new fic

[schmevil]

So I participated in the hetfic Summer Ficathon.

noveltea wrote me Eternity in a Moment (XMM, Scott/Jean). It's an adorable vignette with them doing some stargazing. What I like about it is how she balanced the ordinary and Romantic! aspects of their relationship. They're both any other couple, and people with too-big destinies.

I wrote Someday They Will Be Scarce (Buffy, Xander/Anya), for yviwriting. Post S7, with Xander remembering Anya, when he comes across an old favourite in a rack of pirated dvds. "He finds himself thinking around her, around the edges of the her-shaped hole in his life, because that’s easier than mourning her honestly."

This is the first Buffy fic I've actually finished. I've got a Giles story on my hardrive that's perennially 500 odd words from complete. For some reason I find Buffy to be an incredibly difficult fandom to write in. I think it might be the language, which I've given up on getting right. Anyway, I'm not entirely satisfied with this story. The prompt was "I never loved nobody fully / Always one foot on the ground." And I thought, hey that's very Xander. It's a really melancholy story, and I'm not sure if I got across how much he genuinely loved Anya, while at the same time being really crap at being in love.

The movie he finds is Casablanca. There's a certain point in S5 or 6 where Anya starts to look like she could have just stepped right out of film noir. Xander of course, has always wished that he were a smooth, romantic hero (which is part of why he hated Angel for so long). So I thought hey, here's a movie that would initially baffle Anya, but she could grow to enjoy, and one that Xander would secretly love, while making fun of it publicly. It's also a movie about a relationship that ends while the love continues, which is very Xander/Anya.

Anyway, the challenge of writing in a fandom that doesn't really, er, 'speak' to me, was it's own reward, I guess.