constance

Here's some of the stuff I stole from JustSue. That doesn't make her in any way to blame for this fic, send all law suits my way. If any actual lines have snuck in there that was by accident, but the whole setup for the next couple of chapters is lifted from her fic Buyer Beware.
I tweaked Chapter two a little, mostly in response to comments, to make it clearer and Buffy more sympathetic, but not enough that it needs rereading for this to make sense. In fact I'm still not happy with it, probably tweak it again next week. I wanted to have Buffy concerned and firmly not showing it and obviously I didn't get that across, now I still don't but it's clunkier. Thanks again to slackerace for continuing to beta even though I make up words. So yeah, here's Chapter Three.
( Dreidel )

I'm going away for a very long weekend, unlikely to be online again for at least a week so forgive me if I'm even laxer about replying to comments than usual. I do read them, treasure them, and try to correct my fic accordingly.

This fic was 'inspired' by Just Sue, so much so that it would count as plagiarism if she hadn't given me her kind permission to post it. I like to think of it as fanficcing her fanfic. Don't think I've stolen any actual lines but the overall idea, and a few of the details are hers, as is the overlapping POV in places. It's not really relevant to the first couple of chapters, I'll give details when I get to the bits I nicked. You can find her fic, Buyer Beware, here: http://redeem.dark-solace.org/

This is my also first try at writing plot, even a half stolen and barely existing one, unless you count 'Buffy and Spike get it on', and I'm not sure how much sense it makes. Hopefully it'll make some kind of sense eventually, not yet obviously, because this is only the first chapter and it's stupidly short. To be clear, everything that happened in Season Six is canon for this fic, and it starts maybe a week before Lessons.

The correct grammar belongs to slackerace, the title and quote belong to Don Mclean, as usual the rest of the credit goes to Joss Whedon.
( Dreidel )

Does anyone here listen to The Now Show? There was a typically hilarious season finale on Friday live from the Edinburg fringe. I'm guessing Radio Four isn't very big in America but you can download it as a podcast or listen for the next five days here:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/nowshow.shtml
Might not make a lick of sense but it's very funny.

I have no fic to rec because my home computer's gone belly up and I can't read any of the stuff I pasted. Keeps switching itself off and comes on with a blank screen, then every now and then will come on working perfectly, claiming it's 1997. My Father, who pretends to know about such things even though he's older than computers, said the video card is going, I don't even know what that means.
On the plus side, I've found an internet cafe without a filter that charges by the hour rather than the minute, think I'm just going to stay here until somebody reports me missing.

Oh, and I've been nominated for an award. At least my fic has, at the fang fetish awards. I'd put a button up but I'm too stupid... Very flattered though.

Set in a more gentle Season Six, what might have happened if Buffy'd been less depressed and ashamed of her sexuality, and Spike hadn't been so damn impatient and determined to bring her over to the dark side. Set very firmly before they shagged, but after OMWF.
I know it's OOC, but how else do you get S6 fic that isn't depressing?

Beta'd very quickly by slackerace

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Here's chapter five of Softer World, still with the same crappy title because I've yet to think of a better one. What it does have, courtesy of a beta from slackerace, is three correctly used semi colons. That's new. Never been beta'd before, it's very nice, I post this confident for once that my punctuation is correct and I don't have Buffy using any weird British phrases. So big thanks to Slackerace, and everyone else who's helped me with linking/formatting.

The first four chapters can be found here lj://memories/constance-b/, hopefully, I don't have a good record with LJ links.
Warning. There may be boinking in this chapter.

( Chapter Five )

As ever I like my feedback spiced with criticism.

This is the list I wanted to post on Sunday, best Spuffy fic I've read this week. I've tried to restrict myself to new fic this week, or at least new to me, so it's more of a top seven.

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And Firefly? Blue Sun Room, where I go for most of my firefly fic, has been inaccessible to me and only just popped back up. So there's just one, a wip.
CABridges - When the Devil Drives
http://www.serenitymovie.org/browncoats/forums/index.php?showtopic=5424&st=0&gopid=232388&

Seen lots of references to other blog sites on LJ just recently, but I don't think I've ever seen a link to a Spuffy fic on one. Am I missing out? Is there swathes of fic I've not read yet away from LJ?

My internet cafe has closed down! I only bought a months membership last week and now the place is borded up. I'm at the coffee shop round the corner but it's hopeless and won't let me access anything, including my own journal! Most of my flist is coming up access denied and even if I could get at anything, this stupid computer has no floppy drive so I can't take any fic home to read. Most frustrating of all are the journals that are coming up but I can't look behind the cut, namely KCarolJ65 who has a new chapter of Blood runs thin up and I can't read it. Maybe she says crap in it, cause we all have to be protected from mild swear words.

I'm lost. I live in Oxford, the place is teeming with students and there is not a single place I can access LJ on a Sunday. Which is the only day I have without a toddler tugging at my skirt and trying to play with the mouse. And even on a weekday there's only a library, and I suspect it's going to have the same ridiculously overdone filter system as this stupid shop. Although at least they won't charge me three quid for the privelege of not being able to look at anything.

I had a list of fic recs to post, can't get them off the floppy, can't remember the links. Quinara has a lovely short up which I can't comment on because it won't let me access. It was very sweet, if you're reading Quinara. I love her style of writing, distinctive and descriptive with good attention to detail, and very subtle. Sorry I can't leave this comment on your journal. Guess you've used a swear word once to.

In RL, there has been a police van permanently stationed at the end of my road cause someone was threatened with a gun last week. I live in BlackBird Leys, a housing estate infamous in the early nineties for joyriders, the guns are new though, generally people just stab eachother. And my married and very creepy neighbour has been hitting on me. Tried avoiding him but my little girl loves his stepdaughter, and her trampoline, have to drag her past their house.

No point commenting on this entry, I can only look at my user info. I'm seriously pissed off.

Huge thanks to whoever nominated me at the Love's Last Glimpse awards. I'm going to take a wild guess and say KCarolJ65? Lovely end to my holiday. Haven't read any Spuffy for a fortnight, so not even recs this week. That's a lie, actually. I printed out Sharelle's Out of Joint, and Bogwitch's Working my Way because they'd both had updates and I read them both through from the beginning. Which was great fun for me, but you've all read those two, right?

I was trying to edit my WIP, take out the UnAmerican swearing and Britisms and add a few more personal pronouns, and I noticed LJ has taken out all of my italics. I've had a flick through the LJ faq but - really stupid with computers. Anyone know how I can put them back again?

I'm going on holiday tomorrow, Dawlish Warren, little coastal town that might not have public internet access. Here's an update for my list of Spuffy author sites. New links are under the cut below, and hopefully after that will be a link to the previous post which I'm going to update but this is new territory for me.

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Complete List

My little girl saw Big Ben at the weekend. On the bus yesterday there was a picture, advertising a trip to London, she started yelling look mummy, big clock, only she can't pronounce L's very well and a few people on the bus sniggered. Then she wanted to look at Daddy's tiny clock. I tried to correct her, say Daddy has a watch, big mistake, toddlers don't like being corrected. So she yelled at the top of her voice. 'No Mummy! Daddy has a tiny cock!' He'll not be getting that bus again.

Top ten fics for this week, again little of it fresh. Is anyone writing new stuff? Why can't seasonal Spuffy run all year?

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