Jolly me out of my current state of rage, please. Rage is not a usual state for me-- not honest-to-goodness grand-gesture-level fury-- and I find it unpleasant. I'm against continuing in this state. Therefore, distraction! On the theory that if there's anything as comforting as self-absorption, it's contemplating the characters I love, I propose
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1: Do you have a guilty pleasure fic that you go back and read periodically (ie: something that isn't really good characterization, or isn't really good writing, but it's somehow comfortable and you keep going back to it)?
2: If one Buffy actor was going to read one of your stories, who would you want it to be, which one would you want him/her to read, and would you want to know what (s)he thought of it?
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Manic, "Poof". I have an edition in a file on my Macbook where I've fixed the punctuation problems. Please don't kill me anybody, because really, I love it so.
And I re-read A Manley Haight's Autumnal Equinox" as scorching comfort fic even though (winces in anticipation of reactions again) I think her Giles voice is not Giles-y at all, and I often want to shake out her sentences and dust the purple off them. But everything else I love deeply.
2. OH GOD. Break the sacred wall, eh? But we know they do read it, every now and then. I'd like Tony Head to read "A Soft Place to Land (Free Fallin' Mix)", and tell me if I understood Giles's state of mind post-Chosen. It's safely gen, and puts Giles in a parental role, and can't ( ... )
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(giggles) from a couple of ASH's comments that I've read, he's not only open to smut but rather flattered by some of it. Still, I think he'd appreciate a well-written piece of gen, and I do think that one fits the description. I don't think I could go out of my way to give him porn, either.
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Aha. You ask the interesting question. Because male sexuality is the focus of the story, really, despite the dressing.
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