a slash fan since the mid-90s when I discovered slash online, and though I'd been a fan in the more general sense (a Trekkie initially and still, with a great many other media layered on afterwards after TOS ended) for years before then, I'd never been all about one or another 'ship in any of the other shows, films or books that made my fannish heart go pitter-pat. But I really was tuning in every week much more for the Spike/Buffy relationship than for any of the other characters, though I was fond of many of them for other reasons.
I did actually look for Spuffy fanfiction online, and found and read some, but... it failed to move me. None of it seemed to quite hit the button that what I was seeing on-screen did.
So I never went through the full transformation-of-fannishness-orientation -- does anyone, I wonder, in either direction? -- and when other fandoms *did* grab my pleasure centers with well-written fic, I went there.
I don't have many comics-based het 'ships -- though two of them, Roy/Grace and (sort-of het) Indigo/Shift, are enshrined in my icon there. Recently, Te has turned me into a CSA!verse Tim/Steph 'shipper. (In addition to my 6794 other DCU OTPs.) Maybe we should be trying to unravel her cunning plan -- or Judd Winick's in giving us canonical pairings that can interest slashers...