lettered worried about the world

L. Hope no one was trying to fly out of the country today. The news is always so fuckin scary, man.
I. I've been in Austin for a week or so, and will be in Florida next week to help my brother and s-i-l move. So I've been kinda spotty on the lj thing. I've missed some comments, whatnot--I'll be getting back to ya.
N. Did you miss stoney321's post about the president of a gardening company using its mailing list to encourage bigotry? Did you go to the website for the company to politely (hopefully articulately) protest? Did anyone write Adam/Steve fic? Anyone?
K. Test the Dixie/Yankeeness of your speech. You know y'ant to.
S. This game is freakishly addictive.






-Five Years Later At A Holiday End by romanyg
Angel/Connor. Warning: contains incest. What the title says, and then what the warning says, with simple, powerful text, spot on characterization, and something a little heartbreaking as well as sexy.

-No Place Like Home by chrisleeoctaves
Angel/Spike/Buffy. This piece is mostly light and almost hopeful, but with and undertone of bittersweetness and resignation, almost of despair. Chris hits exactly the right note: these characters can be happy, but they will never quite be content.

-Five Pairs of Lips Buffy Never Kissed. . . And Five She Did by chrisleeoctaves
Buffy/everyone and your mom. From family to youth to daydreams to love, this fic covers both the unexpected and unavoidable in Buffy's love life.

-Stick Shift Redux by stultiloquentia
Buffy/Spike. Even if you have me friended because you're a h0r 4 B/A, read it. It has something new to offer sex scenes, fresh words and ways of saying things that aren't what you get in 'ship fics and romance novels.

-I Don't Know Where I'll Be Tonight, But I'll Always Tell You Where I Am, by spuffyduds
Faith/Wesley. This is a really fun bit of almost fluff. The Faith voice is endearing and spot-on, and the progression of the fic is a way to rediscover any kink you might've had for gradual love stories and/or epistlary pieces.

-Substance Among Other Categories (was that the title? or not? by ros_fod
Connor/Spike. Spare and sad and that absent third.

-page 5 of astridv's comic.
If you haven't been keeping up with astridv and yhlee's co-created comic book, you should. Fabulous drawings, interesting plot, set post-NFA.


-dovil has two posts on Spike/Angel(us) dynamics, here and here.

-rahirah hosted a discussion about plagarism in fanfic, in response to the Cassie Claire thing. Several other people are discussing the same thing--food for thought, I think.

ETA: "The word deadline first appeared as an American coinage that referred to the line around a military prison beyond which soldiers were authorized to shoot escaping prisoners." Think about that next time you're late on a project, MM & Mmes!