When you kiss me, I want to die Oh, I *love* that, even if it doesn't quite make any sense. It's all garbled and desperate and Buffy to my ears. And, as you say, it does underscore the love-sex-biting-death dynamic that colors their entire relationship.
repetitions of "his girl" I love that, too. Oops? It just strikes me as something that Angel would be likely to think - he'd probably dislike himself for liking it so much, and it's just terribly lame and dorky but also possessive? Eh. Sums up Angel for me in many lights.
having Buffy remember the swallowed day makes no sense I know what you mean, but I'm a tad bristly, only because in one fic I worked *very* hard to set up both why she *would* be able to remember and how she'd feel about it.
I don't like how submissive Buffy is in a lot of B/A fics *pumps fist* SING IT! Okay, setting aside the fact that a case can certainly be made for top in the streets/sub in the sheets - I hate the *automatic* relegation of Buffy to this state. This is related to how much I hate the prevailing assumption that she's a "prude", when even in s1 and s2, she was initiating kisses and sex with Angel. I don't see her being a natural submissive, and I further don't see Angel being into her submission - this is a guy who *loves* to watch her kick ass. I think mostly my problem with this dynamic in fic is that it feels alien to the relationship that B/A had onscreen and to their separate characters - in fact, it kind of feels, frequently, like importing assumptions about "good" het relationships and making B/A fit into it.
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Oh, I *love* that, even if it doesn't quite make any sense. It's all garbled and desperate and Buffy to my ears. And, as you say, it does underscore the love-sex-biting-death dynamic that colors their entire relationship.
repetitions of "his girl"
I love that, too. Oops? It just strikes me as something that Angel would be likely to think - he'd probably dislike himself for liking it so much, and it's just terribly lame and dorky but also possessive? Eh. Sums up Angel for me in many lights.
having Buffy remember the swallowed day makes no sense
I know what you mean, but I'm a tad bristly, only because in one fic I worked *very* hard to set up both why she *would* be able to remember and how she'd feel about it.
I don't like how submissive Buffy is in a lot of B/A fics
*pumps fist* SING IT!
Okay, setting aside the fact that a case can certainly be made for top in the streets/sub in the sheets - I hate the *automatic* relegation of Buffy to this state. This is related to how much I hate the prevailing assumption that she's a "prude", when even in s1 and s2, she was initiating kisses and sex with Angel. I don't see her being a natural submissive, and I further don't see Angel being into her submission - this is a guy who *loves* to watch her kick ass. I think mostly my problem with this dynamic in fic is that it feels alien to the relationship that B/A had onscreen and to their separate characters - in fact, it kind of feels, frequently, like importing assumptions about "good" het relationships and making B/A fit into it.
Also, toppy!Buffy is just hot. *points to icon*