You ever go trawling for fic and find one that's like, please, PLEASE get off my side and stop making my ship look bad? Sigh. It's really hard for the best of writers to pull S2 Spuffy off convincingly, and this was unconvincing in all the worst ways. It had Buffy LETTING Spike kill Ford, because she was too much of a wuss to fight him, and then ( Read more... )

I recently found out that the classic Spuffy fic Dancing Lessons is no longer archived on Livejournal -- it looks like that's due to the person who posed it to the DL_Archive community having deleted their LJ account.
So this is to 1) mention that it is still available in full on the Wayback Machine here, and 2) to note that it is possible to ( Read more... )

Post-Chosen stories where Buffy is a suicidal wreck because Spike is dead puzzle me. I can believe she had feelings for him at the end. I can believe those feelings were love, in the moment of his death. (I also think that if he had survived, she'd very likely have panicked and backpedaled and been very glad of that "no you don't" out, but that' ( Read more... )

I actually have five thousand words of POM chapter 13 written. :is stunned: They're five thousand crappy first draft words, but they're THERE ( Read more... )

It occurred to me the other day that although I've written a lot of meta in my day, I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the times I've actually changed someone's mind about something via that route. Usually with meta, you're preaching to the choir. That's something I've known for a long time, to the point that on contentious subjects ( Read more... )

I happened to notice over the last month or two of posts in both
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Gakked from many:

Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, fewer than you thought, or about what you predicted?

I don't know if I wrote more than I thought I would, but when I went back and toted them up, I'd written more than I thought I had.

Where did you publish/archive your stories?LJ, Dreamwidth, AO3, and ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving weekend was somewhat subdued as Kathy's been sick, but dinner was good and there were the obligatory leftovers. We ordered new security screen doors for both the front and back doors, and with any luck we can get them installed within the next week. I also made a new and slightly less florid theme for my DW journal. It needs some ( Read more... )

They're fixing the door now, after much back and forthing and fetching more supplies because the boards are the wrong size and matching of exterior paint. I am uploading more stuff to AO3. (Note to gabrielleabelle: I just created Jonathan AND baby fic. Behold the awesome!)

It is interesting to note how many of my stories can be classified as both fluff and

Remind me again why we have cats ( Read more... )