'The Frayed and Weathered Mantle' by Quinara (BtVS, R, S8 Spuffy/gen) [1/2]

[quinara]

I was so very worried about being late to my own ficathon, but I made it! With Buffy fic after all (when in doubt it is my default), though bizarrely it's a long, quite serious (if bonkers) S8 fic, set just after the end of #35 and working sort of as a sequel to/with the same assumptions as my cracky bit of fluff If I'm an Actor then I Want to

Comments

[ningloreth]

Wow! This is so inventive!

I loved that the ship turned into a fish (a bit like the Tardis being a Police Box); the giant sex scene was stunning, and Buffy's expressions of embarrassment were spot on, and so was Spike's being all strong and supportive.

And I love the way Spike's so proprietorial about his ship!

My favorite was line:

Buffy took a moment to curse steam as a design philosophy. :-)

[quinara]

Aww, thank you! So much of this fic was like a bizarre free-writing exercise - I'd write and then I'd realise that I'd turned the ship into a fish, Angel having an argument with a snowstorm etc. etc, but it all seemed to work out. (Definitely a case of the characters solving their own problems! Though I had to reel them in sometimes when they went thematically off-base.)

No matter what happens, I don't think Buffy is going to stop seeing that ship as silly. ;)

[moscow_watcher]

I'm totally captivated. What a great, inspired idea to connect all the dots in Whedonverse!

[quinara]

Oh, yay!! Thank you very much - I hope you like the conclusion. :D