Comments | quinara: Fic-ish - one year on from 'Brand New Day'

quinara

Fic-ish - one year on from 'Brand New Day'

Mar 25, 2009 20:11

As part (/quite possibly all) of the time-stamp meme rahirah asked to see what’s happening one year on from Brand New Day, a fic in which Spike finds himself resurrected after Chosen in a happier situation than he can quite believe ( Read more... )

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Comments 14

rahirah March 26 2009, 02:33:34 UTC

There goes that other shoe. *g*

quinara March 26 2009, 02:44:36 UTC

:D The whole thing's dying to become a proper Greek tragedy from here on out, only without the death and thus infinite issues. Stupid shoe. ;)

evilawyer March 26 2009, 03:11:21 UTC

All good things come to ... something, right?

quinara March 26 2009, 03:27:20 UTC

Yep!

(Just so happens that in my world that 'something' is generally gloom...)

fangfaceandrea March 26 2009, 03:37:05 UTC

of course things wouldn't remain "easy" for long.

I love how you keep telling what Buffy's doing to keep us aware of what's real and still the sense of unreality is all that's felt.

quinara March 26 2009, 14:32:27 UTC

Thank you! I loved writing Brand New Day the first time round, so it was really fun to go back to it again.

shapinglight March 26 2009, 14:53:37 UTC

Still getting that uncomfortable prickle at the back of the neck. Very interesting, though am not sure I actually want to know what happened next.

quinara March 26 2009, 16:04:51 UTC

What happens next is kind of scary. But salvageable! (By a writer whose instinct isn't to plunge characters further into quagmires...)

divine_atrytone March 26 2009, 19:41:33 UTC

Woop! I really enjoyed it.
As always, you get the characters' voices really well - and I liked the way Spike perceived Angel's presence.

quinara March 26 2009, 20:22:59 UTC

Yay! And thank you! The voices get so frustrating sometimes...

divine_atrytone March 27 2009, 12:57:36 UTC

ooh, something I thought when I was falling asleep...

I think it seems more Angel-style than Buffy? Does that make sense? I may have just thought this because of the presence of Wes et al.
In fact, thinking about it, a lot of your writing has a dark Angelly undercurrent... Happiness is fleeting!

quinara March 27 2009, 15:16:56 UTC

Well, it is technically post-NFA rather than post-Chosen...

But hmm! I've never really thought about what makes something a Buffy fic rather than an Angel fic (apart from characters and setting, obviously, but I tend to think of the Buffyverse as a cohesive whole anyway). I like gloominess so things come out that way...