Subject: SPOILERS for BTVS FINALE!

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Whew! Well, I did it. I spent the weekend not only working on my Film Class paper on theme in Spirited Away, but also on finishing the BtVS/AtS short 3-chapter fanfic that I began on Thursday night.

SPOILERS FOR CHOSEN AHEAD! YOU HEARD ME!

It’s set in the middle of a speculative Angel season 5, with no AtS spoilers whatsoever except the casting one that everyone already knows about anyway. Honestly, the rest is entirely my imaginings. Even though this is only about 2500 words, it turned out to be longer than I expected. It was going to be just two parts, but I realized something was missing to link them together. I’ve also gone over it about 15 times, at least.

I’m putting this up swiftly, as an apology to those people’s who’ve commented on my journal for my never finishing/revising and putting up that post-Showtime fic ‘Markdown’ or that post-Dirty Girls fanfic about Buffy and the rain.

Thanks to hecatehatesthat for helping me with remembering what the Hyperion Hotel looks like on the outside, and for the early encouragement. And thanks to girlwithjournal, who also said it sounded like a neat idea, and who wasn’t afraid to talk to me over the phone though we’d never met.

Summary: AtS, season 5 casting spoiler only. The aftermath of someone’s Shanshu. Three meetings: 2004, 2006, and 2007. Spike, Angel, Xander, Buffy.

snippet:
He didn’t have to touch the pendant to remember his death. That morning and the year preceding it were etched in diamond in his mind’s eye. Perhaps it was because he’d had a soul in those last several months, the same soul that made him human now. Perhaps it was because that was the time he most wanted to remember of his old life; the year he was loved.

Chapters 1-3, complete: This Is Your Life

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Sadly, I was not able to put up all the pretty icons I made this weekend. Am very sad. But I have lots of time to do it I suppose.

In my boredom I also made chocolate chip cookies, applied for 2 jobs, and watched the first 4 episodes of Serial Experiments Lain. Which, besides being seriously fucking weird, was also mind-numbingly boring. It’s hard to image something with the violence that show has (not the worst ever, but still very present) could be boring, but it was. Someone tell me it’ll get better? Or don’t—it’s not like I bought it anyway.

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I re-read Spiders From Mars by mustangsally78 and RivkaT (LJ name unknown), and was once again thrilled by it. What I love about their fanfic series is that I never know what to expect out of it. I certainly had never expected ‘Xander & the Evil!KnightRider!Car.’ :snert:

Anyway, this is a list of what I call RivStang-isms, that struck me as horribly funny:

"holy water ice cubes"
"technicolor yawn."
"Above and Beyond the Call of Pies."
"weapons-grade chocolate,"
"brownie orgasm"
"pastry banditry"
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Comments

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

although I think the Spike/Xander scene was particularly haunting in it's simplicity.

Wow. That makes me really happy to hear. I was sort of going for simple yet effective; although the Angel scene was harder to write, I was more worried about the Xander scene and making sure it didn't feel tacked-on, and instead was more of balancing thing.

And the ending was ending was just great - he may be human, but he's still so very Spike.

That's the coolest compliment. Thanks.