Comments | sroni: Dragon Heart

sroni

Dragon Heart

May 01, 2007 14:22

Yeah, this was my entry to the RemixRedux. And what’s everyone’s little remix thingers mean? Because I don’t understand.

Funky remix title: “Dragon Heart”
Fandom: BtVS
Characters: Buffy Summers/Rupert Giles
Original Title: “Dragon’s Bone” and “Dragon’s Reverie”
Title, Author and URL of original story: “Dragon’s Bone” and “Dragon’s Reverie”, by ( Read more... )

fanfic, fic, remix

Comments 5

Nice Work eilandesq May 1 2007, 08:01:51 UTC

I've never written a Giles/Buffy story (now, Giles/Willow and Giles/Faith is another matter. . .), but a good one is always fun to find--they tend to be sweet and rather comforting to read.

By the way, you should sign in with the sockpuppet account and edit the "remix author" tag on the story to your own name, so that a tag search can spot it that way.

Re: Nice Work sroni May 2 2007, 11:50:21 UTC

How?

I tend to shy away from Giles/Buffy myself, mainly because I was raised, literally raised on aadler's fanfic, and if you've read one of his stories (darned if I remember the title), you can understand my running far far away from the pairing and washing my brain out with soap afterwards.

Re: Nice Work eilandesq May 2 2007, 22:05:15 UTC

"How?"

The same way you changed the sockpuppet name in the heading of the story. Log in as the sockpuppet, go into the story, click on the "edit" icon near the top, then scroll down until you see the tags list. Edit the sockpuppet name listed there for the "remix author" to your own, save the change and voila! You're done. Revel in the knowledge that all searching for your very nice Buffy/Giles story under your name on the tags list will not be frustrated. ;-)

Re: Nice Work aadler May 10 2007, 01:04:18 UTC

The story was “Morning’s Echo”.

aadler May 10 2007, 01:17:24 UTC

I liked what you did with this story, but I wanted to save extensive comment until I’d had a chance to evaluate it against the original in a paragraph-to-paragraph comparison. I’ve done that now, so here goes.

To begin with, you made a choice to follow the source story very closely. Very closely. This is one of the options - I’ve seen a number of people at remix_redux debating just how far afield it was appropriate to go - and perfectly legitimate in itself. Especially as regards dialogue: practically all of the dialogue was verbatim or nearly so. Again, one of the options ( ... )