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So, the remix is done and posted. Except for maybe a bit of post-beta fiddling I did which was only the inserting a few words to make a sentence flow better and I should know better but I don't and UGH! I can't handle this kind of pressure, okay? Also I can't wait for next year. This one didn't give me enough good angsting time (despite what

anxiety_junkie will tell you, I hardly angsted AT ALL. Three emails is barely any angst in my book. So there.)

I'm back to grinding away at all my regular fic. I have the next chapter of Ashes open and I'm scribbling away. And by scribbling away, I mean, of course, that I occasionally will type out a sentence fragment or two, both of which I will rewrite two days from now and then erase in a week after having left the thing up on my desktop that long hoping something will come to me. So probably another month for that, unless I get struck by ~~lightening~~ ~~naked James Marsters~~ inspiration.

The Monster is recovering sort of nicely from his tonsillectomy. Still croaky and sore, but no major issues so far. His mother is not recovering so nicely. I am stuck at home inside while he recovers and IT IS KILLING ME, YA'LL. My perspective is so skewed by less than a week as a shut-in I was seriously contemplating buying a pair of snakeskin platforms. With 5 inch heels. SEND HELP (and some hot River/Doctor/Amy porn).

I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of my latest few comics issues so I can see what everyone finds so objectionable. It's nice to see some stirrings on the comics side of the fandom (even if they are mostly negative). Now where's all the comics fic hanging out? I can't ever find any, apart from some very tentative Buffy/Satsu. I feel like I'm the only writer doing comics fic (which I know is patently untrue but it sounds appropriately dramatic).

Update me, flisties? Everyone ready for....ya know, that big upcoming thing? SIGH. It's the solitude. It's unhinging me.

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And by scribbling away, I mean, of course, that I occasionally will type out a sentence fragment or two, both of which I will rewrite two days from now and then erase in a week after having left the thing up on my desktop that long hoping something will come to me.

Man, do I feel this remark. Thankfully, I've got the fics written for my

spring_with_xan day. Hopefully now I can concentrate on my

summer_of_giles fic. (I signed up for these why, again?)

I've read up to #34 of the Buffy, not sure of the # on Angel, comics. I'm pretty much witholding judgment on both until the end of the "series". I've written a couple of "comics" (sorta-compliant) fics, mainly Buffy ones. But, it's based on stuff earlier in the season. I don't blame the direction of the comics for my lack of more write-y during this time frame, just my muse in general. Seems she's gone on an extended vacation - the wench.

Can I just say that it seems like it's been awhile since I've visited your journal, or have you added a new header/layout lately? Pretty!

Three emails is barely any angst in my book. So there.

*nods* Yes, this is true. There was a surprising lack of angst this year, definitely.

Well, angst from you, anyway. The fic itself was pretty angsty. :P

Well, I can link you to some mock!fic, but I'm afraid the comic aren't really material you can base the good stuff on.

Thank goodness it's not just me. Seriously, I feel like every time I trawl my flist, people are cranking out ginourmous epic fics DAILY. And here I am, writing around a hundred words every other day or so. It's a little disheartening. And I still have that 50 ficlets table hanging over my head (which I'm starting to worry may not happen at al).

I wish I was writing more comics fic. I got really inspired at the beginning and now? I got nothing. I think it's because they're mid-plot and I really hate to write before I've seen the end of the arc. I have a deep phobia of being Jossed.

Hmm, the banner has been here since...January? Huh. I just checked the file creation date and yep, January. It seems like longer. I was actually looking at my journal and going SIGH. It's so dated around here. Apparently I can only be appeased by oooh shiny for about five months.

Seriously, I'm blaming the being stuck at home-ness.

Well, in fairness, the fic was based on the more recent comics arc. I didn't actually make up the being trapped in a body cast thing. It's from the issues # 28-31.

Which, I have to say, is kinda lame. How many times has Angel been trapped in some kind of prison/cage now? If we count the coffin he was buried in, the time Connor sunk him underwater, and his own body (the whole episode with Faith where he was trapped inside in his own mind and there were flashbacks), plus now....it's sort of a disturbing trend. He'll fall for any plausible "no really, I swear I heard a noise in there" line.

Besides, since I didn't get to be angsty at all, I feel fully justified in being extra angsty in the work itself.

So NYAH! :P

Oh, I enjoy a good comics mock as well as the next fan. I mean, this is the Buffyverse we're talking about. Mockery is where it's at.

But I enjoy the comics too. I despise them, but in an enjoyable way. After all, I'm a Buffy fan. I'm used to being crazy. And honestly, I think there's the potential for a talented fandom like ours to produce some stellar fic using the comics as a jumping off point.

I don't, though, disagree that the comics aren't what I though they'd be. I sort of expected a bit more.

One of the most brilliant mockfics I read lately is this one
(it spoilers for #34 though)

http://beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com/133230.html?view=2559342#t2559342

And honestly, I think there's the potential for a talented fandom like ours to produce some stellar fic using the comics as a jumping off point.

I think part of the problem might be that the comics have been meandering about for so long, only now finally starting to get to the point (and it's a bit questionable if that point was worth the wait). I've seen some pretty good fic tha incorporates the basic S8 setup, or stuff like the decoy slayers in great ways, but by now it all is AU.

I'll hold out until after I've read up that far. We're in Italy now and my comics take a circuitous route to get here, so I'm not as far along as everyone else.

And I agree that the comics have really meandered. The problem is that we're so used to the show and it's pacing. I really think it would have been better if they'd done them as the graphic novels. After all, one arc is an episode. So they really should have released them as "episodes", rather than as individual scenes. A month is a pretty long commercial break.

And the fear of being Jossed is definitely something that's held me back. I came to fandom after Fool for Love and I have to say that reading Spike origin stories written before that is almost painful. Reading the comics makes me very conscious of how easy it is for your writing to become extreme AU without that necessarily being your intent. So that is really limiting and I can understand how that might be holding some other writers back as well.

I'm reading online and getting them in the paperpacks, since it isn't much better in Austria, they take ages to get here.

I agree, it would have been better to bring them out as "whole" episodes. This way within the long pauses they do tend to get analyzed to death. + there are several behinds the scenes people who give really off putting interviews.

And yep FFL is good example for an episode that jossed a lot of folks. Here it's kind of the other way round though, it's the canon that makes me cringe, but it's still to early to tell if they'll manage to make it work somehow or not.

Your being stuck at home whilst the boy recovers makes me want to write a story in which Darla for some reason is thrust into the maternal caregiving role with Spike.

Maybe in my AU!verse, when he's stuck in the wheelchair, because to me that would have a lot of snark and humour potential, but I'd actually really like it to be when he was a fledge...

I miss you and hope things are going all right and you got out of the house and aren't in danger of shoe extremes.

Huggles! I just got this notification. Stupid LJ! I miss you too. Are you busy? School going well? I want to call but I never know what time is good for you. Stupid time difference! I MISS YOU!

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