The Fic of a Snick

Well, I guess except that he likes Buffy.

WHAT? Is this insulting my girl????

*clutches pearls*

Edited Date: 2010-03-31 02:54 pm (UTC)

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I'm over here GASPING too.

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You save me so much time.

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It's my goal in life.

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Really? That is awesome.

...Do you do laundry, too?

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shapinglight

Someone doth protest too much, I think.

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snickfic

Well, journalistic objectivity is not guaranteed in these matters. There may some bias in the reporting...

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HAHAHA!

I cannot tell you how much I'm vicariously enjoying these posts. I LOVE THEM.

I sort of have a thing for guys carrying torches for girls who don't respond.
I think your housemate and I should be BFFs.

But blood breath and smoking...
Actually...good point. But! Maybe vampires don't retain scents or something! So he doesn't smell like blood and smoke! *makes it canon*

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snickfic

Yay! They greatly amuse the housemate, too. I tell her that there's a whole housemate saga on my LJ now, and she is tickled.

Maybe vampires don't retain scents or something! So he doesn't smell like blood and smoke!

No no no! Smell is important! (I actually have a serious thing for scents and smells and odors. It comes up all the time in my fic. It's even one more reason to love writing Spike - he's got that enhanced vampire sense of smell, so I have an excuse to focus on the smells.)

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YEAH BUT making out with somebody who has blood-and-smoke breath? GROSS. I have to find a way to get around this!

Though I do have a bit of a kink for descriptions of Buffy-smells (and others, too) from Spike's perspective ~~as long as it isn't "Buffy smelled of vanilla" which makes me stabby.~~

Also, I feel that way about color. I'm very, very sensitive to it. Weird, huh?

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I tend to read colors in terms of taste, especially candy. Like, when I go clothes shopping and look at the sweaters, in the back of my mind I'm thinking "Chocolate, green apple Jolly Rancher, grape, mocha...

Edited Date: 2010-03-31 03:57 pm (UTC)

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That is so interesting!

I don't think I label them in my mind, but there's nothing better than a really great description of a color: apple green is a great one, and I just read "fish-belly white" the other day which just made me FLAILY.

It comes up in my work: the first section of "Scarlet and Midnight" is...scarlet and black. Then it moves on to a kind of dingy green-and-brown, then to opal shades like inside a shell, then back to scarlet and black again (there may be other stops in between, but those are the ones I remember). The reunion scene in "Love and Blackmail" was all about gold and ivory (with a bit of black). "Ministers of Grace" is either candlelight gold or jewel-tones from stained glass windows, depending on the section--with the scarlet blood on pure white being a big deal, too.

Tell me about smells!

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Smells are hard. About all you can do is compare them to other smells, and there's only so much a vocabulary you can build from that. (I've always been curious whether other languages are better built for this. French, maybe, with the national history of perfumes and cooking?)

But that doesn't keep them from regularly popping up in my work. I've written two drabbles that are basically nothing but smell - the recent Faith/Giles piece and an old Oz/Willow piece, which seems to imply that smell's an important romantic element for me. Faith/Giles, in particular, keeps presenting itself to me in terms of scents, including ones that I wouldn't ever associate with either Faith or Giles.

But scents are also really important for setting. You know in Seraph, the last night before the surgery, when Spike's getting some quiet time by himself in the basement and notices Joyce's lemon-scented cleaner masking the earthy basement smell underneath, and how it reminds him of the grave? Like that. In terms of writing that worked for me, that was huge.

I was just now rereading "Ministers of Grace," and while I see lots of references to snowy white and then the one big slaughter scene at the end, I don't see that much explicit discussion of color. So I'm guessing for you it's as much implied as it is explicit? That the "color" of a section is as much in the word choice and general ambiance as it is the specific colors mentioned?

Speaking of colors, I tend to associate different words of the alphabet with different colors. Like, things with J's tend to be orange. S's and R's usually mean red. L's and N's are blue/green, depending on context, and Th's are brown, which means Tolkein's languages are usually a blending of all those colors. B's are also blue.

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About all you can do is compare them to other smells, and there's only so much a vocabulary you can build from that. True. I'd never thought about it in quite that way before, but you're right.

Yes! I remember that! Nicely done! I like to wonder how Cora smells to him...does she have different smells in different moods? Is he more attuned to her because she's his daughter? How far does it go?

So I'm guessing for you it's as much implied as it is explicit? That the "color" of a section is as much in the word choice and general ambiance as it is the specific colors mentioned?

Definitely. Sometimes it's really important for me to communicate the color explicitly to the reader--L&B, for instance. But often it's just the way it feels to me that makes me associate it with a given color.

A's are yellow. B's are definitely blue. But I see L's as pink. Huh!

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Is he more attuned to her because she's his daughter? How far does it go?

I'm honestly not sure. I'm a little hampered here by not having much hands-on personal experience with infants. (That's actually the single biggest reason that thoughts of a sequel are at a stand-still right now.) It's fun to wonder about, though.

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Heh. Just keep talking, sister. What ep are you guys up to? It won't be long now until she is entirely one of us! (I still think we ought get toasters or something for all our hard work converting people.)

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We just finished "I Was Made to Love You" last night. We're pausing and taking a breather before experiencing "The Body." (Also, housemate reports that Spike has become considerably more skeevy and possibly less sexy now that he's ordered a sexbot.)

As for toasters: we inherited the most bizarre toaster when we moved into this apartment. It's a Hello Kitty toaster, and it toasts Hello Kitty into the sides of the toast. It's like buttering your bread and finding Elvis in the grain. It's weird.

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It's a Hello Kitty toaster, and it toasts Hello Kitty into the sides of the toast.

I don't know why, but I kind of want one.

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I... don't know why either. It's very peculiar!

(Also, the kids down here have an urban legend about how Hello Kitty was actually once a girl with cancer of the mouth. Her mother made a deal with the devil that the girl wouldn't die, so instead the devil turned her into Hello Kitty - hence Hello Kitty having no mouth. I've gotten this story from several completely independent sources.)

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So...this isn't like an inside joke amongst friends? This is actually...widespread? That is SO WEIRD!

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snickfic

There's also a theory about how saying "Winnie the Pooh" summons 400 demons (they're precise about this number), but I can't remember just how it works...

It the evils of children's marketing, taken to new levels!

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Well, that makes it rather creepy. :\

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That's...weird.

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I think Intervention will get it done (official prediction!). Spike suffering for Buffy, the end! That's what got me. She's slowly making her way to being ONE OF US.

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My favorite thing in the world is how it starts out with him MAKING A SEXBOT but that episodes makes people ship it. I mean, how great is that? It's such a paradox! I'm in love with it!

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Oooh! And Snick should share

mere_ubu's Spaiku at some point to drive home how wonderful that episode is!

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She is such a genius. She just blows my mind. And I miss her. *sigh*

Which is my way of saying YES! I SECOND THIS MOTION!

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snickfic

I so will! Except I'll probably start with Crushed Spaiku, both because it's shorter (so a little less daunting) and because, unlike with Intervention (which I already loved), the Spaiku significantly changed how I felt about the episode. Spaiku made me come to terms with and love the episode in all its pathetic-Spike glory.

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