Fun links for all! :)

[elisi]

First of all, please do admire this gorgeous new icon.

It came about because Brian Lynch (writer of the Spike comic books and 'Angel: After the Fall') is getting married, and Chris Ryall (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief IDW Publishing) got him *the* most amazing present! (Spoilers for the various comics I guess, but...) Then stormwreath manipped the icon (there are two more if you follow the link). :)

ETA: Lynch's response: I just want to point out that this may be the first time a wedding present has been turned into a homoerotic avatar. Except, you know, if someone gave someone else a book of homoerotic avatars as a wedding present.

In other comic-related news, beer_good_foamy wrote the brilliantest s8 Dawn crack!fic: Let's Sing "Dawn Is A Giant" In D Minor. (This Kenny guy is a complete blank - but what if he was someone we knew already? Keep liquids away - trust me!)

And now to another kind of crack!fic... Thanks to molly_may here is a link to the shortlist for the Bad Sex Awards. Know how porn can be really awkward to write? Well here are some who failed abysmally - but still got published! (You will need a mindwipe afterward reading! ::shudders:: It makes bad!fic look *good*...)

Oh and shapinglight wrote Road Trip which features great Buffy & Cordy bonding. :)

And I have to run again - hope you're all well! *hands out hugs*

Comments

[elisi]

Thanks for the rec!
People *need* to read it!

Jeanette Winterson is a brilliant writer
A female SpikeBot is made of so much win that I don't know where to start! I wondered why that was on the list, to be honest...

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think it's this sentence: "Spike, you're a robot, but why are you such a drop-dead gorgeous robot? I mean, is it necessary to be the most sophisticated machine ever built and to look like a movie star?" It reads like the worst Mary Sue fic ever. It's not a bad idea and I'm really looking forward to reading that book (though I'll probably get to some other Winterson books before that), but some of the sentences in that scene are just... clunky. Of course, the Bad Sex Award was founded by a pretty conservative critic who wasn't just against bad sex scenes but against sex scenes period, so...

(Winterson is something of a slasher, incidentally; her "Weight" is basically ALL Atlas/Hercules subtext.)

[elisi]

It reads like the worst Mary Sue fic ever.
Heh. It does rather. *g*

Of course, the Bad Sex Award was founded by a pretty conservative critic who wasn't just against bad sex scenes but against sex scenes period, so...
That explains a lot!