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I wrote a 16,000 word Season 4 Fuffy fic for a gift exchange last month that I'm quite pleased with and which I can admit to being the author of now, so here's a link to it.
(And you should definitely check out the fic @bodytoflame-ao3 wrote for me too, which is very good.)
3 + Fuffy
OK, I'm a few months late, but at least I managed to get this finished in the right calendar year. I couldn't decide which season I wanted to set this in so I went with: well, basically all of them.
Many thanks to everyone who sent me a prompt recently (especially to the 100% of you who specifically asked for Fuffy). I will be trying to get as many of these written as I can over the next few days. But I might be a bit slower than I'd like, because it's been months since I've written anything and I'm feeling incredibly rusty at the moment.
(The thing I'm closest to finishing so far is another S3 AU, because of course it is. But I'll hopefully manage a slightly wider range than that eventually.)
For the director's commentary: Sending a ⭐
Thanks!
One thing I feel I haven’t talked about much before is Chapter 8, which is the chapter where …
Well, spoilers for Coexist below the cut (for Chapter 8, but also right up to the end).
Director's commentary for Coexist. How much of the story did you have in mind when you started? Did you make any big changes to your original plans?
Hmm.
In theory I had everything planned out when I started writing, but in practice I’d left a lot of details vaguer than I realized. I also found myself increasingly rethinking my early plans, especially towards the final third of the story. Partly this was because I refined my idea of what sort of story I was trying to tell, partly because things I’d written no longer felt credible for these versions of the characters.
(Spoilers for all of Coexist below the cut.)
would you be able to talk about chapter 20 for the coexist directors cut? it’s my favorite chapter for faith (and joyce!) and i’d love to hear any additional thoughts you might have
Thanks!
This was a chapter that took me a while to get right – the first of too many multiple months long gaps between updates – but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
(Spoilers for Coexist below.)
Thanks to everyone who sent in asks for the directors commentary on Coexist. Very much appreciated. Sorry I've not had the chance to answer them yet: it's been a busy few days but I'm hoping to have a bit more time free this coming week.
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For such a small town, Sunnydale has always had too many cemeteries.
This is actually one of the nicer ones. It doesn't house any ancient tombs dating back to before the town was founded. It doesn't have any secret tunnels underground, linking the crypts to musty passageways that lead down to subterranean vampire lairs. It just has graves. Just dead bodies, lying silently under the earth.
She came here alone, almost like it wasn't something she'd been dreading. Just casually walked here from her house, strolling along the familiar suburban streets as if she made this trip every day. As if this didn't mark the end of something. As if she wasn't afraid of saying goodbye.
It should be raining, she thinks. The sky should be full of clouds.
But it's not. The sun is shining, the sky is clear and blue and she can hear birds singing quietly in the trees behind her. Sometimes the weather really has no sense of occasion.
"Hey, Giles," she says awkwardly. "It's been a while."
Giles doesn't say anything in reply, of course. He doesn't raise an eyebrow while he waits for her to finish, the way he normally would have done. Doesn't mutter something old-fashioned and British under his breath while he pretends to clean his glasses. Doesn't make that strange clucking sound with his tongue that he always did when he angry or upset.
He's never going to do any of that stuff again. Because of her.
"I wanted to say that I'm sorry," she manages, voice trembling just a little. "I let you down. I let everyone down."
"I was distracted," she says, trying to think of how he'd have put it. "I was irresponsible." I was in love, she thinks, and is surprised by how little it hurts.
She takes a breath to steady herself.
"It won't happen again," she promises.
Season 3 AU.
When Angel lost his soul, people Buffy cared about died. People like Kendra, the only other person in the world who understood what it meant to be a vampre slayer. People like her Watcher, Rupert Giles.
Now they're gone, just like Angel is gone, and none of them are coming back.
But whether Buffy wants it or not, she's still a Slayer, and there's still work to do. The Watcher's Council have assigned her a new Watcher, Professor Diana Dormer. And her new Watcher has brought a Slayer of her own with her to Sunnydale. But are Buffy and Faith ready for what this year has in store for them?
Buffy Summers/Faith Lehane Warnings: Major Character Death Status: Complete Chapters: 27/27 Word count: 277,084
Season 3 AU. Faith Lehane/Buffy Summers. Angel lost his soul last year, and he never got it back. Jenny lived. Giles didn't.
It's time for graduation.
Chapter: 26/27
POV: Buffy Summers
Word count: 14,455 / 275,662
The good news is that I've written about 9000 words of the last chapter of Coexist. The bad news is that this was also true a month ago, and I'm still not sure when I'm actually going to finish. But ... uh. Soon? Maybe?
Up to 12,000 words now and I think I'm pretty happy with what I've got so far. Don't want to tempt fate too much, but I think I might actually be done with this soon.
The good news is that I've written about 9000 words of the last chapter of Coexist. The bad news is that this was also true a month ago, and I'm still not sure when I'm actually going to finish. But ... uh. Soon? Maybe?
Tagged by @restlesshush (uh, a while ago, I think -- sorry for the slow response).
Rules: share the first line of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written fewer than ten, don't be shy and share anyway.
I've written more than ten fanfics but I've only published eight. Posting the first line of all eight of those plus the first lines of two WIPs I'm (slowly) working on.
Residuum (Mass Effect: currently unfinished, but one day…?)
"Talitha stared out of the shuttle window."
The Choice (Mass Effect, one-shot)
"… approaching Omega 4 Relay."
All Our Precious Things (Mass Effect, complete)
"It's been centuries now."
Children (Mass Effect, one-shot)
"The war was over almost as soon as it began."
Alchera (Mass Effect, one-shot)
"She doesn't remember dying."
Night Winds In Nos Astra (Mass Effect, currently unfinished)
"I knew the quarian would be trouble the minute she walked into my office."
Coexist (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, currently unfinished but not long to go)
"For such a small town, Sunnydale has always had too many cemeteries."
One Girl In All The World (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one-shot)
"Faith dreams of Buffy Summers."
No Such Animal (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in-progress but unpublished)
"She’s pathetic, that's her problem."
Summers Gone (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in-progress but unpublished)
"The thing you have to keep reminding yourself of is this: Dawn isn’t real."
… okay, so what I've learned from this exercise is that I don't write very interesting first lines.
I think everyone I know on here who writes any sort of fanfic has been tagged already (but if I'm wrong, let me know?).
If you'd told me in the beginning of 2021 that the "fun little AU" I was starting to work on would end up being over a quarter of a million words long I would have felt a number of conflicting emotions.
But if you'd told me that, almost two years after posting the first chapter, I still wouldn't have actually finished writing it, I'd have been entirely unsurprised.
Current draft of the penultimate (sort of) chapter of Coexist is about 15,000 words long and mostly finished. I'm tentatively hoping it will be up by the end of the month.
(It's going to be chapter 25 of 27, but chapter 27 itself is just a short epilogue, so it's the penultimate full length chapter.)
Anyway, I somehow managed to write over 3,000 words of my fic today, so it's at least possible that there won't be another three-month-long gap between chapters this time.
Which, you know, would be nice.
New chapter of Coexist finally coming some time this week, I hope.
(It would be nice if I could finish the thing by February of next year, but at this point I'm not going to make any promises.)
