Spike Shipper Poll - for the Spike Shippers Online

[shadowkat]

This is a Spike Shipper centric Poll. So if you consider yourself a shipper of Spike, the vampire, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series, along with the comics, please take the poll. I'm trying to get a feel for the Spike shippers in fandom. Granted, there's a sampling error of 10% or higher, since not everyone will take this poll.

I'm curious to see how people who love the character of Spike, ship the character and view him. Do you read fanfic? Do you write it? What fanfic do you read and/or write? Do you see him as a glorious evil badass or the romantic poet? Soulful or Soulless (albeit I didn't put Soulless - I put Ambiguous). What are your views? I know mine. I want to know yours.
Hopefully more than one person will comment. Be awfully embarrassing if no one does.
Polls are tricky that way. They are only interesting if people take them.


[Poll #1836840]

Comments

[kikimay]

I SHIP SPWALL! XD I ship everything/one + Spike! XDDD

I saw the Spawn fanfic. The fact is that, basically, I'm not curious to read about them. But I loved their interection in S5 and S6.
In these days, I'm feeling so Spuffy! >O

[elisi]

Spwall is totally canon. *nods*

And the Spike/Dawn fic is probably the most disturbing thing I've ever written. So very wrong in every way, but beautiful too - far more 'wrong' than Spike/Buffy ever were, but more loving too. (I'm broken. It's OK, I've learned to live with it. *g*)

Actually, the guiding light (as it were) behind that fic is this quote which sums things up pretty neatly:

"He's a monster, but if he likes you, he'd be your monster, and he would protect you above all things. But he is a monster. I don't think women mind if he's a monster as long as he's their monster. Take note guys", he grins, "You can get away with anything as long as it's all for her!" - James Marsters

[kikimay]

Can't see the image!

I understand the wrongness/tenderness of Dawn/Spike. In some ways, I think that they're really similar, always needing of love. Spike and Buffy, instead, are very different in their ways of feeling emotions. Love the fact that they complete each other. *w* (It's all Buffy comics' fault, really. I was quiet and then, they start to pinch mu Spuffy-soul! è_é)

[elisi]

This better?

And the fic is set in an AU where Buffy stayed dead, and essentially Spike & Dawn find solace in each other's arms... except Dawn is a grieving teenager and not a good moral compass and... yeah. So wrong. (I'm VERY proud of it. *g*)

It's all Buffy comics' fault, really. I was quiet and then, they start to pinch mu Spuffy-soul! è_é
You might just have justified the comics' existance. /o\

[kikimay]

This better?
OH GOD! *ç* Seriously, THIS. MAN. I wanna do bad things with him, so much!

I'm gonna read your fic, now I'm curious. I'm also translating a lot, I'm fandom-addicted. The comics only reason to exist is bring the Spuffy back forevAH.

[elisi]

OH GOD! *ç*
IKR? I could look at that ALL DAY...

I'm gonna read your fic, now I'm curious.
Heh. I'm good at selling myself? *g* It was also my first foray into the land of smut, and I swear I have never been more nervous about posting anything. There's a reason it's flocked.

I'm also translating a lot, I'm fandom-addicted.
Aren't we all?

The comics only reason to exist is bring the Spuffy back forevAH.
Alas, I fear this icon (made by the fabulous rahirah) is only far too true:



But let's hope I'm wrong.

[promethia_tenk]

And the fic is set in an AU where Buffy stayed dead, and essentially Spike & Dawn find solace in each other's arms... except Dawn is a grieving teenager and not a good moral compass and... yeah. So wrong. (I'm VERY proud of it. *g*)
Foul temptress, why do you say these things when I'm . . . lurking where you have no real reason to expect me to be.

This day ends in me reading, doesn't it? *glares*

[elisi]

*snickers*

(And I wouldn't say that I'd no real reason to expect you to be here... I know you talk me! *g*)

[promethia_tenk]

[elisi]

ETA: Um. Comment above should have been 'stalk'. Am going to sit over here, banging my head on the desk.

[promethia_tenk]

Lol, I know you like convincing people to do things, but that did seem . . . a bit more overconfident than usual.

[elisi]

Not my day...

[promethia_tenk]

I'm discussing Buffy against my better judgment, you make a typo, I make fun of you, and we've managed to hijack somebody else's journal with our blather . . .

No, seems pretty par for the course to me.

[elisi]

Heh. That's true. I was speaking more generally, truth be told, as I'm completely knackered. /o\

Although - to try to steer the conversation back to the topic of the post - I ship Spike/Buffy/Angel, something I've forgotten to mention and which might be relevant. As a matter of fact I believe Spike is the person who makes the threesome work - without him, it falls apart. *points to various fic written on the subject*

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

LMAO! That vid with the penguins is truly funny. Love it.

[promethia_tenk]

I've never actually seen whatever it came from, but it does come in handy =D

[promethia_tenk]

I'm Promethia, by the way. I've seen you around, but don't know if I ever said hi : )

Sorry for the . . . that *points up*

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

No worries. Sort of entertaining actually.

As long as it doesn't become a flame war or a kerfuffle or insulting of me or my interests in any way - have fun!! ;-)