Jolly me out of my current state of rage, please. Rage is not a usual state for me-- not honest-to-goodness grand-gesture-level fury-- and I find it unpleasant. I'm against continuing in this state. Therefore, distraction! On the theory that if there's anything as comforting as self-absorption, it's contemplating the characters I love, I propose
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Am interested because I nearly ripped off Aspects of Love by David Genet for B/G purposes - there are no orginal thoughts in my head - but I didn't because I was unsure that people would read it.
2. Do you think that any of the Scoobs get their three score years and ten?
3. Is there a Buffy cross-over that you'd like to read/write but haven't?
Hope three question is okay, ignore 'em if you want.
Boo to rage, may it bugger off soon.
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ljs has written some further-future stories in which Giles is aging with Anya, and they encounter some of the consequences of retiring late from the demon-fighting business. Or try snowdrifted's "Remnants". I cry every time I read this, I warn you, but it's a good sort of crying ( ... )
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Anyway, I've got no Giles questions for you. But you posted on POV. How do you feel about writing it? Do you have a preference? If it's based on characters, do you prefer writing characters/pairings who all *happen* to be in one POV or another? And have you ever sucessfully written anything in second person that doesn't sound contrived or childish?
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1: Do you have a guilty pleasure fic that you go back and read periodically (ie: something that isn't really good characterization, or isn't really good writing, but it's somehow comfortable and you keep going back to it)?
2: If one Buffy actor was going to read one of your stories, who would you want it to be, which one would you want him/her to read, and would you want to know what (s)he thought of it?
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Manic, "Poof". I have an edition in a file on my Macbook where I've fixed the punctuation problems. Please don't kill me anybody, because really, I love it so.
And I re-read A Manley Haight's Autumnal Equinox" as scorching comfort fic even though (winces in anticipation of reactions again) I think her Giles voice is not Giles-y at all, and I often want to shake out her sentences and dust the purple off them. But everything else I love deeply.
2. OH GOD. Break the sacred wall, eh? But we know they do read it, every now and then. I'd like Tony Head to read "A Soft Place to Land (Free Fallin' Mix)", and tell me if I understood Giles's state of mind post-Chosen. It's safely gen, and puts Giles in a parental role, and can't ( ... )
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(giggles) from a couple of ASH's comments that I've read, he's not only open to smut but rather flattered by some of it. Still, I think he'd appreciate a well-written piece of gen, and I do think that one fits the description. I don't think I could go out of my way to give him porn, either.
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Other female characters... man, the great thing about Buffy is that in the desert of manpain-obsessed American TV, there she is! With Willow! River Tam doesn't grab me the same way. I might be able to do something with Sarah Connor, of the eponymous Chronicles. She and Summer-Glau-as-robot also satisfy my kick-ass female character longing.
I'd like to write Hermione some day. There's a Harry/Hermione story lurking in me. Which is weird because 90% of my HP fandom reading has been Severus/Hermione.
I also admire Scully, but never got deeply enough into the X-Files (an ultimately unsatisfying show) to read fanfic for it. I have read fic for four fandoms in my life, you have to understand, and only one of them widely. And I've really only written fic for one.
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Think back to the first time you watched season 6, more specifically to the first time you watched the second half of the season finale. When Giles and Buffy are in the back room talking about how everything has gone wrong, what was the first reaction you actually expected Giles to have:
Buffy: Dawn's a total klepto, Willow's gone off the magical deep end, Xander left Anya at the altar, and I've been sleeping with Spike . . .
At this point, Giles giggles, but did you expect him to? Or was there some other response you expected from the character?
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Giles giggling means: wipe the slate clean, people. None of that shit that just happened matters. Though um, whoops, nope, can't, 'cause the improbable, melodramatic, Willow-off-the-deep-end shoe still hasn't finished dropping all the way to the floor.
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