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Re-posted from earlier.
(Because obviously I shouldn't post first thing in the morning. Or maybe my fic is all self-explanatory?)
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Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
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Fic meme:
Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
All my fic here. (Actually, feel free to ask any kind of fic-related question. I want to focus on something other than housework!)
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“If you breathe a word about this to Buffy...”
Angel smiled innocently. “Who needs words? I was thinking of making a painting or something. I could call it ‘Pieta’.”
Spike scowled. “Always were a blasphemer, Angel. Anyway, I’ll just tell her that you’ve gone evil again, and then watch as she stakes you. Can’t laugh when you’re dust blowing in the wind.”
There was a short pause as Angel tried to look serious, and then a wide grin spread across his face.
“Still the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. You know, I think it even beats Andrew’s big reunion speech... ‘My therapist thought I was holding onto false hope, but... I knew you'd come back.’” He laughed again and shook his head. “What could it be about you that makes all the boys go wild, Spike?”
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Yay! Let's see what I can do whilst folding laundry...
Well, I have to admit that first and foremost I was just being silly. It all just wrote itself, since Angel quite simply couldn't help himself - he doesn't get the upper hand very often. :)
But it was also a bit of show-don't-tell. I wanted the readers to know that Spike was dating Buffy, that Angel OK with that, and that the two of them (Spike and Angel) were on good (/friendly) terms, but would still use any opportunity to take the piss out of each other. And of course make clear that they *weren't* sleeping together, but still had that UST thing going on ('arguing far too much').
Then there were various nods to continuity - Andrew's speech (which I love), Angel's artistic talents and his penchant for nuns... All of which were neat, but also help Jack to accept that Spike isn't John, since he can see how the two vampires obviously have their own history (and don't really care about Jack, except as something to use against each other).
And of course there's the fact that Spike doth protest entirely too much... *g*