The Turning of the Year 5/7

[brutti_ma_buoni]

I've just spent most of the afternoon reading the newly-finished Seraph for the first time; luxuriating in Spike mpreg that makes sense and is funny and even *gen*. Surprised? Baffled? Then run to snickfic's journal and read the whole thing. Then you will understand, and you will have spent your time well

Comments

[moscow_watcher]

Santa Claus got Slayed in 1964.

Heee! The Council was a bunch of loafers, if they hadn't even noticed it...

Great ficlet.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Heh. Maybe they just didn't think the world should know (plus, there are a whole lot of imitators, of course...)

[quinara]

Love it!! Especially "albeit rather like a confused, padded starfish": a line for every occasion.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Your task for this week: use that line in conversation or writing (no copyright asserted). :P

[slaymesoftly]

Nice look at the little family during a tranquil time. Mom's taking the night off, huh? :)

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Just a night or two, yes. I reckon she deserves it!

[rebcake]

Funnier than that Santa was slayed (I won't even go there), is that Faith had checked in advance. Heh. She might pretend to be the cool, easy-going mom, but she's just as cautious as Giles. Nice!

[brutti_ma_buoni]

All part of the Slayer training, you know! (And with Anya's take on Santa Claus, I'd have double-checked). It's always nice to write a little Faith-the-Slayer, not Faith-the-rebel. And then go back and write the opposite, of course...

[shapinglight]

Nice, and you captured exactly what small kids look like in their winter clothes. They're not very bendy at all.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Not bendy, not happy, and unable to do anything about it. Putting mittens on them just completes the helplessness (says the unfeelingly-cackling godmother of several. The boys seem to get especially wound up by the whole thing...)