“Welcome to life as a normal person, then. No cheat sheets and no certainties."
Title: Buffy's Guide to Being Normal (in 1973)
Author: pprfaith
Reader:
reena_jenkins
Coverartist:
reena_jenkins
Rating: PG-13
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, X-Men First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Pairings: Buffy Summers/Erik Lensherr/Charles Xavier, not-quite Buffy Summers/Logan
Warnings: Crossover, Alternate Timelines, Community: wishlist_fic, Prompt Fic, schmoopy angst, Time Travel, Sequel, Dimension Travel, angsty, Happy Ending, Threesome, follows dark and light (part of the 1962!verse)
Music: Tie A Yellow Ribbion Round The Ole Oak Tree, as performed by Tony Orlando & Dawn
Length: 00:21:37
Author's Summary: "In which Buffy thought making it to 1973 meant she'd have a quiet life."
Download Link: You can download this podfic as an mp3 right over here (thank you,
paraka, for hosting me).
Why I Love It: There's about eighteen different timelines in this fic - it's a giant tangle of potential futures, disregarded futures, new histories, and diverted lifelines. It's wonderful. Buffy thinks she's managed to live into a happily ever after... only for more time travel malarky to screw things up again. And of course, like in the rest of the series, I used the Number 1 song from the Billboard Top 100 - for 1973, it was Tie A Yellow Ribbon..., which was particularly appropriate for this fic because the act of tying a ribbon is an act of remembrance: remembering Buffy's past, remembering the future she's trying to avert, remembering the timeline Logan lost. (The effect for Charles' telepathy in this one is different from the rest of the podfics in this series, as I no longer have those settings on my new laptop - but hopefully, it's still an effective use of vocal filters to convey his mutation.) Happy listening!