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I am writing Jossverse again and I need a beta or ten. This project has really gotten away with me, with my heart and mind. My time away has provided the opportunity to think through and reevaluate some of my basic interpretations.
While I believe that pastiches are inherently passé and remixes have been done to death, this began as a mashup of a classic source. Taking the archetypes from WKRP in Cincinnati allowed me to explore and recombine characters in some illuminating ways. So Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson, head of the station, is Angel, of course, while the towheaded idealist Andy Travis is Buffy, bent on changing the station and the world for the better, only to find herself imbricated inextricably. Neurotic news director, he of the uncertain sexuality and tendency to put himself and others in danger in the name of getting what he wants, Les Nessman, is Willow, while her sleazy, always-on-the-make best friend Herb Tarlek is now Xander. Platinum blond, statuesque executive assistant Jennifer Marlowe is both Cordelia and Spike; the nervous naif no one notices, Bailey Quarters, is Rupert Giles. Oz and Gunn fill the DJ slots as sleepy Dr. Johnny Fever and unspeakably hep Venus Flytrap.
After limning the first half of the first season, I go a little AU from the workplace setting, post-"Turkeys Away", to delve into the characters' personal lives. (I'm really proud of using each dropped turkey as a narrative device to find the characters in turn.) Angel's home is kept immaculately by his son and lover, Connor, who otherwise spends his time spending Angel's money. Whenever the credit card bills come in, empty threats to have him sent back to Quor-Toth are solved by long and lovingly-detailed blowjobs and/or buggery. For their part, Spike and Buffy have established a tempestuous sort of domestic discipline that suits them very well, though Buff's getting kind of sick of calling him "Sir" in public. Oz and Willow have reunited, as we all knew they would; after a long period of mourning, Giles's heartbreak is healed by William (who's different from Spike and even meeker than Oz), thank God.
I would say the tone is darkly erotic, heavy on the dialogue and breezy with the exposition.
This draft is closing in on 156,000 words. Any additional eyes would be *great*.
HALP.
I am writing Jossverse again and I need a beta or ten. This project has really gotten away with me, with my heart and mind. My time away has provided the opportunity to think through and reevaluate some of my basic interpretations.
While I believe that pastiches are inherently passé and remixes have been done to death, this began as a mashup of a classic source. Taking the archetypes from WKRP in Cincinnati allowed me to explore and recombine characters in some illuminating ways. So Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson, head of the station, is Angel, of course, while the towheaded idealist Andy Travis is Buffy, bent on changing the station and the world for the better, only to find herself imbricated inextricably. Neurotic news director, he of the uncertain sexuality and tendency to put himself and others in danger in the name of getting what he wants, Les Nessman, is Willow, while her sleazy, always-on-the-make best friend Herb Tarlek is now Xander. Platinum blond, statuesque executive assistant Jennifer Marlowe is both Cordelia and Spike; the nervous naif no one notices, Bailey Quarters, is Rupert Giles. Oz and Gunn fill the DJ slots as sleepy Dr. Johnny Fever and unspeakably hep Venus Flytrap.
After limning the first half of the first season, I go a little AU from the workplace setting, post-"Turkeys Away", to delve into the characters' personal lives. (I'm really proud of using each dropped turkey as a narrative device to find the characters in turn.) Angel's home is kept immaculately by his son and lover, Connor, who otherwise spends his time spending Angel's money. Whenever the credit card bills come in, empty threats to have him sent back to Quor-Toth are solved by long and lovingly-detailed blowjobs and/or buggery. For their part, Spike and Buffy have established a tempestuous sort of domestic discipline that suits them very well, though Buff's getting kind of sick of calling him "Sir" in public. Oz and Willow have reunited, as we all knew they would; after a long period of mourning, Giles's heartbreak is healed by William (who's different from Spike and even meeker than Oz), thank God.
I would say the tone is darkly erotic, heavy on the dialogue and breezy with the exposition.
This draft is closing in on 156,000 words. Any additional eyes would be *great*.
HALP.