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The Shiny Happy Comment Ficathon!

Nov 08, 2010 10:34

Winter is coming; daylight is fleeting; for the students among us, end-of-semester hell is just about to rear its ugly head. What better way to combat such woes than with a super-cheerful comment ficathon?

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superkappa November 9 2010, 20:11:25 UTC

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike/Drusilla, living in poetry

marketchippie November 10 2010, 05:40:58 UTC

superkappa November 10 2010, 05:45:37 UTC

:D ngl, thought of you as I left the prompt.

btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (1/2) marketchippie November 10 2010, 08:46:50 UTC

William's been to this bookstore many times, but never like this, never with thirst swelling his throat and shadows just starting to sweep the sky, with the scent of the books tangible in the air even before he steps inside. Never able to feel the world, the air itself ripple around him, away from him, never been mighty enough to move like this, the stride of his feet heavy on the cobblestones as she pulls him along with her-and never with her, with a woman, with her, her bone-white fingers clasped between his and her laugh on the wind as she pulls him through the door. The bell chimes their entry ( ... )

btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) marketchippie November 10 2010, 08:47:14 UTC

Lolling on his back with red on his collar and heat in his belly, he gazes up at the moon of her face, clean and white and flushed red in the lip, broken pince-nez borrowed and now perching on her nose. She sits enthroned atop a heap of volumes, drowning them in her skirts, fingernails slicing idly through the pages of an open book under her fingers. His hand catches her ankle, touches the sheer stocking above her dainty boot. "Sated, love?" he asks ( ... )

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) ever_neutral November 10 2010, 08:59:21 UTC

WHY ARE YOU SO GOOD THOUGH?

Perfect closing line. These kids, so sweet.

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) marketchippie November 10 2010, 23:12:14 UTC

BECAUSE THEY ARE SO GOOD. ♥

& thank you!

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) superkappa November 10 2010, 09:32:55 UTC

Oh, these two. I absolutely love them, and you've captured every reason why. I really hoped you would tackle this prompt, and I'm so glad you did. Flaily hands. I really like how you just..perfectly capture the world of metaphors and similes that they surround themselves in. It's like make believe and yet more real than anything else they've experienced all together, and I love it.

I love that he chooses Lewis Carroll to read to her. I think she would love the story of the Jabberwock, personally. And then the metaphor of her finger being like a caterpillar as he reads her that particular work? Guh. Such a tiny detail but such a great one. And I love how much you focus on their hands and touching, because there's so much physicality to them as a couple, and you capture it beautifully. And I just realized as I reread it, she says she'd chop of his head, and then he chooses Carrol's work. Guh. Guh. Yes.

Thank you so much. This was a great thing to read before getting ready for bed :)

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) marketchippie November 10 2010, 23:16:23 UTC

Hee, provoking me to write these two takes literally no work at all. (I put this in my fic index and realized how overwhelming the OTPtime is in proportion to everything else I write.) They are my favorite kids, and writing them is such a pleasure of intricacies and intimacies. The best ship. Oh my heart.

You're so welcome. Thank you.

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) laeria November 10 2010, 14:34:11 UTC

This is practically perfect in every way. I loved Dru's similes and the way William is drowning in her and also the symbol of her (Byronic decadence and utter freedom). I loved the twirl of words and destruction, loved the "we shan't have to bow" aspect of newly-turned William, loved Dru with a pince-nez. And there's something especially intoxicating about the idea Spike-as-Scheherezade and Dru as his insane, cruel, loving emperor.

Brb, saving this and rereading it forever.

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) marketchippie November 10 2010, 23:19:19 UTC

Why thank you!

This is my favorite ship in the entire world in large part because they live on the same metaphor wavelength. They're constantly embodying both pieces of stories and the way stories are told. (I mean, they bond over a word. In a poem she hasn't read. Favorite favorites forever.)

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) laeria November 12 2010, 22:24:46 UTC

Mm, exactly. Embodying and enjoying. And taking equal gleeful pleasure in form and in content.

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) pocochina November 10 2010, 18:04:59 UTC

oh! sweet William. this is just perfect.

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) marketchippie November 10 2010, 23:20:05 UTC

thank you! ♥

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) clockwork_jo November 11 2010, 23:03:17 UTC

I HAVE THINGS. THINGS TO SAY.

1) If you reference Lewis Carroll, I am going to love you.
If you use the word frabjous well, I'm going to dry hump your fricking leg.

So you know, get ready for that.

2) You do gorgeous repetitive things, my love. Yours is like a piece of poetry.
darkness has no need of aid from words when she's the Universe, he thinks, and kisses that very Universe on her grinning lips. UNF. UNF.

Re: btvs - spike/dru - callooh, callay (2/2) marketchippie November 12 2010, 01:29:50 UTC

*DRAWS HEARTS ON YOUR FACE*

These kids are so steeped in poetry, they bring out my literary-allusive tendencies like no other.

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