Thanks. :)

It's not exactly that I loathe the fic. I loathe Buffy and the way that ME wrote her. There are several S/B stories that I love, a few more than I enjoy, and quite a few that I respect even if I don't particularly enjoy them.

I respect that people can see the characters differently than I do, and thus, write positive fic about S/B. I don't respect fic that throws characterization and canon to the wind in favor of wish-fulfillment, though. (I know it's a fine line, and very much in the eye of the beholder.)

I don't want the S/B writers that I've archived to think that I don't value their work, because I do. I wouldn't have archived it if I didn't find something of value that made up for what is, IMO, out-of-character and/or thematically offensive. I know that's a back-handed complement, but it's really not a comment on that person's writing; it's a comment on ME's. (Well, and only a comment on that person's writing in the sense that their fiction is good enough to make me overlook that which repulses me about the character and situation that ME created.)

I don't think that makes any sense. Or maybe it does and it's grotesquely offensive. *sigh* Sorry.