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fluffernutter8

I stayed offline for a week so I could finish this

Jul 14, 2010 01:05

Title: Exodus Laughing
Author: Fluff
Rating: PG- 12 (Sexual implications and light light light cursing)
Word count: Aprox. 4100
Prompt: Moving (prompt made up by me in honor of a recent move because apparently I need a prompt to get anything done.
Summary: " We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious ( Read more... )

fanfiction: btvs/ats, ship: buffy/angel, character: angel, me: fail, character: buffy summers

Comments 16

ares132006 July 14 2010, 05:49:23 UTC

Oh yes. This is lovely. The way you wove the two life journeys, the feelings that our heroes were experiencing at the time, was wonderfully done.

Buffy's thoughts on leaving LA, her friends, her home and her dad was so sad, with just a touch of determination to remind us that this was Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, the world's fate resting on her shoulders. And Joyce's little input on what she was feeling was a good touch.

Angel, residing near a liquor store - not having enough money, or enough liquor to dull the pain of seperation. His thoughts constantly on Buffy, reminders everywhere. Poor Angel.

Moving was once about fresh starts and mopping up the past. Now he seemed to take his past with him, as if it were tucked in between his shirts in the boxes that were still scattered around his new apartment, waiting for him to make himself at home in hell again.Angel moving into his penthouse at W&H, carrying his baggage with him as always, a stark contrast to the small, tiny room, with tiny, thin mattress Buffy has moved too. Great ( ... )

fluffernutter8 July 15 2010, 04:20:06 UTC

Just enough detail, without bogging us down on how, why, and when, of them being together, and with a family.
A lot of the time I have a back story for everything and it's just too much to put in, but this time it wasn't even a problem. I'm not sure how they got back together or how far in the future the last piece takes place. All there is in my mind is the two of them and their half-normal, half-supernatural life and I like it that way.

(Yeah, you'll find a lot of self-complimenting, backhanded and otherwise, around here.)

Thanks for commenting. Glad you liked!

perpetual July 14 2010, 23:58:05 UTC

Okay, so, my computer won't get online. So I'm on my roommate's computer and it feels weird and I won't be able to stay for long and don't even know when I'll get back. So I can't leave a review. So for that reason, I'm not even going to read it yet. Please understand that this in itself is highest praise: I deprive myself of rewards until I can get into the right situation to appreciate them fully, and this is going to be a really big reward.

I have been stressed out like whoa this week and when I saw that you had written me a birthday present and even stayed offline to finish it, I nearly started tearing up. All my love and gratitude, you wonderful woman you.

fluffernutter8 July 15 2010, 04:30:11 UTC

I totally get this. I hate doing fandomy stuff on other people's computers. Like if my family's staying somewhere and we're using their computer, it always feels awkward, not like they're going to steal my passwords or anything, just that they'll see all the random stuff I'm in to and be like "huh?"

(Sorry, it's late. That made very little sense, even to me.)

I've been reading about all the stuff that's been going on in your life lately, with work and the roommate situation, so how could I not write you fic? It's like, when life gives you lemons, you think a cup of lemonade's going to fix anything? You need B/A!

That's how I see it anyway. So enjoy the fic when it's time for you to, and believe me, I'm flattered that you're waiting. :-D

perpetual July 17 2010, 22:24:46 UTC

Exactly! I keep wondering if he's going to look over my shoulder and ask "How many sites about Buffy are there?"

Ooh, good philosophy! When life gives you lemons, read B/A (but hold onto the lemons, they're always useful)! Thanks for reading about my woes. I feel well looked-after.

perpetual July 17 2010, 16:10:40 UTC

I'm back(ish) with MONSTER REVIEW!

If she got to reinvent herself, maybe small town life wouldn't be so bad. And at least she could get away from the freakishness of LA.

Oh, dear. I was just watching some Season 1 episodes. It's really kind of tragic the way Buffy came to Sunnydale with such a firm Normal Life mindset.

He could go a day without any memories and then come across a music box that played a tune his mother used to hum, or smell an apple pie like the one Colonel Mulligan's sister was baking before he killed both of them and arranged their bodies in an incestuous tableau.YOW. How do you turn such terrible horror scenes into such beautiful sentences? It's so Angelus. Or, especially, Angelus from the POV of Angel ( ... )

perpetual July 17 2010, 16:11:04 UTC

She had a couple of shelves by her bed where she put a photo album and her Angel things- cross, ring, sonnets, a pressed flower from prom- along with the men in her life- Mr. Gordo and Mr. Pointy- and a compass that her mom had given her for graduation.

Yay! I love lists of Buffy's special things. Even in canon it seemed like most of them came from Angel. And "the men in her life"-- awww!

It was a dream, but it felt real. Not prophetic, just truthful. He believed Wes as he said that the Shanshu was coming, that it would come in increments as he let go of his guilt.Okay, this is just cool. Of all the ways to approach the Shanshu, nobody seems to do it gradually, and I'm surprised you made it work this well. Especially the way it's tied to his guilt-- hey, it's kind of like what we were talking about in the Fangirl Ramble, isn't it? I also like the "not prophetic, just truthful" dream, and the use of Wesley. It's just a very real yet unexpected way for Angel to start moving on ( ... )

fluffernutter8 July 18 2010, 04:58:36 UTC

Okay, yay for the MONSTER REVIEW! Definitely made my night. I read it twice.

Oh, dear. I was just watching some Season 1 episodes. It's really kind of tragic the way Buffy came to Sunnydale with such a firm Normal Life mindset.
When I wrote this, I was thinking of that scene with Buffy and the library, how she didn't want to touch anything about vampires.

Really interesting the way you had Angel thinking about that scene in "Lie to Me", too.
I'm not even sure at what point I decided I wanted to talk about this, but somewhere along the way, I decided that I NEEDED to get around to putting it in somewhere.

he didn't even reciprocate...it makes sense for who they were at the time, but he really needed the time to mature.I think that's one of the things that made it so special when Angel finally said that he loved her in Surprise: he had avoided it before. Buffy was a teenager, but he was so scarred, even from as far back as his human life, that it took him so much longer to say it ( ... )

perpetual July 18 2010, 14:44:41 UTC

I think that he definitely benefited from the time to grow by himself and I think that the future relationship that they eventually engaged in (yeah, that's right, it definitely happened) was so much better off because he got a little medal from Buffy Addicts Anonymous.

The first time I watched the series I remember saying something to the effect of "I would rather there was never an Angel spin-off if it meant keeping Buffy and Angel together". I got over that. The time apart did them both good.

One of the things I love about fandom is that we read into EVERYTHING.

I know, it's great! Even a badly written line or implausible plot device can be approached as a new way to look at the characters' inner lives.

This section was fully inspired by the Fangirl Ramble. It's your fic, after all.

*proud*

Schnauzer, I do get into this.

And that's why you're so good at it!

And then I go to camp where kids bite each other because they hate having to share a toy and remember that the temper is really normal and it's not their fault that they ( ... )

Thread 6

racheltng August 12 2010, 22:34:16 UTC

Oh, I'm so glad you brought it around to a happy ending! This is beautifully written.

fluffernutter8 August 13 2010, 04:48:05 UTC

In my longer fic, I mostly do give them a happy ending. Because as angsty as B/A is and as great as they are like that, it's fantastic when they're happy.

Thanks so much for the comment!

leni_ba September 15 2010, 18:47:13 UTC

Oh, this is amazing I love the full circle you've made, from Buffy moving as a daughter, to Buffy moving with her daughters. How sweet is that?

My favorite scene was S6 Buffy, in the middle of her downward spiral and still ighting to keep her mom's 'girls house'. Also interesting how this plays into her insistence to settle down by the end of the story.

:) Good job, sweetie loved it all!

(and yeah, Im amazingly late to this party. What's new?)

fluffernutter8 September 15 2010, 21:43:47 UTC

I love the full circle you've made, from Buffy moving as a daughter, to Buffy moving with her daughters.
Does it make me really unauthorly to say that I didn't notice that I was doing that? Maybe it's just a really cool coincidence and it's awesome that you noticed.

I'm so glad you found it (how did you find it, by the way?), I'm glad you liked it and I'm so glad you reviewed! Thank you!!

leni_ba September 16 2010, 02:08:01 UTC

I found it recced at joyousrebellion, and I was like. Wait, I know Fluff and I don't know that story - how did that happen? And then I realized you'd posted in July, lol!

Does it make me really unauthorly to say that I didn't notice that I was doing that?

I think that makes it even greater. :)