Randomerfest Remix - listen to your heart bleed (and I feel fine)

[annakovsky]

For the randomerfest Remixathon: I drew anniesj's name out of the Sorting Hat, and decided to remix her excellent The Ballad of Randy and Joan. Spuffy, man, it's been a looooooooooooong time.

So here's my not-at-all-good-enough remix of that classic fic.

(Master list of the Randomerfest Remix is here and will be updated throughout the day as everyone else posts

Comments

[swmbo]

Oh my god, Kovsky! This is brilliant and painful and brutal. I'm having to struggle not to gasp at work.

You are my hero and I hate and love you. Doing this from Giles's POV was ... brilliant and inspired and this *works*

[annakovsky]

Ah, Swmbo, my darling, thank you!

*kills Giles more*

:-)

[annakovsky]

Thanks!

[fitofpique]

His eyes get bleary and there's a roaring rising in his ears, and he thinks he sees her in the doorway, where sunlight is flickering in. His golden girl, blonde and young and happy, wearing horribly impractical shoes. He thinks he sees her. He sees her.

*sobs uncontrollably*

This is exquisite, Kovsky. So sharp and painful and vividly rendered. You kill me. Brilliant job.

[annakovsky]

Oh, thank you, Piquiest!

[circe_tigana]

Jesus fucking Christ on a Pogo Stick.

Holy SHIT.

FUCK.

KOVSKY!

Giles follows them without letting them see him, a trick he's perfected over the last fifteen years. In many ways, he tells himself, his life isn't that different. He fights demons and he drinks too much, and if everyone he loves is dead, well, there weren't that many people he loved in the first place.

::GENUFLECTS::

It's funny, but The Ballad of Randy and Joan was always the only one of Annie's fics I didn't like. I don't know why. It just didn't click for me. But your remix has accomplished what a remix should do -- it's brilliant on its own, and it adds lustre and texture to the source material.

WOW.

[annakovsky]

*glomps*

Aww, what generous feedback! I adore you. Thanks, lovie.

See, it's funny that that fic doesn't do it for you, because it's probably the one of Annie's that I like the most - the images and world really stick with me. And I read it looooong before I knew her, so it was funny to go back and reread it. Aww, Spuffy, the good old days!

[circe_tigana]

Kovsky, you're a fantastic writer.

That is all.

xoxoxo

[swmbo]

Dude! I know!!

I might have to kill her.

[cindergal]

It hurts so good. Oh, poor Giles. The horribly impractical shoes really got to me. ::sniff::

[annakovsky]

Oh, thank you!