Boniblithe's feedback challenge
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boniblithe's Feedback Challenge and was assigned docmichelle/Tigerlady. I've never read her work, so I was bouncily pleased to find that she has a Buffy/Pirates of the Caribbean crossover on her page. But I'll get to that in a minute.
By the Waters of Babylon
This is Cordelia-centric. I love afterlife fic, and my problem in giving feedback on this is Sixth Sense Syndrome where I don't want to give away the ending, but I loved that it turned my expectations on their head. I really liked the fantasy element of the whole thing, the technicolour heaven and the non-humans.
Sweet Tooth
Willow/Fred's one of my favourite pairings. This is a short piece but it has a wonderful split narrative, Fred's history and her abstract thoughts on sugar alternated with her meetings with Willow. I have a thing for use of repetition and I'm in love with the structure of this, the repeated 'sugar is bad for you' and the shift of who Fred's rock is. And it's just damn pretty. As always with Fred fics, science being brought into it somewhere makes me very happy, so I loved the aside about the effects of sugar on physiology.
Forty Tongue Lashes and a Bit of Parley
Anya tells Halfrek the story of how she was sent to wreak vengeance on one Captain Jack Sparrow. The author had me on the second sentence, with 'Brimstone Bar and Grille'. That name just tickles me. And then I was had again as soon as Halfrek spoke her first line, because Hallie needs more action in fanfic. The voices, both Anyanka's sharp, slightly huffy narrative voice (love the line Halfrek sighed hugely. Anya was pretty sure it was a habit she had developed specifically to emphasize her bosom) and Jack Sparrow's dialogue, are great. I could completely believe that Jack could talk and flirt his way out of being wished against, too.
All of her fics, including a Buffy/X-Men crossover and stories set around Brimstone and The Mummy, can be found here.
boniblithe's Feedback Challenge and was assigned docmichelle/Tigerlady. I've never read her work, so I was bouncily pleased to find that she has a Buffy/Pirates of the Caribbean crossover on her page. But I'll get to that in a minute.By the Waters of Babylon
This is Cordelia-centric. I love afterlife fic, and my problem in giving feedback on this is Sixth Sense Syndrome where I don't want to give away the ending, but I loved that it turned my expectations on their head. I really liked the fantasy element of the whole thing, the technicolour heaven and the non-humans.
Sweet Tooth
Willow/Fred's one of my favourite pairings. This is a short piece but it has a wonderful split narrative, Fred's history and her abstract thoughts on sugar alternated with her meetings with Willow. I have a thing for use of repetition and I'm in love with the structure of this, the repeated 'sugar is bad for you' and the shift of who Fred's rock is. And it's just damn pretty. As always with Fred fics, science being brought into it somewhere makes me very happy, so I loved the aside about the effects of sugar on physiology.
Forty Tongue Lashes and a Bit of Parley
Anya tells Halfrek the story of how she was sent to wreak vengeance on one Captain Jack Sparrow. The author had me on the second sentence, with 'Brimstone Bar and Grille'. That name just tickles me. And then I was had again as soon as Halfrek spoke her first line, because Hallie needs more action in fanfic. The voices, both Anyanka's sharp, slightly huffy narrative voice (love the line Halfrek sighed hugely. Anya was pretty sure it was a habit she had developed specifically to emphasize her bosom) and Jack Sparrow's dialogue, are great. I could completely believe that Jack could talk and flirt his way out of being wished against, too.
All of her fics, including a Buffy/X-Men crossover and stories set around Brimstone and The Mummy, can be found here.
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on 2004-06-28 02:23 pm (UTC)Ok, that one sounds completely fantastic. And I've never read anything by her either, so that sounds exciting.
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on 2004-06-28 02:32 pm (UTC)hi :)
on 2004-06-28 02:46 pm (UTC)I just heard from a girl on my flist that you are from Northern Ireland. Just to say hi, what part of NI, cause I live there too, and how are you doing?
I live in Co. Antrim, FYI
Just out of pure curiosity, cause us irish are nosey :)
Oh, and my name is Amanda.
Re: hi :)
on 2004-06-28 02:52 pm (UTC)Re: hi :)
on 2004-06-29 09:53 am (UTC)Re: hi :)
on 2004-08-23 06:48 am (UTC)I just realised, I said County Antrim, but what I wanted to say was Co. Derry (Coleraine)
I was never able to find any and the ones I tried to talk to completely blanked me (rude..)
Anyway, cool. Would you mind very much if I added you?
Re: hi :)
on 2004-08-23 07:24 am (UTC)no subject
on 2004-06-28 03:20 pm (UTC)Okay, so I read that as 'Forty Tongue Lashes and a Bit of Parsley'. Which got me wondering as to what Jack would do with said parsley. And then I ended up with the mental image of Jack stuffing a chicken. *sigh* I think I'll go to bed, now.
parsley
on 2004-06-29 10:47 am (UTC)And I imagine that he could make stuffing a chicken entertaining.
LOL.
-tigerlady
Re: parsley
on 2004-06-30 11:22 am (UTC)Feedback! Whee!
on 2004-06-29 10:44 am (UTC)Halfrek and Anya were so much fun to write--they pretty much wrote themselves. The hard part was keeping them on track! The part I was worried about was Jack's dialogue, so I'm glad to hear that you liked it. He's a tough nut to get words around, that's for sure.
Anyway, enough babble. This really made my day!
-tigerlady