ficpost: "Slinky, Untangled" Dawn/Tara

[wisdomeagle]

Title: "Slinky, Untangled"
Fandom: Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Dawn/Tara
Rating: NC-17
Timeline/Spoilers: Futurefic, AU from sometime in S6
Notes: Backup fic for ricktboy in the femslash_minis Dawn round. He wanted ice cream sundaes, magic, no disapproving Buffy, and NC-17. The slinky described is sitting in my lap.
Words: 1564
Summary: Packing, distractions, and

Comments

[hermionesviolin]

Damn you are productive. (And I am clearly not doing that midnight bedtime thing.)

"Oh yes. If Buffy wanted them, she should have claimed them while she was still in the country. And while it's tempting to hold onto anything that might be useful to show to her future boyfriends, I'm big with the discarding today."

*giggles*

"So Buffy had a kinky gay slinky?"

*cracks up*

"I was thinking more the kitchen floor."

"Think anyone's ever made love there?"

"Touched"!!! *loves*

And dude, you have actual insight -- with the bent slinky ("Putting things back together is hard," Tara says. "You can't just, you know, do a spell. You have to work." !!! Oh my S6Willow issues) and the age differential .... have I mentioned that I love and miss you?

[wisdomeagle]

I ammm. Must start job-hunt tomorrow. So not looking forward to that. /random, non-fic related commentage

"Touched"!!! *loves*

With the ice cream and the kitchen!sex, I couldn't not think of that scene.

And dude, you have actual insight -- with the bent slinky ("Putting things back together is hard," Tara says. "You can't just, you know, do a spell. You have to work." !!! Oh my S6Willow issues) and the age differential

Yay, like, thinky things!

The slinky -- I totally had a wicked bent slinky earlier today and untangled it and thought, "Okay, how can this be worked into a fic?" Because everything I do, I imagine my characters doing.

Age differential is love. :)

*love you too*

[hermionesviolin]

My instinct is to say "Job-hunting will be fine" but I know it can suck sometimes. But um, once you have specific gripes I will totally be Supporto-Affirmation-andpossiblyevenhelpfulbutnoguarantees-Girl.

Because everything I do, I imagine my characters doing.

*grins*

It occurred to me after I posted that I totally had a pale-purple-with-rainbow slinky when I was younger. I never had slinkies that were non-slinky-shaped, though.

Age differential is love. :)

Word, yo.

[ricktboy]

*is blown away*

wow, that was just...mmmmmmmmmmmmm

beautiful...I love Tara/Anyone, but Tara/Dawn is one of my favs...

thank you, so much...

[wisdomeagle]

Awesome; I'm really glad you enjoyed it! :)

[alixtii]

I usually don't like Tara/Dawn, since it's difficult to get to that place from canon, but of course you do the legwork here necessary to set it up and create an AU where it's not only believable, but it's natural.

Other people have said all the sophisticated stuff about theme and the slinky, so I think I'll just rely on squee as feedback:

Yay! Fic!

[wisdomeagle]

I like Tara/Dawn in principle because of the age differential, but worry that at some point, I'm just going to run out of ways to get there. (Not that this has stopped me with Willow/Giles, say, but still... ) And I lurve building AUs, especially when I get to hint at exciting plots (they blew up the college!) without actually having to write them. :)

[alixtii]

Well, both Willow and Giles go through partners pretty quickly, so it doesn't take all that much to sell me on it. I have a much more difficult time imagining Tara with anyone other than Willow. In this AU you've built, my assumption was that Willow died somehow (perhaps murdered by Warren?) because that's really the only way I can see the Willow/Tara relationship ending with Tara still comfortable enough around the Scoobies to date one.

Running out of ways to get there is a real problem for you, isn't it, due to your prolificness. The rest of us mortals are busying figuring out how to make it work the first time. (Since most of my fics are in the same universe, I really don't have that problem. But then, I'm not really a shipper.)

And as for AUs . . . usually that sort of thing would bother me as a reader, but for some reason when you do it, it never does.

[wisdomeagle]

I wasn't sure whether Willow had died or whether the S6 break-up had just been rendered permanent -- though killing Willow instead of Tara in "Seeing Red" is just about the best plot device ever for Tara/anyone fics. Which is one of the reasons why I keep thinking I should come up with something else, since that one's been done many, many times.

[cadence_k]

Slinky love! Even if this wasn't one of my favorite femslash pairing and incredibly written, I would love it because it has a tangled. rainbow. slinky. Also, I really like Dawn's POV here - worrying that she's too young for Tara and her feelings about her sister are great! The way that she worries about being the strong one and being good enough is so Dawn.

Great work! And thank you so much for writing a back-up fic. As I've often said before, back-up writers are my heroes. :)

[wisdomeagle]

*g* Rainbow slinkies are love.

And am glad you like my Dawn, too! :)

You're very welcome -- sorry it took me so long.

[wisdomeagle]

*g* Yes! Dawn/Tara might well be the most popular Dawn femslash pairing. 'Tis odd.

Anyhow, am very glad you enjoyed! I think writing on notebooks, note-passing, etc are still very much hip. At least, in my little corner of the universe. :) I constantly envision Buffy being like that about Angel.