It's still fiction with meta aspects to it, though. This is not a meta post. It's fanfiction. The style is artistic, rather than academic. This isn't an essay, it's creative.

And again considering the soul-baring nature of writing fiction, giving as much attention to what you enjoyed as the attention you gave to what you disagreed with would be nice, don't you think?

Lauren wrote this story as a gift to her friends' list. Because it's her birthday. She wrote this as a gift, her own tradition of writing stories on her birthday to share her joy with her friends. This post, this story, is about sharing love for Buffy, for the Spuffy relationship, creating an atmosphere of joint appreciation.

This post is about appreciation -- marrying yourself only to critiquing the ways in which you disagree jars with the spirit of this story where all the other comments are singing out, "Happy birthday!"

I'm not sure you quite realize how upsetting it is. I know I didn't realize how upsetting it was when I did a similar sort of thing a few years ago.