New fic

[indri]

Thanks to nwhepcat for the beta, azdak for the free time and deborahmm for her kindness.

Unfortunately, it's NC17 Sparmony. No, I have no idea what possessed me. There are worse canon pairings, but not many.

And this time, I'll check the link once I've posted.

Shagging Harmony Kendall (NC17)
Spoilers to You're Welcome.

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Hee - this is brilliant. In character and totally unsentimental (which makes the Spike-thinking-of-Buffy bits genuinely touching, instead of making me cringe). I feel proud to have facilitated the creation of such a fine piece of writing :-) (I'm sure I'm missing a reference, though? - that title has to be a reference to something, and maybe the structure as well, but I'm so culturally illiterate I can't figure it out for myself).

You know, it sounds daft, but I only really 'got' how Harmony felt about Spike when I saw a music vid, 'Jolene', with Harmony as the sad wife and Buffy as Jolene - funny and kind of touching and it made me realise that she's not just annoying (though she is annoying), she really does love him. And then when she told Wes that he should consider himself lucky because the girl of his dreams loved him - aw! But I still think Spike would be crazy to give her any reason at all to have the slightest hope that she could get him back, so I appreciate his robustly exploitative attitude here.

There's no need to write back - I know you're being inundated with (much deserved) feedback, and I'm not going to be on-line for more than a couple of minutes over the next few days anyway, but I wanted you to know how much I'd enjoyed the story.

[indri]

I feel proud to have facilitated the creation of such a fine piece of writing

*glows with pleasure at your praise*

a music vid, 'Jolene'

I have just googled for this and will try to download a copy. It sounds interesting especially as I am unfamiliar with fan vids.

I still think Spike would be crazy to give her any reason at all to have the slightest hope that she could get him back, so I appreciate his robustly exploitative attitude here.

If only they could find more suitable partners in canon. I know my penchant to see the characters happy is at odds with ME's desire to have a plot but still.

"Robustly explotative": yes, that's a good phrase for it.

that title has to be a reference to something, and maybe the structure as well

The title could be but, if so, that's my unconscious brain talking. I'm afraid I must disappoint you and admit no allusive purpose there.

In the first draft, I tried for a more conventional structure, but I found that forced me into writing something more explicitly pornographic that detracted from what I was trying to say. The snippet structure (there has to be a better term but I can't come up with it right now) was chosen to avoid that by placing the focus squarely on telling details rather than physiology.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback and your continuing fine episode reviews.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Did you find the 'Jolene' vid? Because it's conveniently just been re-recced on TWoP - it's here

[indri]

I did thanks but I haven't looked at it yet because it requires Windows Media Player and I'm a MicroSoft phobe. But I'll get to to it eventually as it sounds too interesting.