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It's a WIP in first person POV (which, really, people need WARNINGS for? Please unbunch your panties, fandom), present tense to boot. I guess if I'm going to break my own rules I figure I should go all out. :D

Anyway.

West of the Moon, East of the Sun by KnifeEdge

Ooh, found it here on LJ @

knifeedgefic. No more waiting for the moderation queue. Hooray!

Enjoy, if you aren't already.

Unrelated, thanks for the kitten & birthday wishes, anonymous person! ::hugs::

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Just wanted to wish you Happy Birthday!!! Hope it's a good one!

Thank you! :D It's been pretty darn good so far.

Happy Birthday! :D Your birth date has revealed to me that you were 11 days old and probably pooping up a storm when I screamed out my first breath. Cheers for Cancers!

First person present tense POV? Really? I have a headache just thinking about it. Really really? I should read this? Just want to confirm.

Hey, fellow Crab! Thank you! :D Uh, Cancer fist bump?

Rub those temples & dive in. I think the Bones fandom broke me of my knee-jerk reactions to POV and present tense. It used to be I couldn't click the back button fast enough when I found myself staring at a story with one of those, let alone both, so I totally get your trepidation. But now it's usually some other egregious error that sends me screaming for the hills. There are still lots and lots of those out there. /fic snob

Anyway, for real, I hope you'll give it a shot. And I hope you'll like it, but can understand that the format may not suit you. All I know is that it's made me excited about something in this fandom for the first time in a very long time.

Edited 2010-07-09 02:11 (UTC)

I am enjoying that fic! Was happy to see an update yesterday.

Happy belated birthday, lady! Hope it was good. Sending hugs your way. :-)

We had a great vacation. I did a blog if you want to check it out. www.travelpod.com and look up amberliu for the profile. Photos and everything. We had a netbook with us, which was fun, and I could read spuffy fic in the evenings if I wanted to, but mostly we slept from all the hoofing it around.

I love, absolutely love, traveling overseas, but I really started feeling my age this time around. We like to be very flexible, and go where we want, meaning no reservations anywhere, except maybe the night before when we decide. It got a little stressful traveling like that this time. ANd that made me feel old and stodgy. It was hard to remember that I did it for two months straight in '98, without the internet!!!

Also, am enjoying my garden this summer. Have already enjoyed some cherry tomatoes, and basil and dill herbs. Made some awesome lemon dill chicken last week. So freakin' easy! Grill some chicken breasts or thighs in a skillet with some butter, ground black pepper and a pinch of salt until they are pretty well cooked through (you know, to avoid the salmonella), then simmer on low to medium while adding some dry white wine or rice cooking wine, lemon juice (about half a lemon), and fresh dill, about 4 or 5 stems from your herb garden or the store (you could use dried dill too). Cook another 15 minutes or so. Serve over Jasmine rice. It's killer!!

Laters!

I'm getting seriously pissed off at the mods at EF for holding that story up for validation, STILL. How I've felt about EF in general the past while is a rant for another day, though.

I'll check out the blog soon, things have been hectic here at work and home. I'm so jealous of your travels, but am even more glad you had fun. btw, it's not being old and stodgy, it's being structured and sensible! ;)

The only edible plant I've been growing has been basil, and frankly, I'm not sure what to do with it all. It seems horribly unfair that the more I cut to give away, the more it grows! Though I did find a recipe just yesterday for basil butter that you can freeze in single-use size and pull out as needed. I may go that route to use up the extra basil once the growing season is drawing to a close.

While I've got you here, I sent you an email the other day, but I'm not sure if you got it. It was about screencaps for The Wire. Let me know if I need to resend. :)

Thanks for the rec!

I'm so glad people are liking it (and YES, I was actually told in a review that I should make it more clear that it's a POV fic, as apparently, that wasn't *entirely obvious* from the fact that I was writing in first person...).

Anyway, it's such a huge story, and my first foray into the Buffy fandom, so I'm pretty nervous about whether people will like it and stick with it. So thank you for the rec.

Oh, you're very welcome! And welcome to the fandom! You and your excellent story deserve to be noticed. :) I adore long, almost epic, stories, so you can count me in for the long haul. I'm so excited to see what you have in store!

This fandom can be a weird one for reader demands. I'm pretty sure that won't be the last review you get that leaves you bemused!

I've just read back through your posts on "murderizing english" and now find myself somewhat intimidated.

I feel the need to warn you that West of the Moon may include some slightly unusual narrative devices, some mildly-wretched poetry, at least one major jump in perspective and tense (although contextually it makes sense), a few (very few) song lyrics (I swear it is NOT a song!fic), several quoted poems, the word "effulgent" (not in reference to Buffy, however), and (hopefully in character) mangling of the English language.

No parentheses, to my knowledge, were harmed in the making of West of the Moon; ellipses, on the other hand, were liberally abused and beaten like the naughty punctuation they are.

I feel the need to clarify these things because I'd hate for my story to end up on your list of Good Fics Gone Bad.

Also, can I just say "yay!" for librarians (I'm a former library associate), and people with more than a passing familiarity with the work of Vladimir Nabokov.

Oh no! :( Please don't be worried about that. First off, I'm nobody! lol A nobody who flails a lot. Well, not so much lately, which is beside the point. I don't believe that fan fiction should get a pass for being poorly written just because it's a hobby. I can be ridiculously picky, I know. But I'm not entirely unreasonable, promise. Just a bit of a blowhard with too much time on her hands now and then. :)

I can handle almost any unusual narrative device or stylistic flourish if it makes sense and is done well. Just what's done well is hard to gauge, of course. It's very much a case of knowing it when you see it, and that can be different for everyone. Not to be a total suck up, but I have every confidence that you know what you're doing with those unusual narrative devices you mentioned. I don't think you have anything to worry about.

Shorter answer: please don't be concerned. If you can tell me now that there is no quasi-bestiality (that I have to say that is a concern makes me sad pants, but it's happened, and I've never been able to get past the weirdness to continue reading the story. CANNOT UNSEE!) or shape-shifting, pretty much I feel confident in saying there will be no flailing from me about anything you, specifically, do.

I also get painfully long-winded and unfocused when I'm tired, which I am at the moment. Apologies for the rambling.

"Yay" right back atcha, btw. Woo, libraries! \o/

Um... no. No bestiality, I swear. Not unless you count growly, fangy Spike as "beast."

Shapeshifting... uh... I don't have any characters that are *human* shapeshifters. There might be a demon or something similar that changes forms or uses glamour, though I don't think that's the same thing. If I were going to have a shapeshifter, it'd be Oz... but he's not in this one. (My next WIP though will have Oz in it.) Most of the demons I used in this story are adapted from existing folklore, and I didn't really have much use for shapeshifters, except in one instance... and even then it never becomes human.

No, growly, fangy Spike is aces in my book! Kinda yummy, actually.

I think I went a little too inside jokey with my comment, and that was a mistake. I mean, both of the things I mentioned have been written in Spike/Buffy fandom before, so what I said came from reality (sadly! lol), but the ideas and the execution were just SO out there I find them laughable. I'm a big sci-fi/fantasy dork, who can and will suspend disbelief for a lot, but sometimes, it's too much and my brain puts the brakes on.

btw, I adore Oz. I'd like to put him in my pocket so I can carry him around with me all the time. <3

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