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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2006-03-19 02:45 pm

To hell with characterization!

It's all about how they look!

Either this stuff gets off my chest,

Angel does not have wide hips. I suspect that those of you who have said his hips are wide have said so because it is a "standard of beauty." This is a standard of feminine beauty, usually. (Unless you're Joss Whedon. Does Faith's, Inara's, and Gwen's lack of hippage make anyone else wince? The girl's are gorgeous, and hot, but . . . there's no grip!) Anyway, DB has the *narrowest* hips since the triangle was inverted.

Spike's cheekbones cannot cut anything. Spike's cheekbones have never appeared on midnight infomercials. They do not slice. They do not dice. You cannot get a free blowjob when you order them Stricken due to quick perusal of Ebay. Apparently, you can.

Xander never had washboard abs. And okay, even if he did in s4 (or was it 5?) when NB looked so good and they were doing his hair right, YOU COULD NOT WASH DISHES ON HIM. Spike doesn't even *wash* the damn dishes. Unless you're in a [livejournal.com profile] femmenerd fic in which she'd so work it.

Angel is pale. Paler than most people. If you call him tan, even in all-human crack AUs, OZ WILL HUNT YOU DOWN.

Let's all admit it right now. Spike is not only sexy, he is Teh Sex. But how many times do you have to say in a fic, Spike is made of sex, Spike is sex personified, Spike is sex made flesh? Even [livejournal.com profile] germaine_pet herself can only get away with an innocent little Spike's an intensely sexual creature here or there, but YOU probably shouldn't even try. Yes YOU. YOU WHO IS READING THIS RIGHT NOW. Including me because I just wrote that right now. (Who wants to know if [livejournal.com profile] germaine_pet just read that right now and had an out of body moment of existential crisis before regaining her sense of identity and floating back to earth on a cloud made of . . . of . . . SEX? I WANT TO KNOW, PERSONALLY. *boggles*)

I have difficulty with the idea of Angel having "thick" lips. Brangelina have enough lip to create a third lip country of their own where children unfortunate enough to have been born with poor lips get an extra third lip courtesy of Brangelina themselves. Gunn and Faith have a loveshack there, but ANGEL DOES NOT LIVE THERE. But Spike does when he does the lip thing. YOU KNOW THE LIP THING I'M TALKING ABOUT.

Speaking of which, Spike, TAKE OFF THOSE LIPS AND GIVE CUPID BACK HIS BOW, YOU DAMN THEIF, GEEZ.

Spike is not taller than Wesley.

For once I'd like Angel's hair to be to be prickley, slightly course, and sticky with gel, instead of silky. For once I'd like Spike's hair to be hard and caked and slightly uncomfortable to grab, instead of . . . silky. The next time I read about anyone sinking their hands into S2-6's Spike's hair KEN DOLLS WILL HUNT YOU DOWN.

Spike's eyes are not chips. Not of saphires and not of ice. They are not sour cream n' onion flavored, they are not BBQ, they are not salt and vinegar, and they do not pass go. And yes, I know he's from England, and you know what? SPIKE'S EYES STILL DON'T COME WITH FISH!

Buffy HAS and ass. God, I love it.

Xander's lips are not often cherry red. His eyes are quite chocolately, I'll give you that because I am generous and made of sweetness and light, but THERE IS NO CHERRY ON TOP OF THIS SUNDAE, SNOOKUMS. EAT IT AND LOVE IT.

I don't know about you guys, but cigarette smoke trumps both leather and the slight tang of whiskey, sorry, unless you have super vamp senses. WHICH XANDER DOESN'T!
eta: Though if it's S4, or your AU in which S & X are lovers, and assuming Xander let's Spike smoke in the basement/apartment/loveshack, Xander might very well have become acclimated. In which case, he could smell Spike's leather and whiskey smells. He could also smell Spike's demon goo, hair gel and come. And he could leisurely grab Spike by the front of his pants and jerk the vampire's hips against his. And he could take a whiff, in the sexy hyena!Xander fashion, then slowly lean in as if to nip Spike's ear. Instead he'd say--smooth, like white backs and red tongues and so much promise, "You smell like sex." Spike'd snort. "Made've sex, love. Sex personified. Sex made flesh. Or did you forget it and me've been declared synonymous, now?"

Dude! I just wrote S/X! *feels proud*

*

And now for something completely different. Or okay, tangentially related, but not really.

I want to do a Bad!fic Ficathon. Actually, I want to do a Reclaim Fandom From Its Percieved Takeover By What You Percieve As Bad!fic Ficathon. RFFIPTBWYPABF!F for short. It's not about writing bad!fic, though that would be fun. It's taking an idea that you personally think can only end in bad (start with bad! *snorfle* I'm so clever!) and making it good.

Because I actually don't believe there are bad ideas, only bad writers and bad execution. I want to see writers:
a. write something they've seen and sneered at, or thought couldn't be done well, but then DO IT and DO IT WELL,
b. write utter crack, UTTERLY CRACKTASTIC CRACK, and make it wonderful and beautiful and something everyone would love reading, and not through the powers of Xander's Magic Cock, but through powerful writing and plot and thought even if Angel IS wearing a toutou as Spike foresaw in "In The Dark," or
c. write some other thing that takes ideas and methods that you consider "bad" and uses them for good.

(On that last one: for instance, I'm dying to write this fic where Spike gets trapped in an AU where he's a princess and beefy Angel is beating him black and blue with omg, alliteration, where the Real Angel is forced to go save Spike. Of course, the Real Angel would only point and laugh and keep Spikella on picture-in-picture with a hockey game, and point and laugh some more while drinking otter blood in a leather chair. BUT OTTER BLOOD IS NOT THE POINT! I WOULD MAKE ANGEL SAVE THE PRINCESS AND I WOULD MAKE IT GOOD!)

So, um, anyone interested?

ETA: I should add, I don't enter ficathons. I can't. It's beyond me. But I would run one. How hypocritical and perverse is that?

[identity profile] stakebait.livejournal.com 2006-03-21 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Speaking as a smoker, I can smell other stuff above/below/next to cigarette smoke, especially liquor and leather, which are strong, but also perfume/soap/shampoo, some foods, rain, new-mown grass, etc. You'd pretty much have to be chainsmoking in a closed space for several hours to drown out everything else, but then I'm acclimated. Otherwise smoke mostly only masks... other smoke, or anything really similar.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-03-21 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I wasn't thinking about that. I'm rarely around cirgarette smoke so that when I am, it's all I can smell. But if Xander and Spike were say, living together, Xander would gradually become acclimated and notice that Spike has other scents besides cigarettes. Thanks for the heads up! I'm going to edit my post.

[identity profile] wildrosesings.livejournal.com 2006-03-21 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
This was fantastic. I would try to pick out one particular part, but they are all too true. Thanks for the laugh!
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-03-21 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. Glad you found it amusing.

[identity profile] i-palimpsest.livejournal.com 2006-03-21 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Spike may well have been tall in his day - People were shorter then. Course in that Case Angel was a freak of nature.

I'll give that Angels hair may be quite nice and gel free - AT THE BACK! But that's it.

And yeah - Neither are exactly owners of 'child bearing hips'
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-03-22 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Had forgotten about that old timey people being shorter deal!

Even without gel, my guess is that his hair is coarse. Anyway, VERY few people's hair actually feels "silky" to the touch. I'll bet Connor's does, but most of the other characters I'm going with no.

Neither are exactly owners of 'child bearing hips'

Which should be addressed in all m-preg. *coughs*

[identity profile] i-palimpsest.livejournal.com 2006-03-22 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Conner's proabbaly feels slightly dirty - and smells of weed.

Student that he is :)
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-03-22 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
That's how come you need to get him fresh out of the bath. You know, when his hair's all plastered to his skull and that one stubborn drop is slithering around his nape down to his awkwardly wing-like shoulder blades, where his skin is so clear you can see the red flush of the hot water just under the surface and that lazy steam is swirling around his ass and between his legs--

*dies of lust*

[identity profile] i-palimpsest.livejournal.com 2006-03-22 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Not that we would ever think of Jnr in that way :)

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[identity profile] earth-vexer.livejournal.com 2006-03-23 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
::wanders over from f-list::

And he could take a whiff, in the sexy hyena!Xander fashion, then slowly lean in as if to nip Spike's ear. Instead he'd say--smooth, like white backs and red tongues and so much promise, "You smell like sex." Spike'd snort. "Made've sex, love. Sex personified. Sex made flesh. Or did you forget it and me've been declared synonymous, now?"
OMG you're good. That's both funny and hot.

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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-03-23 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Bahahah! I'm glad you liked that! That's the slashiest I've ever gotten, actually, and it had to happen in silly post instead of a fic! That makes me sad! Exclamation point after every. Damn. Sentence!

And no, of course I don't mind.

[identity profile] earth-vexer.livejournal.com 2006-03-23 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. I'm not very slashy myself, but Spike is sex, so... *g*

[identity profile] amybnnyc.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear lord... I don't know how I found this so many days later, and I thought about just laughing and laughing and then not telling you how hard I was laughing because big weirdness to random journal visitation and squeeing, but it didn't seem fair not to tell you just how much this made me laugh. Or not to thank you, because I *really* needed that laugh after this week.

So thank you. And hi. *still giggling*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-03-25 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
TKP's PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. Laughing alone in front of your computer over a stranger's journal makes you a complete freak. Laughing alone in front of your computer over a stranger's journal and telling her about it makes two complete freaks. Possibly even a friend.

YES I HAVE BEEN SMOKING CHOCOLATE. And hi!

[identity profile] amybnnyc.livejournal.com 2006-03-25 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Yay! for smoking chocolate, and for being two complete freaks. Or dueling freaks. Or something. :)

Being a friend would be lovely--would you mind if I friended you? This post alone was enough to make it absolutely necessary for me (with your permission, of course), but we also have [livejournal.com profile] femmenerd in common, and have spoken here and there before. (Also, I promise not to regale you with tales of how I/Faith/Buffy/Spike/Angel/anyone was OMG healed! by weeping cock.)

*goes to find something smokeable*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-03-25 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
*breaks out the banjo*

Any friend of femme is a friend of . . . femme. But hee! Of COURSE I wouldn't mind, and am friending you back, though am SAD about the LACK of healing through the power of the MAGIC COCK. :o(

smoke cock! I . . . can't believe I said that.

[identity profile] amybnnyc.livejournal.com 2006-03-25 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Woot! for mutual friending. And alas, I have no magic cock--though I do have boobies *points to icon*. Also, Faith and Spike and a strap-on cock. Heh. It could be magic, or at least healing, mayhaps. :o)

smoke cock! I . . . can't believe I said that.
LOL... you did indeed say that. And it made me all giddy with the laughing again--there was snorting of sushi, which is a mite uncomfy.

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[identity profile] femmenerd.livejournal.com 2006-03-25 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
Any friend of femme is a friend of . . . femme.

You're so damn literal. *g*

Also, "BF." Bwahahahaha.

But since it isn't ALL ABOUT ME, I just have to say that I like seeing two people who are so awesome smoking cock being awesome together.

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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-03-25 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, you wrote "Carry On My Wayward Son"! I knew I knew you from somewhere Before Femme (BF. It's like Buffy/Faith only with Femme! *cough*), but I didn't remember until this instant.

Uh, that was random.

[identity profile] amybnnyc.livejournal.com 2006-03-25 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, that's me! And I fangirled all over "Blood Types," and have about a ton of your other stuff on the "things I really want to read" list that I keep swearing to get to 'this weekend'. I need more weekends.

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[identity profile] alleynyc.livejournal.com 2006-03-26 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
BadFic! I have one (co-written with Gia). It's C/A.

http://www.sweetvendetta.com/twinflames/lovelike.htm

We're very proud. Hope this fits the bill for you.

There's also Molly's Hungry. (Mollythedog, not Molly the B/A writer). It's very short but profoundly powerful. Particularly if you are a dog.

http://littlemolly.com/fanfic.html

It's bad but then again, she is a dog, right?
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[personal profile] tabaqui 2006-03-27 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
OMFGWTFROTFLMAOBBQ!!!!111883837!

*ahem*
Okay then.
*bounces away*
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-03-27 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Me too! OMG, ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[identity profile] zibbycomix.livejournal.com 2008-09-23 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I love your idea about a bad ficathon! I'd totally do it! =)

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