The Greatest Meme Ever

[lirazel]

Everybody's doing it! (By everybody, I mean angearia and snickfic, of course!) I don't have any confidence I'll do it nearly as well as they have, but I'll take a whack at it nonetheless because theirs were so fun.


Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Aaaand...GO!

Comments

[snickfic]

I honestly think that Buffy becomes a lot less likable in fic most of the time--people who write good fic that doesn't go all Mary Sue-ish usually depict her as very...harsh.

Yeah. I find that I often don't like Buffy very much in fic.

Well, I hope you had an absolutely wonderful day. Nothing like a Buffy-birthday at all.

I did indeed have a lovely birthday, wherein none of my nearest and dearest turned into monsters, were threatened by monsters, or wished me a forced house arrest. So yay for that. :)

Ooh! I like the sound of this fic very much indeed. Moments of understanding between unlikely people is one of my biggest narrative kinks, and is really why I started liking Spuffy in the first place.

How awful would it be if I wrote you a birthday fic and you ended up hating it! :O

Somehow, this seems like a highly unlikely scenario. *g*

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I did indeed have a lovely birthday, wherein none of my nearest and dearest turned into monsters, were threatened by monsters, or wished me a forced house arrest. I'm so glad to hear that!

Moments of understanding between unlikely people is one of my biggest narrative kinks, and is really why I started liking Spuffy in the first place. Oh, mine, too. I have to say that I really, really wanted to like the play Coriolanus because the whole idea of this guy going to his enemy when everyone else turned on him just made me giddy. But of course that doesn't exactly work out, and the rest of the play isn't that great (or at least, the production I was wasn't; I haven't read it). I looove moments like that.

Well, I hope you do indeed like it! It's up right here.

[snickfic]

Oh, mine, too. I have to say that I really, really wanted to like the play Coriolanus because the whole idea of this guy going to his enemy when everyone else turned on him just made me giddy.

Oh, yes. It'd have made me giddy, too, if I knew it before just now. *g* I've read a scattering of Shakespeare - largely on my own, which explains the selection - but that's not one I've gotten to yet.

I could make a whole list of books and movies in which I love this unlikely friends/allies trope, although the one that comes to mind just now is Xavier and Magneto in the second X-Men movie.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

The only reason I knew anything about it at all is that they did it for Shakespeare in the Park here last year (honestly, part of my antipathy towards it may have been because they tried to stretch the play so that it applied to the current American political situation...and it didn't work). Still, I'd recommend just about every other Shakespeare play before that one! I'm impressed at you tackling him on your own; I've read quite a lot of him, but none outside of a classroom setting.

And I really can't verbalize how much the idea of him turning to his enemy in that moment--that there's this underlying respect there--appeals to me. I fully intend to write a book with that premise someday. (It also reminds me of Spike showing up at Giles's door in "Pangs" and throwing himself on the Slayer's mercy. Love. It.)

Oooh! That's a good one! Yeah, with them playing chess in the plastic jail cell and such? Very cool.

Sometime you should make such a list! I would love to read it!

[snickfic]

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