forget your Unified Theory of Everything

This is my fic written for the Buffy/Angel IWRY marathon. It is also posted here by the lovely chrisleeoctaves.

Title: Persistence of Memory
Rating: R
Length: about 6,000
Summary: Angel thinks turning back the day he turned human (in the episode “IWill Remember You”) is one of the best things he ever did. These are the other things.

A/N: I don't think this is the best. But I think because I didn't agonize over it, I'm alright with that. Anyway, I'm interested in what people think, and con crit is always welcome. Even more welcome than usual.

( Persistence of Memory )

previous parts
PG-13, Angel, Spike, Illyria, Nina, and a puppy.

( Man's Best Friend, 3 )

Prompt from jgracio won the poll: Angel buys a puppy. It might also be the Angel-falls-for-Spike fic, who the hell knows.

Angel, Spike, Illyria, Nina, and a puppy, post NFA, PG.

( Man's Best Friend )

I'm sure your thoughts are with the families of the victims of VATech, as mine still are.

But this is done; I don't want to work on it any more, and maybe it will take the mind off for a moment for one or two of you. (Not that it's particularly heartening, I should mention.)

Please mind warnings.

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Title: Pretty Screams In Paradise
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Angel/Connor. Explicit Angel/Connor sex. If the concept offends you, please don’t click, read, or comment on this fic, and we’ll both be happier.
Summary: You can’t be saved by a lie.
Notes: This fic is for kita0610 and ros_fod.
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to germaine_pet, who very much helped me write the fic I wanted to write. So, thanks!

(  Pretty Screams In Paradise  )

Title: Conceit(s)
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: B/A. Very B/A, except it's all about Spike. The ending is B/A/S.
Summary: This used to be titled, "5 Ways Those Bluggy Birds Never Shagged", but Spike decided to make it eponymous.
A/N: Warning for experimentation with style, POV, voice, and uh, reality. Take it with a grain of salt, I guess.

Part of the IWRY Fic Marathon.
With love, for chrisleeoctaves

( Conceit(s) )

Title: How Far The Apple Falls
Length: 400 words
Rating: G
Disclaimers: stuff from the eps "Angel" and "Inside Out"
Summary: two mirrored scenes: Angel and Darla - Connor and Darla

( How Far The Apple Falls )

Series: War Stories
A/N: ( You don't need to know these things to read, but you might want to. )

Title: Raising the Banner (1/1)
Length: 8,500 words
Rating: PG
Summary: “Origin” never happened; post-NFA, post-apocalyptic world. Focus on Angel, Connor, and Spike. See above note for more information about this universe. It's my new crack.

( Raising the Banner )

Chapter fourteen of Best Souvernir. (Whistler never existed. Buffy and Angel meet after the End of Days is over. Future fic, alternate reality.)

A/N: Sorry about the wait. Thanks so much for your patience and anyone who is still interested. Hopefully more will come soon. Big thanks to a2zmom.


( Chapter 14 )

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Over the last few months, I've been rewatching BtVS and AtS, and during S3 of BtVS some things began to make sense to me that hadn't before. This stuff has kinda been brewing for a long time, and it all just burped on the page, so it might not really be an essay or great meta or whatever. I'm going for three things, here:

1. To explain some things about the character of Angel to myself which might've long been obvious to you.
2. To present a cohesive way of looking at the character. There are some threads which tie together or parallel that I didn't notice before, which present a major theme for the character: he always thinks he can get something, and that he needs outside forces to motivate him to act. I'm not sure I really believe this "theme" or theory or what have you, but it's a way of looking at the character. I'm interested in the flaws of the theory as well as the ways in which it fits.
3. To take Angel down a notch or two. Because I do love the character so much, I'm interested in seeing him for what he really is rather than some fangirl construct. The viewpoint above is a slightly less exalted view than I normally take of the character, which is I guess why I think it's interesting.

This is about Angel pre-AtS. I have some ideas about how this way of looking at the character plays out in his own series, but I'll write that up another time. I also have this really weird Angel and Xander meta I need to write which connects to this, but gah, this is long. So, here it is,( a view of Angel from Liam to the end of BtVS S3 )

If you bothered to take the time to read this long boring wordy viewpointy metay thing, open to all discussion, questions, disagreements, "but that's just stupid"s and "what the hell were you thinking"s. In fact, it's open to that even if you didn't read because hey, free place here, but I'm really interested in what other people think about this.

What: A Jossverse poem, free verse, very very short.
Why: for stultiloquentia, because she always rocks my world.
A/N: I suck at poetry. But it's fun to try.

( Prerequisites )