[ SECRET POST #2219 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2219 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Oofuri]


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03.
[Adventure Time]


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04.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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05.
[Gangnam Style/PSY]


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06.
[Arthur Conan Doyle]


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07.
[Sherlock]


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08.
[Richard Armitage]


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09.
[Bioshock 1&2, Heavy Rain, Silent Hill 1&3, Alias, Taken 1&2, Once Upon A Time]


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10.
[Lizzie Bennet Diaries]


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[Steam Powered Giraffe]


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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]


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[Ghost World/Safety Not Guaranteed]


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[Patalliro]


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[Bones]


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16.
[Hetalia]


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[Dynasty Warriors]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 060 secrets from Secret Submission Post #317.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - personal attack ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

12. http://i.imgur.com/kUpIMS7.jpg?2?8642
[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]

[(Anonymous)]

IA

[(Anonymous)]

Because people ship it for the daddy kink.

/thread

[(Anonymous)]

I ship it, but definitely not for the daddy kink (which I find squicky).

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. Not ime.

[dancing_clown]

Uh not to burst your bubble or anything but he probably wants in your pants.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, go fuck yourself. Do you know the OP? No? Then shut your mouth.

[visp]

Ew. Don't be a douche, MurderClown.

[(Anonymous)]

Truthfully I thought the exact same thing.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess I can kinda understand shipping them; they love each other, they're devoted to each other, he's one of the most consistent figures in her life. Adult/minor is never gonna work for me, but I can see how it might work for some people once she's older. (I read a fic where she was stuck in that demon dimension, from that time when she ran away and ended up helping Lily or whatever, for something like 15 years. I shipped it like BURNING then)

Having said all that, I definitely see them as more father/daughter myself. Lord knows Buffy needs a decent father figure.

[philstar22]

I agree. I don't get this ship. I don't care what people ship, but I don't understand it. Part of it for me is that Giles is a lot like my dad, and some of the fandom fantasies I made up in my head involved me either being Giles' child or being adopted by him. So I can't see him in a romantic sense at all (though Giles/Jenny was adorable, though I refuse to find out if smut exists for it).

Edit: The only thing that bugs me about the ship is the idea that he can't possibly see her as a daughter because a parent would never ever be willing to let their child go into dangerous situations. I read that in an essay someone wrote about why they shipped once, and it really bugged me.

[silverr]

"he can't possibly see her as a daughter because a parent would never ever be willing to let their child go into dangerous situations."

Yeah, I don't buy that logic either. iirc Quentin Travers called Giles out on having "a father's love" for Buffy (in "Helpless," I think? the cruciamentum ep), and Giles' own conflict in OMwF was that he knew that his protectiveness was holding her back. ~ Part of being a parent is sometimes girrting your teeth and letting your kids do dangerous stuff, because how else will they ever develop independence and self-confidence?

(Also, I just can't see it because I ship Buffy and Spike.)

[(Anonymous)]

That argument about a parent's role is especially strange considering Buffy's relationship with her own mother. I mean, her mother found out about her being a slayer, and although she didn't like it, she didn't really try to stop her, did she?

Because there's that thing about Buffy... she's the slayer. She didn't get a choice, but they've shown on a couple of occasions that she can't just stop. It's not like sending a helpless girl into a fight, she has the tools to do the job (super strength, senses, reflexes, etc). Of course, Buffy's mom and Giles both would probably prefer she didn't have to do it because of their personal relationship with her, but both of them accept her as the slayer and "let" her go into dangerous situations. (Also, lol, like anyone could stop Buffy from doing what she wanted. "Let" indeed.)

Honestly, I don't see it any differently from the millions of real-life parents whose children serve in the military, or the police force, or become firefighters, or join the Peace Corps... loving your child and being concerned for their safety doesn't prevent them from recognizing that their child is doing something important to help others, and have been trained and equipped to do it as safely as possible. Most of them are probably proud of the field their kid has chosen.

[making_excuses]

And why do I continue to say this: People ship what they want, and it is not up to you to judge... Because as far as I know no one force you to ship anything?

Anyway I never shipped Giles with Buffy - Buffy/Spike all the way! I shipped Giles/Anya and Giles/Willow if I remember correctly, in the sense that I didn't care if they where a side pairing in the fanfics I read...

I have no way of knowing what kind of ships where/are popular in Buffy fandom, because I only read fics (Buffy/Spike ones at that, nothing else) and I found those on Buffy fanfiction sites

[kallanda_lee]

I never shipped them, but you know the funny thing? When I originally watched Buffy I just thought of Giles as a sweet mentor - now that I'm older, I think he's sort of hot.

[(Anonymous)]

because anthony head is one sexy bastard?

[intrigueing]

Giles/Buffy has always been one of those few pairings that are "instant squick, instant backbutton" for me. I can enjoy porn of some characters who give me a father/daughter vibe in a "dirty bad wrong" way, but them? No. Just....no. No matter how creative and well-written it is.

[kaijinscendre]

Like being related to someone has ever stopped shippers. >.>

[(Anonymous)]

All the fun of an incest pairing without the squick of them being relaited?

That's my theory. I don't ship it myself, but I love how he becomes a father figure to her.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I'm inclined to even say they weren't that... father-daughter by the end.

That aside, I do agree it's squicky because even when they were less father-daughterish, to use Buffy Speak, they at least seemed to have a platonic love for one another. What's wrong with that? Why does everything have to be sexual?

[(Anonymous)]

...Okay? I don't really see why you made this a secret. Most people in Buffy fandom don't ship this. Now if you were hating on Buffy/Angel or Buffy/Spike...

[(Anonymous)]

She's like 800 years old. So she's the one robbing the craddle here.

[lunabee34]

I can ship it. I don't like to ship adult/minor stuff, so I'm not interested in sophomore!Buffy/Giles any more than I am fourth-year!Harry/Snape, but I there's some good fic where Buffy is older.

I think that there's definitely a mentor/father vibe to their relationship when she's a teen, but I can see that morphing into something deeper. I also think that Buffy would naturally turn to someone who knows everything about her and who's been through everything with her. I have a hard time imagining Buffy having a successful relationship with someone who hasn't been on the front lines.

That being said, Buffy ships nicely with lots of people as does Giles.

Be careful, though, OP

[(Anonymous)]

I say this as a person who has an art degree and has been through several older, male art instructors and professors who I thought of as friends and who later turned out to also want to sleep with me.

It did me a lot of damage -- one of them, in particular, did me a lot of damage. And the hell of it was, another girl tried to tell me about a really skeevy thing he'd done to her, and I couldn't listen, at the time. I needed him to be the guy I thought he was.

I really, really hope it will turn out very differently for you. I like men and I don't think every guy who teaches art is a skeevebag, but I went through ... four of them, if you count the one I'm currently studying with who started out fine and now makes passes at me. I've never been close enough to this one to be hurt by it, but it's incredibly annoying. I had thought, hey, I'm 40 now, this shit won't happen anymore, but I was wrong.

Again, I truly hope you'll have way better luck than I did, but just FYI, if you ever start to wonder if something is wrong there or get uncomfortable, listen to yourself, okay? I wish I had.

[reijamira]

I don't ship them either, actually I haven't even thought about the possibility of shipping them. It's fine for me if other people love to ship them, but I wouldn't want to read fics about them, simply because I don't find Giles appealing enough to want to read him having sex with someone.