I'm spamming y'all like crazy lately, aren't I?

[lirazel]

FINE!

Gakked from everybody ever:

Comment and I'll tell you my favourite fic of yours that I've read, and why. If it's a longfic, I'll try to pinpoint favourite chapter (but no guarantees!). Or, in the event that I haven't read anything of yours, I'll comment back and ask for one thing of yours I absolutely must read.

I've sort of been putting this off because if I haven't read anything of yours I'll be embarrassed. So seriously: rec me! I love you all!

Also! Links!

First read this about how filmmakers are taught not to make films where women talk to each other. Then read the follow-up here about why and also about why it sucks to have curly hair. Think of it as foreshadowing for the time when I'll finally make my epic post (complete with a picspam of me!) about my lifelong...relationship with my hair.

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[snickfic]

I know it's redundant, but... feed me?

ETA: Remind me to tell you sometime about my adventures in not washing my hair.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Of course!

This is really hard for me. Because I'm mad about both of your Yuletide fics this year--I know you weren't happy with the main one, but I loved it. Your style fit the fandom just perfectly, and it was happy and warm. And the crossover one with FF was just crazy awesome with your River voice. Ah!

And I've recently fallen in love with "Children's Tales" because Spike&Dawn and Daddy!Spike in the same fic makes me flail with joy. OH I LOVE IT.

But I do have to go with "Seraph" because you know you hit all my kinks--gender-bending and Spike&Dawn and Spike&Buffy friendship and BABYFIC YES I LOVE IT. I think my favorite chapter might be 20, with the knife-throwing and Dawn realizing this is all bigger and darker than she thought, and she's kind of out of her depth but they still can't deny how much they mean to each other.

This is the part that sums it all up for me:

“I do hate you,” she said softly. She kept her eyes off his face; she didn’t want to watch it break. “I hate you, because...” Sniffle. Crap, why was she always crying in front of him? “Because you killed that guy and you don’t even care, and you killed all those other people, too. Like... thousands of them?”

“Close enough,” he said.

“And you don’t care about them, either, and you’re evil, just like everyone says, and...” She scowled with hot, stinging eyes out at the lawn. “And you’re still my best friend.”

Love. It.

Tell me any time you wish!

[snickfic]

Awwww. Thank you for the warm fuzzies! I gotta say, it's especially cool to get bits of writing quoted back to me. And YAY BABYFIC. (Somehow it feels more respectable liking babyfic when I've got a writer as good as you who agrees with me.)

And you know, I really didn't come into this fic thinking much about genderbending. Which sounds bizarre, I know, but what I was really thinking about was characterbending. I cared a lot more how the scenario affected Spike than how it affected Spike, Member of the Male Species. So what genderbending came out of it was just bonus as far as I'm concerned.

Thank you, thank you for the ego-feeding. :)

Oh, hair. Now that I think about it, it's not that much of a story: someone linked me to some Curly Girl-type websites, I did some research, and figured I'd trying going without shampoo for six weeks (the recommended trial period, IIRC). I just used natural-product conditioner. In theory my scalp was supposed to adjust eventually, but either I didn't go long enough or the adjustment wasn't noticeable. After four weeks of having my hair up all the time to disguise the fact that it just looked dirty, I went and gave it a real cleaning with real shampoo, and decided that by gosh I cared a lot more about clean than I did about healthy. I have now made peace with whatever supposedly harmful products are in most shampoos; I simply don't care.

(And, speaking of hair: Anya's hair is curly for the wedding! And it's so pretty, and it matches the ruffles in her veil! Also, Hallie's hair is always curly.)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

YAY WARM FUZZIES!

I felt like it would be redundant for me to just say, "Yeah, I love 'Seraph' a whole lot." Like, you knew that already!

(Somehow it feels more respectable liking babyfic when I've got a writer as good as you who agrees with me.) I feel exactly the same way!

It's weird: I'm very specific about what kind of genderbending I relate to. And for some reason, Spike is like the ultimate gender-bend character for me: I see Buffy proposing to him, and him being more of the hands-on parent, and her taking charge in most areas of their lives...etc.

I cared a lot more how the scenario affected Spike than how it affected Spike, Member of the Male Species. And that's why it worked so well. Seriously. If you'd been trying to make some sort of statement on gender or whatever, it wouldn't have worked nearly as well as it did. You were caring about how Spike related to it specifically. And that's awesome.

ME, TOO. No, seriously: I had the exact same experience with the no-shampoo thing. I did it for about a month, and every day: grease. And finally my mama said, "This isn't working. It's ridiculous. Go wash your hair--and use shampoo." And so I did! No regrets!

If I have kids, however, and they inherit my curls, I won't start using shampoo on them ever, and so they won't have the same issues. *nods*

(ANYA! I love her wedding hair! And Hallie's hair is pretty awesome.)