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Ask me a question about one of my stories. It can be absolutely anything in any fic and I will tell you the honest-to-god answer. Don’t hold back. Ask about my plans for future parts of a current series if you want to, but keep in mind that I may not have anything firm/definite in the works. Anything. Whatever you ask, I will try my best to answer.
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dollsome:Ask me a question about one of my stories. It can be absolutely anything in any fic and I will tell you the honest-to-god answer. Don’t hold back. Ask about my plans for future parts of a current series if you want to, but keep in mind that I may not have anything firm/definite in the works. Anything. Whatever you ask, I will try my best to answer.
Any takers?
I will probably never get rid of this moodtheme because I'm always discovering new delights. Seriously? "Mellow" is Hyde rubbing a pretty pink pillow against his face? WHAT THE HELL? I love this moodtheme.
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more than you ever wanted to know!
Once upon a time, a girl (sometimes) called Lauren was sitting in her Senior Seminar class and grew a bit bored.
Okay, I'm not keeping that up. Anyway, I flipped to the back of our textbook--Helen Vendler's Poems Poets Poetry which is the most awesome poetry textbook in the history of the world: woman has awesome taste--where there's a random anthology of the some of the most diverse poetry in the Western canon.
And I found "Sonnet III" by Edna St. Vincent Millay (the "I would have loved you in a day or two" poem). And it was so Spuffy. Like...I was kind of uncomfortable with just how much that poem reminded me of them. From the first moment I read it, I couldn't separate it from them.
And I think right then I scribbled down the bit about Buffy not crying until she's in her class at school? Just the first few lines.
But I didn't have a story and I couldn't think of one. I just knew that I needed to share that poem with the other Spike/Buffy writers. So I set it aside, but I kept it in the back of my mind because I just knew I'd finish it someday.
I revisited it later, I think when we talked about "The Kill" in class (from the Vendler book) and it reminded me of Buffy and Spike in S6. And from there I decided to do the poetry thing, especially when I saw that the theme for seasonal_spuffy that round was poetry.
A few of the poems came first--"Sonnet III," "Up," "The Kill"--and from there I sat down and tried to find poems to fit each season. I was gonna do one poem per season, but I ended up doing like three or four for S6, but that made sense because of how central Spike is to Buffy's life in that season. I had scribbled down a list of seasons and written in the poems that fit already, and then I went hunting for the others.
Quite a few of the poems, honestly, are from that Vendler text. "The Kill" and "Up" definitely are. As for the rest...well, it was just a matter of coming up with poems that would fit with those two characters. I had read the Dickinson ("Fate slew him") once upon a time and it was just made for a post-Shanshu Spike, so that one definitely had to go in. And I love Dorothy Parker and wanted to include her, and her "you might as well live" poem just fit S6 so perfectly. I'm really proud of having Dawn be the one to say that one.
The Donne poem I just wanted to include because it's the sexiest poem ever. ;) I think I settled on the Shakespeare from typing in "poems about mercy" into google, and then I couldn't resist the idea of Spike shouting Shakespeare from Giles's bathtub ("we band of buggered" anyone?).
The e.e. cummings was me going through every cummings poem trying to find one to fit. And it did. I know that I just went through every Browning sonnet I could find to find the poem Buffy writes to Spike in "Touched," and I still can't believe how perfectly it ended up fitting the story. I was looking for one that specifically didn't mention the word "love," because I didn't think Buffy was quite there yet. "Fletcher McGee" was actually
So yeah. That's the Epic Story about how I found the poems.
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And you seriously wouldn't believe the amount of fic I wrote in classes. Not usually in that one, because it was a really awesome class...but yeah: I was often with the Spuffy-ing and the plotting.
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