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Take the fall.
A while back, in the early stages of planning out my current Buffy WIP, I was talking through its plot points with someone and commented, "It'd be terrible to have Spike as a parent."
"Because he's so much cooler than you'll ever be," they said.
"No, because he killed people," I told them.
A while later, not so long ago, I was chatting with someone else and came across a few pictures of Anthony Stewart Head in a stage role that were also the clearest pictures I'd ever seen of his right hand, and idly wondered if there was ever a fic where Giles' right hand looked the same way Head's does in real life.
"Some consequence of his years of dark magic, perhaps," they said.
"Not as consequence of anything. Just a thing," I said.
Thinking back on these two exchanges, I realize that it's very good to be able to point to specific incidents that help me understand how fundamentally different my approach is to the same material that we've all watched.
(Also, if there is such a fic, I'd be delighted to know it exists.)
"Because he's so much cooler than you'll ever be," they said.
"No, because he killed people," I told them.
A while later, not so long ago, I was chatting with someone else and came across a few pictures of Anthony Stewart Head in a stage role that were also the clearest pictures I'd ever seen of his right hand, and idly wondered if there was ever a fic where Giles' right hand looked the same way Head's does in real life.
"Some consequence of his years of dark magic, perhaps," they said.
"Not as consequence of anything. Just a thing," I said.
Thinking back on these two exchanges, I realize that it's very good to be able to point to specific incidents that help me understand how fundamentally different my approach is to the same material that we've all watched.
(Also, if there is such a fic, I'd be delighted to know it exists.)