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....

Connie! Rockage!

Archive requests generally mean that someone (the archvist) enjoyed your fic so much, or it fit a specific genre of archive they host that they want to include your fic in the archive. Similar to reccing, but usually less verbose and with a copy of the story rather than a link to where the story it.

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

Speaking of, can you send me a copy so that I can archive it on Ivy?

"Persuasion"? I think you have that. I wrote it before "Graveyard Shift". You need "Redux," though.

Will send -- how do you want it? .txt? html? Word doc? And how do you want me to mark italics?

t edit Yeah, I checked. You have "Persuasion," but need "Redux".

You need "Redux," though.

That's what I meant. Mark italics with astericks, if you please. You can send in the body of the email if you like.