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The Tale of Shahrazad and Delhemma
It isn't that I've been writing. I got this to this point a while ago.
The core story is that of No Fair Fights, about a soldier in Iraq who was Chosen when Sunnydale fell. I've had that idea forever, and have the vaguely fleshed-out bones in Google Docs, with all the Iraq stuff in flashback because I'm not nearly experienced enough to do it well ( Read more... ) -
Seeking Robin Fic
Back in the day, everybody I knew writing post-"Chosen" separated Faith and Robin almost as quickly as they separated Willow and Kennedy.
This I get.
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Plot Bunny: "Damage"
At the end of "Damage", Andrew is getting in Angel's face with a dozen Slayers behind him, and then they put Dana in their van and drive off.
When Andrew is doing the pissing contest with Angel, he rubs in the spice with "... and none of them have ever dated you".
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Fandom Thoughts on Poker Face, filtered through Buffy
We're watching Poker Face. The concept is that a woman, Charlie, has a "power", in that she can instantly listen to you say something and know if you're telling the truth. She had been using it to see through bluffs in various poker games, until she gets found out and frozen out. Then the first episode happens and she's on the run, hiding from the ( Read more... ) -
The Tale of Shahrazad and Delhemma (BtVS, post-"Chosen")
So, No Fair Fights.
I had a conversation among Buffy friends years ago where I conjectured that the reason Riley wasn't there to green-light Spike's unchipping was that there was that they made demon eggs WMDs in canon, so what would a demon-fighting Marine be doing in 2003 but invading Iraq? And, after May, you definitely have many young women ( Read more... ) -
New Fic - Just Shadows
So, the last word that Mutant Enemy gives us on the state of Slayers in the Slayerverse (minus the comics, which I don't accept (although No Future For You is pretty good)) is the Angel season 5 episode "Damage", where an emotionally damaged and institutionalized young woman comes out from under Thorazine to go on a killing spree. At the end, it is ( Read more... ) -
Question for Writers
Do you have problems keeping up with your muse?
For example, I'm in a job where I have enough extra cycles to start thinking about narrative again, and pulled out "No Fair Fights" about 20 years after "Chosen". "NFF" is a story about a specific OC Slayer, who, because of where she was when chosen, is slow to pick up the details about what happened ( Read more... ) -
CwDP Fic: Faith and First!Kendra
So, I'm somewhere in greater fandom and the topic of "Who else could've been visited in "Conversations with Dead People"? Some people opined that seeing Faith visited by "Kendra" would be interesting. I really didn't think so, and argued as much. I think the fact that Faith walked into the office of Evil and said "You got a job opening?", and that ( Read more... ) -
Water Hold Me Down: conjecture on an abandoned WIP
I just got to the "end" of Water Hold Me Down. Again. I don't remember reading it the first time but there I am in the comments.
It's decades gone. It won't be finished. liz_marcs has gone on. But I have thoughts. Many may be obvious.
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An idea I can't use
On TikTok, I'm seeing a number of people with specialty prosthetic eyes. Like really wild ones.
I think, because trauma, it would take Xander a while to want anything but an eye-looking eye.
But, seeing that Eliza Dushku was in True Lies with Arnold Schwarzenegger, having her suggest he get a crosshair prosthetic like the villain from Last ( Read more... )