just in case you haven't bawled today...

[freelancerrh]

Stumbled across this video today:

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by Eminemgirl814

At some point in time, I am going to get over these two and the way they kill my soul. Right? Right?!?

Not today, obviously.

Comments

[leobrat]

Um, yeah, #cryingforever.

I have to say, I am very impressed by the dedication you continue to have to this couple, years later. I really think it's wonderful.

[freelancerrh]

I don't know that it's "dedication." There are some people I know, who they are still #1 Fandom, OTP to the end of all time, still write exclusively about them, etc.

For me, it's more a matter of I discovered them late. Still several years ago, but I didn't have WB when Buffy & Angel originally aired, so I mainlined them about four or five years ago, and while I loved BtVS for the dialogue and the messages and the all-around awesome, I maintained a total disconnect from all the 'ships until "City Of..." when Angel handed Cordelia a box, and I SHIPPED THEM SO HARD from then until the end, and I am bitter, bitter, cannot let it go.

But yeah, I tried to write them, and it didn't take, so now mostly, every few months I remember that I need them in my life, and I need it to end differently, and then I watch sad videos and read amazing fanfic, until the ache subsides for a bit.

[leobrat]

That's true. I guess we've just talked about them quite a bit.

I've tried to write them too, and well...I don't know, it didn't work for me either. I kind of somehow get very intimidated to write pairings that already have quite a bit of fic, I guess I'm afraid of being seen doing an idea that's already been done.

[freelancerrh]

Probably because I'm always happy to have flisters who actually ship them. :D

For me, it's not plot that is the hangup, or even the amount of fic out there. I am just terrified of trying my hand at shows with completely distinctive dialogue. Which is irritating, because that's also what tends to draw me into a show: BtVS/Angel, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, everything Sorkin--I love them SO MUCH, but every time I sit down to write them (and I've thought up some wonderful, epic plots; at least they seem that way in my head, lol), I find myself either paralyzed to the point I cannot write, or end up destroying everything I do write, because the dialogue doesn't work.

[roh_wyn]

Totally off-topic, but I finished reading The Hunger Games, and I'm desperate to discuss the books. I know you're a fan, so let me know if you want to squee/throw down about them. :)

[freelancerrh]

Feel free to talk my ear (fingers?) off, though I should prepare you, as I am now reading these books for the fifth time, and am ready to admit to a full-fledged Obsession, negative opinions will be met with deeply defensive arguments, and this emoticon: :P

[roh_wyn]

I'm just excited to have a shiny, new (for me) fandom!

Random thoughts follow:

Things I liked1. Pacing: I can't remember the last book I read where the story just flew by. I think the unadorned writing and the focus on plot without too much exposition or description really helped, as did the first-person POV (but more on that in a bit

[freelancerrh]

1. I agree so much. I normally don't care at all for first person, and then present tense, yeah, NO. But I really feel, for this story, it's the only way it could be told