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Feb. 12th, 2004 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynSometimes I don't even do two posts in one week, let alone two in one day. But I have to get all this stuff done so I can go see the sneak peek of Hidalgo tonight! Wheee... Viggo and horsies, and it's free!
I finally finished that Buffy story I kept yammering about. I kept referring to it as the experimental piece -- I wanted to play with normal prose rules and had become interested in some of the prose poetry and flash fiction tricks out there in the writing community at large. It's not either of those things, but I was interested in the way some of the newer writing forms allow you to play with punctuation, structure, and narrative rules, which is what I was trying to do here. Probably most people, if they even get farther than the first section, will think I was on crack (but it was really *good* crack!), but anyway. It also interested me to play around with the religious implications of Buffy's death in The Gift. I know it makes me a little repetitive and unoriginal, but I keep finding myself drawn to that episode as a jumping off point for what-if AUs based around or after it.
If you're not scared off by now, you can find Assumption here . And yeah, some of the things that might seem like mistakes... are actually very deliberate.
I finally finished that Buffy story I kept yammering about. I kept referring to it as the experimental piece -- I wanted to play with normal prose rules and had become interested in some of the prose poetry and flash fiction tricks out there in the writing community at large. It's not either of those things, but I was interested in the way some of the newer writing forms allow you to play with punctuation, structure, and narrative rules, which is what I was trying to do here. Probably most people, if they even get farther than the first section, will think I was on crack (but it was really *good* crack!), but anyway. It also interested me to play around with the religious implications of Buffy's death in The Gift. I know it makes me a little repetitive and unoriginal, but I keep finding myself drawn to that episode as a jumping off point for what-if AUs based around or after it.
If you're not scared off by now, you can find Assumption here . And yeah, some of the things that might seem like mistakes... are actually very deliberate.
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Date: 2004-02-12 04:01 pm (UTC)Wow.
Thank you.
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Date: 2004-02-12 05:11 pm (UTC)Huge fan of your writing, as you should know-- adore your lyrical, highly evocative style, the splendid characterisation, and the very stories you tell, so I am looking forward to read this new part of your oeuvre. Can't promise heaps of it, but I will definitely give you feedback. If anyone deserves it, it's you.
(Flattery my middle name? Where did you get *that* idea? *g* No, honestly. Coolness!)
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Date: 2004-02-12 05:35 pm (UTC)I know it makes me a little repetitive and unoriginal...
Definitely not. You put your own spin on everything, yet it rang true. As a whole I found this piece both original and breathtaking. I can't tell you how much I appreciated it. Just beautiful.
Thanks for sharing. ^_^
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Date: 2004-02-14 02:44 pm (UTC)Assumption
Date: 2004-02-12 06:29 pm (UTC)Spike rested his forehead on the mangled claw of hand, licked the blood from her fingers and arm like sacrament, a host inside his body to sanctify. She tasted of death.
and
And then she kissed him, oh, she kissed him, and he had a taste an aroma a feeling of heaven, her heaven. Buffy's mouth against his and lips searching for life brought him alive, into her. She was around him and in him like water, flowing, rippling, falling with a great noise and torrent.
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I love him, but I belong to heaven now.
And he still belongs to hell.
Thanks for this, Gwyn.
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Date: 2004-02-12 08:23 pm (UTC)I'll also be curious to hear your thoughts on Hidalgo. I went last night.
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Date: 2004-02-14 02:51 pm (UTC)I was surprised, considering how Touchstone and Disney are marketing it as family friendly, how horrible some of the violence was (and I like movie violence). I can't handle animal death or the whole people walking near death through the desert stuff, either, so there were some chunks where I was burying my face in my seatmate's shoulder! Viggo, however, was stunning and that's the skinniest I've seen him in a long time!
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Date: 2004-02-14 09:46 pm (UTC)Viggo was indeed stunning. I thought the whole thing was about 20 minutes too long. What troubled me the most was the use of the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee (and the publicity about him being a "Pony Express" rider he was a dispatch rider).
If they had billed it as fiction, I'd probably have let go and treated it with the enjoyment of a "Raiders" sequel. Instead, they insisted on the true story angle. I realize that it's based on the Hopkins own tales, but I still struggled at times. I read a Mortenson interview in Native Voice (http://www.nativevoicemedia.com/fullstory.cfm?ID=455), a Lakota paper. It's clear he's very sincere and concerned about the accuracy of the ghost dance segments. Still, I can't shake my suspicions about the original source material and that influenced my reactions.
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Date: 2004-02-12 09:31 pm (UTC)These were things Spike did not know: How to set bones (he breaks them), how to close a wound (he makes them), how to keep a human heart beating (he takes them). The char of lightning she was reborn on has left her rubicund, but the irregular beat of her pulse told him that was a lie. She was newly alive, dying again.
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So I should go home now and finish it. But it's wonderful so far.
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Date: 2004-02-13 02:09 am (UTC)::wanders off in a daze to rec this on her LJ::
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Date: 2004-02-13 05:10 am (UTC)I really liked the style, wording and mood of the story. And Buffy and Spike. I love them. I feel for both of them, you've captured so much of their beauty. Beautiful, broken, insecure, lost, raw. I can't wait to get home so I can read it again.
Nellie
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Date: 2004-02-13 07:33 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-13 10:52 am (UTC)No one should be deprived of this story :)
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