First, lovely essay, and a relationship I find particularly intriguing, although not always used to it's best advantage by fic writers (your genius self excepted, as are the two fics you note in the body of your essay, Paving Stanes and Tea and Biscuits).
There is a point of view from which it is possible to see Spike and Giles as the only reasonable match for each other in the Sunnydale crew, not the least because they like their whiskey neat and room temperature. By education and experience they are men of the world, stuck in a social setting which is as provincial and xenophobic as any on earth. Who else do they really have to talk to?
The other thing I want to say, since I'm still LJ-less and you have no anon comments on your journal, is that I read These Old Shades until the pages fell off the spine, back when I was in my teens and twenties. You have great taste in embarassing fiction!
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Date: 2004-08-28 10:22 pm (UTC)First, lovely essay, and a relationship I find particularly intriguing, although not always used to it's best advantage by fic writers (your genius self excepted, as are the two fics you note in the body of your essay, Paving Stanes and Tea and Biscuits).
There is a point of view from which it is possible to see Spike and Giles as the only reasonable match for each other in the Sunnydale crew, not the least because they like their whiskey neat and room temperature. By education and experience they are men of the world, stuck in a social setting which is as provincial and xenophobic as any on earth. Who else do they really have to talk to?
The other thing I want to say, since I'm still LJ-less and you have no anon comments on your journal, is that I read These Old Shades until the pages fell off the spine, back when I was in my teens and twenties. You have great taste in embarassing fiction!