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[doyle]

I'm writing the Angel/Nina essay for ship_manifesto (squee!) and I'm desperately in need of fic for them. Anybody written or seen any? It doesn't have to be the focus of the fic.

So far I've got A Day in the Life of Puppet Angel and a drabble from Buffyverse1000 which I've happily read approx. 10,000 times. anniesj, I know you wrote one for me at tigannie_con but I can't remember which thread and whether it was locked...

*plots meta stuff about Angel/Nina as Giles/Olivia and the potential for darkfic and why the not-even-close-to-soulmates-or-true-love relationships are so damn appealing*

Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

So do you think that a person who believes in soulmates is a naive, silly little schoolgirl who doesn't understand what a true relationship entails?


:blink: Um... no. Not at all. For one thing, I wouldn't assume anything about someone's real life based on fandom like or dislikes. I probably made my point badly: I think using the word 'soulmates' is too often a lazy device employed by TV writers in lieu of actually *showing* why their main pairing's meant to be - Smallville did it in the episode Skinwalker with that girl whose name I can't remember. Hey, much easier to make her a threat to the Clana that way than expending effort in making her a 3D character and building a real relationship with Clark.

To me the Sydney/Vaughn relationship feels forced because I don't like Vaughn and I don't see the chemistry. To me it's more interesting when I'm not hammered over the head with 'these characters are together because they're fated to be', because it's rarer. YMMV.

[southernbangel.livejournal.com]

I *knew* I was coming across as majorly bitchy!! Damnit!!

I am really sorry about the tone of my previous comment. I never intended to come across as being such a raving bitch. I was genuinely interested in your comment that I responded to; reading it made me start thinking about the other ljs I've read recently where there was discussion of soulmates. In a lot of those comments, there were definite overtones of "stupid little girl believing in soulmates." I totally did not mean to imply that you are one of those, and I am so, so sorry that I did. Your comment had me wondering if those other people's opinions were, I guess, a general consensus toward "soulmate" people. I understand that you were talking more in the fanfic/TV/movie sense; the others.... not so much.
And I think I'm only digging my hole deeper. *sigh*

doyle_sb4, I'm really very sorry for the bitchiness of my previous comment. I never meant to attack you or anything like that, especially to come across this way in *your* LJ.


::offers hand in a very non-bitchy, "I'm sorry" handshake::

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*g* Hey, no problem. It got me thinking, and that's always a good thing. Sorry if I came off bitchy too, I just get frustrated at myself if I feel I'm not expressing things in such a way that people outside my head can understand them.