That said, with one exception (Estepheia's Cues and Balls), every single Spander fic I've ever read has Spike with some guy named Xander who is kinda like the Xander on BtVS, but way cooler and a LOT less judgmental. (to repeat my mantra: the xander in spander ain't xander.)
Now this is something else again I'd like to post about, or meta about, or at least rant about inarticulately but with passion. There's canon based fic, and then there's AU, and then there's crack, right--and this, this Xander shaped person, is he crack? Because he isn't in character?
Have you read Sue's Sunday Morning Coming Down? It's S/X, but Spike and Xander are IN CHARACTER. But...not. Because they would never sleep together. The fic confuses me because I don't know where to place it on the continuum of in character, not in character, crack and au and canon.
And ITA on the wholesale elimination of certain characters from fics as character bashing by elimination. And you know what? those fics usually read like crap, so I don't finish them.....
I've read some that were okay, but that's when I want a fix on a character or a pairing. Sometimes when I need to read B/A, just about anything will do...
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Now this is something else again I'd like to post about, or meta about, or at least rant about inarticulately but with passion. There's canon based fic, and then there's AU, and then there's crack, right--and this, this Xander shaped person, is he crack? Because he isn't in character?
Have you read Sue's Sunday Morning Coming Down? It's S/X, but Spike and Xander are IN CHARACTER. But...not. Because they would never sleep together. The fic confuses me because I don't know where to place it on the continuum of in character, not in character, crack and au and canon.
And ITA on the wholesale elimination of certain characters from fics as character bashing by elimination. And you know what? those fics usually read like crap, so I don't finish them.....
I've read some that were okay, but that's when I want a fix on a character or a pairing. Sometimes when I need to read B/A, just about anything will do...