Sides Shmides...that's fanfic!
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rabid1stSo, a connected buddy of mine is telling me about the latest Angel sides and suddenly the conversation looks like this...(paraphrased for the most part)...
ME: You are kidding?
Her: Uhmm...no, that's what it says?
ME: But...BUT that's a book...
Her: Excuse me?
ME: Seriously (and here I mention all the major plot points again)...that's a book...Spike and Dru...or rather...WAIT...no...NO...it's fanfic.
Her: It's a fanfic? What part?
ME: All of it...okay...part of it is from the novel Spike and Dru...and the rest of it is...wait...mind...WORK mind...yes! It is from an older fanfic...and a really good one, too.
Thinking I MUST be misunderstanding...I attempt to recap what I have learned so far...
rabid1st: There is a sub...and Spike flashback to evil...and for some reason Spike takes 2 gay vamps with him to rescue some people for the INITITIVE...and Angel acts all mopey?
Her: lol
Her: Nooooooooooo
Her: this guy, Mr. something or other, comes to visit Angel
Her: Angel sees him
Her: there is a flashback
Her: to 1942
Her: or 43
Her (paraphrased): and Spike is on a submarine...killing people. And there are nazi vampires. Or the nazis are trying to make vampires so they can use them as weapons.
ME (turns out I did read that right the first time): That's Mustang Sally...hang on...let me make sure...
I go to ask CAIA (she knows everything...if I was on Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire...she would be my "phone a friend" lifeline...the one that OBJECTS TO THE UNION...she never "holds her piece")...and she confirms my suspicions...
JW and COMPANY are using a big chunk of a fic called The Heart's Filthy Lesson by Mustang Sally and Rivkat in an upcoming Angel episode.
Not that I blame them. It happens to be one of the few fics I wish I had written.
Still...it has come to this...they are officially out of ideas of their own...and also...Fury and Petrie are doing a Mary Sue, if rumor is to be believed. There are characters of both of them. Sheesh! Maybe this is just a bad joke to tide us all over the hiatus?
Rae
ME: You are kidding?
Her: Uhmm...no, that's what it says?
ME: But...BUT that's a book...
Her: Excuse me?
ME: Seriously (and here I mention all the major plot points again)...that's a book...Spike and Dru...or rather...WAIT...no...NO...it's fanfic.
Her: It's a fanfic? What part?
ME: All of it...okay...part of it is from the novel Spike and Dru...and the rest of it is...wait...mind...WORK mind...yes! It is from an older fanfic...and a really good one, too.
Thinking I MUST be misunderstanding...I attempt to recap what I have learned so far...
rabid1st: There is a sub...and Spike flashback to evil...and for some reason Spike takes 2 gay vamps with him to rescue some people for the INITITIVE...and Angel acts all mopey?
Her: lol
Her: Nooooooooooo
Her: this guy, Mr. something or other, comes to visit Angel
Her: Angel sees him
Her: there is a flashback
Her: to 1942
Her: or 43
Her (paraphrased): and Spike is on a submarine...killing people. And there are nazi vampires. Or the nazis are trying to make vampires so they can use them as weapons.
ME (turns out I did read that right the first time): That's Mustang Sally...hang on...let me make sure...
I go to ask CAIA (she knows everything...if I was on Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire...she would be my "phone a friend" lifeline...the one that OBJECTS TO THE UNION...she never "holds her piece")...and she confirms my suspicions...
JW and COMPANY are using a big chunk of a fic called The Heart's Filthy Lesson by Mustang Sally and Rivkat in an upcoming Angel episode.
Not that I blame them. It happens to be one of the few fics I wish I had written.
Still...it has come to this...they are officially out of ideas of their own...and also...Fury and Petrie are doing a Mary Sue, if rumor is to be believed. There are characters of both of them. Sheesh! Maybe this is just a bad joke to tide us all over the hiatus?
Rae
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Date: 2003-12-06 10:58 pm (UTC)I...the one that OBJECTS TO THE UNION...she never "holds her piece")...
I have NO idea what any of that means.
Here's what I remember from
The Heart's Filthy Lesson that sounds similar... Spike busts into a Nazi experimentation lab to rescue Dru, who they wanted for her her visions. It's pretty damn dark, and includes a vamped baby, too young to have teeth to turn to fangs.
The other part is that Spike's flashback is incited by running into a demon who'd been a prisoner in the camps and was hunting the last of them the demons and vampires who were/worked with the Nazis.
This is a stunning fic. Just wrenching. And it takes the Nazis as human evil seriously, not just as a "hey, human's do evil too," example. Some of it is still lodged in my heart. Like Spike's understated, appalling horror that while he was unconscious, the Scoobies took the body of the dead demon to the incinerator at the recycling center. "He was a Holocaust survivor, you git! You think you finished the Nazis work for them?"
That's a paraphrase, as I haven't read this fic in a long time. But I still remember.
I don't blame ME too much for visiting the time period – what the vampires did during the World Wars and other major events is a perfectly reasonable avenue to explore. But if you want to read THE definitive work about it, read this fic. And the sequels, as well, because Mustang Sally and RivkaT are simply maestros.
caia