Rebcake-o-rama

One last story before we say goodbye to 2015. Another WIP down! The long-awaited, or perhaps long-forgotten, conclusion to a little noel_of_spike story!

Title: When You Wish Upon A Bar (4 of 4)
Author: Rebcake
Rating: PG13
Word count: 2125
Characters: Spike/Buffy, Dawn, D'Hoffryn
Setting: BtVS Season 6, after Wrecked, but before Older and Far Away. Also after AtS S3 The Vision Thing.
Summary: Spike isn’t getting what he really wants out of his secret “relationship” with Buffy, though things could be worse. Just his luck, D’Hoffryn has decided to celebrate Gurnenthar's Ascendance on the Hellmouth after a romantic disappointment of his own.

Part 1 here / Part 2 here / Part 3 here

A cuckoo in the Christmas tree...
( For those of you who'd like to know why it took so long... )

I had a plan, and it was to do more fandom things this fall. Things have not been going according to plan, as you may or may not have noticed. If you want to hear the Flying Spaghetti Monster laugh, tell it your plans, amirite?

( Storms a'coming. What shall I do? )

Hey, look! It's January! My fic output continued apace last year. I never feel like I do much, and compared to many of you, I don’t. I wrote fewer stories, but because they were longer (for me) stories, the total word output is about the same as it's ever been since I began this whirlygig of fun nearly five years ago.

( What I did last year in fandom... )

I'm holding off on making any decisions about the Doctor Who premiere until I see part 2. Except that River Song is still very yummy. That's a gimme.

Sunday was my seasonal_spuffy day! Hooray! Hooray! I posted two stories and none of them were in limerick form! Success! However, one of the stories is the first chapter in a longer fic. This is a) bad, because it's not finished, and b) good, because there's all kinds of twisty weirdness, still to be resolved. Who doesn't like that?

Both are set in San Francisco, My Fair City. The first is a fluffy one-shot — S8 comics compliant, but NOT comics dependent:

Title: Boots to the Fire (Escape)
Author: Rebcake
Rating: PG13
Word count: 2350
Summary: It wasn’t until Buffy was living and slaying in San Francisco that her fascination with black motorcycle boots became an actual problem.

You can also read it on Dreamwidth here.


The second story is not at all fluffy. However, since it's me, you know it's got its moments of levity. NOT comics compliant:

Title: Fire in the Soul (1/?)
Author: Rebcake
Rating: PG13, this chapter
Word count: 4400
Warnings: A bit Dru-ish
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 (Spike! It's Spike!) blows into town, but he’s brought more than the generally allowable amount of baggage with him. 

There were advantages and disadvantages to vampire slaying in San Francisco.

You can also read it on Dreamwidth here.


Clearly, titles are not my forté, and it seems to be getting worse. Also, there were formatting difficulties, but I think they're all fixed now. Please let me know if you see something weird, misspelled, or otherwise off. Happy last week of April!

Thank goodness for communities, where I posted 90% of my fic this year. Particularly helpful in getting me to put fingers to keyboard were still_grrr, fantas_magoria, seasonal_spuffy, and sb_fag_ends. Thanks also for culture in general, since this year's sort-of crossover topics in my fic include war movies, Lysistrata, A Modest Proposal, love songs, Clueless, Rock 'n Roll High School, Veronica Mars, Love and Rockets (the comic), and anti-smoking propaganda. Still, all fic listed here is set in the Jossverse.