New BtVS vid: Partition

[frayadjacent]

Title: Partition
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Vidder: fray-adjacent
Artist: Beyoncé
Characters: Buffy, Angel, Riley, Spike
Relationships: Buffy/slaying, Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Riley, Buffy/Spike
Content Notes: show-typical violence. Sexualization of violence. Fast cuts, one white flash at 0:41. Some anti-Buffy/Angel and anti-Buffy/Riley content.  Feel free to contact me with questions about content.
Thank you to goodbyebird for some much needed cheerleading on an early version of this.

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Comments

[laurashapiro]

This is great! I particularly loved the transition from Angel drinking Buffy to Buffy as a bride bursting into flames. Way to sell everything wrong with THAT ship. (:

(brief pause to hate Angel)

The Spike verse is fascinating. Is that a POV shift? Or did you just take a few beats to note Spike is trying to be the kind of girl Buffy likes? Either way: loving it.

[frayadjacent]

Thank you!

(Pauses to hate Angel with you)

I definitely wanted to convey that Spike was being the kind of girl Buffy likes -- I thought of it as a POV shift but it's a messy one, since the POV shifts back to Buffy by the end of the vid. (I actually thought about including clips of Spike, e.g., dressing in khaki trousers and sharing jokes with Joyce as part of trying to be the kind of girl Buffy liked, but it didn't work with the tone of the vid.)

I thought of Only a Lad a few times while making this vid. Partly because I think of this vid anytime I find myself having Spike Apologism (which is not often).

[laurashapiro]

I think you made the right call there, in terms of tone.

Thanks for saying that about Only a Lad! It's one of my least popular vids so it's great to know that you still think about it.

[frayadjacent]

I suppose I can see why Only a Lad is less popular than some of your other vids, but also that's a shame because it's great.

[laurashapiro]

<3