Spike/Buffy rec

[xtanitx]

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::

Comments

[slayer-the12.livejournal.com]

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

[aerintine.livejournal.com]

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.

[wilcorules.livejournal.com]

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!

[knifeedgefic.livejournal.com]

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.

[knifeedgefic.livejournal.com]

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.