More random fic observations cause I have to share:
- Songfics! I haven't seen those in forever, but I'm coming across them by the bucketfuls now. Please tell me, am I the only person who skips over the song and just reads the story?
- You know, I've gotten to the point where I don't mind biting in fics. You know, the erotic type of biting. As long as it's on the neck. When I see fics with breast-biting during sex, I get squicked beyond belief and have to spend a few minutes protectively covering my chest.
- I like Drusilla. She's very rarely done well in fics, but I love it when she is.
- Ditto for Anya. For some reason, people have trouble writing from her POV. I rarely come across a fic that has a good Anya voice. Weird, cause I actually think she's one of the easier characters to write for.
- It's a little confusing, because when browsing fics, X/A will almost always mean Xander/Angel, not Xander/Anya. Yep.
- When writing slash, pronouns are a bitch. I had the same difficulty when writing femslash. Dammit, it's forcing me to not be lazy! *grumble*
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I think that's where constructing a character's psychology comes into play. Because even when a person is completely upfront, there's still something going on under the surface. People aren't always consciously aware of what they're doing, you know? And sometimes it takes time for a person to even process and recognize how they're feeling. So there's a degree of self-awareness at play and also Anya's difficulty in even recognizing human emotions in the context of her experience.
(Heh. This is my only Anya icon. Which feels weird to use because I'm very not frustrated. :P)