Well, you asked for it...

As threatened: the thefirstevil takes over Buffy's job as guidance counsellor. Chronologically this happens right before Storyteller.

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Have found myself inexplicably Harbinger-free. This is unacceptable. Being incorporeal is only fun when one has many corporeal minions to kill potential Slayers, pick up laundry etc.

Later

Make that one Harbinger remaining. Caught him as he was sneaking out of the basement, rucksack in hand. This may have something to do with that "Come to LA: Cordelia Chase up for anything!" email I caught them reading. Curse that Beast.

The Slayer hasn't turned up for work - probably taking pet vampire to the vet, mini-Slayers to Disneyland or similar.

It occurs that this is a prime opportunity to recruit some new Harbingers. School is full of angsty teens who would love to be part of dynamic cult of the future. Also, posing as guidance counsellor surely a breeze? Drugs are bad, calcium good, blah blah empathycakes.

( Session transcript, as recorded by Harbinger #736, who gives thanks daily he is deemed worthy enough to serve )

ETA: as I've said in the comments, I didn't realise until posting that the drinking-under-bleachers-flirting-with-Harbingers student is anniesj...

Call for recs

I had the inexplicable urge this morning to read B/X. It occurs that even though I like the idea of the pairing I can't remember ever reading any fic for them. The ones I've looked at so far have either suffered from terrible punctuation and grammar or indulged in a lot of gratuitous character bashing of Angel, Spike or Anya (or just an author's note in the middle of the text saying "A/N: Anya and Spike are dead"). Or, as happens in many Xander fics, not just B/X, Xander is Mary-Sued into a superhero.

Anybody got recs for me, either fics or archives? I tried looking at All That Glitters, but it's kind of hard to navigate.

This is puzzling

So far my foray into B/X land has turned up some good stuff. One thing that's puzzling me - I expected the Spike and Angel bashing (I don't know about B/A, but poor Xander gets a rough time in too many Spuffy fics). And I quickly realised that Anya bashing is almost inevitable too. And I can understand why Willow, Riley and Cordelia would get a hard time.

But Oz? Why bash poor Oz? What did he ever do to threaten B/X?

I need to work on my slashfic. Since _flaming_june_ has the masterlist up, I guess we're allowed to say what we got? I have to write Angel/Lindsey, in the truck, set at the end of Dead End. I've watched the episode a few times this week and... my god, the vibes. Angel telling him "it must be hard on you. Losing Darla... and me, in a way" during the charged car journey is just delicious. Theirloveissocanon.

I'm on one of my many "trawling for gold" excursions through ff.net and other places today, so if anyone's got fanfic lurking around that I probably haven't seen before, feel free to pimp. I'm shitty at giving feedback, but I'll take a look. lasheremaleth's comment to my earlier post led to me finding a writer whose stuff I like a lot, but who I'd never encountered before.

:whimpers:

Slashfic. 450 sucky words. Stalled. Have to watch the last scne of Dead End again. Need to get first draft done tonight and can redraft tomorrow. Keep talking in chopped sentences. May be possessed by Rorsharch from Watchmen...

ETA: the suckiness is because I've been reading badfic all day, isn't it? I nearly put an author's note in the middle of the text, dammit!

Pimping

Since I know a bunch of you guys like Spike evil:

evilistas

Obviously can't join myself (being, well, redemptionista and all :anticipates mass de-friending:) but ambitch is cool, check it out.

Started slashfic over. 237 words. Currently researching the musical Oklahoma... don't ask.