![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
New story
A holiday weekend probably isn't the best time to post a story (at least, it's a holiday weekend for us Yanks), but I was kind of bored and restless, and didn't want to break my back in the garden when it got sunny after all. I'd planned for rain, dammit! Seattle never, ever delivers on the kind of weather you want, when you want it.
This story, The Perfume of Kismet is a slightly different take on Spike and Buffy together, including Angel's effect on both their lives after Becoming. I think it's kinda dark and smutty again, but I honestly don't know -- I'm a terrible judge of what people in this fandom consider dark or smut-filled. I personally wouldn't call it that, but I realize I'm a bit out of step in general.
(And for those of you who gave me the thumbs up about the title, the scoop is that I did use a line from a previous story. I'd originally called this Enemy of My Enemy, and titles play a huge role in how I write -- I can't actually write unless I have a title. But then when I started plotting it out, a very good story came out with that title, and so I had to find something else. I used the title I was currently attaching to chapter 3 of the WIP, but it wasn't right, and Spike talks a lot about fate in this story, which reminded me of this line from The Living. Maybe the whole thing is pretentious crap after all, but hey, I probably appear that way already, so why worry?) A gajillion thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sweet_ali for the comments and edits, and for helping me even in the midst of all kinds of big life changes. I wish I could find a way to repay you.
Grumble, grumble... it's still sunny out. Must go toil and sweat.
This story, The Perfume of Kismet is a slightly different take on Spike and Buffy together, including Angel's effect on both their lives after Becoming. I think it's kinda dark and smutty again, but I honestly don't know -- I'm a terrible judge of what people in this fandom consider dark or smut-filled. I personally wouldn't call it that, but I realize I'm a bit out of step in general.
(And for those of you who gave me the thumbs up about the title, the scoop is that I did use a line from a previous story. I'd originally called this Enemy of My Enemy, and titles play a huge role in how I write -- I can't actually write unless I have a title. But then when I started plotting it out, a very good story came out with that title, and so I had to find something else. I used the title I was currently attaching to chapter 3 of the WIP, but it wasn't right, and Spike talks a lot about fate in this story, which reminded me of this line from The Living. Maybe the whole thing is pretentious crap after all, but hey, I probably appear that way already, so why worry?) A gajillion thanks to
sweet_ali for the comments and edits, and for helping me even in the midst of all kinds of big life changes. I wish I could find a way to repay you.Grumble, grumble... it's still sunny out. Must go toil and sweat.
you the queen
satisfied my longing for evil spike, and came
during one of my favorite "off world" moments--
what else happened to buffy when she was ANNE?
good choice to *go there* for your story.
since you have are THE QUEEN and have the expert
chops to turn out excellent fic, i propose to you:
i know it doesn't fit her character, but have
you ever written one where buffy gets vamped?
i have been thinking alot about spike coming
back as human, the parallels to lestat in THE BODY
THIEF, and how much he will *hate* it...or will he?
and what if the shoe was on the other foot...
kind of like "gift of the magi"--spike is human,
and buffy is vamped? the never-gonna-get-together
saga. *sigh*
also read your SOMNILOQUY these week and about died.
you are so good, gwyn, and i'm recommending your fic
all over the place, esp. to a spuffy fan in bath, UK--
keep feeding us our fanfic drugs, gwyn!
xoxo, anne
Re: you the queen
Gift of the Magi! Oh, I love variations on that story, and that's a really interesting way of thinking of it, the two of them reversing their positions. I've always wondered if slayers can be turned. They never addressed that, especialy in the Nightmares episode, but I always wished they would, because what would happen? So many holes left unfilled....
Thanks so much for the kind comments!