It's a bit strange to me that something as short as a drabble has room to crossover successfully-- previously I'd been of the opinion that a crossover wanted to be longer to work well, to give you time to deal fully with both canons.

I know. I've fallen in love with the drabble as an exercise - it imposes a beautiful set of self-disciplinary writing tools, and not only in fic.

You got it, Am.

Drabbles are fun.

It's a bit strange to me that something as short as a drabble has room to crossover successfully-- previously I'd been of the opinion that a crossover wanted to be longer to work well, to give you time to deal fully with both canons.

I would've thought so too, Am.

I was surprised I could write them, but it just happened.

Did anyone else take Deena's "Wesley has sex and comes first" challenge from her LiveJournal? I have almost 500 words of S2 Wes/Cordy written (hey, it has to be *bad* sex, so i'm just getting them drunk.).

it imposes a beautiful set of self-disciplinary writing tools

It's a prose/poetry hybrid, isn't it. A strict form (so that you have to cut everything unimportant out), but written in prose so that you have the freedom to use natural speech. Yeah, it's a lovely tool. I should try more original ones, they might get me past some of the blocks I have.

You got it, Am.

Good! Not bad, given that I've seen a whole half-an-episode and never read any fic.

Drabbles are fun.

Wrod. Particually when one gets the chance to apply the word 'plumage' to Spike's hair.

Some more Sunnydale:LOTS. Thanks to the lovely people at Buffyguide.com for helping me keep canon straight without bothering you, my audience.
As Cordelia scuttled out the doorway, without talking for once, Giles said “She’s a lovely girl, somewhere in there.”

The detectives smiled. Right now, they were on the same side.
Frank said “You’re back at work awfully soon, aren’t you? Considering your tremendous loss, I mean. Many men would take some vacation time at least.”
“I’m sure I don’t have to tell you, Detective, about the value of work as therapy. I need something to keep my mind off...everything, you know. And, one has obligations.”

He began to clean already spotless glasses.
“Obligations,” Pembleton repeated. “At the library. Surely a student,Or a substitute could help the students find "Silas Marner" while you’re gone?”
“I believe it’s Tale of Two Cities this year, Detective. And those aren’t my only obligations. My research is very important, as well. And the only student I would trust with that is filling in for Jenny...Miss Calendar this term in the computer lab.”
He was hiding something, Bayliss noted, and that last sentence had shaken his Pembletonesque composure. Giles fiddled with his tie and stammered.
“It is a far better thing I do than I have ever done.” Bayliss quoted. “I used to do well in English before I started reading police reports. And I did read your monograph in British Demonology about the Order of Aurelius.”
God, he had to be stifling in that tweed jacket in this weather.And there was something else. Something about the Order made him start with the glasses again. Tim wanted to take them and make actual smudges on them so that this brilliant and well-read man would not be reduced to busywork.

“You have quite a thirst for knowledge. I didn’t know that was available in the States.”
“It isn’t...not generally. A librarian at UC- Sunnydale owes me a favor.”
“Tim here is all about the things that go bump in the night. I like to talk about facts. Like the fact that you were the last person to see her alive. And that you had just gotten back together after she kept pulling away. That had to upset you, being rejected like that.”
“Except the killer. And, no, I understood. You might say my career got in the way.”
“ What, you fought about the Dewey Decimal System?” “
Another important thing about knowledge, gentlemen, is to know when to step away from it.”
“ When you say ‘except for the killer’ does that mean you know who the killer is?”
“It was Angelus, formerly known as the Scourge of Europe.” The two detectives were stunned into silence.
“Is that some sort of street name or something?’ Frank asked.
“More like a vampire name,” Bayliss said. “Vampires like nicknames almost as much as cops do.”
“I must warn you not to try to apprehend Angelus without proper weaponry. I am a trained professional and he was too much for me. Of course, my judgment was a bit clouded. By twelve-year-old Scotch and the desire for revenge.”
“Mr .Giles, what sort of library are you running here?”

Oh, Fay! Yay!

What sort of library indeed ...

I suddenly feel aware of all the unwritten crossover drabbles -- Forever Knight, Kindred: The Embraced, Wolf Lake -- there's so much, just within genre.

Wolf Lake. Oh yes. That should totally be written.

Wolf Lake -- because the show never did the concept justice.