*watches speech run around in circles, biting its own tail*
*eventually finds ability to reach down and grab speech before it devours itself and she's reduced to grunts and hand flapping for communication*
I... Oh... *flaps hands*
Joyce in a sexual context is one of those things that makes shake my head because I could never write her as a person. She's always been "Buffy's Mom" and in order to see her as sexual, she has to be her own person, you know? I mean, even in "Band Candy", Joyce was "Buffy's Mom on Drugs."
But this... is beautiful. Hauntingly wonderful. I'm especially in love with lines like "Mysterious things lurk in nine o'clocks, like prime time television and phone calls that aren't really about homework and vampires and witches" and "How long? Nine months, Joyce would say. It takes nine months and a single hour to stop being young forever." The flow (have you noticed I'm a big fan of flow? *grin*) and imagery are enchanting.
I'm pretty sure that, when rewatching BtVS, I still won't be able to shake the "Buffy's Mom" label I have for Joyce but you've managed to make me do it for this story. It's a disturbing sensation, but not a bad one.
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*is speechless*
*watches speech run around in circles, biting its own tail*
*eventually finds ability to reach down and grab speech before it devours itself and she's reduced to grunts and hand flapping for communication*
I... Oh... *flaps hands*
Joyce in a sexual context is one of those things that makes shake my head because I could never write her as a person. She's always been "Buffy's Mom" and in order to see her as sexual, she has to be her own person, you know? I mean, even in "Band Candy", Joyce was "Buffy's Mom on Drugs."
But this... is beautiful. Hauntingly wonderful. I'm especially in love with lines like "Mysterious things lurk in nine o'clocks, like prime time television and phone calls that aren't really about homework and vampires and witches" and "How long? Nine months, Joyce would say. It takes nine months and a single hour to stop being young forever." The flow (have you noticed I'm a big fan of flow? *grin*) and imagery are enchanting.
I'm pretty sure that, when rewatching BtVS, I still won't be able to shake the "Buffy's Mom" label I have for Joyce but you've managed to make me do it for this story. It's a disturbing sensation, but not a bad one.