Bah to the evil job.

Yay for Spander stories.

That's really all I have to offer. :-)

Um, I think if you made that t-shirt and sold it, say, at www.cafepress.com, your financial woes would be over.

Or, at the very least, I'd buy one. ;-)

I just quit my job and am moving home for the summer. So I hear you on the work woes. And I'm sorry things suck for you right now.

And...yay Spander!

I love you.

*hugs*

I've been at the end of my rope lately too. I think there's something in the air.

I'd send you virtual Godivas if I thought it would help.

You're right about the terrible state of editorial jobs in town, but still, there are openings every week, and *someone*'s getting them -- why shouldn't one of them go to you?

A serious look or two at the job market wouldn't go amiss. Colleen even has a lead on a job right now -- I can't find a link to it, or I'd send it to you.

This is me, trying to be supportive. Sorry I suck at it!

S--

I've written over 15,000 words on my Spander Inquisition story though. That's something.

I have 120 words. None of them are currently a full paragraph.

Well. Clearly, there's no way out of this ficathon for me but ritual suicide.

I have faith in you! :>) Because you are Shrift! An upwelling source of Spandery goodness! If you only write 120 random words, I'll still read them and I feel very sure they'll bring me the happy.

In the credits of "The Usual Suspects" is a woman listed along with the FX crew by the name of Yolanda Squatpump. Ponder that in awe. You could put her in your story.

I have faith in you! Because you are Shrift! An upwelling source of Spandery goodness!

Oof. Thanks. I'm glad someone does. (Because I don't. *panics*) If only the ficathon assignment would flow as naturally as my one and only Spander story to date.

However, mostly I just seem to be unable to scrape together any kind of coherent framework for the story. Every time I try, it falls apart like an overboiled chicken carcass.

I suppose I'll be slaving to reconstruct the chicken carcass this weekend. And possibly weeping bitterly. ;)

Yolanda Squatpump. Ponder that in awe. You could put her in your story.

Lord, that's hysterical! If only I had a story to put her in.

*big hugs and Spike cookies*

*lick*

Hi. I entered the wonderful world of Buffy fanfic just two days ago (after watching the first 5 seasons on borrowed DVDs over the course of the past 6 months, and then reading episode transcripts of all of S6 and S7 in a two-day binge earlier this week). Yours was the very first BtVS fic I read - specifically, "Sidelines" was it.

I do come from a slash background (both a reader and an author). Actually I'd had "Sidelines" bookmarked for ages and ages because someone on a generic slash discussion list posted a rec, and I was intrigued enough to check it out, and after reading the first couple paragraphs I decided that it looked like a really well-written story, but I couldn't properly appreciate it without having seen more than one or two scattered episodes of Buffy. So. I bookmarked it and it sat there for many months, 'till I finally finished watching/reading the series, and then I was all "Yay, on to the the fanfic!! Hey, how 'bout that one I bookmarked way back when?"

So I read it. And now I don't want to see Spike or Xander with anyone but each other, and it's all your fault. (Hmph.)

I like your starting premise - the "What if?" of Xander going through the S4 "Big Gay Change" instead of Willow. I wouldn't have thought of it before you pointed it out, but I can certainly see your point (that there was about as much foreshadowing of Xander maybe being gay as of Willow - though frankly I'd more easily think of either one of them as bisexual than as all-out gay). I feel kinda bad for the Tara of your stories (I read the two S5 follow-ups, too) since she ends up peripheral to the Scooby gang without getting to date Willow at all - but hey, maybe this way she won't end up dead? Plus, I loved Oz/Willow just as much as I loved Tara/Willow, so it's all good.

Now I'm babbling. Heh.

Your stories were fantastic, that's what I came here to say. And I'm hoping that I can find lots more really good Spike/Xander stuff (do you do Buffy recs?) to satisfy this new addiction!

Hey, I just made up a LJ. Seems like everybody's doing it these days... mind if I friend you?

Oh, and then I saw the place where you said "You do not have to ask before you friend me. Go for it!"

So I did.

[quote] I feel in danger of sinking my teeth into someone's throat and shaking them to death. [/quote]

Huh, I thought only I had that dream.

As Spike would say, 'Good times. Go with it.'

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