Re-posted from earlier.

[elisi]

(Because obviously I shouldn't post first thing in the morning. Or maybe my fic is all self-explanatory?)

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!)

Comments

[elisi]

Hmm, this is a tricky one. *ponders* Basically I wanted to try to capture all the relationships in pure metaphor. If I remember rightly I first got the idea of B/A as a rainbow, and it fitted so well that I wanted to see if I could do S/B and S/A too...

The central (for me at least) part of the B/A part is The very action of reaching causing it to vanish. - that is, the Surprise/Innocence episodes. I also like it'll always come back, which to me is (amongst other things) their meeting in Chosen - the rainbow blossoms, but it's as intangible as ever. ("Not getting any older...")

I can't recall how I thought of the pearl metaphor for S/B, but it is very much how I see them. "It's not pretty, but it's real" Spike says in 'Crush', and that to me is central - as is the fact that come 'Chosen' that reality has become a thing of beauty. And, you know, if they meet again, their love is very much real and tangible.

Now I'm still not quite sure about the teddy bear thing for S/A... not that I can think of anything better, but it doesn't work as smoothly as the others. But then their relationship isn't a love story per se, it's about brotherly affection/family/rivalry. And if we take vampires to be essentially stuck in adolescence (very self-centered), using something childish to represent the bond they (thoughtlessly, casually) built when they were soulless seemed fairly fitting. The 'restoration' of the bear is obviously S5 of AtS, where towards the end (from AHiTW onwards) back each other up, no questions asked. They are who they are, and the history they share might not be nice, but it's theirs, and that's what matters.

(I hope this is OK? If there's anything more specific, just say.)

[japanimecrazed.livejournal.com]

This is excellent. It's fascinating how you relate specific lines to specific episodes.

[elisi]

This is excellent.
:)

It's fascinating how you relate specific lines to specific episodes.
Most things in my fics relate to specific things/episodes/happenings - I always wonder how many of them get picked up!