What the fuck are you doing writing for free? Call your agent. Get this between two covers, now. Make us pay for this experience because it is amazing.
Ha, thank you. And I would make you pay for it except I um, don't own the characters, so then I might get sued, and I'd also get wanked, and while it might be kind of fancy to appear on f_w, I don't like the part where I have to fork over tons of cash to ME, because I've already given them so much money buying the DVDs, you know?
But I am trying to write original fiction for publication. Fanfic helps me reach in new directions to go with it. It's fun. Thanks again.
A paypal link! Now why didn't I think of that? I could put one after each word and have some special deal-y thing that won't let you read the next word until you pay the 30p for the previous word, and you know what that means!!! The first and last words are free, omg. To hell with the law!
Oh god. This made me cry. It's utterly beautiful. There are so many layers to this, I'm going to have to read it twenty times, and it will probably make me cry each time.
I think what I love the most are the last paragraphs of the two Buffy sections, how chaotic they are, and how sad and angry. They break my heart even more than the Angel sections. I love that the last line ends without punctuation, because it's not an ending, really. Buffy's depression doesn't get magically resolved because she saw Angel, and that's both horrible and wonderful.
Sorry for the tears, but yeah, the end made me feel pretty morose as well. I always thought the big angsty sorrow of that unshown scene in S6 was them still loving each other, but realizing more than ever that they can't be together. But it's not just that--it's that, as you say, he can't "fix" her, and for her that's such an end of innocence. She'll always love him, but the shattering-of-illusion moment are a falling out of love at the same time, and realizing you don't love someone (or at least, don't love someone quite as you did) really really hurts. I think it hurts more than realizing someone doesn't love you back (though that's not what's happening here, of course; I'm just saying).
And the lack of punctuation at the end was fun. I felt so naughty (lookee I'm breaking rules! WheeeeeeeSPLAT!)
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And yeah, but I'm the kind of person who gets nervous easily, especially socially. I should just suck it up, I suppose.
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What the fuck are you doing writing for free? Call your agent. Get this between two covers, now. Make us pay for this experience because it is amazing.
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But I am trying to write original fiction for publication. Fanfic helps me reach in new directions to go with it. It's fun. Thanks again.
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Fanfic is a great way to keep the discipline. Good luck with the original work, and hope that you'll share that as well.
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Yeah, still in good fun over here, too.
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Freaking awesome.
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I think what I love the most are the last paragraphs of the two Buffy sections, how chaotic they are, and how sad and angry. They break my heart even more than the Angel sections. I love that the last line ends without punctuation, because it's not an ending, really. Buffy's depression doesn't get magically resolved because she saw Angel, and that's both horrible and wonderful.
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And the lack of punctuation at the end was fun. I felt so naughty (lookee I'm breaking rules! WheeeeeeeSPLAT!)
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She’s been to Heaven and he’s been to Hell, and now all that’s left is in between, the never perfect and no longer innocent.
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