But that's a gorgeous piece of prose.

Aint it though? A definite honey.

Um? "She lies in his bed." Please. One of my twitch-points.

Lovely, Connie. I know nothing of the XMen pantheon, except from the first movie. But I could certainly get into the characters with your writing. Very smooth and insinuating writing--I was hooked before I knew it.

Deb, I've been offline all day. I'll get back to you by tomorrow on Needfire, okay? And am I on the bad crack or did you say you were thinking of bracketing The Pensioner with stories? So that now that we have the history, we still have an after-story to look forward to? You'd have something you might could market as a novel, if you're not careful.

She lies in his bed.

See, I've been known to use that particular little foof myself, mostly because, where I come from, "laying" is something mature chickens do, and eggs in bed, not so much. Also, in a lot of UK folk music (including Matty Groves, the basis for the newest novel), you have the word verbally pronounced "lies" - "Oh, how do you like my feather bed and how do you like my sheets? How do you like my lady, who lies in your arms asleep?"

Hey, if she's telling how good he is, and moaning oooh baby, and admiring his manhood, she could very well be lying in his bed.

(definite mileage variance on that one)

edit: never mind - it was laying and you wanted it lying. We are as one....

but I've seen it used both ways, truly.

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And am I on the bad crack or did you say you were thinking of bracketing The Pensioner with stories? So that now that we have the history, we still have an after-story to look forward to? You'd have something you might could market as a novel, if you're not careful.

Yes, I was planning to wait until after the season is over and write and end-times story as a coda to Needfire and Pensioner. But I'm damned if I know what to do with them; the Tales of the Slayer collections want no mention of Buffy and anyway they're set for the next four years. And since, strictly speaking, Amanda Lisle is a breach of strict canon (original character not created by the Jossian Powers that Be? Uh-oh), I expect they'll just stay posted as a trilogy, for fanfic enjoyment.

Unless I get some impetus, some connections and some cojones, and send them to Joss. "Here ya go, Big Guy. Got a Slayer-Witch for ya, hot off the presses."

Someone so needs to filk that thing, and make it about fic.

Cesca did. For due South and The Sentinel. Great stuff.

Damn - I am totally unfamiliar with both shows.....

I think the perfect filk on that would be for for X-Files.

Oh--and can we workshop non-BV fics here? Because I'm writing mostly non-Jossverse lately.

I can't imagine why not, and Theo did Magneto/Xmen. But I'm a relative newbie, so I'm likely the wrong person to ask. Would that be more in the Enablers fic thread? Damned if I know, but I suck at staying on topic, and generally have to be dragged back kicking and screaming.

edit: just looked and realised the other Fan Fic thread is more about discussion than posting up, or so it seems.

I'd say post it, SA.

Yup. What Rebecca said. Besides, I want to read it.

half an hour to Angel. I just looked at the post count in Angel and I am going to have to skim, damnit.

Whoo. I forgot how much I dislike posting fic to sites without automated posted interfaces. Ugh.

But "Redux" is now on BFA, Glass Onion, Unhappy Endings, and Silverlake.

I feel my inner feedback whore awakening.

Which is too bad, b/c my outer drugged-up back-pain Steph is going to bed.