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[jenoofer.livejournal.com]

I don't know how this group usually deals with introductions, but I'm introducing myself anyway. This pairing has been screaming at me for the last few weeks, right up until last night when 'Storyteller' aired (in the UK) and halfway through my mother piped up with "so is Andrew meant to be gay or what?"

So I wrote my very first piece of Buffy fanfiction. It's not brilliant, but I think it might get Andrew out of my head for a while.

Title: Penance
Author: Jen
Rating: G
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author’s notes: Set soon after ‘Storyteller’
Disclaimer: I own nothing. I want nothing. I know nothing.

http://www.geocities.com/subdued_flamboyance/penance.html

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[emony.livejournal.com]

I don't know how this group usually deals with introductions, but I'm introducing myself anyway.

I think it's pretty much a "show up and say hi" thing, but personally I'm all in favour of people arriving with pretty, shiny fic. Mmmm, fic.

halfway through my mother piped up with "so is Andrew meant to be gay or what?"

Heh, aren't mums great :)

Title: Penance

That was really good. I think you had both of them spot on. Plus my favourite thing of all - realism. Not singing it from the rooftops declarations of love and forever after, but real, honest, believable feelings. Mmmmm. Thank you :) I really enjoyed it, and I hope you'll write more.

[jenoofer.livejournal.com]

Ooh, praise. Praise good.

'halfway through my mother piped up with "so is Andrew meant to be gay or what?"'

Heh, aren't mums great :)

Normally she can't stand the idea of slash, so if she sees a pairing, it has to be more than just subtext.

I think you had both of them spot on.

Thanks. That's the thing that's been putting me off Buffy fic for so long - characterisation. That and dialogue. Especially Xander dialogue. It's hard.

[emony.livejournal.com]

Ooh, praise. Praise good.

Praise deserved :)

if she sees a pairing, it has to be more than just subtext

Xandrew: it even passes the mum test *g*

That's the thing that's been putting me off Buffy fic for so long - characterisation. That and dialogue. Especially Xander dialogue. It's hard.

I was always put off by that. It's not difficult to write Buffy fic, but it is difficult to write *good* Buffy fic, because the show itself has a very definite style, and a lot of idiosyncrasies, especially in dialogue. It's like a whole other language. I think you did it really well though. I could "hear" them both, which is always a very good sign.

[apatheticevil.livejournal.com]

So I wrote my very first piece of Buffy fanfiction. It's not brilliant, but I think it might get Andrew out of my head for a while.

He does tend to take up residence and demand attention, doesn't he? Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can see him pacing back and forth, whining about how bored he is. Andrew muse = a difficult thing to exorcise.

I liked your story a lot. Write more! Oh, and welcome to the group. :)