Thanks for the multitude of commentses! Sorry to make you plow through all the skulls and darkness and underworldy stuff; the next few installments will be a bit less gloom-and-doomy. :-)
Heh! I like that he doesn't know everything. Omniscient spirit guides are annoying as hell when they won't tell you what they do know.
And plus, as per Dante, the dead can recount the past and predict the future, but they can't see the present. It's actually very restrained of Spike not to pester Xander for all the latest gossip, but he has a lot on his mind right now.
Crap, my brain is fried from depression and good old Bush defending Rumsfeld as "superb" so I don't think you're going to get much more than "Neato" and "Keen" in these comments.
For some reason our fanfic has become increasingly preoccupied with issues of responsibility and accountability. Man, I really should sit down and write that promised screed about political allegory in Buffy Season Seven...
AAAAAGH THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR TAPPING INTO MY OWN PERSONAL NIGHTMARE I HAVE TO GO HUDDLE UNDER THE BED NOW
Sorry! For the record, you can thank The Hook for this exciting passage. I'm more of a giant-serpent-chewing-popcorn kinda guy.
OK, this is dumm, but earlier when Spike's head slipped away "like a balloon" I thought that meant Xander couldn't touch him (but they'd touched before) and got confused. Did Spike just dodge?
Er, yeah. I'd been hankering to use the balloon analogy in there - I figured that, in dim lighting, a pale blond in black clothing would look like a disembodied head - but I guess it was a bit confusing. Bad writer! (raps own knuckles)
I like the Spanderish handholding. (Heh.)
I think it's what skating judges would call a "compulsory form" in fanfic of this nature.
Heh! Nice continuity on from what was it, "Flooded"?
We're just all with the in-jokes around here. What really burned me about Xander's "correction" of Anya regarding Spider-Man is that she actually had a point; Peter Parker supports himself by taking pictures of himself in action and then peddling them to the papers, so he makes his money on the merchandising end...
I'm totally sure this wouldn't happen if I were reading this in book form, not on the Net in installments. But....is this the police guy they talked to who let them in? Why am I not recognizing this dude?
Yeah, he's from a couple chapters back; the big Henry Rollins-type dude who was told to babysit Lo and Neena. Partly we wanted to account for all the indicidental characters, but mostly we figured it was time we saw macho authority figures giving the Slayers some props. (More on this next chapter.)
That is v cool. Except I'm a little confused now about what the soul actually is. But that's OK. I'll work it out.
This too might be clearer if the story were read in one sitting/on paper/not in more-or-less weekly installments. But perhaps we'll clarify the cosmology a little when we eventually compile a final draft...
Aw. (And that was before she, er, died, right?)
Yep. We're still more or less in the timeframe between the end of Buffy Season Seven and the start of Angel Season Five; again, there'll be a little more on this next chapter, which is probably going to be kind of a "let's explain what just happened" installment.
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Heh! I like that he doesn't know everything. Omniscient spirit guides are annoying as hell when they won't tell you what they do know.
And plus, as per Dante, the dead can recount the past and predict the future, but they can't see the present. It's actually very restrained of Spike not to pester Xander for all the latest gossip, but he has a lot on his mind right now.
Crap, my brain is fried from depression and good old Bush defending Rumsfeld as "superb" so I don't think you're going to get much more than "Neato" and "Keen" in these comments.
For some reason our fanfic has become increasingly preoccupied with issues of responsibility and accountability. Man, I really should sit down and write that promised screed about political allegory in Buffy Season Seven...
AAAAAGH THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR TAPPING INTO MY OWN PERSONAL NIGHTMARE I HAVE TO GO HUDDLE UNDER THE BED NOW
Sorry! For the record, you can thank The Hook for this exciting passage. I'm more of a giant-serpent-chewing-popcorn kinda guy.
OK, this is dumm, but earlier when Spike's head slipped away "like a balloon" I thought that meant Xander couldn't touch him (but they'd touched before) and got confused. Did Spike just dodge?
Er, yeah. I'd been hankering to use the balloon analogy in there - I figured that, in dim lighting, a pale blond in black clothing would look like a disembodied head - but I guess it was a bit confusing. Bad writer! (raps own knuckles)
I like the Spanderish handholding. (Heh.)
I think it's what skating judges would call a "compulsory form" in fanfic of this nature.
Heh! Nice continuity on from what was it, "Flooded"?
We're just all with the in-jokes around here. What really burned me about Xander's "correction" of Anya regarding Spider-Man is that she actually had a point; Peter Parker supports himself by taking pictures of himself in action and then peddling them to the papers, so he makes his money on the merchandising end...
I'm totally sure this wouldn't happen if I were reading this in book form, not on the Net in installments. But....is this the police guy they talked to who let them in? Why am I not recognizing this dude?
Yeah, he's from a couple chapters back; the big Henry Rollins-type dude who was told to babysit Lo and Neena. Partly we wanted to account for all the indicidental characters, but mostly we figured it was time we saw macho authority figures giving the Slayers some props. (More on this next chapter.)
That is v cool. Except I'm a little confused now about what the soul actually is. But that's OK. I'll work it out.
This too might be clearer if the story were read in one sitting/on paper/not in more-or-less weekly installments. But perhaps we'll clarify the cosmology a little when we eventually compile a final draft...
Aw. (And that was before she, er, died, right?)
Yep. We're still more or less in the timeframe between the end of Buffy Season Seven and the start of Angel Season Five; again, there'll be a little more on this next chapter, which is probably going to be kind of a "let's explain what just happened" installment.