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Post by karalee on May 18, 2004 12:22:46 GMT -5
You know, my foot gets healed, I'm not going to have all this time on my hands and THEN what are you going to do about fic recommendations? OK, this is a sweet, sentimental, and funny bit of Spander, PG-13, mostly because Illyria has to be chaperoned, immediatly post AtS s5. Would be a nice way to start Thursday morning, but I have trouble with impulse control, you know? www.allaboutspike.com All Our Exploring, by Doyle Julia, or, as my microwave tells me when it's done heating up the water for the Orchids: ENJOY YOUR MEAL I love it when a writer gets the voices right! Near-perfect Illyria, Spike and Xander. Thanks Julia.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 18, 2004 13:05:17 GMT -5
I love it when a writer gets the voices right! Near-perfect Illyria, Spike and Xander. Thanks Julia. Hey, Caraleigh, read this one yet?: www.catbones.com/scarecrow-horses/docs/whencoyotecametosunnydale.htmlI'm trying to pace myself on the ScarecrowHorses site because it's so wonderful. On the other hand, best to save the Nine Cats series on that site until the scar tissue has set after tomorrow night; I'm really not happy I read that one. Julia, avoiding DarkFic for the forseable future
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Post by Lola m on May 18, 2004 16:40:33 GMT -5
Best banter I've ever read, outside of a BtVS/AtS transcript: written by The Brat Queen. I haven't any interest whatsoever in hyppogryff stories. I haven't any interest in a Wes/Angel 'ship, yet I am following her current WIP, Protocol, just to read her banter. Nobody does banter better, IMHO, of the guys in the 'verse. Here's a short example of what I mean: It's a conversation taking place in what might be called the den or lounge area of Angel's headquarters in an AU setting. Angel turned to Xander. "Do I look different to you?" Xander leaned on his cue stick, tilting his head to the side. "Let's see… new shirt, you put those highlights in your hair, and you have *finally* accepted your fate as a summer and *not* a winter so I'd have to say that…. yes, I don't care in the slightest." "You know I'm going to bring up these conversations whenever people ask me why I had no doubts you were gay," Angel told him. "And yet you never hit on me," Xander made a thoughtful sound. "You know I don't think I thank you enough for that." "I wanna see," Connor said. "Connor, I can't hit on Xander," Angel said. "I'm married." "Your *marriage* is the thing that's blocking you on that one?" Xander asked. "Well 'oh my God it burns' seemed a little catty even for what we're calling a relationship," Angel told him. "You could defend my honor," Xander told Spike. Spike swallowed down a mouthful of beer from a bottle he kept handy. "Because I'm that het up on encouraging you and Angel to sleep together?" "Speaking of God and the burning," Xander said, with an accompanying overly dramatic shudder. "But we were not speaking of the naughty touching. We were speaking of the flirtation and the flattery to my ego. My ego is besmirched, yet you sit there like the very mute lump on the undead log." "Because you *want* Angel to flirt with you?" Spike asked. "Well… okay, no," Xander admitted. "So you want me to get into an argument with Angel to get you the right to a thing that you don't want in the first place?" Spike asked. "I'm just saying it could cross your mind," Xander told him. Spike turned to Angel. "I'm not dating mortals again. This is the last time, I swear it." "Did I warn you about this or did I warn you about this?" Angel reminded him. Excerpt from Protocol, Part 17, by The Brat Queen, at: www.livejournal.com/users/thebratqueen/Oddly enough. Or maybe un-oddly, um, I know that's not a word.........anyway - I have been enjoying Protocol a whole bunch. Lots. Not normally a big Angel/Wes shipper, but like it well enough. Little hints of Xander/Spike, but not as much as I would normally require. I think you hit the nail right on the head. Love her grasp of snarky banter. One more reason why I am sooooo looking forward to the virtual season 6 she is running. I know she won't be doing all the writing, but with it being her project I feel it is in good hands. Lola
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Post by karalee on May 18, 2004 21:28:12 GMT -5
Hey, Caraleigh, read this one yet?: www.catbones.com/scarecrow-horses/docs/whencoyotecametosunnydale.htmlI'm trying to pace myself on the ScarecrowHorses site because it's so wonderful. On the other hand, best to save the Nine Cats series on that site until the scar tissue has set after tomorrow night; I'm really not happy I read that one. Julia, avoiding DarkFic for the forseable future Yeah, I started it, but couldn't finish it. I have a hard time getting into major crossovers like that one is. I am looking forward to the next chapter of Changes, though.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 19, 2004 9:38:31 GMT -5
Yeah, I started it, but couldn't finish it. I have a hard time getting into major crossovers like that one is. I am looking forward to the next chapter of Changes, though. The thing is, the crossover aspect would normally turn me way the heck off, but it's really very much not an issue with that story- it's just these two guys in the wrong place, needing to get back to their own battle. Let's see, what can I say to tempt you? Warren ends up dead, is that an enticement? Julia, waiting for more of Changes (hoping it will be weekly) and hoping for lots of post "Not Fade Away" fics in the next few weeks
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 24, 2004 11:23:35 GMT -5
Would like to send smoochies to Tabaqui, who has updated "Changes" at Scarecrow Horses for the second Sunday in a row. Go, read, see that Drunken and Irish Angel can be written well.
Julia, a very sweet chapter, which of course means all hell will break loose soon
creeping through and changing mistakes I made in the infancy of my fic addiction
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Post by karalee on May 24, 2004 15:22:30 GMT -5
Would like to send smoochies to Catbones, who has updated "Changes" at Scarecrow Horses for the second Sunday in a row. Go, read, see that Drunken and Irish Angel can be written well. Julia, a very sweet chapter, which of course means all hell will break loose soon I wonder if she is going with canon and have Willow bring Buffy back. BTW, she has been pretty good about updating on Sundays in the past. She had taken a break a little while ago, but be expecting more every Sunday. Yeesh, confusing post, sorry
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 24, 2004 21:26:00 GMT -5
I wonder if she is going with canon and have Willow bring Buffy back. BTW, she has been pretty good about updating on Sundays in the past. She had taken a break a little while ago, but be expecting more every Sunday. Yeesh, confusing post, sorry Please look to my s'cubie name, for you cannot confuse the confuser. I just got to a point in a fic where I zoomed to the end and then OUCH: WIP with no warning devices. So, massive appreciation for people who label the darned things, and even more for those who keep working on them, having them get finished, and making progress toward the end without futzing around and putting forth chapters which exist only to have something written. NOT "Changes". Not "Repossession". Not "Mescla". Not, out of slash, Nan's stuff. But other stuff. Other padded and inelegant stuff. Julia, and catbones dances with canon in appealing way
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 30, 2004 9:47:45 GMT -5
I’ve always loved not-a-loser/Xander in Wordsmith’s trilogy of “Reconstruction” “Restoration” and “Reunification” www.angelfire.com/darkside/wordsmith/wordsmith.html So, yeah, went to check this out yesterday, read the first two and the first page of the third, but then the story loops back to the second story at the point where Lindsey sings his forst song; at least, it's impossible to link from the "next" at the bottom of the first page to any other new material, and the buttons under "Reunification" actually go to material which is identical, word for word, to "Restoration"... So do we ever know what happens when they go back to Sunnydale with W&H's latest really bad idea? Julia, drat it!
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Post by Lola m on May 30, 2004 16:49:46 GMT -5
I’ve always loved not-a-loser/Xander in Wordsmith’s trilogy of “Reconstruction” “Restoration” and “Reunification” www.angelfire.com/darkside/wordsmith/wordsmith.html So, yeah, went to check this out yesterday, read the first two and the first page of the third, but then the story loops back to the second story at the point where Lindsey sings his forst song; at least, it's impossible to link from the "next" at the bottom of the first page to any other new material, and the buttons under "Reunification" actually go to material which is identical, word for word, to "Restoration"... So do we ever know what happens when they go back to Sunnydale with W&H's latest really bad idea? Julia, drat it! I've often found the "nexts" at the bottom of pages to be defective - and not just on this site. But like on other ones I've found, it does work to go back to the original story link page and then click on the link to the next set of chapters. But if you mean, do we ever find out what happens when they've fininshed with W&H and they all head back w/Lindsey to Sunndale, no I don't think we ever find out. Lola
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 30, 2004 20:48:13 GMT -5
I've often found the "nexts" at the bottom of pages to be defective - and not just on this site. But like on other ones I've found, it does work to go back to the original story link page and then click on the link to the next set of chapters. But if you mean, do we ever find out what happens when they've fininshed with W&H and they all head back w/Lindsey to Sunndale, no I don't think we ever find out. Lola Well, that's stupidly annoying. Julia, if it weren't for the third story LOOKING as if that was what was intended, it would be slightly less bad storytelling
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 31, 2004 18:43:07 GMT -5
The website is Chocolatey Goodness; the author is Mad Poetess. The tale 's a 17-part Xander/Spike romance in Sunnydale, in the chipped Spike living in Xander's basement era. With extensive subparts. And LOTS of chocolate. I'm about halfway through, and completely charmed. www.hawksong.com/users/mpoetess/stakes/chocogood/index.htmlLATER: It's 5 in the morning and I've finished it. Although it's technically incomplete, emotionally it's finished: that's why the author, Amy, hasn't been able to go on with it, I think. She's come to and written the emotional climax and hasn't tidied some plot ends and doesn't know she's completed it. So don't shy away because it's a WIP--it's a very good story by an amateur writer who doesn't know it's done...but her muse does, so it won't let her tack meaningless stuff on at the end. Muses are pretty smart and don't let you do dumb stuff...most of the time. It's true. Trust me. Wanted to add my agreement to the praise for this story; unlike the trilogy that loops back on itself, which my last posts were dissing, this story has come to a satisfying coonclusion, emotionally, and getting them back to Sunnydale would just be a flat denoument. Not to say I wouldn't read more by this writer, and about this set of "what ifs?", but anything that goes on from the next minute would weaken what's already there. And, lord love a duck, is there some funny stuff in this story, not all of it chocolate related (the vignette of Tara, Willow, and the lugs in the holy spot is priceless, as is the riff on getting Angel drunk). The only thing I'm sort of meh about is the A/W diversion; I think it is just gratuitous slash. Julia, and the temporary tats are priceless
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 3, 2004 9:35:26 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 4, 2004 13:53:50 GMT -5
wisteria has the sixth chapter of "Mescla" up at her LJ: talky, not smutty, and more examination of just how messed up those three loons have gotten.
Julia, incapable of original coherent thought again
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makd so glad shes on break
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Post by makd so glad shes on break on Jun 4, 2004 15:08:53 GMT -5
Now that, Julia? Now that story demanded a cigarette, and I don't recall having smoked in the last 5 years. thank YOU darlin', for a little afternoon delight. just between friends.
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