Quick! To the Bat-fax!

HI PEOPLE DID YOU MISS ME? Probably not because I still check my f-list and everyone's gone to Dreamwidth now. (I'm no different, I'm effulgent there, and also effulgent on plurk... but not the point.) I've gotten a few friend requests and private messages lately and I thought I'd make my stance on the fics I've locked clear for other people browsing and wanting to read.

So here: stock response all typed out and ready to go.

Hi! I appreciate the interest, but I'm afraid the fics I've locked are all locked for a reason. I'm sorry to do this because I remember back when I was first getting into fandom being really frustrated when I came across locked fic. I've gotten this request enough though that I thought I'd explain myself.

I haven't written much fanfiction lately, and none in the DC fandom. All the fanfiction you'll find here is at least several years old, and when I look back at it, I wince. I fell into a lot of tropes that now I can't stand, and I wrote a lot of stories that in hindsight are just... not good. Or at least not the kind of story I'd like to present as my own writing now. I know the pain of trying to find good Tim/Bart fanfic. I've been there. Here, try Archive of Our Own if you haven't already. I'm afraid I'm not going to be unlocking my fic, though, or friending people back since I barely use this journal, and I promise, you're not missing that much.

Thanks everyone who's interested in my fic! A lot are still open, so I hope you enjoy those! But please stop asking about the locked ones, I locked them for a reason, and they will stay that way.

Title: Worst Christmas Ever
Fandom: Buffy Season 6
Characters: Spike and Dawn
Rating: So G it hurts.
For: Brandi!
Summary: Buffy's got to go out on a hunt on Christmas Eve, and leaves Dawn with Spike to be babysitter.

( Holiday Fic #1! )

Title: William the Bloody's Only Surviving Poem
Pairing: Buffy/Spike, mentions of Spike/Drusilla
Medium: Poetry, some prose.
Rating: PG
Summary: A history of Spike's poetry and how almost all of it was destroyed.
Author's Note: Okay so, someone asked me on a meme if my headcanon said Spike had written any poems about Buffy, and I gave a response that more or less ended up being the prose part of this work. And then I decided I wanted to write the surviving poem. And then I started thinking about Spike's handwriting. I was sure if this poem existed, it was handwritten. Then I looked through some handwriting fonts until I found one I liked and added it to some stock paper and... ended up posting it. Hope you enjoy!

( I ended up writing a fic to go along with the poem, but come on, it's all about the poem. )

only I am filled with shaaaame.

So I kinda want to rename my Spike account (killed2slayers), mainly because I came up with an awesome idea which I've registered so no one else can have it (breakmychest). Problem being, I find the idea of spending fifteen bucks to change my account name unacceptable, especially when I'm marooned in a foreign land forced to survive on only what food I can purchase and cook. (This land is Israel, for those just tuning in, and I'll be here for five months.)

ANYWAY. I may not be willing to spend money, but apparently I'm willing to whore my writing talents out to livejournal and write shitty livejournal fanfic for LJ tokens, but I'll get more if I win, and also my entry is the best, dammit, and the other person who's beating me was way behind me up until she solicited all her friends and that annoys me.

So vote? My entry is the killed2slayers one.

I just went through a lot of my old fics and f-locked the ones that made me ashamed. It was fun! And there were a lot that I actually thought were good, so that was fun too, and now I'm going to do the rereading stuff I wrote in the past thing.

And while I'm at it, I found these and these (both at least mildly NSFW) and felt inspired. So I've started a new meme!

Leave me a pairing, or just a character or two, and I'll write you a limerick.

It'll be awesome.


GO.

So, the holidays are fast approaching! For those of us that have been my friend for over a year, you may recall that last holiday I had a Fic Exchange. Of DOOM. And now it's been long enough that I've forgotten how stressful and difficult running it was, and my vows never to run anything ever again.

Are people interested? I know my f-list has changed a lot since I moved away from comics and towards Buffy, so this year it probably would be less... all DC comics. Knowing my people, I'd say there'd be some Buffy, some Supernatural, some Heroes, some DC Comics, some Smallville, some... stuff I'm not thinking of.

How it works is you put a long list of all the fandoms and pairings and fic kinks you like into an awesome form that I will put up, as well as stuff that makes you want to kick babies. Then the person who gets your list writes you something... I suppose I could make it write/draw/manip/icon/music mixes if people wanted, I just automatically assume writing, but you give it to the person. It's different from other ficathons because you don't prompt. You get surprised! I get to MC and make sure everyone gets someone who has at least some matching interests, and then I bother people to finish towards the end, and make amusing shouty posts and all that awesome stuff. And make lists. Lists are cool.

Anyway, do people want to do this? Because I think it'd be fun.

And you can also ask questions because I'm sure I wasn't horribly clear.

Everyone go vote! I did it last week because I'm awesome. And absentee.

I took a nap today after my first class and woke up as my second class was starting. Mmm fun. On the bright side, NYCC IS TOMORROW! Followed by my sister's Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, followed by MORE NYCC! Aaaaand I'm getting my Buffy comic tonight! I've already read it since I couldn't wait to actually own it, but, well, I loved it. I'll probably have more on it after I buy and reread. Still, so far I'm happy about it. I had my doubts, but I think Joss actually does know where he's going on this. And, again, I can't wait for the next issue.

But more important than that, who else is headed to NYCC? I'll probably wearing a Superboy shirt and a Spike jacket, or possibly a Nightwing shirt. If you see me, say hi! Or just... go up to every shortish girl with brown hair and ask if they're me. Here, I give you an internet code word. Tell me "Potato" and I will reply "Cheesecake" and thus will we know each other.

...please try this with every short brunette you see, I will laugh.

Remember Tara and Willow had a cat? Back in fourth and fifth season? Remember that cat's name was Miss Kitty Fantastico? Remember how after a while we just stopped seeing that cat around?

Well, after rewatching S7 for the third time (for those wondering, the first time was when I had my wisdom teeth removed, the third with my friend who hadn't seen it), I noticed this little bit.

DAWN: Xander, my crossbow is not out here. I told you, I don't leave crossbows around all willy-nilly. Not since that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico.

Dawn killed Willow and Tara's cat. Accidentally, from the sounds of it, but still.

Man, that's depressing.