Still working on a jury-rigged system to post this as my main computer is sitll on the blink, but I really do want to finish posting this within the next week.

( In which Alex goes on a ride to nowhere...the superheroes bicker...Alex finds out that Willow plans to cast a spell on him...Alex loses complete control...the superheroes get confused...and Alex is the victim of the invisible hand of fate... )

Yes, of course there was a very short soundtrack for Behold Little Padawan! this story that I listened to while writing (it tends to happen with me).

Anywho, I'm offering up the soundtrack if you want to download it. There's a 13-track listing with commentary, followed by the download link.

It's...eclectic to say the least.

There's no album art, primarily because I have no graphics-making skills.


( Behold Little Padawan Soundtrack )

The management would love it if you would comment when you download.

This is it! It's completely and totally done! Yay!

All previous parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 5D.

( Part 6: And Then They Lived... )

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Continued from Part 5C.

( Part 5D: Presents of Mind )

Aaaaand here's the second part of Andrew's fifth and final story...

All previous parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 5A.

( Part 5B: Slayers for Pele, Part 2 )

Booo! LJ is being twitchy tonight. No matter how much I cut this, it wouldn't let me post.

So I had to split it in half. Me not happy.

Keep your eye on this space. I'll be rapidly updating all evening.

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Continued from Part 4F.

( Part 5A: Slayers for Pele, Part 1 )

It's baaack! And it's finished! (Or rather, I'll finish posting the remaining parts tomorrow morning.) Happy holidays all.

And it only took from November 2006 to December 2007. Hooray!

All previous parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 4E.


( Part 4F: If It Weren't For Bad Luck... )

Like sweating blood, I swear. The good news is that I can actually see daylight.

( In which Spike leaves...Alex and Faith play a game...Alex meets a soldier...Spike gets beat up...and the superheroes get confused about the definition of bait... )

Unh. Still up to my eyeballs in paperwork at work, and still fighting a hellacious cold.

But, I'm pulling in another Faith question.

Then I'm gonna go take more drugs and go right to bed.

All previous 'Ask the Character Questions' are listed here.

Question 2 from bastardsnow

To Faith in Contrite Spirits: Do you ever regret your mother's wish?

( Answer under the cut )

I'm gonna try to do one of these a day. I'm attacking them in no particular order. *wheeeeee*

All previous 'Ask the Character Questions' are listed here.

Question 1 from faith_chaos:

To AU-Faith in Water Hold Me Down (WiP): Do you think you might be happy? And if you don't, why?

( Answer under the cut )

Your eyes don't deceive. Running down near the end.

( In which Faith drops by for a visit...Spike learns the awful truth about Xander...and the superheroes ask Alex for help... )

Your eyes do not deceive you. Yes, this has been bumped up one more part. It's now in 9 sections.

( Wherein Alex, Spike, Faith, and Buffy race time through an airport...Alex descends into darkness...Alex meets Willow...and Buffy, Spike, Willow, and Giles argue about broken promises... )

Hi Everyone! I'm baaaaaack. I'm...holding off answering comments for fear of spoiling in my responses. But I am reading and your comments are appreciated. All of them.

( Wherein Spike sends out a call for help...Alex realizes that Ms. Smythe really is dead...Alex takes a desperate, angry stand...and Spike is forced to issue an ultimatum... )

Title: The Last Tin Soldier
Author: Lizbeth Marcs
Rating: PG (Language)

Genre: Gen, road trip
Characters: Spike, Alex Hill (OC-ish), Ensemble
Pairing: None

Warnings: Spoilers for all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. All related comics are cheerfully and willfully ignored.

Notes: Written for the lynnevitational

Summary: Alex Hill is an ordinary man with an ordinary life, until the day Spike rescues him from an army of demons who think he’s someone named Xander Harris.

Disclaimer: Spike and Xander Harris and all associated characters and organizations are the property of FOX and Mutant Enemy. Any mention of real life events and real people is not meant to imply that the people or incidents in question as they are used in the story have any relationship to reality. All original characters and the plot are mine. No payment was asked for or received in the writing of this story and no profit was earned. No copyright infringement on FOX or Mutant Enemy is intended.

Special thanks to: My betas wesleysgirl and deannawol for an outstanding job dealing with what is (for me, anyway) a really unusual story. All mistakes are mine, not theirs.

( Wherein Alex lives his ordinary life...Spike kidnaps Alex...Spike tells Alex that monsters want to kill him...Spike talks and acts crazy...Spike catches Alex trying to escape...Alex is attacked by monsters...Spike has to stop for the night after Alex is seriously injured in the attack... )

I apologize for not commenting back to people commenting here lately, but between "season of broke" activities, RL, and a fic-a-thon commitment I totally spaced on, I've been slightly overwhelmed.

[The "season of broke," as I not-so-fondly call it, tends to run from mid-April to mid-June, and again from mid-November to mid-January. The season of broke tends to be the areas where all major holidays, family celebrations, and unexpected expenses tend to crop up.]

For those of you wondering, yes, I will finish posting the following stories very soon:

• Behold, Little Padawan! (aka Five Adventures Xander Harris Never Had Wrapped in One True Christmas Story) for nwhepcat.
  
• Facing the Heart in Darkness for ludditerobot
  

The goal is to get these finished over the next month (and I do apologize for the delay). Part of it is that when I post a part, it takes me roughly 2 hours to do so, mostly because of formatting and final read-throughs pre- and post-posting of a part. Also, for whatever reason, "cutting and pasting" from any kind of word processing program into Firefox means that the blasted formatting won't hold.

Let's not even get into the mess IE makes of anything I cut and paste into that interface. I think the phrase, "It el suck-os the big weiner-o" is not out of line here.

In the meantime, I've got two other things to get out:

• The annual lynnevitational fic-a-thon
  
• A soopah-sekrit project which I can't say anything about right now (this one is on-going and won't be out soon)
  

My lynnevitational entry should be...ummmm...different. For me. It's something I've been kicking around for two years, but I've been hella nervous about throwing it out there. I suspect that someone, somewhere is going to be hella insulted by it and the premise, so I expect there might be some wank if I put it out.

That means I'll be needing eyes. I most especially need Brit- and Spike-pickers. I desperately need you.

I also need someone who's willing to read a story that is told from the point of view of someone who is, ummm, a little slow. Mentally. See, that's the potentially wank-tastic part. I need someone who's got a good sense of where the line is between good writing, bad writing, clichéd writing, and insulting writing. Looking at it from my (admittedly) limited PoV, it reads okay to me. It might not be okay for someone who lives with the issue every day.

If there are any volunteers (remember, I especially need Brit- and Spike-pickers), just reply here with a way for me to get in touch with you.

All responses to this post are being screened to maintain privacy. I will get back to everyone who responds.

Now Playing:

Title: The Murder of Crows (Blackhawk Down Remix)
Author:  Lizbeth Marcs (liz_marcs)
Summary: Sam has learned that it’s better to be a crow than a bird of prey. Strangely enough, he’s okay with that.
Rating: PG
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Spoilers: Definite spoilers for the New Caprica arc at the beginning of Season 3; vague spoilers through the end of Season 3.
Title, Author and URL of original story: Tessellation by fahye


Author's Note:

There's this saying on Battlestar Galactica (2003):

"All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again."

Battlestar Galactica was my original fandom (think pre-adolescent) and the first fandom in which I wrote fanfic.

And here's me again writing Battlestar Galactica as an adult.

Talk about your Cycle of Time, hunh?


Before I link to the story, I want to thank nwhepcat and soundingsea for listening to me rant, rail, and wail via email while I wrote this.

So, will I write Battlestar Galactica (the new version) ever again?

I really, really doubt it. Canon is flipping complicated and intricate. That's why there's a huge Wiki for it.

But then again, when I stopped writing fanfic the first time — and the second time — I would have confidently told you that I would never, ever write Battlestar Galactica fanfiction ever again.

Which only goes to show, doesn't it?

The Murder of Crows (Blackhawk Down Remix), Part 1

The Murder of Crows (Blackhawk Down Remix), Part 2

Unh, well, when I say "my" remix story, I don't mean the one I wrote. I'm not going to make anyone guess, either, because...well there's a good reason for it and I can't tell you why because that might give away which one is mine.

Any-hoo.

My remixer did a fabulous job with my original, which was a misguided attempt at trying my hand at minimalism. He/she hung muscle and flesh on them thar bones and came up with a very sweet little B/X story. It appears that I lucked out again this year.

The only thing that confused me was the link went to the original, half-destroyed version on Fanfiction.Net (Thanks to all those Pit of Voles updates, a lot of the formating got stripped away.) That's when I realized that I never unhid the version I transfered to LJ and I never linked to the shiny formatted version in my "all my fics" post.

I am a dumbkoff! Deeeeeeerrrrr, Liz! Way to go!

Anyway, here's my original (shiny new LJ version!) Two Words, in which Buffy has an early morning conversation with Xander, but you only see her half of the conversation. Xander not only doesn't speak, you don't see him at all! Wheeee! An experiment in writing!

And here's Wake Up Slow (Second Time Around Remix), wherein it's an actual, full story! Now complete with a Xander! And Xander's half of the conversation! And Xander thoughts, even!

Yay!

Once more, a remix that's bigger and better than the original, folks. Go give the remixer some big love for working with a really minimalist piece of fluff and giving it some sweet legs.

Damn, I have crap to do today, but it appears the remix_redux is opening its doors.

Because the community was friendslocked to keep the stories private (except for the sockpuppets that had to post), it's probably going to be a few hours before all the stories are public.

*bites nails*

Yeah. I'll be busy reading. And refreshing.

I'm always freakin' nervous when the remix_redux goes public.

Title: The Murder of Crows (Blackhawk Down Remix), Part 2/2
Author: Lizbeth Marcs (liz_marcs)
Summary: Sam has learned that it’s better to be a crow than a bird of prey. Strangely enough, he’s okay with that.
Rating: PG
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Spoilers: Definite spoilers for the New Caprica arc at the beginning of Season 3; vague spoilers through the end of Season 3.
Title, Author and URL of original story: Tessellation by fahye

Part 1 is posted here.

Title: The Murder of Crows (Blackhawk Down Remix), Part 1/2
Author: Lizbeth Marcs liz_marcs
Summary: Sam has learned that it’s better to be a crow than a bird of prey. Strangely enough, he’s okay with that.
Rating: PG
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Spoilers: Definite spoilers for the New Caprica arc at the beginning of Season 3; vague spoilers through the end of Season 3.
Title, Author and URL of original story: Tessellation by fahye   

Part 2 is posted here.

All parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 4D.

All parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 4C.

All parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 4B.

No, I didn't skip a part. I'm posting two parts back-to-back to cover my Monday and Tuesday postings.

All parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 4A.

There'll be something of a two-fer tonight. Sorry about not updating this last week, but I had logic hole in this part. Considering it's an "Andrew" part, it was like finding a bent straw in a haystack so you can fix it.

So, here's the Monday part, which will be quickly followed by the Tuesday part.

All parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 3B.

All parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 3A.

As you can see, it's been a busy couple of "news days" for me, so I got caught up in chasing down RL stuff instead of fanfiction.

Apologies for the interrupted service.

Now, back to the story in progress.

All parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 2B.

Busy weekend (notice, if you will, that I haven't been around). And busy tomorrow night. Think of this as my Monday posting for the next part.

And apologies for not responding to comments. I will get to them.


All parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 2A.

Stooopid LJ wouldn't let me post this next part in one piece. Gah. *growl snarl*

After this, to bed.

All parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 1.