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I'm not awake fully, and won't be until I hit work and the blessed beanjuice gets me. I really ought to have learned my lessons by now.

Story fixed on the archive.

I really ought to have learned my lessons by now.

Heh. This is why I like having administrative power. Because I haven't quite learned my lessons, either.

The worst part is, when I sent in on GO, I sent a copy to myself, read it over, and *still* missed it.

Heh. Kind of liked People Undone.

I love that writer.

I read so much Wes/Lilah/Etc. today.

Now that mine is done, I felt like I was allowed to do so. Though I'm weirded by the fanon scotch drinking (his, not hers, hers is canon).

I kept waiting for one story to have him get a bloody mary, or a boilermaker, or schnapps. Anything we've seen him *drink*. Hell, even wine. But no... scotch. Sigh.

Scotch--the drink of angst. No getting around it. It's hard to be angsty over a bloody Mary--unless it's really blood and her name was Mary.

If it's a noir Western you could probably get away with tequila, but even then your tortured hero is likely to be hunched over a bottle of whiskey. Vodka and schnapps would work well in some old, grey city filled with existential woe. Boilermakers involve whiskey, don't they? If he was lurking around the office, a boilermaker might work.

But when you're dealing out the real, low-down, end-of-your-rope angst, the poetic drink is whiskey.

edit: the only ones who do angst well with wine is some smelly, grey-haired guy in a tattered coat, huddled in some boxes in an alley, and it turns out he used to be a succesful surgeon or brilliant musician, until That Day. And then he's most likely swilling down Thunderbird or Mad Dog 20/20.

If it's a noir Western you could probably get away with tequila, but even then your tortured hero is likely to be hunched over a bottle of whiskey. Vodka and schnapps would work well in some old, grey city filled with existential woe. Boilermakers involve whiskey, don't they? If he was lurking around the office, a boilermaker might work.

Boilermakers are whisky in beer. I like doing Canadian Club and Molson. Boilermakers were what Wesley was consuming in Tomorrow.

Scotch isn't really an angsty drink. I mean, it can be, but it's more Old Boy and Club Chair than that. When mentioned in stories, it's almost never rotgut J&B, which is somewhat angsty.

Vodka, of course, is a classic drink of Pain and Angst. And stuff.

I'd like to see more gin. I can see Wes swilling gin.

Gin would work. He is British. He could do Peter O'Toole impressions.

It would also be more supported by the evidence we see in canon than scotch. IJS.

And it would be less... common.

See, with Giles, we know he's a scotch drinker. He's said it; it's what we've seen, it's good. We've seen Wesley drink a fair amount, yet we've not seen him with a glass of scotch kicking back. Yet everyone and her dog seems to write him as a scotch fiend.

Which is just projecting.