Yay! I've actually written something!

R is for (the) Ramones, Spike and Dawn, Buffy the Vampire Slayer for gigi_tastic

( The Sound of Forgiveness (forgive the schmoopy title) )

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X is for xenophobia, Simon, Firefly, for caboca

( Boogeyman )

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I is for Incense, Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for snickfic

( ScentMemory )

I don't do recs a whole lot, but I couldn't let this one pass me by since there are people on my flist I know would be wildly enamored of it. *coughthatseptembercough*

Mal/Inara fic for those of you of the Firefly persuasion. It's the writer's first time writing them, so shower her with feedback if you read/enjoy:

Five Times Mal Reynolds Didn't Kiss Inara Serra (And the One Time He Did) by wordsthatfail. Check it out.


Also...I really need to work on those personal canon tidibts soon....

I'm writing Firefly fic (I know?  Isn't that crazy?  It feels so good!), and I glanced at the Firefly Wiki to try to figure out how old Mal would have been during the War.  But I did the math and the first thing I figured it out is this:  do you know how old he was during the actual show? 

49.

Okay, there is no way on God's green earth that I buy that.  Do they honestly expect me to buy that?  Nathan Fillion as 49?  Here's what the wiki says:

"Malcolm Reynolds was born on September 20, 2468. This is taken from the Serenity movie when the Operative is viewing his file. This date has significance in that September 20, 2002 is the day Firefly premiered, and September 20, 1968 is Firefly writer/producer Ben Edlund's date of birth. "

Okay, I adore Ben Edlund (fun fact: did you know he was the one who came up with the idea for Bad Horse?); he's written several of my favorite Jossverse/Supernatural episodes, and I think the guy's a genius.  I love that they gave him this short of shout-out in the movie.  However, that's all it is.  A shout-out.  I don't believe that's canon.

So I figure that means that I get to completely disregard that, much the way we get to completely disregard the various canon contradictions about Buffy's birthdate. 

However, I am very interested in how old you think he is during the War.  The War started eleven years before "Serenity" (the pilot episode, not the movie) and ended five years later.  I always sort of imagined Mal as this fresh young kid going off to fight for glory and freedom and all that stuff.  But I do want to be realistic about his age when he went off to fight.  I'd love your opinions.  Any thoughts?

Also, I just want to give a shout-out to my icon.  "Out of Gas" is my favorite episode of Firefly by a whole heck of a lot, and this icon makes me ridiculously happy.

"Let me show you the rest. And-and try to see past what she is and onto what she can be."
"What's that, sir?"
"Freedom, is what."
"I meant, what's that?"
"Oh, yeah, just step around that. I think something must have been living in here."

I DIE.

Ha!  The triumphant return of the great love of my life: choco_cherries !

Title: Puzzles
Fandoms:  Buffyverse/Firefly
Characters/Pairing: Spike/River Tam
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 300
Prompt: Game
Summary: It's always Slayers.

 

Finals are done!  *throws confetti and does a happy dance*  So now I can have my life back!

Thirteen days till London!  *throws confetti and does another happy dance.  This will be a lot of confetti to clean up later*  I couldn't be more thrilled!

Life update coming, along with me trying to catch up on my flist, cuz I missed y'all.

Till then:

This is what I do in class instead of actually paying attention.  It's a wonder I make as good of grades as I do.

Personal Canon

This meme (which I stole from that_september) is so ridiculously hard.  You have no idea.  I mean, just narrowing down to five items in each category?  Just about killed me.  And I may have to come back and change things later.   But it was fun, nonetheless.

Along comes "Bad Day at Black Rock." If I say that this is my favorite Supernatural episode of all times, is that going too far? Perhaps so. But I was hugging myself with happiness throughout the episode. I loved every single moment of it.

Prepare for a long, rambling stream-of-consciousness fangirl squeeing.



And now for some thoughts on Friday Night Lights.


I love television way too much.

I probably shouldn’t post my very favorite of my Firefly stories first, because after this everything else will be anti-climactic.  But I love this story.  It’s one of the ones I’m most proud of; it turned out exactly as I wanted it, and we all know how rare that is.

 

Title: The Dance
Fandom: Firefly
Characters/Pairings: Mal POV, pre-Rayne, River, Jayne, Zoe, Simon, Kaylee
Rating: PG-13
Timeline/Spoilers: post-BDM
Disclaimer: Joss is Boss
Summary: There isn't any music.