Buffy/Gunn: Regular Joe

Unbeta'd and horribly late, my nevermet entry:

For marenfic
Characters: Cordelia/Riley (paired) or Buffy/Gunn (paired or friendship)
Three requirements OR a prompt: sailboat, sunscreen, hat
What don't you want?: high school setting, AU (although I love AR futurefic if you want to resurrect someone or pretend they didn't die), no marriage/kids/pure fluff.
Acceptable range of ratings: All

Title: Regular Joe
Author: Doyle
Pairing: Buffy/Gunn
Rating: PG
Summary: Boats, castles and mystical panthers. Normal's okay.

Halfway to Malcesine Buffy gave up on glaring at the guy's back and dug a fifty-cent coin from her purse. Map of Italy, she'd pretend he didn’t exist; statue of horse, he was going overboard. ( ”More” )

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I just saw the Smallville season 5 promos. Well, I saw them on my flist this morning but I assumed they were fan-made mockups. Apparently they're the real thing. Uh... huh. So this year they're just going all out on the slash, eh? All three of these made my brain spin round and round and make little fizzy noises.

( I don't think there are any spoilers in me just giving the links, aside from the casting spoiler that everybody and their pet chinchilla knows already, but I'll cut anyway. For, like Jasmine, I am love, though I don't eat people nearly as often as she does. Praise Jasmine. )

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I am torn. I've been meaning for a while to see the movie version of I Capture the Castle - because Mark Blucas is in it - only this weekend I finally got around to reading the book. Now I don't want to see a movie version, ever, because I loved it so much (*) and it's *perfect* in my head and I don't want it wrecked and no matter how good a movie is the characters won't look like they do in my head and bits will be changed/left out...

*imdbs*

Dude, Rose Byrne's in it too?

...I must see. I'm so weak.

But I'm not masochistic enough to look for the no-doubt awful fanfic.

For all of ten seconds.

(* marymac can attest to the fact of me barrelling into her room somewhere around page 160 demanding 'tell me she marries Simon!!')