RE: the FE vs. Joyce. I know Jane said it was FE, but I prefer Victor's explanation in his fabu piece of fic he wrote (Conversations with the Monster) in which Dawn recognizes that it was both her mom and the FE. He says it better, really. It's my own personal canon, now.

t /victor pimping

I always try to read all of Victor's stuff, but either I've missed that or forgotten it. Without having read/remembering it, I can totally buy it though - because that was my fanwank for Buffy's dream where the image of Joyce tells her to rest and tells her to wake. I figured both Ghost!Joyce and FE!Joyce were appearing to her, hence the conflicting messages.

Yeah, I thought that was pretty brilliant too, smonster.

t hopelessly behind in all the fic threads, no point in even STARTING to look Hey! No fair pimping a victor fic without a link! t /hbiatft,npieStl

[link] should do it, JZ

Sorry for pimping w/ no link, it's been a hellish day, fighting the ascension and all. (see Bitches)

Thanks, Plei, for picking up my slack.

Heh. For me, I think this is the best reason to write fic, to try and make sense of the ideas in your head that aren't quite explained on the show.

I think this is the best reason to write fic, to try and make sense of the ideas in your head that aren't quite explained on the show.

Absolutely. And I think that's why the bunnies I get -- and especially the ones I actually chase down -- are almost always of the fill-in-the-gaps, mine-the-subtext, get-in-the-character's-head type, rather than anything that's too terribly AU. (YficMV, as always.)

And dudes, fear my hyphens!

Heh. For me, I think this is the best reason to write fic, to try and make sense of the ideas in your head that aren't quite explained on the show.

Oh, yeah. And, well, I may be AU's bitch at the moment, but I swear I have reasons for every single one of them.

(like making Buffy and Wesley have sex and interact)