Happy 10th Annaversary Buffy!

We used to have these Buffy nights - every body would come over to our house, and the living room would fill with warmth and light.  And good smells, because we'd make piles of munchy food.  We'd laugh, point, rant, rave, and giggle, quite a bit.  That was Buffy.  Weird how we almost didn't end up watching the show, but our friend Miles swore up and down that we'd love it - and so we did.  I think we came in about halfway through the first season, and we were hooked after an ep. 

Then Neil went and got me Reading the Vampire Slayer, a compilation of critical essays about Buffy.  And there was an article in there about femslash, and I began to wonder about fanfic.  Well, wonder, and then search it out.

Boy did I find it.  And tons of other people utterly enchanted with the world.  Heck, tons of other people, period.  That's definitely been part of the fun.  As for the series, even though I will whine and moan and complain about who fell in love with who, or who wrote what, or that there aren't enough pictures of Giles on the internet, rewatching the show has been transformed for me by fandom.  Now I'm enchanted by all the sneaky looks Xander and Oz share.  Now I'm giggling at the look Buffy has in her eyes when she tells Tara's family off, now I'm outright laughing at the lines they give Spike and Giles when they're in the same room together.

That's due to a fandom that still tries to explore cannon that's closed with new eyes.  That's also due to the sheer fun energy the people who made Buffy actually put into it.  And it makes me happy to not only watch it unfold, but know that in some tiny way, I've been a part of it all.  My first TV fandom love, and likely my only.

So in honor of this, I give you some recs made over at buffyversetop5  for their "fic classic" posting in October, that I forgot to post to my lj.  Happy Anniversary Buffy!

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