Do you have a link to heresluck's vids or should I just go to their journal and root around? Any particular recs?

I remember the first time I watched Buffy I couldn't get into Buffy/Faith,

I wasn't as "in love" with Buffy at that point as I am now, and I remember thinking that Faith was dynamic enough a personality to nearly take over the whole show when she was onscreen; but at the same time I missed the subtext completely. I think after so many decades of wanting to see subtext or seeing it only to have it used as a joke or tease, I was actually resisting it entirely when watching Buffy and Faith. (now it's like, well, duh, how did I miss that?)

I think it was the same for me - watching bradcpu's creep and afterthebattle's your power is rooted in darkness brought me around, as well as some really good fanfics. (But I've also seen crappy ones. I cannot stand fics that try to turn the bodyswap of Who are You into something sexy, like Buffy would be curious what it would be like to make love to her own body. Ugh, no, sorry - missing the point. Snowy gets it right, but that's just a given.)