You know, I think it's funny that I've got such a huge humiliation squick, but there are loads of funny situations I like to create. Like the not-porn DVDs and how everyone reacts crazy when that happens while Spike is just smirking. And in RL, I tend to be awful at humor, so it's really rewarding to be able to pull it off and have some say I have a great sense of comic timing. No, seriously. I said something raunchy and funny a few weeks ago and everyone stared at me in shock and then had the delayed reaction of: "Wow, Emmie, that was actually funny." I can't decide to be amused or miffed by that, haha! It makes me want to point them to all the humor and snark in my fic, though.

It's interesting 'cause I know you've felt uncomfortable with writing humor, but that in just chatting, you go to those places yourself with the humor and mockery. But maybe you pull back in writing it? I think when you write, you write with sincerity at its heart. And humor is irreverance that almost appears to belie its sincerity, but it's actually a way to show the truth of who funny people relate. "Love and Blackmail" had loads of great humor! And the character revealing poetry in "Ars Poetica" especially when you have Buffy saying Giles will like hanging with Spike 'cause he's spouting Shakespeare and Giles is British--hilarious!

So maybe that's key the key. Character humor like Community.