Some fun links...

[elisi]

spuffyduds's son wrote Halloween fic. Short and wonderful.

missmurchison re-wrote AYW to include the *actual* Doctor: Who's the Doctor? Need I say more? (BtVS/DW crossover. No spoilers.)

stormwreath made Buffy macros (and a couple of icons). The last one in particular nearly did me in! :)

beer_good_foamy made Fuffy icons (and one Spangel one). Well worth checking out! Oh yes. *g*

(I have written a bit about S8 Buffy, and a bit about Faith. But I don't want to post it, because people will just argue with me. And I don't have time for aguing. Meh. Buffy lives in Rome, that is canon. End of story!)

Comments

[elisi]

I'll just go ahead and agree with you sight unseen (writ unread?), then.
Aw, thanks! Might post it week after next (my parents are coming to stay for a week, arriving Sunday. I'll be pretty absent...) - think you'll like the Faith thoughts esp.

Though the Rome fakeout is actually one of the things I kinda like about s8... having Andrew lie about that would have been the funniest thing he's ever done.
Now technically I don't have a problem with it. We never *see* Buffy in TGiQ, and having Rome!Buffy be a double is perfectly plausible. Heck I used it myself in my S/B/A fic, because I didn't want The Immortal to complicate things. But you don't need S8 for that - going with what's onscreen it's perfectly easy to manipulate. What irks me about S8, is that they do the ret-con and then give us something far inferior in return. Because I rather like the idea of Buffy in Rome (as I explain in the post that I'm not posting yet).

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

True, without a good reason for them to be in Scotland of all places it does just seem like a way to get out of what they've said before. Plus, think of all the poor Bummortal shippers! ;-)

But (standard disclaimer) I'm sure it will all be explained in one of the upcoming issues. The same one where they explain who The First posed as to get to Andrew in this AU, since Warren wasn't available...

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Scotland of all places

Hey, as at least 5/8 parts Jock I resemble that! What's wrong with Scotland? It's not as if they'd gone to Belgium :-)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Hey, apart from the deep-fried Mars bars and the bagpipes, there's nothing wrong with Scotland. In fact, Scotland is such a nice place (beautiful country, great musicians, WHISKY) that I really can't see any reason for a bunch of Americans to settle in a castle there to fight evil.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Both Americans and evil hang out in the most unlikely places. In fact around August there may be more Americans than anything else in the country. Apart from midges. Along with morags and kelpies and fur-bearing trout, the country's just bursting with monsters. A bunch of Slayers would fit right in.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

the country's just bursting with monsters

You're saying Belgium isn't? Come on. With all those beer-brewing monks, they're bound to get drunk and read from the forbidden texts occasionally... who knows what they might summon up. And you KNOW the EU headquarters are on top of a hellmouth.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but as a Xan man once said "Bel-gium."

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Hey, let's not quote him out of context! :-)

BUFFY: Why would I go to Belgium?
XANDER: I think the relevant question is why wouldn't you?

See? Xander would vote for Belgium. And Giles would appreciate that it's actually closer to London than the highlands are. Of course Dawn would reply with that Monty Python joke about "miserable fat Belgian bastards", but nobody ever listens to Dawn anyway.

[elisi]

Buffy in Belgium. It alliterates! :)

(Now there has to be fic...)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Three words: Buffy/Tintin crossover.

Hmmm... Thompson and Thomson as watchers...

[elisi]

OMG it's all so obvious now!

*nudges your plotbunny*

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

True but in the wider context Xander thought Belgium was the obvious place to go when you’d just had to kill the boyfriend who turned evil and tried to destroy the world. Sure Spike died (chiz) but it was what he would have wanted, a death to make a girl smile. Happy heroes get the hell out of the Belgium - wasn’t the whole point of TinTin anywhere but there? Whereas Buffy in Balmoral, Buffy in Banoffie? Doesn’t just alliterate it scans.

[elisi]

but in the wider context Xander thought Belgium was the obvious place to go when you’d just had to kill the boyfriend who turned evil and tried to destroy the world.
But how is going to Scotland any different from that POV. It doesn't strike me as the place to go if you're embracing life. (Don't get me wrong, Scotland is *wonderful* - but Buffy is a Valley Girl... (Dammit, now I'm getting into the stuff of my post. Maybe I should just post it and be done with it. *ponders*)

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Scotland is a sheep ridden desert of a country remarkable only for being "colonised by wankers" but it's empty enough to throw up mystical castles like Sunnydale grew a docks, an airport, an Ivy league style university and the Hoover dam without the locals asking awkward questions about planning permission.

"Buffy's a Valley girl" sounds a little limiting (it's pracically American for Essex girl). I thought the whole point of Chosen was that she could choose anything. Be anything. Look beyond shopping and boys. Follow a career. Save the cheerleaders, save the world.

[elisi]

I thought the whole point of Chosen was that she could choose anything. Be anything. Look beyond shopping and boys. Follow a career. Save the cheerleaders, save the world.
And sitting around in a Scottish Castle, isolated from *everything* (including the world she's trying to save), is the least attractive and most limiting future I have ever come across.

[elisi]

True, without a good reason for them to be in Scotland of all places it does just seem like a way to get out of what they've said before.
I think you'll like my post very much... /cryptic *g*

Plus, think of all the poor Bummortal shippers! ;-)
I have read some *awesome* fics with The Immortal. (The funniest one was where he was a Time Lord...)

it will all be explained in one of the upcoming issues.
Of course it will! *nods sagely*