Blame it on My ADD, Baby

I'm doing a shipping meme! Stolen from gryfndor_godess.

(1) Think of up to 20 ships you support.
(2) List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
(3) Have your f-list guess as many of the ships as they can.


( in no particular order )

Okay. So. I just rewatched Potential (I could pretend to have a god reason but…), and I thought I’d share some brief, fangirling thoughts. Warning: there is nothing new or thought-provoking behind the cut.

( If it is Margot, she's totally going to faint.  )

 Meme stolen from ever_neutral . pick 13 of your favorite ships and write down a quote for each of them. Have your flist guess the ships without using google/imdb.

I had to reach to get 13 ships without repeating certain shows over and over. So there are some easy to guess fandoms, and some more random ones. And one that I included just to see if anyone else will actually cop to watching the show it's from :)

( Romantic or not, they've all been canon... )

 I meant to post all of the segments at once, but for some reason I failed at that. Here's the rest of Drowning, such as it is....

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This is old. Written in 2009, old. But I found it buried on my hard rive and decided to polish it up and post it. It takes place somewhere in an imaginary season 4 or 5. 
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 Let me start by saying that I have not read the comics. I probably will eventually, and I know the basics of what happens in Season 8, but I have yet to sit down and read them. 

I would also like to mention that this post is mostly for my own benefit. Sometimes I like to get my thoughts down in some sort of order and if it turns out that others are interested in what I have to say, that's just gravy!

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Xander/Dawn shippiness has been on my mind as of late. I've read some fic recently that has been set in the comics universe, and some that hasn't, but has featured X/D. Granted, all of the stories that have had this have been B/S-centric. But X/D (Dander? Xawn? Aledander? Is there a name for this ship? Anyone know?) have been prominent enough that I noticed.

The first I heard of this particular ship was in a Spuffy story that did not comply to the comics. My reaction was something along the lines of "Huh. That's an interesting take on things. A little weird, but author's prerogative and all that jazz." Then, very recently, I discovered that in the comic canon, Aledander definitely exists. So I gave it some thought. And then I gave it probably too much thought. And then I read some comic fics and gave it even more thought. Which brings me to this LJ post.

Anyway, I'm conflicted. Part of me thinks it has the potential to be very cute and adorable. I love their scenes on the show, especially in season 7, and they do have the bond of normalcy amidst the supernatural. Plus I'm kind of a sucker for romances that start out as an un-reciprocated crush, grow into friendship, and then progress to something more (now that I think about it, that might just be the Harry/Ginny shipper that still resides somewhere in the back of my brain). And I'm glad that Dawn gets to have a normal relationship. Between All the Way, and Him, her love life was shaping up to be just as much of a disaster as Buffy's. So that's the part of me that see's Xawn and goes "Awwww."

The other part of me is extremely squicked. That's the part that see's Dander and goes, "Ewwww." To be honest ew is currently winning out over aw most of the time. He's Buffy's friend, which makes it a little awkward, and he's significantly older than Dawn, which also makes it a little weird. But I don't really have a problem with those things. People date their friends siblings all the time with no problems, so that doesn't bother me much. And he's only 5 or 6 years older, a perfectly acceptable age difference and one that would seem smaller the older she gets. No, my problems with them as a couple lead back to my view of their canon relationship. 

When we are first introduced to Dawn, we see Xander babysitting her. Since she wasn't around for seasons 1-4, we don't know what their dynamic was like in the past, but I don't think it's such a stretch to assume that he's served as babysitter before. Sure she has feelings for him, but she's fourteen and her feelings are very much those of a fourteen year old with a crush. As the season continues, she seems to lose most of her interest in him and they develop more of a sibling relationship. Which makes sense. She's his best friends kid sister, it's only natural that he would view her as a sister, especially since he doesn't have any siblings of his own. Even after Joyce dies they continue to have a sibling relationship. 

But then Buffy dies, and the makeshift scooby family shifts somewhat. We don't get to see most of that, but it's made clear in season 6 that Willow and Tara have taken on some of the parental role with Dawn, and so has Spike to a certain extent. But I think it's fair to assume that all of the Scoobies take a greater responsibility towards Dawn. And she seems to be closer with Willow, Tara, Xander, and Anya than she was, throughout the entire season. 

But the biggest factor for me, when considering the ickiness of D/X is the summer between 6 and 7. During Lessons, we learn that Willow has gone with Giles to England and we are told that Anya hasn't been around much. It's Buffy, Xander and Dawn acting as the entire gang. The two adults are basically raising Dawn together. The rest of season 7 features Dawn and Xander acting more as friends, but I always saw Xander as more of a parental/brotherly figure for her. 

To sum up my anti-D/X stance I'll say this: He spends 7 years helping to take care of/ look out for her in a "I'm the grown-up, you're the child" way. So I'm kind of uncomfortable with the idea of him suddenly seeing her as a romantic possibility.



But I'm still conflicted. As disturbed as I am by the concept, I still have an urge to write Aledander fic. It's odd. And I actually did start something with them yesterday, but it was a Season 7 friendship piece. And I probably won't post it, at least not with some heavy revision. I wrote it really late at night, and it mostly involves Dawn brushing her teeth compulsively. It made sense at the time, and I still rather like the idea but it made almost no sense in the light of day. 

So I suppose I'll close by saying that I want to like D/X. I really do. I love both of these characters and I enjoy their interactions. But I can't quite see past the familial bond they share. And I'm wondering what others think about this.

EDITED SEP. 2011: OH GOD I SHIP THIS SO HARD NOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? It started with an affection for adult!Dawn/Xander, and then snowballed. So now I actually like it in all of it's forms.