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( Angel 5.20 spoilers )

ETA: Poster for the Angel finale. Pretty. And leather pants and silk shirt! (Though I do wonder about the big chunky gold ring he's wearing. Hmm, clearly he and Spike do run away to San Francisco to get married!

550 words of the crossover fic done. I have written nothing in the last 5 days despite having a zillion ficathon deadlines :cries: Stupid writers block.

Crossover ficathon

Crossover ficathon entry. Meep. Please excuse the suckiness of this. Somebody remind me next time that seeing three episodes of Alias (and coming away from them with the review 'Sloane is my spydaddy, Sark is the hot, Will should dress as David Beckham all the time, Sydney should marry Weiss, for the love of God shut the hell up, Vaughn') does not qualify me to write fanfic about it. I'm just glad it's done since I haven't been able to write anything else.

Title: Tie That Sucker Down (Builds Like a Skyscraper)
Author: Doyle
Fandom: Buffy/Alias
Pairing: Faith/Sark
Rating: PG-13
Notes: For voleuse for the crossover ficathon - she wanted a not so trendy nightclub and dancing.

The guy reminds you of Wesley when he's going psycho-Watcher (the accent, the sharp edges just beneath the smile) and of Spike (the height, build, the way he looks you over like he sorta wants to fuck you and eat you at the same time and he doesn't care if you know that). Makes you think of people in prison, too - no one person you can think of. Just that feeling. May not look like a hell of a fighter, but back him into a corner and he'll cut you up quicker and cleaner than B did.
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Jeff Bell, recapping this season:

"We’ve asked ourselves the question, ‘Can a bunch of outsiders who are fighting evil go into the belly of the beast and change it from the inside without being changed ourselves?’ And that’s one of the things we’re trying to get to. Another issue we’ve got is this whole prophecy thing. Does it mean anything? What does it mean to Angel, to Spike? Will Spike and Angel ever kiss?"

:dies and is ded:

(Now I'm trying to find that interview where - Drew Goddard, was it? Said that the one thing they always, always wanted to do on Buffy was have Spike and Xander kiss and it just never happened. I'm sure I didn't dream that...)

ETA: snidgemma points out that it was in fact Drew Greenberg. And we have the video evidence.

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Has anybody else seen the E4 Smallville adverts? Reassure me that I'm not seeing them through HoYay tinted contact lenses - I mean, the bright purple background, the big "Clark has a secret" title immediately followed by Lex asking "What's your secret, Clark?" (while giving a Gayest Look of some Episode). Then the clip of Clark in bed, teleporting-girl's hand coming up his arm, except it's edited as well as I've seen in any music vid so that we don't see who the hand belongs to. And Jonathan Kent walks in and looks horrified.

Then they show it's a girl after all and ruin my fun. Dammit. (I should be looking out for the Sky One Angel adverts. The Angel/Connor Tainted Love music vid was classic. And I still have a soft spot for the TV3 'even heroes fall in love' season 6 adverts because their marketing department clearly went "screw anything else that's happening in the episode, Spuffy Spuffy Spuffy!")

Here Be Hyppogryffs

My ficathons info is updated. :looks at it: We are one whacked-out fandom, you realize this?

Hot off the presses is lyrajane's Hometown Challenge. Buffy or Angel fic set in your own hometown. Come on, I know there are more Belfast people wanting to sign up for this. Buffy the Spide Slayer!

Anyhoo, hyppogryffs:

thebratqueen says: In fanfic I've started to amass a collection of things I like to call "hyppogryff fics". They're not meant to be good, they're not meant to be in character, they're not meant to be anything except a way for me to get insane plot bunnies out of my head. And also, admittedly, they tend to be meant to stroke my fic kinks pretty fast and hard. Open fictional masturbation, I suppose one could say, but hyppogryff fic sounds cooler.

This got me to thinking - do more people have hyppogryff fics that they want to write and just never have? Because what with reading TBQ's Angel/Wes arranged marriage fic I'm dying to know what other people would come up with.

( Cut for meta blathering about my Buffy/Connor AU )

So what's everybody else's? The totally non-canon thing kink-hitting thing that you want to write? (ETA: Psst, connorbeast. You should do that Angel/Xander human AU based on The Parent Trap. Or Joyce as a spy.)

And we should declare July to be National Hyppogryff Writing Month. NaHypWriMo. We should.