Fay, I think you should write whatever your heart, or somewhere else, desires. I loved your Spike and Dru in Prague stories that much.(sorry that I don't remember what you named them.) Willy is used here in the sense that you describe, not as often though. heh, this reminds me of when I was trying to describe to a young girl from the UK why somebody with the last name Head would find middle school challenging.Of course, now I think she may have been taking the piss, just a little, trying to see what the blonde American would say. (of course she had no way of knowing the state of my follicles, but I'm afraid the cliche proved itself that day.)

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THANK YOU!!!! Yay! Oh, I so dance the dance of joy about people reading Spike'n'Dru in Prague!

As to 'Head', I think it probably is about comparable to your use of the term 'willy', from the sound of it. I mean, in terms of 'giving head' it's used as slang, but that wouldn't plague your school days too badly. I'd have thought. But then, I spent most of my childhood with my head in a book being oblivious, so I may well be talking shite here. Hmm.

Mind you, we have a prominent polititian called Virginia Bottomly here. And in Ireland there's a politician called Dick Spring. Heh. (of course, Bush is a pretty comical name too, come to think of it.)

oh, yeah, that's right, they knew a guy named Richard Head=Dick Head. And then somebody else said they knew one too, from Edinburgh, or some such. And then I regressed like a 12-year-old. Nothing to see, moving along. But I think those comments are informed by the fact that my brother used to look through the phone book for people with embarrassing names to crank-call. Did I mention my bro is strange?(He grew out of that part though.) I'm happy I got a chance to tell you, I liked the stories what with the Dance of Joy, and all.And every time anybody says or types fucking great, I think of you and the rubber-glove-chicken-thing.

of course, Bush is a pretty comical name too, come to think of it.

I saw a "Viva Bush y Dick" bumper sticker during the campaign.

Snicker.When I wastaking Newspaper Editing our instructor told us never to understimate how dirty people's minds get when writing headlines, etc. He cited a really unfortunate example with a high school girls' volleyball team, the Beavers. I can't remember what the bad headline was.

If Burrell's around -- you say you're looking for Wolverine/Magneto slash (which, btw, I haven't found yet, although I'm still hunting -- I may have to call in the big dogs and ask for help) did you want Wolverine/Magneto from the X-Men movie, or the comics?

Shrift, I guess in my head it will look like the movie (because hello! casting!), but I can go either way. Certainly the comics get a little subtexty.

I'm always bemused when I get recced. It's like -- whoa. People other than me-and-Ple like what I write.

Er, that is to say, got recced on BSO and am immensely thrilled.

Fay: XF episode transcripts are here, and you probably want to check out the sadly defunct Deep Background through the Wayback Machine. It only goes through mid-season-seven, but is very thorough for what it's got.

I was looking for that link! I sent Fay a few others, including one slightly scary but incredibly detailed history/transcript/concordance/psychoanalysis site.

Anyway, Fay, insent. And good morning! Several hours from now.