Rebcake-o-rama

Title: Fire in the Soul (2a/?)
Author: Rebcake
Rating: PG13, this chapter
Word count: 1140
Summary: A few years after Sunnydale’s spectacular demise, Buffy and her crew are getting on with their lives in San Francisco. A not entirely unwelcome blast from her past blows into town, but he’s brought more than the generally allowable amount of baggage with him.

A/N: This half-chapter takes place the morning after the events of Chapter 1. Alas, it's just a couple of gals sitting around talking, but more plot is coming soon (tomorrow?) on my journal. I'll link from the bottom of this chapter when it's up.


( Obligatory Sunday morning family phone call... )

There's a bit of Who-fever at my house, you could say. For those who are not yet infected, tomorrow is the Season 6 premiere of the "new" Doctor Who. I'm all atwitter. Well, I don't actually do Twitter, but I did break down and do Tumblr. Sort of. Don't expect much. However, on the Official Doctor Who Tumblr page, there is a photo of my daughter and her friends in full-on Whoverse drag*:

A Doctor, a TARDIS, and three Daleks walk into a con...

( Are they not adorable? )

Apparently, I have eleven DreamWidth codes for people who'd like to join up, which is looking better by the hour, is it not? Just drop me a comment, and I'll set you up.

I am up to my neck in RL and seasonal_spuffy  prep, so my commenting is way down. Please forgive me. I will catch up. Probably.

I still made time for WonderCon last weekend, which is in my fair city (San Francisco) and which has become McDiva's annual birthday bash, although its date drifts farther away from her actual birthday every year. ( Here are some highlights: )

Are any of my f-listies planning to attend the Gallifrey One convention in LA this weekend? McDiva went last year and had a blast, so a few of us mother/daughter Doctor Who fans are going again this year. McDiva has made a TARDIS dress for the occasion. I'm mainly excited because Jane Espenson is a scheduled guest! She's my favorite Buffy writer, was the showrunner for Caprica (the last few episodes of which had me practically panting with love), plus she's a staff writer for the new Torchwood! So...yeah. I am a total fangirl. I'm sure I'll get excited about other — more Who-related — stuff once I'm there. But if any of you guys are gonna be in the house, it will be even better. 

Oh! Speaking of Torchwood, our satellite service just made the Starz channels free for the next year, so we might actually be able to watch it! Woo!

Title: A Well Respected Man About Town
Author: Rebcake
Rating: PG
Word Count: 980
Prompt: genficminis round 5: minor male characters. snickfic requested Ethan with Anya, too high a price, and something mystical.
Characters: Ethan Rayne, Anyanka, Halfrek, The Host
Summary: Ethan celebrates his latest success on the Hellmouth, after Band Candy and before The Wish.

(  Ethan eyed the two lovelies in the booth near the stage… )

I did another fic! I was unable to resist the genfic_minis' minor female characters challenge and now the world has just a little bit more Harmony!

Title: Haven’t Seen Your Face For A While
Author: rebcake 
Word count: 1175
Rating: PG
Characters: Harmony for brutti_ma_buoni, with bonus Jonathan and Spike.
Summary: Harmony reflects on her lack of reflection circa Superstar.

Follow the link for fic and prompt details:
Dying was the scariest thing to ever happen to her, and that included the time Jonathan sang to her at her Sweet Sixteen...

Also, my fluffy Skip/D'Hoffryn story, The Gay Agenda (or, Happy Anniversary) has been nominated in a few categories at the_hellmouth_awards , a new award site that spotlights rare pairings in the Buffyverse. Go check them out and don't be shy about nominating any of your favorites, old or new. Just click on the pretty to see all the nominees:


Thanks, kind nominator(s)! I'm especially happy to be represented in the "Unbelievably Believable" category. I mean, isn't that what this writing lark is all about?

Piffle! It's never too late! Except when it is. *ponders*

I've been home with a sick kid for a few days, but there's been plenty of joy, and some of it from fandom! Can I get a woo and a hoo? 'Cos you guys are great!

First thing to celebrate is the announcement of the winners in Round Nine of the Running with Scissors Awards! There's some great stuff on the list, including a few things by some friends who happen to be excellent writers. So congratulations to brutti_ma_buoni, duh_i_read, rahirah, and moscow_watcher among others! Well done, all. My silly Giles piece won something, too! Whee! The mods haven't released the pretties yet, only the list of winners, but those are always intensely gorgeous and it just gives us something to look forward to, right?

Also, the buffyversetop5 recommendation site has been going full steam, and I've been viewing and reading tons of stuff that I missed. Which admittedly slows down the writing a bit, but I'm getting a lot out of it. Also, I just happened to luck out and make the 1,000th rec post to the site, which led to fabulous prizes! Virtual confetti, champagne, as well as a couple of months of paid LJ time, and a couple of years worth of extra icons! It brought a joyful tear to my eye, let me tell you! Thank you to the very generous mods, and thanks to all the people who are giving us such great recs! Especially those that are reccing my stories, of course. ;-} I've got a few lists still to post over there, though the more I delay, the more of my favorites get picked off highlighted by listmakers more fleet than I. Maybe I won't have to post anything more because all the good stuff will have already been recc'ed? Ha! Never happen. We could definitely use more pre-series lists, which I'm having trouble compiling from my foggy memory bank. Any suggestions?

Have a wonderful (long) weekend, my lovelies! Think not of the inevitable betrayals of (some of) our fellow men, but the promised land we make of our existence here on earth through kindness, thoughtfulness, and the act of creation.

Yesterday was my noel_of_spike posting day, so naturally I've been busy writing Christmas fic about...Dollhouse? Thanks muse. Thanks a lot. I suspect it's because I made a blanket statement that I didn't think I'd ever write in any fandom but Buffy. It's such a contrarian muse. (Little bitch.)

It all worked out, though, so I've got two new seasonal fics to share with you!

Title: The Gift of the Techno-Magi
Author: Rebcake
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 875
Characters: Joel Mynor of “Bouncy the Rat” fame, Adelle DeWitt
A/N: A bit of background for the Dollhouse episode Man on the Street.

Joel Mynor had more or less got used to being a rich widower...


Title: Yule Be Sorry (The Great Hunt of 1998)
Author: Rebcake
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 1,200
Characters: Spike, Drusilla, and the Chaos Demon

Dru was a good Catholic girl, but traveling around in the 1960s and ‘70s had made her curious about alternative spirituality and other such rot...

Caveat: neither of the above are especially cheerful. I blame my minor cold, because it couldn't be my evil brain, could it?

Wasn't the solstice/full moon/lunar eclipse neat? You don't stay up that late? People! It's been almost 400 years since the last time! Tsk. 

In other Yule news, I have made 30 dozen pecan cookies, and a batch of star-shaped shortbread for a favorite kid with severe nut allergies. Today, I am looking at making another 20 dozen cookies, hitting the post office (won't that be fun?), wrapping gifts and packing up to leave for glamorous Oxnard tomorrow for a long Xmas weekend with my delightful in-laws. Or staying in bed with a box of tissues.

If you're like me, you may have trouble making decisions — especially when all the choices are good ones! Still somebody's got to do it, right? You have a few more days to let your voice be heard at the Running With Scissors Awards. There is a rather painless little poll going, one question for art, one for short fic. They are calling it the Peeper's Choice and the Hairy Eyeball Awards (Viewer and Reader's choice). Go check it out and make the mods and the creative folks who are nominated feel the love! It isn't difficult or time-consuming, I swear.

Full disclosure: One of my stories is nominated in one of the categories, but so are several far more worthy selections. A couple of really amazing pieces I hadn't seen/read before are included, so finding more of the good stuff made me happy.


Welcome to December, my lovelies! I have a feeling we're going to have a ball!

I ficced again this week. It's almost a trend!

Title: Stay Frosty
Author: Rebcake
Rating: PG
Word Count: 920
Characters: Cordelia, Angel, Wesley, and Jhiera (from She)
Summary: Cordelia has a solution for the newest heat wave.

Cordelia had noticed that Angel very obviously did not look at people’s necks...


I almost never write in the Angelverse, though I try to take the things that happened there into account when writing in the Buffyverse. I am also light on fic from the early seasons of Buffy, which means that I've never written Cordelia before now, although I love and admire her. The reason I finally dipped into Angel is that I have a deep — and apparently not widely shared — fondness for the episode She. Which just happens to be coming up starting on Monday at that very glamorous and inclusive Buffy-and-Angel-by-the-episode LiveJournal community, Phantasmagoria! Mostly I'm gonna wait and share the squee over there, and I'd be thrilled if anybody wanted to join me!

( Entertainment stuff: )

slaymesoftly  was talking about the variety of pairings that she's written, and she has written a cubic ton over the years, bless her.

( All aboard... )

Dear friends of mine from across the pond,

We finally got to see the first episode of Steven Moffat's Sherlock Holmes on PBS last night, hosted by Alan Cummings who pronounces it "Sherlick" in all his adorable Scottishness. (Love that guy.) Anyway, at the beginning, John Watson is sitting down to a cuppa and the camera focuses on a crest on his mug. I figure it's to establish either a branch of service or his educational background, but which is it? This is the sort of thing that would be entirely lost on an American audience, and I'm sure it doesn't have any huge bearing on the proceedings, but I want to know! Does it show that he's really elite at something, or from quite a middling background, or what? The only thing I'm sure of is that it's not from Hogwarts...

Thank you in advance for feeding my obsession with trivial detail.