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timepiececlockAnother fanfic entry. Yes, I do that a lot.
This next fic is neat. The sytle and format... original and impossible to describe. It's an account of how S7 Buffy goes down into the underworld to rescue Spike, and it's written almost like scripture (from hell/demon's POV), or like one of Giles' old demon prophecy texts. That sounds dull, but it's actually surprising cool. Major kudos to Macha for thinking it up and for carrying it out so well.
descant descending by macha
Chapter 1 snippet:
0.6.1 INCEPTION/ PLAINSONG/ BARD’S TALE
Then the Slayer appeared before the god Osiris. And he said, "Begone! This is not the world of the living. You have no jurisdiction here." "I come in peace", she said, "on business of my own, that serves both life and death, both light and darkness." "How can that be?" he said. "What is your purpose?" "I seek the vampire Spike, who was once called William." "But surely it is the business of Slayers to send the undead into the Underworld, and not to recover them from it?" "It's true, that is the more usual order. But - what can I say? - I'm just not the usual Slayer. And as for the vampire he's also one of a kind. This vampire is mine to call, and I mean to claim him, since I have need of him in the work I have to do." "You mean to tell me *he* has a calling?" "He does, and it is by my side he is meant to fight." “Been a long time since I laughed out loud", he told her. “All part of the special edition Slayer package, and my free gift to you”, she answered, all perky. “The dead and the undead alike are mine", he said, "but as you have made me laugh once, at least, I will play you for him, if you like." A senet board appeared in the air between them. "What stakes?", said the Slayer. "Winner take all." "Done."
I was reading chapter 2 and on the "2.5.1 WALLS/ ECHO/ WITNESS ARIAS" which is the snippet from real-verse where BTVS (and the fic) is a show watched by fans who are commenting, they said this, which I thought was a pretty interesting brief analysis of the symbolism of walls in the show & Buffy's interpersonal relationships:
2.5.1 WALLS/ ECHO/ WITNESS ARIAS
I know this one! Dawn is the key, born to unlock the door.
Which door?
All those doors on the stairway down, I’m thinking. Buffy comes down those stairs past all those frames to where Spike waits the night she’s resurrected from the dead.
Right. Dawn complains that Buffy won’t let her in.
Okay, so the walls in the house keep being breached. What else?
It’s strong in the chthonic imagery: Buffy gone to ground in the trenches. The earth reclaims her body under ground when she’s dead. She has to claw her way out of the coffin and back up to the world when she is resurrected. In Grave, Willow BlackEyedGirl tells Buffy she took her from the earth, and now the earth wants her back, and then the elementals come out of the walls below ground to reclaim Buffy and Dawn.
And metaphorically, Buffy so guarded, of course, like she’s been way back to Riley leaving, when her mom died, when she told Giles in Intervention she didn’t think it sounded right when she told him she loved him.
But the spirit guide told her she was full of love. And she jumped for Dawn.
Joyce is in the wall in Restless. And Xander blames the wall in The Body.
Xander’s the heart of the Scoobies. He blames Buffy’s walls for a lot of their problems: it’s the start of their huge argument in Selfless.
Because she holds everything inside these days. CrazySpike in Lessons tells her the source of the problem is in the wall. And two eps later, he’s still trying on his own behalf to “wall up the bad parts, put your heart back in where it fell out.”
She certainly did a fine job shutting him right out in Season 6, poor bugger.
She shut everyone out.
Loss of affect. It’s a thing.
This next fic is neat. The sytle and format... original and impossible to describe. It's an account of how S7 Buffy goes down into the underworld to rescue Spike, and it's written almost like scripture (from hell/demon's POV), or like one of Giles' old demon prophecy texts. That sounds dull, but it's actually surprising cool. Major kudos to Macha for thinking it up and for carrying it out so well.
descant descending by macha
Chapter 1 snippet:
0.6.1 INCEPTION/ PLAINSONG/ BARD’S TALE
Then the Slayer appeared before the god Osiris. And he said, "Begone! This is not the world of the living. You have no jurisdiction here." "I come in peace", she said, "on business of my own, that serves both life and death, both light and darkness." "How can that be?" he said. "What is your purpose?" "I seek the vampire Spike, who was once called William." "But surely it is the business of Slayers to send the undead into the Underworld, and not to recover them from it?" "It's true, that is the more usual order. But - what can I say? - I'm just not the usual Slayer. And as for the vampire he's also one of a kind. This vampire is mine to call, and I mean to claim him, since I have need of him in the work I have to do." "You mean to tell me *he* has a calling?" "He does, and it is by my side he is meant to fight." “Been a long time since I laughed out loud", he told her. “All part of the special edition Slayer package, and my free gift to you”, she answered, all perky. “The dead and the undead alike are mine", he said, "but as you have made me laugh once, at least, I will play you for him, if you like." A senet board appeared in the air between them. "What stakes?", said the Slayer. "Winner take all." "Done."
I was reading chapter 2 and on the "2.5.1 WALLS/ ECHO/ WITNESS ARIAS" which is the snippet from real-verse where BTVS (and the fic) is a show watched by fans who are commenting, they said this, which I thought was a pretty interesting brief analysis of the symbolism of walls in the show & Buffy's interpersonal relationships:
2.5.1 WALLS/ ECHO/ WITNESS ARIAS
I know this one! Dawn is the key, born to unlock the door.
Which door?
All those doors on the stairway down, I’m thinking. Buffy comes down those stairs past all those frames to where Spike waits the night she’s resurrected from the dead.
Right. Dawn complains that Buffy won’t let her in.
Okay, so the walls in the house keep being breached. What else?
It’s strong in the chthonic imagery: Buffy gone to ground in the trenches. The earth reclaims her body under ground when she’s dead. She has to claw her way out of the coffin and back up to the world when she is resurrected. In Grave, Willow BlackEyedGirl tells Buffy she took her from the earth, and now the earth wants her back, and then the elementals come out of the walls below ground to reclaim Buffy and Dawn.
And metaphorically, Buffy so guarded, of course, like she’s been way back to Riley leaving, when her mom died, when she told Giles in Intervention she didn’t think it sounded right when she told him she loved him.
But the spirit guide told her she was full of love. And she jumped for Dawn.
Joyce is in the wall in Restless. And Xander blames the wall in The Body.
Xander’s the heart of the Scoobies. He blames Buffy’s walls for a lot of their problems: it’s the start of their huge argument in Selfless.
Because she holds everything inside these days. CrazySpike in Lessons tells her the source of the problem is in the wall. And two eps later, he’s still trying on his own behalf to “wall up the bad parts, put your heart back in where it fell out.”
She certainly did a fine job shutting him right out in Season 6, poor bugger.
She shut everyone out.
Loss of affect. It’s a thing.
