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Fic:

So on this sailor moon/ btvs crossover I started last month for god knows what reason... I've got some thoughts on how to go about it. I was in the shower when I came up with these, and for some reason I now have this desire to actually write more on that story. I realized my problem was the same one I always have-- I know the overall good vs Evil theme, but I falter on coming up with smaller conflicts to drive the story forward. Well actually its not that I realized the problem, because like I said I always have this problem, its more like I realized a possible solution.

options:

A) keep chpt 1 (introduction of Mamoru & Usagi to Sunnydale) as it is, but fast forward the Buffy timline to 'Never Leave Me' instead of 'Selfless'. The plot then becomes "Where's Waldo?-- I mean Spike?"

B) I fast forward the SM timeline instead, setting the story in the vaguely described 30th century, after Usagi has taken throne as Serenity and the world is woken from its frozen sleep. Then I could have Buffy as an immortal Slayer (loved that cliche-- I really never tire of it, both as an 'eternal love' type romantic and as a perpertual survivalist who thinks immortal life is always better than the alternative.) Buffy then would be like a rogue Slayer who hunts specific demons and possibly guards a hellmouth[s], and whom I can imagine would have juicy disagreements with the queen. And you bet I'd find some way to have Spike there. And maybe an Angel or Cordy cameo.


Now, both sound plausible in my head, and both also have disadvantages. For scenario A, I'd be able to use the FE as a way to mesh the two universes-- the First of BtVS can also be the unknown big evil that supposedly freezes over the earth for a 1000 years in the SM post-canon 'future'. That way, at least my story has an end-- knows where its going. And I could write about Spike without having to invent a logical reason for him to be included. The bad here is that I'd have the same problem that's bothered me since I started-- how do I combine a sometimes-campy superhero story like SM (costume trnasformations and all) with a fairly realistic/serious superhero story like BtVS, where the hero, and often the villains as well, where normal clothing and don't shout slogans.

The benefit of scenario B is that I could skip all that. By jumping strait to the future (and using the same premise with FE as the world-frezzing event) I could ahve the Slayer as a lone survivor of the world that was, now living in the very different world of the future, where magic is not only recognized in society, but part of government even. And the superhero sillyness wouldn't be an issue. And the politics in the future presented in SM are so cague I could adjust it as I see fit. The downside here is that I'd lose the other Scoobies, except possibly Spike, Angel, and Cordelia (the last two of which would be small references/cameos if any, anyway). Or maybe Dawn if I stretched it. And I'd have to wrok to come up with a main conflict, since the FE one would have been resolved in the events leading up to this story. But I can imagine in my head this great conversation in which Serenity summons the Slayer and Buffy gives her loads of shit about how even though the queen might have been chosen by destiny, Buffy wasn't chosen by the Queen and thus doesn't answer to her in her demon-killing decisions/methods. I love writing confrontatons like that.

I dunno what I'm gonna do. But I'll be thinkign about it now.

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I'm in love with the song "Bother" by Stone Sour.

If this song were a guy, I'd marry him.

If it were a girl, I'd try that spell Willow used in Him, only inverted.

We're together, now. This song and me.

'we like spike' article response letter

This is the response I sent to the editor at NY magazine regarding their article on Spike fans, found here thanks to katiedack's journal.
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My mom came home tonight and walked into my room carrying my Seventeen magazine (I think its like the second to last one before my subscription runs out--which I won't be renewing). She pointed out an article about boyfirned that girls keep going back to, and pointed out this picture of Buffy and Spike (the yummy one from the musical with them standing face to face), and read the caption aloud to me--

"Vampire boyfriends: Can't live with 'em, can't bear to drive a stake through thier hearts. What to do?"

Then she smiled and looked all pleased with herself. I smiled back.

Things like this make me know how much I just love my mom. She was happy to have found something she thought I'd like, even if Buffy is less than of interest to her. She's such an awesome, funny person, and my dad's so lucky.

This totally makes up for the vibes I got from the family in general when I was recording some of the Thanksgiving marathon. My mom hand't said anything about it at all, actually, but my brother (visiting) was quite derogatory, saying that it was stupid show that "only girls watch." Usually, he's more mature than this. But hey, my dad watched the second half of Hush (he laughed at Anya's hand sex-sign) and then all of Buffy vs. Dracula with me, while they recorded. He was staying mostly though to see if Dracula died. But he thought Giles with "the Dracc-y babes" was pretty funny.

Then my rude brother came along and ridiculed us, and my dad went all defensive-denial. Don't you just hate that? They have to make excuses like "I wanted to see Dracula" to jsutify watching it. Like a cape and a newly-materialized castle is something that's reasonable, but blood and love and violence and hate and pain and growing up and loyalty and duty and clever screwball comedy is something to be embarrassed for enjoying.