I have had a Spuffy revelation! Kind of.
Sep. 17th, 2010 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blackfrancineWoot! The boyfriend is out of town for the weekend, so guess what that means… It means I get to be totally hedonistic—and do whatever I want and no one will distract me with their questions, like “Hey, are you hungry, should we go get lunch?” or “Have you seen this awesome clip of a corgi jumping into a lake in slow mo?” Just me and AtS and other fannish Internetting things for a whole 2 days. Well, that and I’m gonna have to paint the base boards in the living room—-BUT! I can put Angel on while I paint. I am a deluxe multi-tasker!
But first, before I throw myself headlong into my weekend of hedonism and isolation, I have to share with you the Spuffy revelation that was just… uh… revealed to me. I was reading some older entries in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
molly_may ’s journal today while I was at work (and should have been working--not so much a multi-tasker at the office). And a few months ago she posted this most excellent poll with bonus picspams!
Look at this picspam of the Buffy/Spike face-touching.
IT IS LIKE THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP RIGHT THERE, Y’ALL. I saw this, and it was like my heart was swelling up and I was filled with all the joy the world can hold. OK that might be overstating it a little. But I was very excited.
See. Chronologically, the face-touching tells a story!
Superstar: It’s filled with both venom and sex. They’re still enemies but the SEXINESS is almost too much! The touch is taunting and harassing, but there’s a seed of UST that is definitely THERE. Their eyes meet.
Crush: The venom is gone. The touch is now genuine. But it’s clasping and desperate—it’s too much. It’s forcing and not accepting of looking away. Again, eyes meet.
OMWF: The touch is SO genuine and gentle and nurturing. He’s almost not even touching her—but he is. He’s comforting—but at the same time releasing her, not holding her to himself (as he will later on in season 6). Their eyes meet.
Lessons: Again, the touch is unbelievably delicate, almost as if he is just touching her to see if she’s really there. At the moment of the touch, their eyes don’t meet. The gentleness, the touch, and the eye contact is perhaps too much all of a sudden like that.
Touched: He never even actually touches her. He reaches, then hesitates. She looks away. Neither of them feel worthy of the other. Or able to expose themselves and ask for contact.
Chosen: SHE touches. It is gentle and loving but the contact is complete—unlike some of Spike’s feather-light touches.
The succinct overview:
He touches mean/sexy spiritedly; He touches desperately; He touches nurturingly; He touches almost fearfully; He tries to touch, but hesitates; THEN dun dun DUN. She touches for the first time. And it is full, and gentle and with the deep, loving eye contact.
For the love of God. What is wrong with the people who don’t think Buffy loves him. It says it right there in the face touching. She finally is able to reach out and make contact in a gentle and complete way. She’s able to see him and feel him and understand him and love him completely. HER LOVE LIKE HER TOUCH IS IN COMPLETE CONTACT WITH HIM.
Gah. My heart just exploded and got Spuffy all over the living room! I’m gonna have to clean that up. This whole Spuffy epiphany (Spu-piphany?) is going to make it difficult to focus on my AtS business at hand. Now I want to rewatch all of this wonderfulness.
Also! Look at me go! That's 3 posts in not very many days. I am an Internetting ANIMAL!
But first, before I throw myself headlong into my weekend of hedonism and isolation, I have to share with you the Spuffy revelation that was just… uh… revealed to me. I was reading some older entries in
molly_may ’s journal today while I was at work (and should have been working--not so much a multi-tasker at the office). And a few months ago she posted this most excellent poll with bonus picspams!Look at this picspam of the Buffy/Spike face-touching.
IT IS LIKE THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP RIGHT THERE, Y’ALL. I saw this, and it was like my heart was swelling up and I was filled with all the joy the world can hold. OK that might be overstating it a little. But I was very excited.
See. Chronologically, the face-touching tells a story!
Superstar: It’s filled with both venom and sex. They’re still enemies but the SEXINESS is almost too much! The touch is taunting and harassing, but there’s a seed of UST that is definitely THERE. Their eyes meet.
Crush: The venom is gone. The touch is now genuine. But it’s clasping and desperate—it’s too much. It’s forcing and not accepting of looking away. Again, eyes meet.
OMWF: The touch is SO genuine and gentle and nurturing. He’s almost not even touching her—but he is. He’s comforting—but at the same time releasing her, not holding her to himself (as he will later on in season 6). Their eyes meet.
Lessons: Again, the touch is unbelievably delicate, almost as if he is just touching her to see if she’s really there. At the moment of the touch, their eyes don’t meet. The gentleness, the touch, and the eye contact is perhaps too much all of a sudden like that.
Touched: He never even actually touches her. He reaches, then hesitates. She looks away. Neither of them feel worthy of the other. Or able to expose themselves and ask for contact.
Chosen: SHE touches. It is gentle and loving but the contact is complete—unlike some of Spike’s feather-light touches.
The succinct overview:
He touches mean/sexy spiritedly; He touches desperately; He touches nurturingly; He touches almost fearfully; He tries to touch, but hesitates; THEN dun dun DUN. She touches for the first time. And it is full, and gentle and with the deep, loving eye contact.
For the love of God. What is wrong with the people who don’t think Buffy loves him. It says it right there in the face touching. She finally is able to reach out and make contact in a gentle and complete way. She’s able to see him and feel him and understand him and love him completely. HER LOVE LIKE HER TOUCH IS IN COMPLETE CONTACT WITH HIM.
Gah. My heart just exploded and got Spuffy all over the living room! I’m gonna have to clean that up. This whole Spuffy epiphany (Spu-piphany?) is going to make it difficult to focus on my AtS business at hand. Now I want to rewatch all of this wonderfulness.
Also! Look at me go! That's 3 posts in not very many days. I am an Internetting ANIMAL!
