Hey, y'all!

[lirazel]

Get your Xander!hate on! eleusis_walks is doing his 30 Days of BtVS, and even though there are many, many topics I strongly disagree with him on, he is always thoughtful and awesome and interesting. And the things I do agree with him on? I agree violently.

Like our mutual hate for the ultimate Nice Guy Xander Harris. He basically lists every single hateful thing that Xander ever says/does and I am glorying in my hate. He also has a love-post devoted to Anya, which I haven't gotten to read yet, but I know is wonderful because anything involving Anya is wonderful. And eleusis_walks loves Dawn and Cordy and Jenny and basically a ton of awesome ladies, so I forgive him for not loving my boy and my girl enough. ;D

So join the hate fest! Or if you like Xander...well, I would like to hear why. Because it is beyond my understanding.

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would never want anyone to jump on you! That's not cool here.

What I was reacting negatively to was the atmosphere of everyone gathering around to rejoice hating on something. I've had too many shitty experiences with that before.

That is totally understandable.

I had been reminded just a few days ago of Xander's saying that thing about coming back to town and Buffy having a horrible life and him taking her out to dinner and her crying and it just INFURIATED me. So this post came along at the exact moment that let me let that out. Besides, I mostly spend my time talking about the characters I love (for good reason--it's more enjoyable and more healthy) , so it was a one-time take-a-vacation-and-enjoy-that-some-people-actually-agree-with-me thing.

And I was absolutely sincere in wanting to hear the reasons people love him. So I'm glad that there were lots of defenses of him in this post, at least. I wanted this post to be more balanced, and I think people really stepped up to the plate for that, and I'm glad.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

Oh, we're cool here. I understand that need to vent. I just have this knee-jerk reaction of PANIIIIIIC when I see a lot of bashing going on, because I start automatically counting the minutes 'til a big fan-war erupts.

I wanted this post to be more balanced, and I think people really stepped up to the plate for that, and I'm glad.

I am glad too. Tbh, what I was worried about was that some Xander fans might show up and become defensive and then get mass-attacked for disagreeing. That stuff always makes me feel a little sick. But I acknowledge that I was probably overreacting there. :)