Fic! And stuff.

[quinara]

Blimey, they've jazzed up the previouslies and next-weeks on the Bake Off, haven't they? I was getting Apprentice vibes tonight... It was brilliant!!

In other news, one of the important light bulbs in my house has just gone (ie. the one that lights half the downstairs... To be fair, we don't have many lights, so they're all pretty important. This one is particularly annoying right now). But I have also finished that fic I mentioned the other day! I should have realised this with seasonal_spuffy, but my ability to obsess over a fic I'm posting has reached quite horrific levels in recent times, so the only way through the continuous re-thinking and over-reading and editing is to buckle down and get the whole thing out in one. And yet I try so hard to be normal. :(

Anyway, if it matters to you, dear reader, could you please, please tell me if you will only look at this if I post it out over on this journal as well as sb_ashtray, because I can never tell if re-posting's worth bothering about. Basically, I worry sometimes that I'm spamming/doing some sort of equivalent flist-shouting about myself to post things in multiple places, and I happen to be the sort of person that will happily wander down links wherever they take me. But I'm extremely happy to bring anything over here if you want to see it in my home environment/on Dreamwidth/whatever! The fic's still only a click away. Sometimes I feel like I should do a poll...

Otherwise, this story is ~16,000 words long, rated R (reasonably strongly-ish?), written to the prompt 'burnt out'. It needs none of the AO3-standard warnings and is a standalone you can nonetheless read in the context of my generally vignette-based series about Spike and Buffy's telephone contact during+after Angel S5, and then their merry life together in London. It's angsty, but I'm quite fond of it! (Though I would say that.)

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What it is to Burn.
After three years in a long distance relationship, Buffy’s the one who cracks first.

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ETA: Oh, but you can read it on the AO3 now too.

Comments

[verity]

I'm not reading much Spuffy right now :( but I'm much more likely to read it if you post it here, because I don't follow ashtray or fag_ends. <3

[quinara]

Cool beans - thanks! I suppose DW's expandable cut tags do make things very easy to see in rlist view... I see what the rest of the world says. :)

[lutamira]

Well, I do follow the LJ coms, but I end up being waaaaay more likely to read stuff when it is posted on people's personal journals, especially DW ones... plus the cross-posting spamming thing usually ends up being more along the lines of "oh yeah, I saw that and wanted to read it, but forgot the first time, now I'll open it up right away so I read it for sure" rather than any kind of, "oh gods, already saw that once, why am I seeing it again" kind of thing.

[quinara]

Hmm... Maybe I'll crosspost next week or something then, if I get round to it, just to remind people! I find people's different reading habits so interesting; I've never thought of there being much difference between personal journals and community posts. Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

I have both your journal and the com on my LJ Friends list. Have already enjoyed the story, but I don't mind seeing a mention of it twice. If you were posting a story every day, double-announcements might get... no, even then they wouldn't be tiresome. *GG*

[readerjane]

Drat, DW logged me out. That was me posting as Anon.

[quinara]

Aha! Good to hear you've managed to find it - and that you wouldn't mind hearing about it again anyway. Cheers!

[shapinglight]

How come I can't comment on LJ?

Anyway, was going to say, cross post away. I'll see it wherever it is (except here, because I keep forgetting about it).

[quinara]

Hmm... I don't know! It shouldn't be a problem. I just tried posting something and it seemed to work... What's it saying?

I'll see how I feel next week about crossposting. It's only irritating because I like to get all the links connecting together (and inevitably I find about eight typos just after I've set it up in umpteen different places). It's probably good to spread it around.