Hey! I got a request on Silverlake to archive "Redux"!

I forgot how seductive archive requests are.

I don't know where "Graveyard Shift" (post-"The Gift," Spike/Willow-ish) is archived, because I let my hotmail account lapse and lost all my feedback e-mail on that fic. Damn it. But I got a good handful of archive requests on that one.

Also, I think "Persuasion" (that little Spike/Giles bathtub-chains fic) is archived somewhere, but again, I lost all the e-mails.

I forgot how seductive archive requests are.

The China White of feedback.

I think "Oedipus Paradox" was archived at BBF, and I keep meaning to submit it to Glass Onion.

Teppy, archive requests are seductive. It's also a kick seeing your fic on someone's rec list. Oddly enough, I was recced on a French site. Go figure.

Oh, man. Archive requests are the BOMB.

Reset and Body Shots both got at least one.

I'm proudest, however, of Triptych being on Campfire Tales.

What's Campfire Tales?

The thing-that-go-bump-in-the-night archive. Kita runs it, IIRC.

Dana or someone, do you know the link?

Not offhand, although if it's Kita's, it might be on ficbitch.com.

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SQUEEEE! I don't know if this is utterly unethical, but this is a rec from BFF for "Reflections"

Eeeeee........... damn it

And here I thought I had weaned myself from this nonsense. I was stalking around snottily looking for Narnia slash because I was fed up of everything in this fandom. Dang blast it, and now I'm right back to the mmmmm!Giles phase. Where is that peddler Nonnie? Someone make her read this. That'll teach her to go around raving about lurid S/X. I laugh at her juvenile S/X obsession. Ethan/Giles is what the cultivated palate reads, the mature, discerning slasher. *ponders yet more ship-baiting statements*

Ok, for everyone else who is rolling their eyes disgustedly, this story is much more than slash crack (TM Nonnie). In fact, it's not even slash, technically. You could read it as a normal adventure and male bonding story, even, if you are the kind of person who ignores subtext. Well, if you WANT to ignore the absolutely delicious whiffs of subtext that tantalise you in every other sentence. I actually went back looking for something to quote, but couldn't pick any one part.

Plus, even if you are not even remotely interested in anyone's sex lives or orientations, this story HAS to be read in order to make sense of season 7 canon. It dignifies Giles with the kind of explanation and backstory he deserved and didn't get, and it's Bloody, Darn, Right! In Every. Single. Way. Right down to the naan and aloo saag and the rakshasa destroying the bad Indian food restaurant (which was probably Bangladeshi anyway, I say in order to be as inflammatory as possible)

Go read it. Then you can join Indri and me in our little connoisseurs club of Giles slash, while we genteelly compare the virtues of a Giles/Ethan pre-slash to a, for instance, Giles/Wesley Mer-ficlet. Unless you're all too doped out and drooling and lying in the corner with Vonnie and the other vulgar junkies.

Deepa D.

SQUEEE!

(fascinated by the newness of all this)

Archiving is a good thing, yes? Please feel free to send the Clue Fairy to my website....